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Join me for a wide range of music designed to enhance your weekend afternoons. Enjoy orchestral and chamber concerts, jazz, brass bands, radio documentaries about music, and the latest music news. Whether you're shopping or driving the kids somewhere, relaxing in the garden or spending time with friends and family, Weekend Life is your perfect companion.
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Guy Noble will be presenting this program until January 10th. Mairi will return on January 16th.
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| 12.05pm Saturday and Sunday - Weekend Concert Edge-of-your-seat performances from our finest Australian and International orchestras. |
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| 2pm - The Scene Music that connects with people and events in the local and international music scene. |
2pm - The Sunday Feature Learn more about an aspect of music - a composer, a musician or singer - in a specially researched radio feature. |
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| 3pm - Saturday Session The best of Australian musicians in a chamber concert recorded in one of our ABC studios by ABC Classic FM. |
3pm - Sunday Live |
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| 4.30pm - Strike up the Band Australian & international brass bands in live & CD recordings, & featuring the annual Australian National Band Championships - presented and produced by Karl Akers. |
4pm - Song and Dance The end of the Weekend wind-down. A wide ranging program of relaxing light classics with the odd surprise! |
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| Music details for | Saturday 20 March | Sunday 21 March | ||
The Astonishing Ballets Russes - Program 5: From Madrid to Melbourne
In the final program in this series celebrating the centenary of the formation of the Ballets Russes, Lee Christofis, the Curator of Dance at the National Library of Australia, is joined by Dr Michael Christoforidis, Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Music. They discuss the less well-known connections between Spanish dance in early colonial Australia and the work of choreographer Leonide Massine for the Ballets Russes, including the collaboration between Massine and composer Manuel de Falla (pictured above). > more
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