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
23 November 2018
Opera Australia’s production deftly undercut the dark side of one of the composer’s best-known works
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
21 August 2018
He might not have played Hurricane, but Bob Dylan was in fine form in Melbourne
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
Books & arts
7 March 2018
Despite her early death, the French composer left a remarkable legacy
Books & arts
13 February 2018
Music | Pianist Andrea Keller’s new work might or might not be jazz, but it’s certainly poetic
Essays & reportage
22 January 2018
Youth homelessness is more than a question of affordable accommodation. A new project shows how music can play an unexpected role
From the archive
27 December 2017
Despite her international fame, the Tasmanian-born pianist’s career was cut short by a conservative musical establishment
Books & arts
11 December 2017
Want to think anew about Mozart? Try Geoffrey Lancaster’s latest recording
Books & arts
14 November 2017
Music | The remarkable career of composer Elena Kats-Chernin, who has just turned sixty
Books & arts
24 October 2017
Music | Do you simply need to say that’s what you do?
Books & arts
25 September 2017
Music | “Improvise” and “embellish” can be alarming words for a classically trained composer
Books & arts
29 August 2017
Music | What makes a composer courageous?
Books & arts
27 July 2017
Rock music doesn’t just have classics in the sense of “golden oldies,” it has become a body of work
Books & arts
3 July 2017
Popular music can be hard to separate from our recollections
Books & arts
15 June 2017
Music | The music’s not always the thing in the classical concert hall
Books & arts
11 May 2017
Music | Is reading music elitist? Only if we stop teaching it
Books & arts
18 April 2017
Books | Joni Mitchell’s decades aren’t done yet
Books & arts
10 April 2017
Music | A new generation of musicians has returned to folk music for inspiration
Books & arts
21 March 2017
Festivals | At Port Fairy, forty-plus years of tradition is on display
Books & arts
7 March 2017
Music | Headlong was meant to be a celebration of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s seventy-fifth birthday, but something seemed wrong
Books & arts
16 February 2017
Should we borrow, steal – or even beg for – other cultures’ music?