What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

Johann Strauss II has always been popular, while also being dismissed by some as a composer of ‘light’ music. Yvonne Frindle takes up the cudgel on his behalf.

Though there are signs of belt-tightening, there's plenty to look forward to and anniversaries to celebrate in the Australian arts in 2025.

What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

Umberto Clerici conducted his first concert in 2018. Four years later, he was Queensland Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor. How did he do it?

There’s a confidence and assurance at play in the programming by Australian arts organisations for 2024.

What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

Fresh sounds, big events, little gems, cross-genre collaborations, world premieres; it’s a new world for arts organisations, so what do they have in store this year?

What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

How the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra is redressing the gender imbalance.

Yvonne Frindle investigates why Margaret Sutherland's forward-looking orchestral composition has been so unjustly ignored.