This will be our final edition of The Podium for the year, and indeed into the future. Over the past three years, SSI has been transforming to ensure its continuing relevance in a changing arts environment. The changes that will be implemented in 2020 will hone core services, while expanding sector support and advocacy for Australian artists and organisations of all sizes. While many of the changes won’t impact the broader musical community, the following services will be available to Australian arts organisations on a user-pays basis:
SSI will also expand its advocacy leadership to include others within the Australian arts sector. In 2020 our website will be overhauled and we will seek new ways of communicating our activities and services to you. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge our long-time writer and colleague, Gordon Williams, who has brought you so many interesting feature stories over the years. I have often received feedback from readers about his fascinating stories and interviews, and I acknowledge his contribution with thanks. His final Podium feature, on music for ballet and dance, can be found in this edition. Our featured orchestra is the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Gordon wraps up with his usual speed read of interesting news from around the world. I hope to catch up with many of you in the new year, and from all of us at SSI may I wish you all the greetings of the season, and a happy and healthy year ahead. Kate Lidbetter Undetected Melodies: what ballet and classical music might give each otherWill the classical music critic cover opera but rarely ballet? Is there an unreasonable divide between classical music and dance? Gordon Williams examines the difference between conducting or playing for ballet and other sorts of conducting or playing. MSO takes inspiration from Beethoven’s legacy in 2020In 2020, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra offers an artistic program that has innovation and collaboration at its core. Speed ReadVienna State Opera presents its first opera by a woman In the 1960s, Rosemary Brown claimed to channel the spirits of dead composers …and, lastly, longtime Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette gives her exit interview
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