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Books & Arts
Amplified intimacy
Andrew Ford
7 April 2014
The microphone gave a new authenticity to pop vocals, writes
Andrew Ford
. Can it do the same for classical musicians?
Books & Arts
Messiaen’s children
Andrew Ford
4 March 2014
From Karlheinz Stockhausen to Lalo Schifrin, Olivier Messiaen taught his students how to be themselves
Books & Arts
Too much talent
Andrew Ford
11 February 2014
A new collection of letters traces the life of the “outrageously gifted” composer of
West Side Story
, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
Imagining the future of music
Andrew Ford
15 January 2014
To appreciate music, we need to sing and play and compose more of it, says
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
The Beatles at the Beeb
Andrew Ford
11 December 2013
There’s more to the pairing of the Beatles and the BBC Light Programme than might first meet the ear, says
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
Adding to the ambience
Andrew Ford
13 November 2013
Wallpaper music? There’s more going on than you might think, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
What the composer owes the writer
Andrew Ford
10 October 2013
Andrew Ford
on the challenge of combining words and music
Books & Arts
The composer who hasn’t let go
Andrew Ford
15 September 2013
We’re still living in Wagner’s world, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
Not shaving to Schoenberg
Andrew Ford
12 August 2013
Why do writers and visual artists seem less interested in living composers than composers are in them, wonders
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
Works in progress
Andrew Ford
14 July 2013
Andrew Ford
on the long careers of composers Pierre Boulez and Henri Dutilleux
Books & Arts
Monique diMattina in New Orleans
Andrew Ford
12 June 2013
Andrew Ford
is a fan. But of whom, exactly?
Books & Arts
Benjamin Britten’s voice
Andrew Ford
16 May 2013
Much of Britten’s vocal music was written for Peter Pears — and that creates quite a challenge for modern interpreters
From the archive
Margaret Thatcher and the moral neutrality of art
Andrew Ford
10 April 2013
The soundtracks of other people’s lives can be unsettling
Books & Arts
The man who wasn’t there
Sylvia Lawson
19 March 2013
Sylvia Lawson
on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House
Books & Arts
Watching the audience
Andrew Ford
13 March 2013
A composer doesn’t often see people in the act of listening to music, writes
Andrew Ford
. WOMADelaide was an opportunity to take a look
Books & Arts
Well-made music
Andrew Ford
21 February 2013
Andrew Ford
on the life and work of Lennox Berkeley
Books & Arts
The sparkle of the miniature
Andrew Ford
28 December 2012
Andrew Ford
on the life and work of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Books & Arts
More than the sum of their parts
Andrew Ford
26 October 2012
Nearly 200 years after Beethoven composed the first song cycle, Paul Kelly has unveiled two – an album and a performance at the Melbourne Festival – writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
The symbiotic relationship
Andrew Ford
15 October 2012
Something interesting happens when a piece of music goes out into the world, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
The Eloquence of the compact disc
Andrew Ford
5 September 2012
A one-man Sydney-based label has released 700 classical music CDs over the past decade and a half, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
Musical paranoia
Andrew Ford
3 August 2012
Andrew Ford
looks at how music has been the target of political and religious fundamentalists
Books & Arts
Getting personal
Andrew Ford
25 June 2012
Andrew Ford
forges a relationship with his new piano
Books & Arts
No such thing as a sold-out show
Jock Given
14 June 2012
Jock Given
gets slightly hot under the collar about the company that dominates ticket sales
Books & Arts
Why we need music
Andrew Ford
8 May 2012
The most abstract of our arts is also one of the things that defines our humanity
Books & Arts
Tim Stevens’s undertow
Andrew Ford
12 April 2012
Andrew Ford
reviews a captivating new recording of improvised jazz piano
Books & Arts
Misinterpretations
Andrew Ford
16 March 2012
What would Leonard Cohen make of the use of “Hallelujah” as a community anthem, asks
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
The art of the cover
Andrew Ford
16 February 2012
New Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney albums in a single week? Close enough, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
Vanishing acts
Glenn Nicholls
16 February 2012
Glenn Nicholls
reviews Albrecht Dümling’s study of refugee musicians from Nazism who came to Australia
Books & Arts
Musical alchemy
Andrew Ford
10 February 2012
If you think every combination of instruments has been tried, think again, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & Arts
The decadent adventure of life
Darren Tofts
3 February 2012
Darren Tofts
reviews a new account of David Bowie’s transformation as the swinging sixties gave way to the glam seventies
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