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The new Content Manager for ABC Classic and ABC Jazz discusses the changing landscape in Australia, and how the ABC can help as we emerge from lockdowns.
One of Australia's leading percussionists and advocates for change is determined to diversify the repertoire – even if she has to do it all herself.
On the streets of suburban Brisbane this month, audiences will see ballet performances and classes, be enrapt in chamber music and listen to an array of sopranos as part of Brisbane Festival.
Based in Europe, Australian soprano Alexandra Flood is back home for a few months and discusses her career, quarantine at Howard Springs, forthcoming gigs and making the most of it during COVID.
Guy Noble suggests ways of keeping busy during lockdown: maybe we need al fresco orchestras?
The ABC Classic concert schedule for September showcases the BBC Proms, plus Opera Australia's Ernani and the pick of Australia's finest orchestras.
Celebrating the German composer whose farsighted innovations forever changed our approaches to composing and listening.
Dead Puppet Society's new production Ishmael is a contemporary reimagining of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, set 1000 years in the future in outer space.
Our recording of the month for September looks in detail at 1785, an incredible year in Mozart's life. Soloist Leif Ove Andsnes talks to Clive Paget about Salzburg, Vienna, and the magic of Mozart.
In the dangerous world of Joseph Stalin’s Russia, an embattled Dmitri Shostakovich unveiled a new symphony that would miraculously please both audiences and the authorities. Angus McPherson speaks to Asher Fisch and Mark Wigglesworth about the music that changed the composer’s life forever.
Australian composers Kirsten Milenko and Alex Vaughan received Roche Young Commissions in 2019; next week their pieces premiere at the Lucerne Festival.
Uncertainty around COVID and border closures have forced Hamilton to move to Germany, and The Australian Voices to search for a new artistic director and conductor.
