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Society Function 22 September

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09 September 2016,

John Studdert

6pm (Please note time) 

Roger Neill Australian Singers of Wagner - the Known and the Unknown

Roger Neill is an English arts historian, focused on Australian and New Zealand singers, musicians, artists and writers, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He helped Sam Wanamaker to rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He helps the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with people, organisational and strategic issues.

He lived and worked in Sydney in the 1980s, as chairman of the advertising agency Lintas.

Roger is the author of Divas: Mathilde Marchesi and her Pupils, to be published by NewSouth Publishing in September 2016.

It features more than 90 of Marchesi’s pupils from around the world, among them several Australians, including Nellie Melba, Frances Saville, Frances Alda, Amy Sherwin, Ada Crossley, Amy Castles, Eda Bennie and Evelyn Scotney. and he is the coproducer of From Melba to Sutherland: Australian Singers on Record , the first-ever comprehensive survey of the recordings of Australia’s greatest singers – in a unique new four-CD set from Decca Eloquence which includes a booklet with biographies and photos of the singers and an overview of their teachers

Books and CDs will be on sale at the meeting

Goethe-Institut, 90 Ocean St, Woollahra

Followed by wine and cheese

All welcome - $20 for members, $25 for guests and $10 for students 

Society Functions 2016 - revised program

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09 September 2016,

John Studdert

Our functions for the remainder of the year have been revised to include some exciting new events - Click here for details