Sydney Opera House: Miscellaneous Videos

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Sydney Opera House: Miscellaneous Videos

Examples include Architects of Air’s Mirazozo, Joss Whedon live on stage, an interview with Gotham Chopra On The Future of Comics, Babies Proms’ The Four Seasonsand A Load of Rubbish, made as an in-house recycling-awareness video for Greening The House.

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Following Fryderyk Chopin

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Following Fryderyk Chopin

Australia's SBS Radio & Television Youth Orchestra follows in the great Polish composer's footsteps: from Warsaw to Kraków, Prague to Vienna and Paris, 200 years after Chopin’s birth.

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Elena Kats-Chernin’s Wild Swans Suite

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Elena Kats-Chernin’s Wild Swans Suite

SBS Youth Orchestra gives the concert première of the “Wild Swans Suite” by Uzbek-born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin.  It features footage of Uzbekistan’s astonishing Silk Road architecture from Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand.

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Concerto F60

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Concerto F60

Concerto F60 will transform a former mining machine in Lichterfeld, Eastern Germany, into the world's largest musical instrument, to be played by professional musicians and Lusatian locals alike. It will be part of the IBA "Paradise II" programme for 2010, redefining an area transfigured by open-cut coal mining. 

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A Russian Resurrection

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A Russian Resurrection

A musical journey through wintry landscapes to three places in Russia: remote and mysterious Valaam, sacred Zagorsk and a resurrected cathedral in Moscow. All of them now central to the revival of Faith within the former Soviet Union.

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Carried by the Wind

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Carried by the Wind

Music knows no boundaries.  In Bethlehem, Merlijn Twaalfhoven and partners create "Carried by the Wind", a spectacular music performance from atop rooftops and balconies, across the Separation Wall that now divides this holy town.

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Symphony for All

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Symphony for All

Why do we see so often see only images of chaos and trouble from the Middle East?  The vast majority of its people - as anywhere - simply want to live normal lives.  A music project for Palestinian refugee children in Jordan.

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Three Tales of Two Cities

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Three Tales of Two Cities

Austria has made a disproportionate contribution to the pantheon of classical composers.  With the help of three musical locals - two of them Australian expatriates - the SBS radio & Television Youth Orchestra explores the musical heritage of Vienna and Salzburg.

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Stanica Východ (Station East)

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Stanica Východ (Station East)

The neighbours of the Roma ghetto in Prešov, Slovakia, want to build a wall to prevent Roma children from stealing fruit and vegetables from their gardens. Composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven believes there are other ways to soften the hardened relations between the two groups. With a team of musicians and organizers from Germany, Holland, Poland, and Slovakia he designed a music festival in which Roma and non-Romas performed together. In doing so they touched the tip of an iceberg made of cultural differences and deep-seated mistrust.

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Hungarian Rhapsodies

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Hungarian Rhapsodies

The SBS Radio & Television Youth Orchestra plays music of and about Hungary, exploring its connections with Romany culture.  Features young Australian violinist Claudia Zorbas who, at age 11, was the youngest student ever to be accepted into Budapest’s renowned Franz Liszt Academy.

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