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...very nearly didn't parlay "It" into opera. The daughter of a plumber from Perth's working-class Maddington, she first dreamed of a career in musical theater. But after failing her dance audition for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Durkin was offered a place at the conservatorium instead. "Everyone's got this idea of what an opera singer is like," she says, "and for me it was always Wagner-huge, you know, the horns." For an art form looking to reinvent itself and draw new audiences, Durkin is a marketer's dream: 1.8 m tall and gobsmackingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talent Celestial | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...despotism strict combined/ With absolute equality! "I like to bully, yell, coax them to what I know they're capable of," says Kirkman, a lecturer at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music. "I want them to fulfil their potential. I can't ask more than that." "Kim can be strict, but nicely so," says Martin's wife Bernice, 67. "He sets high standards, but I enjoy that." And there's no elitism here, says Oberg: "Anyone can join. You just need to love singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singing for Love | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...while studying composition at the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfort that Mr. Scott finding himself hampered by the limitations of musical conventions, threw himself into the ultra-modern school of composition. His works aim at the portrayal of "atmosphere," rather than definite beauty. His later works show beyond question a greater consideration for the hearer's pleasure than do some of his earlier ones. There are a good many pianoforte pieces which in name and style seem to fulfill the Debussy ideal of landscape painting in music. A number of his compositions will be played next week by the Boston Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cyril Scott. Composer. Will Speak | 1/26/1921 | See Source »

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