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Dame Edna Everage/Barry Humphries Taking Over Adelaide Music Festival

Barry Humphries is in London at the moment, presumably enjoying what is billed as Dame Edna Everage's farewell lap of honor. While it's hard to contemplate the stages of the West End and Broadway without the acerbic-tongued dame, good news comes from Humphries's native Australia. He's apparently taking on an arts festival.
By James Inverne

  • Classicalite's Five Best: Musicians on 'Sesame Street'

    I was musing the other day about what being on 'Sesame Street' means for classical musicians. In many ways, it's a signpost--a signal that said musician has entered the realm of popular culture. It is also, of course, a laudable attempt to bring classical music, itself, back into popular culture. Just as it sounds. With an animal orchestra.
    By James Inverne

  • Franz Liszt Academy of Music Finally Reopen in Budapest

    The Liszt Academy music school founded by Franz Liszt, the first piano superstar, recently reopened its main concert hall--refurbished under an ambitious plan to give the 138-year-old institution, and its music study program, a new lease on life.
    By Classicalite Newsdesk