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Charlie Chaplin: The Musical Tramp

He found fame with his iconic screen persona, but not everyone knows Charlie Chaplin was a gifted violinist who composed the scores for every one of his films. Clive Paget talks to Philippe Quint, who has arranged a dozen of his greatest hits, about The Little Tramp’s musical connections.

April 17, 2019
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Roland Peelman: In Pursuit of Fugue

The fugue has long obsessed composers and musicians, who have found in it pinnacles of intellectual and spiritual expression. Canberra International Music Festival's Artistic Director unravels the mysteries of the complex form, with which Johann Sebastian Bach praised God and King.

April 15, 2019
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My Music: Carla Zampatti

The celebrated fashion designer, and arts patron, grew up in Italy listening to the garbage men singing arias. But it wasn’t until she moved to Australia that a life-long love for opera was kindled.

April 11, 2019
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Yin & Yang at the Ballet

Artistic Directors of ballet companies are usually male, as they all are in Australia. But here, the Executive Directors are all female. Dilshani Weerasinghe and Jessica Machin tell Jill Brown about their relationship with their artistic counterparts, and the future directions they want to shape.

April 10, 2019
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Note These Women

Peggy Glanville-Hicks should be a national icon. So why is she not better known? Hugh Robertson, Label Manager at ABC Classic, explains how the ABC is raising the profile of Australian women composers.

April 9, 2019
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Backstage with Joseph Nolan

Ahead of his performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, the organist and director explains why he ditched the Mendelssohn to edit his own version of the ‘greatest story ever told’ for Perth.

April 4, 2019