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?
Books & arts
12 January 2017
Music | What makes the distinguished Italian pianist different?
Books & arts
5 December 2016
Music | Something unique happens at the intersection of music, ideas and life
Books & arts
7 November 2016
England’s most famous composer is less English than he might seem
Books & arts
17 October 2016
Despite the doubters, it is possible to talk about music. And the conversations can be revealing
Books & arts
7 September 2016
Music | Andrew Ford discovers the unimportance of style
Books & arts
9 August 2016
Music | After a run of ho-hum albums, it’s good news for fans, says Andrew Ford
Books & arts
5 July 2016
How do we reconcile an artist’s views with her work?
Books & arts
2 June 2016
Composers might sometimes be envied by other artists, but music has a paradoxical limitation, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
10 May 2016
Music | Each singer must find his own voice for Peter Maxwell Davies’s best-known work, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
6 April 2016
Music | The jazz standard ain’t what it used to be, writes Andrew Ford. In the case of Bill Frisell’s new album, that’s definitely a good thing
Books & arts
21 March 2016
Kerry Ryan keeps his options open at WOMADelaide
Books & arts
2 March 2016
Music | The scope for choices makes music a special case among art forms, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
22 February 2016
Books | Crawford Productions was created in the early years of Australian TV, writes Susan Lever, and its influence is still alive in the industry
Books & arts
5 February 2016
Music | More music, fewer musical heroes? Andrew Ford on the paradox of plenty