Events

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    • Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Chiang Wen-yeh

    Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In modern Chinese history, composers were dislocated by war, exile, studies abroad, competing ideologies, and the Cultural Revolution, and expressed their cultural and ideological constructions of home, isolation, and war resistance, while being caught in intersecting webs of forces that compelled them through both coercion and affiliation. “Heaviness,” in this…

    • Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: Doomed to an Eternal Present? – Callas’s Studio Recordings

    Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Melbourne Conservatorium welcomes Professor Giorgio Biancorosso (University of Hong Kong) presenting a Macgeorge Bequest public lecture titled "Doomed to an Eternal Present?: Callas’s Studio Recordings". The release of Warner’s Maria Callas: The Complete Studio Recordings, 1949-1969 (2015) provides a unique opportunity to revisit the oft-cited claim that live performances…