Grammy-winning American bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, who helped shape the blues and soul music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s, died Sunday in Tokyo. He was 70.

Telegraph UK

ANU management has backed down over its plans to “spill’’ the positions of 32 of its tenured and permanent academic and administrative staff at the School of Music today, bowing to union pressure to use formal redundancy provisions instead.

The University of Canberra is being lobbied by Canberra's business community to step in and save the ANU School of Music.

SMH

Tickets are on sale for a Jimi Hendrix ''experience'' concert and a Bob Dylan 50th anniversary tribute show, both coming up in Melbourne. Both nights involve a bunch of Australian musicians, all of them young enough to be Jimi or Bob's children or even grandchildren, getting together to pay homage.

SMH

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Academy) today announces the appointment of Professor Adrian Walter AM as its new Director. He is expected to assume the directorship in September 2012.

HK Academy for Performing Arts

The popularity of music streamed on-demand is to be measured in a new weekly chart.

BBC

American singer-songwriter Paul Simon and Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma were named winners of Sweden's Polar Music Prize on Tuesday.

CBC

English National Opera artistic director John Berry has claimed the current trend for arts organisations to screen their work live to cinemas in a bid to extend their brand was a distraction from ensuring a company delivers the best live performances possible.

The Stage

One of the themes of Jenn Lena’s Banding Together is that genres organize the entire music industry, from the way that musicians create their art to the way that producers find and market it to the way that consumers form their own identities around music choices. Chapter 5 in Banding Together discusses the consequences of genres more in depth.

Orgtheory

Scotland's bagpipe experts are sounding the lament over the loss of a traditional skill which means material for a vital part of the instrument is being mass produced thousands of miles away in China.

The Scotsman

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington and Forest Whitaker are adopting some of the nation's worst-performing schools and pledged Monday to help the Obama administration turn them around by integrating arts education.

Associated Press

It has no world-famous Opera House, let alone an opera company. It misses out on most touring music acts and exhibitions.

SMH

Rarely does the music industry emerge victorious from any budget announcement. But this week's budget told a slightly different story.

SMH

The love child of alternative rock and the orchestra, the indie classical movement has its roots in punk and its eye on the future of music.

SMH

President Barack Obama has honoured Burt Bacharach and Hal David as ''two kings of songwriting'', presenting them with America's most prestigious prize for popular music.

SMH

Hip-hop group Beastie Boys are facing a copyright lawsuit just days after the death of bandmember Adam Yauch.

SMH

The Chinese-born soprano Shu-Cheen Yu has a simple philosophy: ''I treat every opportunity as an honour.'' This has held her life and career in good stead.

SMH

Roman Totenberg (1911-2012) was a Polish-born violinist who made music with Yehudi Menuhin, ate with Eleanor Roosevelt and built sandcastles with Igor Stravinsky.

SMH

Joe Chindamo is not averse to mischief. The pianist-composer loves playing Dolly Parton's Jolene to jazz audiences. And it is fair to assume that at least one stuffed shirt was ruffled by his last gig at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Chopin - the First Jazz Pianist.

SMH

Appeals have fallen on deaf ears, but the federal government's tightened purse strings must not reduce a classical music institution to silence.

SMH

Music's value is not easily converted into efficiencies and outcomes, writes Andrew Ford

SMH

The Australian National University's School of Music head Professor Adrian Walter has taken an indefinite leave of absence from his job following escalating tensions between university management and staff and students over funding and job cuts at the school.

SMH

Dispensing with one-on-one lessons in a music course is not unlike getting rid of the practical component in the training of a surgeon.

Limelight

The man who penned the hit theme song to the tv series Prisoner is suing his publishing company for failing to collect royalty from a top US band who allegedly ripped off his song.

Daily Telegraph

The genesis of Garbage's rebirth came when lead singer Shirley Manson was sitting down to dinner with her agent friend.

Herald Sun

Paul Toohey visits a tiny music store in lower Manhattan run by a very eccentric man named Bill.

Adelaide Now

Composer who pursued their art in the Nazi-run Theresienstadt concentration camp will be remembered through their music in Adelaide.

Adelaide Now

Looking for something more exciting to do on your office lunchbreak than the usual surfing the internet while eating a sandwich at your desk? Well, workers across Europe have apparently found the answer - disco.

Daily Telegraph

Owsley "Bear'' Stanley - visionary soundman to The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin - lived out his later years in the north Queensland bush before his untimely death there in a car accident last year.

Courier Mail

Australians are paying too much for their tech goods, Apple's co-founder has claimed.

Daily Telegraph

An all-ages inner city venue's opening was put on hold by Brisbane City Council last Friday, costing the fledging business thousands and unleashing a torrent of comments on the council's Facebook page.

Courier Mail

The Melba Foundation has vowed to keep on supporting Australia's best classical musicians despite a withdrawal of Federal Government support.

Herald Sun

When it comes to compiling a list of the great songwriters of the past 50 years, Victor Willis' name likely wouldn't merit more than an asterisk.

The Australian