A Birthday Celebration | A World Premiere

If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please try the online version at the ABC website 1 February 2013 Greetings from ABC Classic FM where Graham Abbott and the team are putting on their party hats and getting ready to celebrate a remarkable ten years of Keys to Music. Elsewhere there's plenty to enjoy, including the world broadcast premiere of a new Australian chamber opera and the chance to win cinema tickets and copies of the latest Limelight magazine. Enjoy. KEYS TO MUSIC 10th ANNIVERSARY Join Graham Abbot on Saturday as Keys To Music celebrates its tenth birthday by going back to basics. The first Keys To Music went to air on ABC Classic FM on 1 February, 2003. This week we mark the program's tenth anniversary with program number 444 in which Graham revisits the themes of the very first programs. Keys to Music - 9am Saturday 2 February Read Graham's reflections on 10 years of Keys to Music >>more MIDNIGHT SON Join us this Saturday evening for the world premiere broadcast of Gordon Kerry's intense new chamber opera, Midnight Son . With a libretto by playwright and screenwriter Louis Nowra, Midnight Son is based on the true story of a women murdered by her husband's brain-washed mistress. This recent Victorian Opera production features soprano Antoinette Halloran, mezzo Dimity Shepherd and baritone Byron Watson. Saturday 2 February, 8:50pm More information and image gallery here . >>more WIN TICKETS TO THE MET OPERA IN HD - Berlioz's Les Troyens Listen to The Opera Show  to hear how you can be in the running for a double pass to a HD screening of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens on Saturday 9 February at a cinema near you. The Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of operas in HD feature Met productions captured live in High Definition and screened in cinemas around Australia. The Opera Show - Saturday 2 February, 4pm >>more FEBRUARY LIMELIGHT February Limelight tells opera's greatest untold story - the journey of Joan Sutherland from Sydney secretary to opera superstar, including some never-before-seen pictures of Joan. Julian Day looks at Rimsky-Korsakov's oriental showpiece Scheherazade, and conductor Neeme Jarvi talks about his latest passion - the ballets of Tchaikovsky. Plus Australia's largest classical CD and DVD review section. We have copies of Limelight to give away to the first 10 people to email lifeisbeautiful@abc.net.au with the correct answer to this question: in which Sydney suburb did Dame Joan grow up? Good luck! >>more FEATURES AND CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS: 1 - 8 February Some listening highlights for the weekend and next week...enjoy.  Friday 1 February - 8pm Evening Concert - Port Fairy Spring Festival: Australian String Quartet In St John's Church, Port Fairy, the Australian String Quartet performs Richard Meale's Cantilena Pacifica, Gorecki's String Quartet No 1, Op 62 (Already it is Dusk) and Haydn's String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise). Saturday 2 February - 1pm Saturday Afternoon Concert - MSO Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor and Durufle's Requiem are performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra,  Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Deborah Humble (mezzo-soprano), Jose Carbo (baritone) and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus conducted by Tadaaki Otaka. Sunday 3 February - 4pm Song and Dance - Danny Kaye Celebrating the recent centenary of the birth of Danny Kaye, we'll hear many favourites from his well known films, including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Hans Christian Andersen (1952) and The Court Jester (1956). Monday 4 February -8pm Evening Concert - Port Fairy Spring Festival: Adelaide Chamber Singers In St John's Church, Port Fairy, the Adelaide Chamber Singers perform a program, including Nigel Butterley's The True Samaritan: Morning Fanfare, Paul Stanhope's Exile Lamentations: Deserts of Exile and Carl Crossin's O spes mea cara. Tuesday 5 February -1pm Afternoon Concert - Port Fairy Spring Festival In the Reardon Theatre, Port Fairy, today's line-up includes Helen Ayres (violin), Paul Dean (clarinet/director) and Blair Harris (cello) performing Mozart's Serenade in B flat for 13 instruments (Gran Partita) and Mendelssohn's Octet in E flat. Wednesday 6 February -1pm Afternoon Concert - Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra with pianist Andras Schiff perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Brahms's Intermezzo, Op 117 No 1 and Bruckner's Symphony No 7 in E minor. Thursday 7 February -1pm Afternoon Concert - Sydney Philharmonia "Northern Lights" At St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta Sydney, we hear Durufle's 4 Motets, Rautavaara's Missa a capella, Martin's Mass for Double Choir and Tavener's Song for Athene. Friday 8 February - 8pm Evening Concert - Sydney Symphony Master Series: Live Live from the Sydney Opera House mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Porter and the Sydney Symphony perform Faure's Pelleas and Melisande, Op 80: Suite, Debussy's La mer - Three Symphonic Sketches and Sibelius's Legends, Op 22 (Lemminkainen Suite). 'Like' us on facebook Follow us on Twitter NEW FROM ABC CLASSICS Joseph Tawadros - Chameleons of the White Shadow Following on from the award-winning album Concerto of the Greater Sea with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, this new CD from one of Australia’s most prolific and internationally regarded musicians sees a daring and ambitious fusion of jazz elements, dazzling textures and Tawadros’ signature, virtuosic Oud sound. LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE limelight - February 2013 The February issue of Limelight tells opera's greatest untold story - the journey of Joan Sutherland from Sydney secretary to opera superstar, including some never-before-seen pictures of Joan. We also examine one a miraculous period in music, the last year of Franz Schubert, in which he wrote his most dazzlingly inspired works. You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. 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