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	Malcolm Mackerras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malcolm Mackerras was born at Turramurra in Sydney in August 1939.
		He is a brother of Sir Charles Mackerras, a well-known conductor, and twin brother of Professor Colin Mackerras, a leading China specialist.
		The Mackerras Pendulum for the Australian federal election of 2004 (shown at left) was published in The Australian newspaper on Monday, 5 January 2004 together with two tables and an article by him titled “Nothing for certain in landslide danger zone”.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malcolm_Mackerras (989 words)

	Charles Mackerras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mackerras was born in Schenectady, New York in the United States of America to Australian parents, and moved with them to Sydney at an early age.
		Mackerras has performed a wide range of repertoire, but is particularly closely associated with the operas of Leoš Janáček — in 1951 he conducted the British premiere of Katya Kabanova, which had been written thirty years earlier.
		Mackerras has also arranged music by Arthur Sullivan for the ballet Pineapple Poll, as well as arranged music by Giuseppe Verdi for the ballet The Lady and the Fool.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Mackerras (336 words)

	Sir Charles Mackerras - Biography
		Mackerras is Conductor Laureate of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, having been their Principal Guest Conductor from 1992 to 1995, and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1993 until 1996.
		From 1993 to 1996 Mackerras was Principal Guest Conductor of the San Francisco Opera.
		Mackerras celebrated his seventieth birthday in 1995 with gala concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh, the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff and with the San Francisco Opera.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/mackerras/bio.html (468 words)

	Janacek, Bruch, Elgar; Sarah Chang (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, RFH, 15th May 2003 (AR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir Charles Mackerras, Principal Guest Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, is arguably one of the most versatile conductors working today with a repertoire ranging from such diverse composers as Handel and Donizetti to Britten and Janacek.
		Mackerras has done more than any other living conductor to put Janacek on the map and it was fitting that he started his programme with The Cunning Little Vixen Suite.
		Mackerras and the Philharmonia Orchestra have an enormous creative rapport, amply illustrated by the handling of these three diverse works in an evening of inspired music-making.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2003/May03/Janacek155.htm (625 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts features \| The modest maestro
		Charles Mackerras was born in the US and raised in Australia before coming to England to study music.
		Mackerras, by insisting on a musical career, was being true to his more distant antecedents: his great-great-great grandfather, Isaac Nathan, had been the first person to compose an opera in Australia, called, rather confusingly, Don John of Austria.
		Mackerras has always been as much musicologist as conductor, and his research on Mozart and Handel, the way he draws on period practice to ornament their compositions, has been prodigious.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1552655,00.html?gusrc=rss (3478 words)

	Decca Music Group - Charles Mackerras
		Sir Charles Mackerras has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the opera house, on the concert platform and in the recording studio.
		Mackerras was able to study in Prague in the brief period between the end of the war and the Communist takeover in 1949.
		Mackerras has been a leader in the historic performance movement, bringing the scholarship of a lifetime to both modern and period instrument orchestras.
	www.deccaclassics.com /artists/mackerras/biog.html (274 words)

	Brahms: The Symphonies/Charles Mackerras. Reviewed by Bernard D. Sherman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As for the Andante sostenuto, the Mackerras performance of the main theme is moving, though later in the movement I felt that the tempo was not responsive and flexible enough.
		Mackerras falls far short of Furtwängler, but his performance is similar in one respect: the tempo relationship of the dolce theme that arrives in the first violins in b.
		Mackerras builds its exposition to its true climax in the C-minor theme that begins at bar 75; part of that episode's power come from Steinbach inflections, such as giving extra emphasis to the upbeat note just before bar 75 (1:54) and to the cadence in bars 90-91 (2:16).
	homepages.kdsi.net /~sherman/mack.html (4120 words)

	Review: Brahms: The Four Symphonies, Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mackerras uses modern strings, but encourages the string players to indulge in Brahms' fancy for phrasing in the classical style.
		Mackerras also bows to Brahms' desire to split the first and second violins, resulting in a more antiphonal sound.
		Mackerras makes a cogent case for this new view of Brahms, but all is not flawless.
	www.metrotimes.com /music/rr/17/rr50brahm.html (460 words)

	classical music - andante - charles mackerras named first recipient of queen's medal for music
		The first Queen's Medal for Music is being awarded to Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor laureate of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, for his "major influence on the musical life of the nation".
		Last night, Sir Charles said receiving the medal was "wonderful news" and thanked the Queen and her official master of music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, chairman of the committee which oversees the new award.
		Sir Charles is 80 later this year, but Sir Peter said the conductor has the energy and commitment to music of someone half his age.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25730 (516 words)

	7.30 Report
		Inside those famous sails, Charles Mackerras had the honour of conducting the very first performance in the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House.
		REBECCA BAILLIE: Sir Charles Mackerras was born in the United States in 1925 to Australian parents and brought up in Sydney.
		SIR CHARLES MACKERRES: I was completely bowled over by it and from then on I became a sort of Janacek fanatic and really studied all his scores and took every opportunity I could to see his operas.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2003/s957090.htm (712 words)

	News: Sir Charles Mackerras celebrates 50 years conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hearing Charles Mackerras' performance of Brahms' First Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra was a revelatory experience, in which all of the hackneyed preconceptions about a composer and a piece were turned on their heads.
		He gave the lie to the idea that Brahms orchestration is opaque and stodgy, making the orchestral textures lyrical and transparent whether in the radiant colours of the slow movement, with its seraphic solo violin line, or the dark visions in the opening of the finale.
		As ever with Mackerras, his approach comes from solid historical research; in this case, the writings of Fritz Steinbach, a conductor who analysed Brahms symphonies a hundred years ago, and who suggested that they should be played with fluid, unpredictable speeds.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /news/sircharlesmackerrascelebrates50yearsconductingthephilharmoniaorchestra!210305 (534 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sers 1/2: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mackerras lets us see that while the grandeur of the symphonies is impressive, there is even more of the true Brahms--intimate, ardent, and soulful--right here in the serenades.
		While Charles Mackerras has come up with a new reason to record Brahms' Serenades, a historically accurate Brahms is not necessarily a beautiful Brahms.
		Mackerras' recordings of Handel and Mozart are well known; in the past several years, he has expanded his recorded repertoire to include Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, and now Brahms.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000035X5A (781 words)

	Sir Charles Mackerras to receive honorary Doctor of Music : Media Releases : News : The University of Melbourne
		Sir Charles Mackerras is a luminary in the music world and a conductor of great colour and flair who achieved acclaim early in his career for interpretations of operas by Puccini, Verdi and Mozart.
		Sir Charles is to be awarded the honorary degree in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to music as a conductor, particularly in the revival and performance of neglected operatic repertoire”.
		Born in 1925 and educated at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Prague Academy of Music, Charles Mackerras was principal oboe in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra before launching on a major conducting career in Europe.
	uninews.unimelb.edu.au /articleid_919.html (287 words)

	Telarc International: Sir Charles Mackerras
		In February 1993, Sir Charles was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and later conducted its first professional performance in the United Kingdom of the "original version" of Janacek's Glagolitic Mass with the Brighton Festival Chorus at the Royal Festival Hall.
		Sir Charles received a CBE in 1974 and was knighted in 1979 for his services to music.
		Sir Charles celebrated his seventieth birthday in 1995 with gala concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff and with San Francisco Opera.
	www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=60&gsku=0611 (624 words)

	Artist Page - Sir Charles Mackerras
		Sir Charles Mackerras was born in the United States of Australian parents in 1925.
		Sir Charles is a specialist in the Czech repertoire, notably Janácek, and has recorded a cycle of his operas with the Vienna Philharmonic.
		Sir Charles Mackerras was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in February 1993.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /artist_page.asp?name=mackerras (587 words)

	A Talk With Sir Charles Mackerras
		Charles Mackerras is increasingly regarded throughout the world as one of the truly great musicians of our time, as well as one of the most prophetically inclined.
		Born in Schenectady, New York, in 1925, Charles Mackerras was raised in Australia, where he studied oboe, piano, and composition at the New South Wales Conservatorium in Sydney.
		This year, the Cannes Classics Awards honors Charles Mackerras with three prizes: for Lifetime Achievement; for his recording of Dvorak's opera "Rusalka"; and for his collaboration with Emanuel Ax in Chopin's First Piano Concerto.
	www.classicstoday.com /features/f1_0200.asp (2349 words)

	Fidelio @ Barbican Hall, London : concert review
		Mackerras was so sprightly that it was almost difficult to believe he is soon to be an octogenarian, and in some ways he showed up some of his considerably younger colleagues.
		Any Mackerras performance is guaranteed to have a well-drilled orchestra however, and this was certainly the case here.
		Yet the reason for the evening was to honour Mackerras, and the standing ovation at the end proved that this had been achieved.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/fidelio_1005.htm (564 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine
		Sir Charles Mackerras has been announced as the principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
		A conductor with a legacy as strong in the concert hall as on CD, Mackerras is also conductor laureate of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor emeritus of the Welsh National Opera, principal guest conductor emeritus of the San Francisco Opera and principal guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
		David Whelton, managing director of the Philharmonia Orchestra, said: ‘Sir Charles Mackerras is one of the great artists of our time.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=1578&newssectionID=1 (205 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Conductor Charles Mackerras Wins First Queen's Medal for Music
		"Sir Charles Mackerras is one of the most highly respected and greatly loved musicians of our time," said composer Peter Maxwell Davies, the Master of the Queen's Music, in announcing the award.
		Mackerras was chosen by a committee chaired by Davies and including composer Michael Berkeley and Nicholas Kenyon, head of classical music for the BBC.
		Queen Elizabeth II will present Mackerras with a silver medal in a private ceremony on or about November 22—both the birthday of Benjamin Britten and St. Cecilia's Day, which honors the patron saint of music.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/2523.html (404 words)

	Dvorak - Symphonies 7-9 [GPJ]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mackerras, unlike Previn, achieves drama and maximum contrast, drawing out pauses to allow the music to breathe and emphasise the feeling of suspense and expectation.
		None of that here, for the music is, like the first movement, driven forward inexorably, until the ultimate agonised counterpoint of the main themes of first movement and finale achieves a monumental grandeur, surely what the composer wished for (but very rarely gets!).
		Along the way, Mackerras constantly allows us to relish details of the scoring, such as the little semiquaver groups in violas then ’cellos around (track 4) 6:19, or the bassoon counter-melody at 8:09.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Dec02/Dvorak_Mackerras.htm (943 words)

	Askonas Holt: Sir Charles Mackerras CH AC CBE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir Charles Mackerras has begun 2005, his 80th birthday year, in wonderful style...
		Sir Charles Mackerras continues to impress critics and delight audience in his 80th year...
		Sir Charles Mackerras is announced as the first ever recipient of the 'Queen's medal for Music'...
	www.askonasholt.co.uk /green/green/home.nsf/LinkSelect?OpenForm&20947C707233400A80256A9900462C6D___News (133 words)

	Charles Mackerras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras is best known in Gilbert and Sullivan circles as the arranger of the ballet Pineapple Poll.
		Mackerras had at least one more evening as guest conductor, taking the baton for The Pirates of Penzance at the Adelphi on December 23, 1981.
		Mackerras has worked with countless orchestras and opera companies throughout the world.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/whowaswho/M/MackerrasCharles.htm (303 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Brahms: Serenades No 1 & 2 / Charles Mackerras, Scottish Co
		Charles Mackerras' marvelous recordings of Brahms' four symphonies with these same forces for Telarc find a logical successor in this delightful release of the two early serenades.
		Hearing these loosely constructed, generously tuneful pieces, we can only wonder at the effort Brahms must have made to curb his purely lyrical impulses and discipline his musical thought in such a way as to demonstrate his worthiness as symphonic heir to Beethoven.
		Mackerras and his players clearly delight in the catchy tunes and colorful scoring, and he leads performances that, while clearly "Romantic" in their freedom of tempo, are scaled to emphasize the music's classical antecedents.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=3130 (201 words)

	Sir Charles Mackerras on his love of Czech music - 06-06-2003 - Radio Prague
		The concert was dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of Czech conductor Vaclav Talich, who used to be Sir Charles' mentor back in 1947 when the young musician first came to Czechoslovakia to study music.
		Sir Charles Mackerras has had a profound influence on Czech musical life, having conducted all prominent orchestras in Prague and Brno.
		Sir Charles has also been honoured with a series of accolades during his career, including the state Medal of Distinction for services to culture, conferred upon him by Czech President Vaclav Havel in 1996.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/41349 (1204 words)

	Edinburgh Live Music Reviews
		Sir Charles' insight introduced nuances of emphasis and interpretation that made a well-balanced musical and vocal performance interesting and enjoyable.
		Exhilarating direction by Sir Charles enthused orchestra, soloists and chorus throughout and a full Usher Hall resounded with cheer, applause and cries of "bravo" at the end.
		NB Sir Charles Mackerras has been named as the first recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music.
	www.edinburghguide.com /aande/music/review.shtml?05_10/05_10_06_mackerras_60th_birthday_concern (546 words)

	Brahms Symphony Cycle with Sir Charles Mackerras Details
		Johannes Brahms wrote all four of his symphonies in later life having struggled for years to overcome the reputation of Beethoven, his predecessor and great master of the genre.
		The Philharmonia Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras has been much admired for his interpretations of Brahms and his 1997 recording of the complete Brahms Symphonies was met with worldwide critical acclaim.
		Mackerras and Till Fellner at the Royal Festival Hall
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /concerts/series/brahmssymphonycycle (170 words)

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