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If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please try the online version at the ABC website 23 - 30 November 2012 Greetings from ABC Classic FM where our focus on Australian music continues, along with live music from the Huntington Music Festival, Met Opera cinema tickets to win, and copies of our Australian CD of the week to give away, too! Also, be sure to join Classic Breakfast next week and listen for the celestially-inspired music for your chance to attend Sydney Festival's epic 2001: A Space Odyssey event at the Sydney Opera House in January.  HUNTINGTON & AUSTRALIAN MUSIC MONTH More great music this weekend from the Huntington Music Festival in Mudgee NSW when Emma Ayres hosts a live broadcast from 7pm Saturday. Armenian-born clarinettist Narek Arutyunian and the Australian String Quartet will perform Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Quintet. Other highlights include performances from mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell with the Enso String Quartet.  Emma's Huntington Diary and snapshots here . Australian Music Month details here . >>more WIN AUSTRALIAN CDS To celebrate Australian Music Month and 25 Years of ABC Classics, we have 10 CDs from Australian artists to give away each week in November to newsletter subscribers. This week you could win Elektra String Quartet's "String Lines " CD. Elektra is one of Australia's leading electro-acoustic ensembles and this CD showcases powerful works specifically commissioned for them. For your chance to win, email lifeisbeautiful@abc.net.au with your name, address and the answer to this question: Name one of the Australian composers featured on this CD. Entries close 5pm Monday - good luck! WIN TICKETS TO THE MET OPERA IN HD - THE TEMPEST The Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of operas in HD continues for a seventh season, featuring Met productions captured live in high definition and screening around Australia. Join Mairi Nicolson for The Opera Show 4pm Saturday to hear how to be in the running for double pass to screening of Thomas Ades' The Tempest on Saturday 1 December at a cinema near you. >>more LIMELIGHT - DECEMBER December Limelight looks at one of the greatest geniuses mankind has ever known - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Why was he shunned in his lifetime? And how is it that future generations came to venerate him as a musical god? The art of the conductor is also in the spotlight, as some of the world's finest maestros reveal the secrets of their craft. And our good friend Richard Gill tells of his first days as a music student in a hilarious extract from his new memoir. To be in the running to win a copy of December Limelight, email lifeisbeautiful@abc.net.au with your name, address and the answer to this question: What is the title of Richard Gill's memoir? Entires close 5pm Monday - good luck! >>more SUNDAY LIVE IN ADELAIDE Sunday 25 November, 3pm - Elizabeth Layton and Kristian Chong Pianist Kristian Chong returns to Sunday Live this week with violinist and former leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Elizabeth Layton. Together they'll perform Mozart's Violin Sonata No 32 in B flat, K454, Debussy's Sonata in G minor and Ravel's Tzigane. It's FREE and no booking is required. Please come along to Studio 520, ABC Adelaide, 85 North East Road, Collinswood. Please be seated by 2.20pm as the live broadcasts begin promptly at 2.30pm Adelaide time. Sunday Live travels to Melbourne next week. FEATURES AND CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS: 23 - 30 November 2012 Some listening highlights for the weekend and next week...enjoy.  Friday 23 November - 8pm Evening Concert - Sydney Symphony with Scott Davie - LIVE Sydney pianist joins the Sydney Symphony in tonight's live broadcast from the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor Op 40 (Australian premiere of the original version), and Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony, Op 58. Saturday 24 November - 7pm Evening Concert - Huntington Music Festival - LIVE Live from Mudgee, NSW, tonight's performers include mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell, the Enso String Quartet, the Australian String Quartet and the Australian National Academy of Music Chamber Music performing Purcell, Barber, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and more. Sunday 25 November - 7pm Sunday Opera - Richard Bonynge's 50th Anniversary To celebrate his 50th anniversary as a conductor, Richard Bonynge conducted this concert version of Handel's Rodelinda last month at the City Recital Hall in Sydney. Monday 26 November - 9pm Evening Concert - ANAM Australian Voices: Nigel Westlake Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music are joined by pianist Michael Kieran Harvey to perform works by Australian composer Nigel Westlake, including Tall Tales But True, Piano Sonata No 1 and Rare Sugar. Tuesday 27 November - 1pm Afternoon Concert - 2012 Peninsula Summer Music Festival At this year's Peninsula Summer Music Festival in Mornington, Victoria, Jamie Hey (baroque cello) and Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba) perform a selection, including Couperin's Concert XIII in G from Les gouts reunis, Masse's Sonata Prima and Mozart's String Quartet in E flat, K428. Wednesday 28 November - 9.15pm Evening Concert - ANAM Australian Voices: James Ledger Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music perform works by Australian composer James Ledger, including All Hail the Machine, Inscriptions and Devils on the Underground. Thursday 29 November - 1pm Afternoon Concert - ANAM Australian Voices: Richard Meale Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music perform works by Australian composer Richard Meale, including Lumen, String Quartet No 1 and Incredible Floridas (Homage to Rimbaud). Friday 30 November - 8pm 2012 Peninsula Summer Music Festival From the Peninsula Summer Music Festival in Mornington, Victoria, the Festival Chamber Orchestra is joined by Siobhan Stagg (soprano), Dimity Shepherd (mezzo-soprano) and Rachael Beesley (concertmaster) to perform Hasse's Antonio e Cleopatra. 'Like' us on facebook Follow us on Twitter NEW FROM ABC CLASSICS Classic 100 - The Music Of France - The Top Ten and Selected Highlights Various Artists ABC Classic FM takes the listener on a journey through the beautiful music of France. Sure to feature all your French favourites, voted by you, this release is a must-have for any admirer of the rich, diverse and at times revolutionary contribution France has added to our musical landscape. LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE limelight - November 2012 In the November of issue of ABC Limelight, superstar mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli tells how she discovered a lost genius of the Baroque, and devoted her new album to his music. We look at how the sounds of New York inspired composer John Cage. And the 2013 seasons of all Australia's major arts companies are revealed in our annual Season Preview. 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