Books & arts
9 February 2021
Music | Art might not change the world, but it can help us see it differently
Books & arts
9 December 2020
Music | Dynasties, traditions and the trailblazing teacher-performer Nadia Boulanger
From the archive
19 November 2020
Music | A new set of early recordings reveals again a singer-songwriter in a class of her own
Books & arts
4 October 2020
Music | Mahan Esfahani wants to rescue the harpsichord from history
Books & arts
9 September 2020
Music | Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & arts
14 August 2020
Music | Composer, performer, listener: is the distinction always an easy one?
Summer season
3 July 2020
Music | Bob Dylan’s new album settles the debate triggered by his Nobel Prize
Books & arts
5 June 2020
One country, two very different songs
Books & arts
20 May 2020
Music | What happens when the composer can really see the audience?
Books & arts
25 April 2020
Music | Why has Australia been so much less generous to locked-down artists than Britain or Germany?
Books & arts
14 April 2020
Music | What happens when a composer becomes a reporter?
Books & arts
12 March 2020
Music | The first modern composer celebrates his 250th birthday
Books & arts
20 February 2020
Music | Marriage Story takes film music into new territory
Books & arts
4 December 2019
Music | Late-career singers can do what young singers can’t
Books & arts
11 November 2019
Music | Most performances are by amateur musicians, and that’s no bad thing
Summer season
18 October 2019
Urban romance was the hallmark of a great songwriting era
Books & arts
9 September 2019
Music | Spanning fifty years, the English-born composer’s diverse output features on two new recordings
Books & arts
9 April 2019
Music | Is there a contradiction between Robyn Archer’s stature as a thinker and her sometimes playful performances?
Books & arts
4 March 2019
Music | Conductor, pianist and composer André Previn did many things rather well
Books & arts
11 February 2019
Music | A tribute to the fearless English-born tenor Gerald English, who’d lived in Australia since 1977
From the archive
10 January 2019
Judy Bailey’s long and distinguished career has contributed to an explosion in Australian jazz talent
Books & arts
7 December 2018
Music | Dance metres and rhythms are everywhere in the music of Bach
Books & arts
2 November 2018
Music | The composition was in on time, but was it any good?
Books & arts
5 October 2018
Music | The composer’s ninetieth year was effectively the midpoint of a long career
Books & arts
10 September 2018
What made Aretha Franklin’s voice so compelling?
Books & arts
20 August 2018
Music | What makes someone a “conservative” composer?
Books & arts
10 July 2018
Music | Composer Sally Greenaway’s career has followed a remarkable trajectory
Books & arts
12 June 2018
Music | The longer we listen to the music of Gavin Bryars and Brian Ferneyhough, the more we recognise
Books & arts
8 May 2018
Music | Peggy Seeger is a remarkable talent in her own right
From the archive
9 April 2018
Van Morrison has it, Gladys Knight has it, and so does Aretha Franklin. Somehow Nick Coleman captures it on the page