Music
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Trailblazing Australian singer Helen Reddy dead at 78
Her children, Traci Donat and Jordan Sommers, confirmed her death in a statement on Reddy’s official Facebook page on Wednesday…
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Charles Lloyd: Sharing a gift with a Greek goddess
Always a dreamer, he determined that he would find this beautiful woman and take her away from all the misery…
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Ennio Morricone: a versatile composer with a distinct sound
The maestro left this world on July 6 but his work is sure to move generations of music and film…
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The week’s best TV, film, books and music
Classic TV – Parks and Recreation BBC This brilliant sitcom has back in the news in recent weeks, after its…
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Little Richard, a flamboyant architect of rock ‘n’ roll, is dead at 87
Alen said Little Richard died in Nashville with his brother and son by his side, and the cause of death…
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Breaking Glass review: Sydney Chamber Opera livestreams premiere
There are very few silver linings that have developed from the current catastrophic health crisis, but the wider accessibility of…
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Struggling Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ‘stands down’ all musicians
The MSO will keep only “essential” employees on staff during the lockdown, MSO chair Michael Ullmer said in a letter…
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Bill Withers: soul music’s ‘everyman’ wrote songs for the world to lean on
From schoolchildren in Scotland, to quarantined apartment residents in Dallas and online virtual choirs around the world, the song has…
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Coronavirus: why clapping for carers feels so strangely uplifting
She has early-stage dementia and lives in a remote village in England with very few neighbours. Catherine Loveday The Conversation…
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In times of crisis, we turn to the arts.
Staying indoors and washing our hands may keep us alive, but the Australian government needs to protect the arts in…
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‘She exists out of time’: Umm Kulthum, Arab music’s eternal star
But can her 90-minute songs work in a new stage musical? Tom Faber The Guardian Υou hear the Umm Kulthum…
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Performing Beethoven – what it feels like to embody a master on today’s stage
Yet unlike arts such as painting and sculpture, which communicate directly from the artist to the observer, these otherwise silent…
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Dinosaurs in Love hit song by 4yo draws on ‘spectrum of human emotion’ says music expert
Written and performed by nearly-four-year-old English girl Fenn Rosenthal, the song is about dinosaurs having a party, falling in love,…
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Stephen Fry adapts best-seller on Ancient Greek myths into album with Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman’s music was inspired by Stephen Fry’s Sunday Times bestseller Mythos – a collection of vivid works retelling Ancient Greek…
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Friday essay: Beethoven – an icon at risk of overexposure?
The figure is dressed in typical early 19th-century garb, cravat and jacket visible beneath a heavy outer cloak. Protruding from…
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‘We’re bonded like sisters’: the choir giving trafficked women a voice
In a large, festively decorated church just off London’s bustling Piccadilly Circus, a women’s choir prepares to sing in front…
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