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Andrew Ford

Composer Andrew Ford presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National. His books include Try Whistling This, Illegal Harmonies: Music in the Modern Age and, most recently, The Shortest History of Music.

Books & arts Andrew Ford 10 August 2011 Increasingly people are watching rather than simply listening to recorded music, writes Andrew Ford
From the archive Andrew Ford 13 July 2011 Does a good cause make good art? Books & arts Andrew Ford 6 June 2011 MUSIC | Andrew Ford explores the darkness at the junction of pop music and other genres Books & arts Andrew Ford 10 May 2011 It was 1958, the year Brazil won the World Cup. National pride was at its zenith, writes Andrew Ford, and you can hear it in the music Books & arts Andrew Ford 15 March 2011 How do you compose for a brass band? Andrew Ford went to Yorkshire to find out
Books & arts Andrew Ford 13 December 2010 Andrew Ford reviews Stephen Sondheim’s autobiographical masterclass in lyric-writing Books & arts Andrew Ford 5 February 2009 Like his trio music, Keith Jarrett’s solo concerts draw on enduring music forms, writes Andrew Ford