Conductor Mark Wigglesworth wonders if the experience of live music should live longer than the music itself?

Limelight

Iconoclastic British composer who always went his own way tragically passes at 53.

Limelight

Lyndon Terracini cuts back on key opera principals in order to accommodate another musical.

Limelight

Privileged children need less choice and harder work to learn true meaning of fun, says leading soloist

The Guardian UK

Ever wondered why the music offerings for Mother's Day are so, well, cheesy?

SMH

As violinist Andrew Haveron came through Sydney Airport immigration at 6am last Monday his face broke into a huge smile.

SMH

Fortitude Valley's live music scene is the "envy of the nation", according to a study published by urban researchers.

SMH

George Jackson (1945-20130 wrote the Osmonds’ first American hit One Bad Apple (1970), which went to the top of the charts and became a pop classic.

SMH

Regardless of where you stand on the piracy debate, it's pretty clear that Digital Rights Management has done little to curb unauthorised copying of digital content.

SMH

You would be hard-pressed to find a more attentive and eager group of students than the 30 gathered in front of the Sydney Symphony's fellows and their artistic director Roger Benedict.

SMH

Arts centres used to be remote and slightly forbidding places: getting to them involved undertaking a pilgrimage or at least a change of perspective. It may have meant crossing a river (how many arts centres are on a city's far embankment?) or ascending a hill or podium, as at the Sydney Opera House.

The Australian

The chorus of disapproval is growing about possible pay cuts for principal singers at Opera Australia, with singers yesterday vowing to protest against reduced contracts.

The Australian

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's return to its home concert hall has been accompanied by a stinging hike in venue hire fees.

The Australian

You can hardly refer to Katrina Sedgwick as the new head of arts at the ABC because she stepped into the role in February last year.  For the past 14 months, the arts executive who made her name as the inaugural director of the Adelaide Film Festival has been tinkering away at the schedule and programming cache she inherited.

The Australian

The States peak body for live music has had funding halved by the Coalition Government.

Herald Sun

You can't always get what you want. Unless, perhaps, you're a member of the Green Valley High School choir and you want a chance to sing on stage with the Rolling Stones.

news.com

When I attend a concert, an opera or a play I love, I make a mental pact with the performers to compel me to see the piece afresh. The same issue arises, surely, for anyone who reads a second biography, especially of a prominent figure in our intellectual or cultural life.

The Australian