Word: conservatorium
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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...
...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...
...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...
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