The Music Show
342 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of music.
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Episodes
Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
July 10, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 10 July: marking NAIDOC Week 2022 with established First Nations artists who have led political and personal music making across the years.
Dr Lois Peeler's life in music, and truth-telling album Restless Dream
July 09, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 9 July: NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year Dr Lois Peeler reflects on a life enriched by music - from being in the Sapphires, to the importance of the arts at Worawa Aboriginal College. And we hear about the powerful collaboration between Kamilaroi Elder Bob Weatherall and Brisbane band Halfway.
Aaron Wyatt on the podium and DRMNGNOW on Country
July 03, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 3 July: celebrating NAIDOC Week with Noongar conductor Aaron Wyatt and Yorta Yorta hip hop artist Neil Morris aka DRMNGNOW
Stay tuned: 90 years of music on ABC airwaves
July 02, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 2 July: A celebration of radio, sound & music as the national broadcaster turns 90.
Elliott Carter’s Late Music
June 26, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 26 June: the late works of Elliott Carter, the composer who worked until he was 103
Putting words to music, inventing instruments, and delving into George Harrison’s archives
June 25, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 25 June: Jenny Duck-Chong on putting words to music from Purcell to Kate Bush, Alon Ilsar on inventing a new instrument, and Ben Pask on keeping George Harrison’s records
Rock & roll trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Anna Goldsworthy on culture and education
June 19, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 19 June: A survey of the state of music education and musical culture with Anna Goldsworthy, and Lakota Vella on her pioneering guitar hero Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Perfume Genius’s Ugly Season and Major Zulu’s Personal Revolution
June 18, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 18 June: Perfume Genius stretches the definition of art pop in new album Ugly Season, and Major Zulu’s journey to Australia from Zambia via London, Paris, gospel, soul, jazz and rock and roll.
New Orleans: a jazz story
June 12, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBSunday 12 June: A history of jazz, and Jazz Fest, in New Orleans.
Sharon Van Etten, Maatakitj & the return of Dean Stevenson's 4pm
June 11, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 11 June: new music from singer-songwriter-siren Sharon Van Etten, Noongar bangers from Maatakitj, and a new symphony in 8 days with Dean Stevenson
So Happy Birthday Laurie Anderson
June 05, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 5 June 2022: The avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson at 75
Rivers, rhythm and rhyme with DOBBY
June 04, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 4 June: Composer and multi-instrumentalist Rhyan Clapham's call to action to protect water, and celebrate culture and Country.
Synths and Sixxens: Jono Ma, Vangelis and Xenakis
May 29, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 29 May: Jono Ma on Vangelis and the age of analogue, and marking Xenakis’ 100th anniversary with the musicians who love to play his work.
ACO violinist Satu Vänskä goes underground, and Midori Takada's ambient masterpiece
May 28, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBSaturday 28 May: ACO's principal violinist Satu Vänskä on curating an underground program, and Japanese percussionist and composer Midori Takada reflects on Through The Looking Glass forty years on.
Leyla McCalla and Danny Elfman
May 22, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBSunday 22 May: Leyla McCalla’s tapestry of Haitian history and music; film composer Danny Elfman on working within the Marvel machine
Miriam Margolyes and Alison Wonderland
May 21, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBSaturday 21 May: The music in an actor's voice, and the art of making electronic dance music.
Tailoring a composition—live from ANAM Set Festival
May 15, 2022 01:05 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBSunday 15 May: We hear from three composer/musicians partnerships involved in the ANAM Set about how the pieces were tailored to the musicians and their instruments.
A survey of Australian composition and performance—live from ANAM Set Festival
May 14, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBSaturday 14 May: The Music Show broadcasts live from the Australian National Academy of Music - hearing from the Set Festival's curator and chief matchmaker, as well as composers Deborah Cheetham and Lilijana Matičevska.
The Music Show is live at the ANAM Set Festival
May 14, 2022 01:00 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBThe Music Show is broadcasting live from the Australian National Academy of Music on Saturday 14 May 2022.
Simon Tedeschi’s Fugitive & Keep Hawai’i Hawaiian
May 08, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 8 May: Simon Tedeschi on the piano, Prokofiev, and his intensely personal Fugitive. Foreign Correspondent’s Matt Davis on music and change in Hawai’i.
King Curly in the studio and electronic choral project Aphir
May 07, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 7 May: live music from the King Curly trio, and diving into Aphir's electronic choral project.
Sunny Kim’s MotherTongue, MotherLand and Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen’s Book of Longing
May 01, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 1 May: singer and composer Sunny Kim tackles motherhood and migration in her newest work, and an unlikely collaboration between Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen hits the operatic stage
Horomona Horo and Māori taonga pūoro
April 30, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 30 April: Horomona Horo takes us through the revival of taonga pūoro, Māori traditional instruments, and how they are grounded in Māori cultural practice today.
Remembering Harrison Birtwistle
April 24, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 24 April: Vale Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022).
Charles Mingus at 100 and Beethoven's hearing loss
April 23, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 23 April: Bassist Jonathan Zwartz on musical innovator Charles Mingus, and an audiologist on Beethoven's hearing loss and his Symphony No 9.
The Folk
April 17, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBSunday 17 April: Who are The Folk in folk music? With Ross Cole.
Rap matriarch BARKAA and crossing the Borderlands with Van Diemen's Band's Julia Fredersdorff
April 16, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 16 April: Tasmania's Van Diemen's Band explore the porous musical and cultural borders of the European baroque, and Malyangapa, Barkindji woman BARKAA talks about finding strength in rapping and community.
Jazz standards
April 10, 2022 01:05 - 53 minutes - 74 MBSunday 10 April: An exploration of the great 20th century jazz canon with music writer James Gavin.
Kae Tempest and passing the torch at the National Folk Festival
April 09, 2022 01:05 - 53 minutes - 74 MBSaturday 9 April: English wordsmith Kae Tempest on their new album The Line is a Curve and young Gubbi Gubbi singer Layla Barnett on singing with Archie Roach.
Ruth Slenczynska's life in music
April 03, 2022 01:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 3 April: The wunderkind pianist who became one of the great interpreters of the Romantic repertoire is still performing at 97.
Jude Perl & Chloe Lankshear
April 02, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 2 April: Jude Perl on their musical comedy awakening, and Chloe Lankshear on Monteverdi and the legacy of Taryn Fiebig
Drummer and curator Laurence Pike, and writers on the albums that shaped them
March 27, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 27 March: The art of curating an accessible and multi-generational jazz festival, and The New Statesman's Tom Gatti on writers' favourite albums.
Korngold's Symphony and Mara Schwerdtfeger's world of sound
March 26, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 26 March: Benjamin Northey on Korngold's underplayed Symphony in F-Sharp, sound artist Mara Schwerdtfeger on improvisation and sonic spaces.
Katie Yap's viola world and remembering jazz singer Barbara Morrison
March 20, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 20 March: Wattleseed Ensemble's Katie Yap drops by to talk about the difference between a baroque viola and a modern one, plus an archive interview with jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Ron Carter and the Count Basie Orchestra.
Jenny Hval's musical language and Melissa Aldana's introspective jazz
March 19, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 19 March: Norwegian singer, songwriter and novelist on the selflessness of singing. And Chilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana talks about her Blue Note album 12 Stars.
WOMADelaide 2022: Balkan Ethno Orchestra, Gaby Moreno & Dhungala Baarka
March 13, 2022 00:05 - 56 minutes - 77 MBSunday 12 March: rejuvenating Eastern European folk with Balkan Ethno Orchestra, the songs of the Americas with Gaby Moreno, and the songlines belonging to the Yorta Yorta and Barkindji rivers with Dhungala Baarka.
WOMADelaide 2022: Chikchika, Grace Barbé, Farhan Shah & Sufi-Oz
March 12, 2022 00:05 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBSaturday 12 March: Ethiopian groove with Chikchika, Kreol soul with Grace Barbé & Qawwalis with Farhan Shah and Sufi-Oz.
Peter Gabriel and 30 years of WOMADelaide
March 06, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 6 March: Peter Gabriel on the genesis of music festival WOMAD, plus highlights from The Music Show's live broadcasts from there.
Chineke! and Inni-K
March 05, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 5 March: Chi-Chi Nwanoku on Britain’s Chineke! Orchestra; and Inni-K’s new interpretation of the sean-nós tradition.
Yoko Ono's Ocean Child and Olivia Davies' In Waves
February 27, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 27 February: Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard on love, frustration and the music of Yoko Ono, and WA composer Olivia Davies on pendulum waves and analogue synthesis.
Nigel Butterley remembered
February 26, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBSaturday 26 February: Vale Nigel Butterley (1935-2022)
Matthew Locke’s flat consorts and Kym Pitman’s songwriting in the Australian landscape
February 20, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSunday 20 February: Fretwork’s Richard Boothby on 17th century composer Matthew Locke and Kym Pitman’s new album Stones Mumma Kissed.
Jaime Martin picks up the baton at the MSO and Jamie Perera sonifies the Anthropocene
February 19, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 19 February: Jaime Martín on his new gig at the MSO and why his previous life as an orchestral player sets him up well, and composer Jamie Perera on how he turns reams of climate and sociological data into musical soundscapes.
Tonya Lemoh uncovers Raymond Hanson, and John Adams at 75
February 13, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBA neglected Australian composer gets pianist Tonya Lemoh’s attention and we celebrate John Adams’ 75th birthday in sound and colour.
Chanteuse Carla Lippis, remembering George Crumb and meeting the musette
February 12, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 12 February: A versatile singer on switching characters and musical styles, an unheard interview with American composer George Crumb who died this week, and Simon Rickard brings a musette (baroque bagpipe) into the studio.
Folk legend Norma Waterson remembered, Maria Moles’ kulintang inspired album, and the future of classical record labels
February 06, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBRemembering English folk singer Norma Waterson, looking to the future with Deutsche Grammophon President Clemens Trautmann, and a spacious electroacoustic album from drummer Maria Moles.
Forenzically analysing Split Enz, and real deal Grace Cummings
February 05, 2022 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSaturday 5 February: Split Enz's back catalogue gets a makeover from Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner, and Melbourne songwriter Grace Cummings on her second album Storm Queen.
Pioneering women screen composers and Piazzolla's accordion
January 30, 2022 00:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBSunday 30 January: doing the Argentinian tango with accordionist James Crabb and uncovering pioneering female screen composers with Felicity Wilcox.
Elvis Costello, and conducting a musical on the fly
January 29, 2022 00:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBSaturday 29 January: Elvis Costello and The Imposters' blistering new album, and answering 'the call' to conduct Girl From The North Country with a few hours' notice.
Joni Mitchell's Blue at 50 and the uncategorisable Hiatus Kaiyote
January 23, 2022 00:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBSunday 23 January: Kate Fagan listens closely to one of the best albums of 1971, and Nai Palm from Melbourne’s Hiatus Kaiyote shares the band's creative process.