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Monty Python actor John Cleese slams what he calls the “Faulty Towers Rip-Off Dining Experience”.

ArtsPeak, the Confederation of Peak National Arts Organisations has written to the PM advocating for vision in arts policy.

Surprise successes and predictable victories characterise this year’s awards, announced this evening in Melbourne.

Senator Mitch Fifield says the arts are the “soul of the nation” but doesn’t think slashed Federal subsidies should be criticised.

It will be campaigning for a tripling of the budget for artists and small-to-medium sized arts organisations.

Biggest classical must gathering comes to the Hydro Majestic. The largest gathering of professional classical musicians ever in the Blue Mountains aims to add an extra layer of sumptuousness to a world-famous icon when The Metropolitan Orchestra performs at the Hydro Majestic Hotel this year. Guests will be able to immerse themselves in the strains of the 32-piece string ensemble playing Little Serenade for Strings by Rojas, String Serenade by Dvořák and Tchaikovsky’s String Serenade at the opening event entitled Cocktails & Serenades – the first of three concerts – taking place on Saturday March 12. “The sumptuous pairing of Dvořák and Tchaikovsky string masterpieces filled with purity, beauty and passion will lift the spirit,” say organisers. “Composed just five years apart and written at positive times in each of the composers’ lives, these joyful and evocative serenades will be complemented by Rojas’ fresh and vivacious work, rounding out a sublime musical evening.” The concert programme under the baton of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams will be accompanied by a lavish cocktail and dining package. “The Hydro Majestic will be an ideal backdrop to the Majestic Concert Series, with its elegant historic venues, sweeping landscape and high-end food….

The ARIA Award-winning pianist and composer wants you to broaden your horizons a little every day. I don’t know who coined the term Portfolio Career. Did they want a more glamorous term than freelancing, contracting or muddling along? Whatever you choose to call it, it’s the way that most classical musicians now work. For me, it’s juggling a combination of recording contracts, occasional recitals, commissions to compose new works, some arranging, some choral conducting, a little chamber music, a small teaching studio, and lots and lots of accompanying. It’s a busy life, sometimes complicated, always stimulating and varied, but crucially, it’s a sound vocationally strategy based on having multiple skills at your disposal. If you’re considering becoming a professional classical musician, there are certain skills that will keep you employable and thus help to put you in situations where you feel appropriately challenged. Do your theory homework every day. Every single day as a working musician, I use skills I learnt in theory classes. Having the ability to read a score, hear it in my head and understand how it works without even approaching an instrument or a recording is the most valuable skill in my arsenal. Don’t let your…