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Renaissance Players
The Renaissance Players were an Australian early music ensemble directed by Winsome Evans. Their album ''Mirror of Light'' received a nomination for the 1997 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album. Discography *''Memories Of English Minstrelsy'' (1976) – Viking *''Adam's Apple'' (1977) – Cherry Pie *''The Captive Unicorn'' (2LP) (1978) – Cherry Pie *''The Sibyl's Giggle'' (1979) – Cherry Pie *''The Cat's Fiddlestick'' (1981) – Cherry Pie *''The Muses' Gift (Dances I)'' (1993) – Walsingham Classics *''Venus' Fire (Dances II)'' (1994) – Walsingham Classics *''The Ring Of Creation (Dances III)'' (1994) – Walsingham Classics *''Garland Dances (Dances IV)'' (1995) – Walsingham Classics *''Songs For A Wise King (Cantigas I)'' (1996) – Walsingham Classics *''Maria Morning Star (Cantigas II)'' (1996) – Walsingham Classics *''Mirror of Light (Cantigas III)'' (1996) – Walsingham Classics *''Thorns Of Fire (The Sephardic Experience I)'' (1998) – Celestial Harmonies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winsome Evans
Winsome Joan Evans OAM BEM (born 26 October 1941), is one of Australia's premier early music specialists. Biography She received a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in composition from the University of Sydney, where her lecturers included Peter Sculthorpe. In addition to her activities as a professional harpsichordist, composer, and arranger, she is perhaps best known for her role as director of the Renaissance Players, one of Australia's best known early music ensembles. She was until recently an Associate Professor of music at the University of Sydney. Evans has "re-composed" all of Johann Sebastian Bach's works for solo violin as works for clavicembalo, adding accompaniments as she believes Bach must have had in mind. Her recording of her recomposition of the 6 Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001–1006, was released in 2009. Awards and honours In 1980, she was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and the NSW Jaycees' Award for service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The event has been held annually since 1987 and encompasses the general genre-specific and popular awards (these are what is usually being referred to as "the ARIA awards") as well as Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards (held separately from 2004), Achievement Awards and ARIA Hall of Fame – the latter were held separately from 2005 to 2010 but returned to the general ceremony in 2011. For 2010, ARIA introduced public voted awards for the first time. Winning, or even being nominated for, an ARIA award results in a lot of media attention and publicity on an artist, and usually increases recording sales several-fold, as well as chart significance – in 2005, for example, after Ben Lee won three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Award For Best Classical Album
The ARIA Music Award for Best Classical Album, is an award presented within the Fine Arts Awards at the annual ARIA Music Awards. The ARIA Awards recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", and have been given by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) since 1987. Classical albums by Australian solo artists and groups are eligible, as well as Australian featured artists or soloists involved with non-Australian ensembles or orchestras (providing the album packaging credits the Australian/s as the featured artist/s). It is judged by a specialist judging school of between 40 and 100 representatives experienced with classical music. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has received the award five times. The Australian Chamber Orchestra The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) was founded by cellist John Painter in 1975.Verghis, Sharon"Bach with more bite pays off" ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 2 September 2005. Richard Tognetti was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The event has been held annually since 1987 and encompasses the general genre-specific and popular awards (these are what is usually being referred to as "the ARIA awards") as well as Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards (held separately from 2004), Achievement Awards and ARIA Hall of Fame – the latter were held separately from 2005 to 2010 but returned to the general ceremony in 2011. For 2010, ARIA introduced public voted awards for the first time. Winning, or even being nominated for, an ARIA award results in a lot of media attention and publicity on an artist, and usually increases recording sales several-fold, as well as chart significance – in 2005, for example, after Ben Lee won thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Music
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions of indigenous and Western styles are exemplified in the works of Yothu Yindi, No Fixed Address, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu and Christine Anu, and mark distinctly Australian contributions to world music. Australian music's early western history, was a collection of British colonies, Australian folk music and bush ballads, with songs such as "Waltzing Matilda" and '' The Wild Colonial Boy'' heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, Indeed many bush ballads are based on the works of national poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson. Contemporary Australian music ranges across a broad spectrum with trends often concurrent with those of the US, the UK, and similar nations—notably in the Australian rock and Australian country musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Music Awards Of 1997
The 11th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards) were held on 22 September 1997 at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney. The event was hosted by Australian actor–comedian Paul McDermott, with presenters Elle McFeast, Kylie Minogue, Ben Folds, Colin Buchanan, the Presidents of the United States of America and others. Savage Garden dominated this year, receiving a record ten awards including Album of the Year for ''Savage Garden'', Single of the Year for " Truly Madly Deeply", Best Group and seven other trophies. In addition to the annually presented awards, a Special Achievement Award was given to Charles Fisher and an Outstanding Achievement Award was received by Peter André. The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: the Bee Gees, Graeme Bell and Paul Kelly. Ceremony details The event included musical performances by Ben Folds Five, the Presidents of the United States of America and Kylie Minogue. John Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick May (academic)
Frederick May (1921–1976) was the foundation professor of Italian at the University of Sydney. Early life and education May was born in the suburb of Kensington in London, England, on 3 August 1921. His parents were John May, a labourer, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (''née'' Owens). He attended the Quintin School in St John's Wood, North London and then, from 1940, the University of London, from which he would graduate in 1947. In 1940 he married Heather Constance Armstrong, a typist. In the early years of World War II May and his wife, who were both conscientious objectors, performed voluntary work with the Quakers's War Relief Service in Devon. From 1943 he worked as a hospital porter in Cambridge and a hospital theatre orderly in London. Leeds University May's first teaching post was at the London School of Economics.Suzanne Kiernan, ed., ''Italian Studies in Memory of Frederick May: With an Unpublished Essay by Frederick May, Inaugural Professor of Italian at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
