Choral Masterworks 3MBS Melbourne

28/10/2023

UPCOMING LIVE PERFORMANCE AND INTERVIEW- ALTA COLLECTIVE 🎶
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We are excited to be welcoming Alta Collective to the 3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM studio this Sunday. They will be performing live from 8pm pieces from their program 'when the earth stands still' tracing the paths of waters, winds, fires, mosses & mountains, through music as diverse & strange as the earth that inspired them.

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Make sure to tune in via 103.5FM or via our website (linked below). Choral Masterworks every Sunday from 8-10pm!

🎶 Tune in this Sunday at 8PM to 3MBS 103.5 or listen online at https://3mbs.org.au/player/player.html for a special treat! 📻

Alta will be performing a few songs live from the studio from our upcoming concert 'when the earth stands still' from 8-8.20PM, followed straight after by an interview with Renée Heron and Juliana Kay 🎤 ✨

05/10/2023

UPCOMING INTERVIEW- SHREWD AWAKENINGS 👀
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We are excited to be welcoming Juliana Kay Choral Edge and Bridget Bourne WHACKollective to the 3MBS studio this Sunday. They will be talking about their upcoming collaboration of percussion and choir that conjures a technicolor world and mind-state that screams AWAKE!
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Make sure to tune in via 103.5FM or via our website (linked below). Choral Masterworks every Sunday from 8-10pm!

13/07/2023

WHICH BACH CANTATA IS YOUR FAVOURITE?
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Ahead of the program this weekend featuring Bach's 'Cantata BWV 3, O God, how many a paint for the heart' check out this entertaining review of all of Bach's Cantata's by Jeffrey Arlo Brown.
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Guaranteed entertaining read from VAN Magazine 😂

After ranking the complete Scarlatti sonatas and Schubert songs, you might think I’d have learned my lesson, both in time spent and in baffled—or worse—reactions received. Still, I admit when I decided to take on ranking the complete Bach Cantatas, I was a little naive about the time commitmen...

06/07/2023

A NEW ORATORIO BY AN EVOLUTIONARY GENETECIST
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We are excited to be welcoming Peter Bandy to the 3MBS studio this Sunday. They will be talking about the upcoming world premiere of Origins with the Heidelberg Choral Society put together by evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves, poet Leigh Hay and Australian composer Nicholas Buc.
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Make sure to tune in via 103.5FM or via our website (linked below). Choral Masterworks every Sunday from 8-10pm!

27/06/2023

"They are absolutely dripping with metaphor and double entendre... they're quite titillating" 🥵
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It was a pleasure to welcome Steven Hodgson to the 3MBS studio last Sunday. He talked about his upcoming program with The Consort of Melbourne performing The Lost Love Songs of Maddalena Casulana. You can find out more details via their social media below!
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If you missed the interview you can listen back to it via our archive (linked below). Choral Masterworks every Sunday from 8-10pm!

Join Melbourne’s premier vocal ensemble for an unforgettable afternoon of musical discovery as, for the first time in Australia, The Consort of Melbourne breathes life into the lost madrigals of Maddalena Casulana. Thought incomplete, the recent discovery of a lost partbook allows these captivatin...

04/05/2023

UPCOMING INTERVIEW- Michael Burden with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra!
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Kit recently had a conversation with Michael Burden ahead of his upcoming performance in Vivaldi's Gloria with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir. They chatted about stage direction from Circa artistic director Yaron Lifschitz and how counter-tenors discover their singing abilities.
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Make sure to tune in via 103.5FM or via our website (linked below). Choral Masterworks every Sunday from 8-10pm!

27/04/2023

UPCOMING RADIO PREMIERE 😁👀🎧
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We are excited to be giving the radio premiere of Stuart Greenbaum's Symphony No.5 on Choral Masterworks at 3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM this Sunday. This recording was performed by Cantori New York in 2022 and is a contemplation of our modern world.
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Make sure to tune in via 103.5FM or via our website (linked below). Choral Masterworks every Sunday from 8-10pm!

21/01/2023

Very excited to have the first Choral Masterworks interview talking about Homophonic and Celebrating Q***r Spirit with The Consort of Melbourne artistic director Steven Hodgson!
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Get a ticket to the concerts now before they sell out 🤞

Steve Hodgson, Artistic Director of The Consort of Melbourne will be visiting the station tomorrow night at 8pm to chat with Kit Millais about their upcoming performances in Midsumma Festival during Choral Masterworks - 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne.

Homophonic 27 & 28 January at La Mama Theatre: https://bit.ly/3QQNgee

Celebrating Q***r Spirit- Justice and Joy! 29 January at St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne: https://bit.ly/3HiLdfF

Tune in Sunday 22 January from 8pm!

27/10/2022

SPOOKY SCARY CHORAL MUSIC- THIS SUNDAY

Back in the studio this Sunday on 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne, catch the show from 8-10pm either online or on 103.5FM.

I was so pleased putting this program together and finding some spooky and scary choral music. Who would think lots of it is from Requiems? Let me know what you think of the show, send me a message or keep me company and call in to the studio on 9416 1035!

Audio excerpt from: Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Alexander Nevsky’. Link in below to listen in to the show!

01/09/2022

ERIC WHITACRE INTERVIEW THIS SUNDAY 😃
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I still can’t get over how exciting it was to talk with Eric Whitacre. He spoke so eloquently about how he composes the colours he sees coming from poems. Eric had a great deal to say about his approach to The Sacred Veil which will be performed next Wednesday and Thursday at Monash University (link below).
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Make sure to check out the interview this Sunday at 8PM on Choral Masterworks at 3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM. Eric might even hint at his next big projects coming up!

02/04/2022

ANIMALS NOAH FORGOT AND MERMAIDS- RADIO SUNDAY

Back in the studio this Sunday on 3MBS Fine Music - Melbourne, catch the show from 8-10pm either online or on 103.5FM.

🇦🇺 A selection of all Australian composers, each piece telling its own story about the environment and the animals in it. Let me know what you think of the show, send me a message or keep me company and call in to the studio on 9416 1035!

🕷 What’s an animal Noah should have forgotten to pack?

Video music: Machinamentum Laetificus by Gavin Gamboa

05/06/2021

RADIO FOR YOUR LOCK-DOWN 🎙
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🕗 Sunday night I am on the air. If lock-down has you down why not settle in for some choral tunes spun by none other than yours truly.
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🇬🇧 The music of Britain is the theme for this week. There will be three different renditions of music dedicated to St. Cecilia. Cecilia is the patron of music and musicians and is often depicted playing organ or viola.
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🎧 St Cecilia's Day isn't until November but oh well... You can click the play button at this link to hear the show at 8PM on Sunday! https://3mbs.org.au/