As the Jobs and Skills Summit gets underway today, Adrian Collette, CEO of the Australia Council, discusses how the arts contribute to economic growth and recovery.

Fresh from performing at the Edinburgh Festival and BBC Proms, the Australian World Orchestra has arrived in Australia. Lily Bryant attends rehearsals and talks with some of the musicians.

Australian composer Andrée Greenwell pays tribute to poet Jordie Albiston, whose words she set to music.

Packing a picnic hamper and joining opera lovers in black-tie on the train to see Alcina is an integral part of this year's Glyndebourne experience.

As she was about to perform in Lorraine Hansberry's landmark play A Raisin in the Sun, the American actor discovered a program from the 1959 Broadway production in a box of her father's things.

Lynden Barber surveys the rise and rise of women on streaming TV.

The Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director discusses Limelight's game-changing Recording of the Year.

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Orchestras need to get with the times if they are to attract a younger, broader demographic. We look at the challenges they face and some of the initiatives that are bearing fruit.

Eric Whitacre talks about The Sacred Veil, written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, who lost his wife to ovarian cancer, and how the internationally acclaimed work has helped others grieve.

First Nations composers Sonya Holowell and Elizabeth Sheppard discuss Songs from the Heart, a new a cappella program that responds to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Experimental music festival Audible Edge is raising the stakes by exploring new possibilities from within its weird, warm-hearted community.