Review: Ensemble Offspring at Long Play Festival (Bang on a Can)
New York’s oversaturated audiences can be hard to impress but EO more than made its mark at this year's Long Play Festival.
New York’s oversaturated audiences can be hard to impress but EO more than made its mark at this year's Long Play Festival.
Ensemble Offspring joins new music giants at Bang on a Can’s 2025 Long Play festival. Claire Edwardes tells Maddy Briggs why she’s so thrilled.
Australians are making waves in the international new music scene, as seen in Bang on a Can’s Summer Festival earlier this month.
Now 87, Steve Reich is busier than ever. We talk with the legendary American composer about his six-decade, pioneering career.
Why has classical music been so slow to incorporate electric instruments?
Connor D'Netto believes raising issues and supporting causes is a responsibility that comes with privilege.
Lang’s new opera counts the cost of knowing Glenn Gould.
In this week’s column, Angus McPherson’s takes a look at the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s celebration of Richard Tognetti’s 30 years as Artistic Director, a second Bang on a Can Marathon, and the ‘Global Pandemic Edition’ of 84 Pianos.
In the first of our brand new In Your Living Room series, Angus McPherson looks at some of the exciting classical music concerts coming up online.
At first sight poles apart, Jenny Lin draws out the parallels between a minimalist icon and a Russian iconoclast.
Not so much a new music tasting plate as a sumptuous multi-course banquet.
Part marathon, part tasting plate, part John Cage’s Musicircus, Lyle Chan’s 12-hour festival will see Australia’s most innovative music-makers converge on City Recital Hall.
David Lang’s new opera may never be recorded, but it’s amazing what a little listening can do.