This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Music is not and never has been isolated from politics, writes Peter Tregear. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra should know this.

The fruits of an online bromance between two rising-star guitarists set to be a jazz highlight of this year's Adelaide Guitar Festival.

When you see a film with a live orchestra, you are no longer spectators to a screen; you are an audience to a performance.

Cameron Lam ponders music that evokes a particular time or place across Classical, Jazz and Sound Art in this month’s playlist.

One of England’s revered leading ladies, Ruthie Henshall is bringing her A-game to the next BRAVO Cruise of the Performing Arts.

Heavens above! This year's Port Fairy Spring Music Festival reaches for the stars – some you know and others you need to hear.

The great American composer discusses his gold rush opera and why he feels for others these days.

About to make its debut as an official Olympic event, Breaking is poised for a new level of recognition as an art form and competitive sport.

The flamenco guitar legend returns, ready to strum up a storm with old friends Slava and Leonard Grigoryan.

Ahead of a new tour, ARCO's Nicole van Bruggen talks Haydn, a new work for basset clarinet, and "working our way out of this pigeonhole".

There's a tendency to handle Mozart with kid gloves, says State Opera South Australia's Dane Lam, "But he could be a very dirty man!"