Books & arts
15 July 2021
For singer-songwriter Martha Marlow, “your life experiences become your palette”
Books & arts
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & arts
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s Wakefield
Books & arts
14 May 2021
Who exactly were the New Romantics?
Essays & reportage
8 April 2021
Although his music is commonly divided into three distinct periods, the unique voice of the twentieth century’s most famous composer always rings true
Books & arts
15 March 2021
Music | As the noise returns to our lives, sounds rarely heard are disappearing again
Books & arts
19 February 2021
Chick Corea’s remarkable musical output emerged from a welter of seeming contradictions
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?
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Lili Sharp (1876–1964), singer
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