Enjoy, Learn, Discuss
​Sunday 18 November at 2.30pm

Louise Hanson Dyer was "La Tornade", the Melbourne society girl who took Paris' musical world by storm in the 1920's!

In the next Enjoy, Learn, Discuss talk, Je suis un tornado! Louise Hanson Dyer and Paris in the Roaring Twenties, Fine Music presenter Robert Small will explore the life and times of the woman who founded the L'Oiseau Lyre publishing and recording house, sponsored composers such as Holst, and contributed so much to musical life of the era!

In Conversation
​Wednesdays at 2pm

Of all the amazing stories that have come out of World War 1, the 100th anniversary of the end of which we’ve just celebrated, perhaps none is more fascinating than that of Private Nelson Ferguson, a stretcher-bearer from Warnambool, who miraculously survived the Western Front, was blinded by mustard gas in the trenches in 1918, but in 1968 had his sight restored by Fred Hollows. Nelson earned the nickname of The Glass Soldier, in itself an interesting tale which has been told in a book of that title written by his grandson, Melbourne lawyer Don Farrands. Don will be Michael Morton-Evans’s guest on In Conversation at 2pm on Wednesday, November 21st. Join us and hear this amazing story as well as listen to the glorious Glass Soldier Suite composed by Nigel Westlake and played by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This should be a truly memorable programme.

CD of the Week
Completed shortly before his death at just 33, Schubert’s masterpiece, Winterreise, follows a young man spurned by his beloved who then wanders through a frozen landscape in ever-increasing states of existential angst, terror and paranoia. Historical pianist Erin Helyard and baritone, David Greco present a different Winterreise than any you have heard before. This is how the work might have sounded to Schubert, informed by 19th century performance techniques, and the different vocal traditions and pianos that existed then. This is a Winterreise that takes you inside a work you’ve listened to many times before – but never truly heard.
​
Fine Music subscribers have a chance to win the CD of the Week thanks to David Greco. ​Enter below for your chance to win. ​

November Magazine OUT NOW

Upcoming Events

​Enjoy, Learn, Discuss
Sunday 18 November

2018 YVA National Final
Sunday 25 November