Books & arts
17 September 2021
What happens when musicians play together without the cues they’ve come to expect?
Books & arts
10 August 2021
Gerald Finzi’s letters illuminate a time, a place and a composer’s mind
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