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If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, please try the online version at the ABC website 9 - 16 November 2012 Greetings from ABC Classic FM where there's a lot to listen to and a lot to win this week. News below about Australian Music Month, and be sure to join Emma for Classic Breakfast on Monday when we travel to Queensland's Tamborine Mountain State School for the presentation of - and performance on - the grand piano they won in this year's Grab the Goanna competition. AUSTRALIAN MUSIC MONTH The celebration of Australian musical talent continues on ABC Classic FM this week with many highlights on the way, including performances from Australian National Academy of Music's Australian Voices concerts. Read more about Australian Music Month on ABC Classic FM . >>more AUSTRALIAN MUSIC TO WIN 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 a wonderful new release of the Goldner String Quartet performing Carl Vine's String Quartets - three of them recorded here for the first time. For your chance to win, simply email lifeisbeautiful@abc.net.au with your name, address and the answer to this question: Carl Vine is the artistic director of which prominent performing arts organisation? WIN TICKETS TO THE MET IN HD 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 Verdi's Otello in HD at a cinema near you on November 17. SUNDAY LIVE IN ADELAIDE Sunday 11 November, 3pm - State Opera of South Australia, hosted by Simon Healy The State Opera of South Australia presents an exciting concert of operatic and music theatre highlights. From Tannhauser to La Traviata and Les Miserables to Sweeney Todd, we'll hear selections from some of the greatest works for the stage. Conductor Timothy Sexton leads State Opera Chorus and the 21-piece Adelaide Art Orchestra in music by Puccini, Bernstein, Verdi, Gershwin, Wagner and Sondheim. It's FREE and no booking is required. 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. >>more FEATURES AND CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS: 9 - 16 November 2012 Some listening highlights for the weekend and next week...enjoy.  Friday 9 November - 7.30pm Evening Concert - Adelaide Symphony Orchestra - LIVE Live from St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, cellist Li-Wei Qin features in tonight's performance of Peter Sculthorpe's New Norcia, Stravinsky's Symphonies for Wind Instruments and Tavener's The Protecting Veil. Saturday 10 November - 1pm Saturday Afternoon Concert - MSO with Olli Mustonen The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Olli Mustonen (piano/conductor) perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15, Mustonen's Jehkin Ivana (Australian premiere), Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, Op 73 (Emperor) and Bach's Two-part Invention No 14 in B flat, BWV785. Sunday 11 November - 1pm Sunday Afternoon Concert  - War and Peace: Anzac Day Concert 2012 Recorded at the Redemptorist Monastery in North Perth on April 25, we'll hear Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem, Cantata and Faure's Requiem Op 48 performed by the Collegium Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra lead by Shaun Lee-Chen and Margaret Pride. Monday 12 November - 8pm Evening Concert - ANAM Australian Voices Tonight's Australian National Academy of Music recital was recorded at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, and features Sarah Kim (violin), Stewart Kelly (piano), Belinda McGlynn (piano), Alexander Morris (clarinet) and other students performing works by Australian composer Arthur Benjamin. Tuesday 13 November - 1pm Afternoon Concert - Queensland Symphony Orchestra From the Queensland Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane, the QSO and Amy Dickson (saxophone) perform a program, including Paul Stanhope's Fantasia on a theme by Vaughan Williams, Phillip Glass's Violin Concerto (arr Amy Dickson for saxophone) and works by Elena Kats-Chernin. Wednesday 14 November - 8pm Evening Concert - Latitude 37 Melbourne baroque trio Latitude 37 is made up of Julia Fredesdorff (violin), Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba) and Donald Nicolson (harpsichord). Joined by guest violinist Miranda Hutton, their program includes Couperin's Apotheosis of Lully and Rebel's Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully. Thursday 15 November - 1:30pm Afternoon Concert - Sydney Symphony and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - LIVE Live from the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet makes its Sydney Symphony debut in a concert full of Spanish colour. Highlights include Chavez's Symphony No 2 (Sinfonia India), Rodrigo's Concierto Andaluz and Adams's Lollapalooza. Friday 16 November - 8.30pm Evening Concert - Adelaide Symphony Orchestra - LIVE The ASO teams up with the Adelaide Chamber Singers and a cast of some of Australia's best vocal talent, including Greta Bradman and Sally-Anne Russel, for Mozart's sublime Requiem Mass in D minor, K626. And Arvo Volmer conducts atmospheric sacred music by his Estonian compatriot, the great mystic minimalist, Arvo Part, in the Australian premiere of Adam's Lament. '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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