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Beyond Measure: Explorations in Music

Starting Sunday August 1st, Benjamin Martin presents this three-part series examining the relationship between music and ideas.

The first episode 'Defrosted Architecture', looks at music that draws inspiration from architectural principles, from Beethoven to Ligeti.

Episode 2, 'Music Born Free', explores the notion of freedom in music, from Gesualdo's ear-expanding harmonies to the conceptual experiments of John Cage.

The third episode quotes Oscar Wilde, 'All art is useless' and explores different perspectives on the function of music, and what this means for the music of our time.

Beyond Measure: Explorations in Music - Sundays August 1st, 8th and 15th from 8:30pm

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2010 3MBS Classically Melbourne FREE Annual Concert

The Classically Melbourne Concert on Monday August 9th at the Arts Centre is now fully booked, but you may put your name down on a waiting list for any tickets made available due to cancellations. Phone 3MBS on 9416 1035 to add your name to the list.

This also means that if you already have a ticket booked and you are unable to attend, please let 3MBS know as soon as possible!

We can see why it's so popular this year. The program features the winning composition in the 2010 3MBS National Composer Award (Kevin March's work entitled 'Kambarang') alongside the Russian classics, Glière’s Russian Sailors’ Dance from The Red Poppy Ballet, Tchaikovsky’s lyrical Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45., all performed by Orchestra Victoria, conducted by Marko Letonja and featuring soloist Feng Ning.

As always, this special concert is being recorded for broadcast, so tune to 103.5M on Friday 27th August at 1.30pm to The Dress Circle with Robert Hooke to hear the concert in its entirety.

This annual event is made possible through our partnership with Orchestra Victoria and the Arts Centre and proudly supported by the Salzer Foundation, Ms Betty Amsden and APRA.

2010 3MBS Classically Melbourne Concert: Monday August 9th, State Theatre, The Arts Centre

Concert Broadcast: Friday 27th August at 1.30pm

Link: Orchestra Victoria's Artistic Director Jo Beaumont in conversation with Lin Bender

 

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Stuart Greenbaum curates Musical Portraits for 3MBS

Prominent Melbourne composer Stuart Greenbaum joins the award-winning Musical Portraits series as our next curator.

Greenbaum (Melb. 1966–) studied composition with Brenton Broadstock and Barry Conyngham at the University of Melbourne, where he now holds a position in the School of Music as Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Composition.

For his first Musical Portrait, Greenbaum has selected Melbourne pianist Glenn Riddle. On Thursday August 19th at 6:00pm Riddle will perform Ice Man, a work composed in collaboration with Greenbaum.

"At just over half an hour in length, the piece is an artistic tour-de-force requiring great pianistic skill and tone colour, including use of the middle sostenuto pedal to create a 3–dimensional sound world. Glenn encourages composers to push what the instrument is capable of and this work provides a large canvas to showcase Glenn’s interpretive qualities as an artist... Based on the plight of James Scott, the Australian student who was trapped in the Himalayan snow for 43 days before being rescued. It primarily responds to the philosophical elements of his story: the acceptance of misfortune, the wait in hope, the possibility of death and the change of expectation. In all, a cathartic journey."

~ Stuart Greenbaum, Musical Portraits Curator, August-October 2010

Musical Portrait: Glenn Riddle - Thursday August 19th at 6:00pm

Link: Musical Portraits

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Make your next Recording at 3MBS

Did you know 3MBS has a high-end 48-channel digital recording studio available for commercial hire?

The performance studio is an acoustically engineered space specifically designed to cater for high-end performance and recording. At the heart of the studio is a Schimmel Konzert 189 Grand Piano.

Featuring a range of microphones, pre-amps, software and hardware, the 3MBS recording studio has been used to produce commercial recordings from artists such as the Melbourne Guitar Quartet, the Sunwrae Ensemble, Silo String Quartet, David Chisholm and Nick Tsiavos.

The studio is available for hire by external recording engineers and producers, or as a complete package with 3MBS studio engineer Terry McDermott.

Click here for more about the 3MBS Performance Studio

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Love fine music? Volunteer at 3MBS!

3MBS is a community in which volunteers are welcome, appreciated and very, very necessary. 3MBS strives to be the premier supporter and broadcaster of classical music experiences in Victoria. We are always interested in hearing from potential volunteers who can help us achieve this goal. Would you like to know more?

You might be interested in becoming a presenter or music programmer, in which case you will be required to pass a short music quiz and submit an audition recording. You might be interested in helping out in our music library, on reception or any of a hundred other things.

Have a look at Volunteering at 3MBS, where you can download a Volunteer Application Form. Please read the Conditions of Volunteering at 3MBS before you send it in. You can always contact us with any questions you might have about volunteering, by phone on 9416 1035 or email support@3mbs.org.au

3MBS accepts all applications on their merits.

 

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Piano Masterclass with Elyane Laussade

3MBS will host a piano masterclass to be given by Elyane Laussade before an invited audience in the Marigold Southey performance studio, Abbotsford, on Sunday afternoon, 1 August 2010. The masterclass will be recorded for subsequent broadcast on 3MBS.

Elyane will select three pianists to take part in the masterclass. Each will perform a piece of their choice which should be between 7 and 15 minutes in length.

Link: More information

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Do you Get 3MBS?

Are you perhaps one of the 64,000 non-supporting listeners to 3MBS?

Many people in Melbourne have found 3MBS on their radios and enjoy listening to the fine music we broadcast 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, but do not realise what it is that makes 3MBS different and valuable to the Melbourne fine music community.

3MBS was started in 1975, becoming the first FM community radio station in Victoria. Community radio is powerful because it is intimately and permanently connected to the people who make it happen. We have a very small number of paid staff, and are mostly run by our volunteers.

If you have found 103.5FM and enjoyed it, may we invite you to find out more about what makes 3MBS tick and encourage you to support us?

More support only means more opportunities for local composers and performers, more recordings made, more people trained and more fine music in Melbourne.

If just 2% of our non-supporting listeners become supporters, 3MBS will be markedly stronger.

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