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The Music Show

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All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.

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Madison McFerrin hopes you can forgive her and music...

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2023/05/14

Madison McFerrin on her debut album I Hope You Can Forgive Me. Released almost 7 years after her first EP Finding Foundations Volume 1, Madison chats to Robbie about her musical journey, from acapella to self-producing her own tunes. And Victoria Falconer talks about being the music director for the unique musical Once, and musical theatre across the UK, the US and Australia.

54:04

In The Moog

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2023/05/13

Will Gregory and Hazel Mills open up the world of the synthesiser, and conductor Karina Canellakis on Bartok, broadcast orchestras and the future of classical music in the age of streaming.

54:08

Storytelling in music: David Arden and Andrée Greenwell

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2023/05/07

Australian artists talk about how they use music to tell stories. David Arden is a Kokatha/Gunditjmara musician who has been writing and performing songs that tell stories of his family and spark conversation in the wider community. He tells Robbie about his career as a musician and his new album, MEERTA: The Ballad of James Arden, which tells the story of his Great-Grandfather, James. And Andrée Greenwell drops by the Music Show studio ahead of the premiere of her new opera Three

54:08

Don Walker & Cash Savage

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2023/05/06

Two of Australia’s best songwriters share their newest offerings.

54:06

Traditional Folk and Monk Punk: Music from Japan

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2023/04/30

Lots of live music in The Music Show studio, from Japanese festival music, to Buddhist punk. Musician and composer Shogo Yoshii joins us in the studio while he is in Australia to perform with Taikoz and Buddhadatta on Japanese punk and Buddhist mantras. And Happy Birthday Willie Nelson! Willie turns 90 this week.

54:05

Inside the String Quartet

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2023/04/29

Why is the string quartet one of the most consistent, persistent, and beautiful ensembles in classical music? And British composer Daniel Kidane on poetry, scale and the array of cultures that ground his music.

54:06

Minimal Wave, Acousmatic Waves, & Across the Waves

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2023/04/23

We're joined by local Melbourne Minimal Wave legend, Karen Marks who is about to have her debut performance at the Melbourne Town Hall. Lisa Illean drops by for a chat ahead of the premiere of a new work at the Melbourne Recital Centre. And Hau Latukefu on his new show on Radio Australia, In the Fale.

54:06

The Brodsky Quartet at 50 (+1), and Nashville takes...

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2023/04/22

The Brodsky Quartet return to Australia with Britten, Schubert, Bach... and Ford. And a Country-flavoured celebration of The Rolling Stones in the tribute album Stoned Cold Country.

54:01

Margaret Sutherland's Inner Voice

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2023/04/16

Tracing the life and music of Margaret Sutherland with author of Inner Song, Jillian Graham

54:05

Kit Downes at the piano, and Heavy Metal in the...

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2023/04/15

From heavy metal to jazz pipe organs, find out more about how celebrated musician Kit Downes makes up musical worlds on the spot, and find out about how Heavy Metal has become a driving force for resistance and change in the Muslim world.

54:05

Silent Film, Loud Music

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2023/04/09

How do you do something new with very old film? Silent film composer Phillip Johnston explains.

54:05

Ryuichi Sakamoto

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2023/04/08

Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952 - 2023) remembered; and a little bit of rebetika in our lives from Greek/Aussie band Apodimi Compania

54:04

In the Garden of Australian Dreams with Genevieve...

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2023/04/02

A lush soundscape for the National Museum of Australia with composer and collaborator Genevieve Lacey, plus countertenor James Bowman (1941-2023) from the Music Show archives.

54:05

Finding their voices: Jen Cloher and the Gesualdo Six

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2023/04/01

Owain Park is a composer, conductor, singer, and director of the vocal group The Gesualdo Six. Taking their name from the 16th century composer and Italian nobleman, Carlo Gesualdo, the G6 (as Owain has given us full permission to call them) are leading performers of music from the Renaissance to the Baroque and keen commissioners of new music from living composers today. Owain discusses the interesting character of their namesake, as well as how they sing in acoustically varied

00:00

Quartet: The musical lives of four British women...

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2023/03/26

Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Doreen Carwithen and Dorothy Howell are the four protagonists of Leah Broad’s musical biography.

00:00

An extinct instrument, Pacific Break winner Danielle,...

The Music Show ·

2023/03/25

Getting to know the cornetto (the instrument, not the ice cream), PNG singer songwriter Danielle, and Matt Davis from Foreign Correspondent shares his chat with singer, activist and ex-battlefield nurse Sahra Halgan in Hargeisa.

00:00

Niamh Regan and Joseph Tawadros

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2023/03/19

Oud virtuoso and Music Show regular Joseph Tawadros stops by to perform live and about his collaborative album with William Barton, his adventures performing at Davos and in the UK, and returning to The Four Seasons with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.On her debut tour of Australia, Irish singer-songwriter, Niamh Regan drops by the studio to play a couple of songs and chat to Robbie about growing up with the Irish musical tradition and how she draws on a

00:00

Mo'Ju and The Three Seas

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2023/03/18

Mo'Ju's album Oro, Plata, Mata explores their Filipino heritage and The Three Seas explore dub and electronica alongside Bengali folk in their cross-cultural ensemble.

00:00

Yungchen Lhamo, Gosti and IZY live at WOMADelaide

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2023/03/12

Live from WOMADelaide, music from Macedonia, Tibet, and Far North Queensland

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San Salvador, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn and...

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2023/03/11

Two banjo virtuosos, a six person vocal group from Southern France and a Canadian fusion ensemble join us on stage.

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