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How the 1970s changed music

The Music Show ·

2023/10/01

Can The Music Show do an entire decade in an hour? We’re certainly going to give it a go with the help of Tony Wellington, former Mayor of Noosa, current bird photographer, and author of Vinyl Dreams: How The 1970s Changed Music.From the collapse of the 1960s dream with the end of the Beatles, the deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, to the arrival of rap and the Walkman at the end of the decade, it was a time of change, prompting at least one 70s artist to ask: What’s Going

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Weathering extremes: Sydney Chamber Opera's triple...

The Music Show ·

2023/09/30

Jim Denley and the natural environment have been longtime collaborators, in fact, he is perhaps one of the very few musicians who has played outdoors more than inside. Over the past few years, he’s been documenting those collaborations across various locations, including the Budawangs and the city of Sydney, and recently released two albums. Sydney Chamber Opera stages a triple bill of one act operas for single singer in a program called earth.voice.body. Director Clemence Williams

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The Lives of Noël Coward

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2023/09/24

Author Oliver Soden tackles the public and private personas of Noël Coward in his biography Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward. He joins Andy on to unpack the way that life yielded one of the most productive artistic careers of the 20th century.Including scenes from Private Lives, performed by Geraldine Turner, Dennis Olsen, and Guy Noble from The Music Show archives.

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Legacies: Jarabi Band and the Alma Moodie Quartet

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2023/09/23

Led by husband and wife Mohamed and Anna Camara, Jarabi Band fuses West African instruments with jazz to explore stories of contemporary African and Australian musical culture. They are releasing their debut album Duniama, which features songs written in Guinean languages Malinke and Susu.And the Alma Moodie Quartet, featuring violinists Kristian Winther and Anna da Silva Chen, take their name from one of Australia’s great historical violinists. They perform live in studio ahead of

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Dutch-Indian Jugalbandi and Mark Isaacs' Passion for...

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2023/09/17

Saskia Rao-de Haas took her Dutch cello to India, learnt the complex raga system and stayed. She’s modified the instrument whose ‘voice’ sits curiously well in the world of Indian classical music. With her musical partner and husband Shubhendra Rao they’re in Australia performing ‘jugalbandi’, blending the music of northern and southern India. And they pay respects to their musical gurus Pandit Ravi Shankar and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.Mark Isaacs is impossible to pigeon-hole as

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Hildur Guðnadóttir is making music with Kenneth...

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2023/09/16

Screen composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is becoming a household name, having written the music to films such as The Joker, Tár and series Chernobyl. Most recently, she has crafted an eerie score to accompany the latest instalment in Kenneth Branagh's film series based on Agatha Christie's Poirot. In the soundtrack for the new film, A Haunting in Venice, Guðnadóttir incorporates plainchant-like themes and darkly jarring melodies. She brings us into the world of screen music and different

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From pillar to podium: Umberto Clerici

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2023/09/10

for the conductor, the rehearsal is the gig...Umberto Clerici’s CV lists principal cellist, chamber musician, educator, soloist and now conductor, as the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Queensland Symphony OrchestraIt’s an unusual trajectory from orchestra to podium, a post usually inhabited by soloists, not former orchestral musicians. He says the physicality of the cello lends itself to conducting as well as playing at the bottom of the orchestra. He also credits COVID to

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A win-wind situation: Eliza Shephard and Phillippa...

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2023/09/09

We spend the hour with two of Australia's award-winning woodwind musicians.ABC Classic’s Young Performer of the Year Eliza Shephard, plays repertoire that's not for the faint-hearted. A talented flautist, she calls on singing, acting and an extraordinary technique to perform extremely ambitious music which ranges from Cage and Takemitsu to Hindson and Vine. Eliza plays live on The Music Show with percussionist Alexander Meagher and discusses her uncompromising concert programming

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Keeping it fresh: completing Schubert's incomplete...

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2023/09/03

The Cat Empire strikes back with a new line-up and sound. In 2021, The Cat Empire announced that they were disbanding after more than 20 years and played their final show with the original line up at Bluesfest in 2022.Fast forward a year and The Cat Empire's new crew has released Where the Angels Fall which takes us to a re-energised sound world where Cuba meets Mexico via Mauritius and the Seychelles. London-based Australian pianist Rob Hao drops in to chat about his project

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Kurt Elling's chops and an Extremely Serious Musical...

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2023/09/02

Kurt Elling is probably best known as a purveyor of vocalese, having inherited the mantle from Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. But Elling is scratching a whole new itch with his SuperBlue project. Electro- funk meets hip-hop beats. Is this jazz? Find out when Mr Elling is in the house paying his respects to jazz greats that came before.Laura Murphy is the composer and lyricist for a new musical The Dismissal. It takes audiences back to that fateful day in November 1975 and a

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James Gavin on Ravaged Voices

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2023/08/27

An hour in the company of music writer James Gavin whose biographies include George Michael, Chet Baker and Peggy Lee. Gavin discusses ‘ravaged’ voices; singers whose voices became utterly wrecked in old age like Billie Holiday and Alessandro Moreschi. Or in the case of Marianne Faithful where age wearied the voice in a new and haunting way. We hear high voices that never dropped like Jimmy Scott and Peter Pears and Joan Baez whose technique only improved with age. And not

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Looking to the skies: Fanny Lumsden, Georgia Mooney,...

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2023/08/26

Friends of the show Fanny Lumsden and Georgia Mooney join Andrew to play songs from their new albums live in The Music Show studio. One quarter of All Our Exes Live in Texas, Georgia Mooney, has released her long-awaited debut solo album called Full of Moon. Made in the times of travel restrictions with musicians in London, Brighton, Bonn, Los Angeles, New York and Sydney, the album is a collage of lush musical landscapes and melodies with a certain nostalgic touch. We catch up

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Horns, Voices & Keyboard Fantasies with Stefan Dohr,...

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2023/08/20

Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Stefan Dohr visits the studio to talk about working within that orchestra, Strauss’s second horn concerto, and Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.Composer and dramaturg Meta Cohen says they approach their music like a dramaturg and their theatre like a musician. It’s a creative combination that’s led to their choral and vocal writing being a finalist in the 2023 Art Music Awards, as well as being the first non-male

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Hozier's Unreal Unearth, and the legacy of Liszt

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2023/08/19

Irish singer-songwriter Hozier’s third studio album Unreal Unearth takes Dante’s Divine Comedy and its circles of hell as its inspiration. Drawing from blues, soul and Celtic traditional music, he’s known for taking his time releasing new music and this is no exception. He joins Andy to talk about singing in the Irish language, finding a limit to his capacity for solitude, and finding new heights to his exceptional voice.Franz Liszt certainly kept himself busy, as we learn from

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Birdsong

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2023/08/13

As ABC Science Week asks Australia what the nation’s favourite animal sound is, The Music Show looks at the unique musical relationship between humans and birds. From Olivier Messiaen’s trio of birds written when he was in a Polish concentration camp, to English folkie Sam Lee, Muruwari and Filipino rapper DOBBY, and zoomusicologist (dream job) and violinist Hollis Taylor’s duets with birds, and David Lumsdaine’s composition-by-dawn-chorus.

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Butchulla beats, Baez on the big screen, and...

The Music Show ·

2023/08/12

Karen O'Connor is a long-time friend of Joan Baez, and one of the directors for the new documentary Joan Baez I am a Noise, which tells the story of the iconic American singer, songwriter and activist. It follows her in the lead up to her last tour. With a career that has spanned over 60 years, Joan has accumulated a lifetime of joy and heartbreak, and a trove of diaries, tape letters and paintings that have captured her own private moments that have run parallel, and at times

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William Barton & Stiff Gins

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2023/08/06

Kalkadunga composer and musician, William Barton will be awarded the Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music at the 2023 Art Music Awards. He’s back in The Music Show studio to talk about his Distinguished Service, and his working relationship with the late Richard Gill.And the Stiff Gins are 24 years into what they hope is a lifelong partnership. Yuwaalaraay woman Nardi Simpson and Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri woman Kaleena Briggs look back at their almost

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Distinctive strings: Tahlia Petrosian and the...

The Music Show ·

2023/08/05

Originally from Melbourne, Ziggy and Miles Johnston are the next generation of brother/guitar duos. They are currently based in New York and studying together at The Juilliard School, and have returned to Australia on tour for their new album Sidekick. Australian violist Tahlia Petrosian is a member of the oldest Symphony orchestra in the world, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. Named after their original concert hall, the Gewandhaus started in 1743 and has had three homes

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György Ligeti at 100

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2023/07/30

György Ligeti (1923 – 2006), the avant-garde Hungarian composer, celebrates his 100th anniversary this year. He was one of the most unique composers of the 1950s and 60s, and then kept pushing his musical language so that in the 1990s he was still one of the most radical composers working.His music education was interrupted by the Holocaust: he was Jewish and he was sent to a forced labour brigade whilst his brother and parents were sent to Mathausen-Gusen and Auschwitz. His mother

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Jessica Pratt's Mad Scenes, learning Anindilyakwa...

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2023/07/29

Opera is full of mad scenes, particularly those written in the 19th century in Italy, but there's a trend - none of the men ever go mad, only the women. In fact, the preoccupation with "mad women" in opera and throughout a range of art forms during this era is telling of how 19th-century society viewed mental health and the role of women - mostly written by men. By exploring these operas and portrayal of women, coloratura soprano Jessica Pratt has become quite fond of

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