C.S. Lewis almost died in the trench warfare of WW-I Became best friends with Tolkien Sold 100 million books On the cusp of WW-II, he gave an iconic lecture at Oxford University (1939) His question: Does beauty matter when bombs start falling? THIS is his profound answer👇🏻

Mahler 3 in rehearsal at Verbrugghen Hall; performance this Easter Sunday at 3 pm. A few tix still available here: events.humanitix.com/the-orchestra-…

🎼Beethoven initially composed the work for the enthronement of his friend as archbishop writes Peter Tregear from University of Melbourne. Two centuries on, it has endured the test of time. #MissaSolemnis theconversation.com/the-missa-sole…

Brilliant.

No better way to recover from the Grand Final in Melbourne than to attend this Australian premiere the following day, Sunday 29 Sept. Beautiful music, marvellous story, ravishing score. Tickets: trybooking.com/CVETA. ABC Classic Limelight Paul Selar Time Out Melbourne

A preview in Limelight by Peter Tregear of our forthcoming concert performance (& Australian premiere!) of Fleischmann/Shostakovich's 'Rothschild's Violin' (after Chekhov). Sunday 29 September at UniMelb's Melba Hall. limelight-arts.com.au/features/roths…

Melbourne's TheOrchestraProject and IOpera are set to premiere a World War II-era work that came close to being lost with its composer in the battle for Leningrad. limelight-arts.com.au/features/roths…

Out now! Peter @Tregear and Anne-Marie Forbes's study of the life and works of composer, conductor and teacher Fritz Hart, whose career took him from London to Melbourne and Hawaii. More: buff.ly/3ONXiMN #australianbooks #australianarts RMA Musicological Society Australia Victorian Chapter

Melbourne's UNESCO-listed Exhibition Building will host Melbourne Opera's ambitious, all-Australian staging of Wagner's "miracle of complex engineering". limelight-arts.com.au/news/massive-m…

Looking forward to everything Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, Melbourne Opera, BK Opera, Australian Chamber Orchestra, LyricOperaMelbourne and IOperaAus. Sometimes it seems like there’s never enough but the city sure has a broad variety of options.

Our latest catalogue has been released – available on the website buff.ly/3X9kERJ #newbooks

Honouring the wonderment of art, its tradition and adaptation, I couldn’t resist being back in its embrace City of Melbourne’s grand Royal Exhibition Building a second time to experience Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Thank you Melbourne Opera!

John Adams’s ⁦John Adams⁩ The Death of Klinghoffer was premiered in Brussels ⁦La Monnaie De Munt⁩⁩ #OTD in 1991.