The Music Show
All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 274
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Music in spaces & places in song: No-No Boy and FUJI||||||||||TA
No-No Boy is a project conceived by academic and musician Julian Saporiti that channels his research on Asian-American histories into song. His music is built on samples he has recorded at Japanese-A…
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Sun 15 Oct 2023
New Australian Opera: Panbe Zan and The Visitors
Iranian composer and pianist Shervin Mirzeinali’s opera Panbe Zan recreates the process of preparing cotton to be turned into cloth, featuring traditional Persian music interleaved with the rhythms a…
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Sat 14 Oct 2023
William Byrd
“When you’re singing Byrd’s music today, you’re just taking his instructions from four hundred years ago, but you’re making contemporary music with them”.
William Byrd was a composer of sacred – and…
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Sun 08 Oct 2023
Gospels, gryphons, and remembering Jacqueline Dark
South African vocal group the Soweto Gospel Choir consider Australia to be a kind of second home. They’re on a mammoth four month tour of the continent, performing at venues across NSW and Victoria a…
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Sat 07 Oct 2023
How the 1970s changed music
Can The Music Show do an entire decade in an hour? We’re certainly going to give it a go with the help of Tony Wellington, former Mayor of Noosa, current bird photographer, and author of Vinyl Dreams…
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Sun 01 Oct 2023
Weathering extremes: Sydney Chamber Opera's triple bill and Jim Denley's new albums
Jim Denley and the natural environment have been longtime collaborators, in fact, he is perhaps one of the very few musicians who has played outdoors more than inside. Over the past few years, he’s b…
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Sat 30 Sep 2023
The Lives of Noël Coward
Author Oliver Soden tackles the public and private personas of Noël Coward in his biography Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward. He joins Andy on to unpack the way that life yielded one of the most …
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Sun 24 Sep 2023
Legacies: Jarabi Band and the Alma Moodie Quartet
Led by husband and wife Mohamed and Anna Camara, Jarabi Band fuses West African instruments with jazz to explore stories of contemporary African and Australian musical culture. They are releasing the…
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Sat 23 Sep 2023
Dutch-Indian Jugalbandi and Mark Isaacs' Passion for Harmony
Saskia Rao-de Haas took her Dutch cello to India, learnt the complex raga system and stayed. She’s modified the instrument whose ‘voice’ sits curiously well in the world of Indian classical music. Wi…
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Sun 17 Sep 2023
Hildur Guðnadóttir is making music with Kenneth Branagh, and Kate Neal and Rubiks Collective are passing time
Screen composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is becoming a household name, having written the music to films such as The Joker, Tár and series Chernobyl. Most recently, she has crafted an eerie score to accomp…
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Sat 16 Sep 2023
From pillar to podium: Umberto Clerici
for the conductor, the rehearsal is the gig...
Umberto Clerici’s CV lists principal cellist, chamber musician, educator, soloist and now conductor, as the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Quee…
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Sun 10 Sep 2023
A win-wind situation: Eliza Shephard and Phillippa Murphy-Haste
We spend the hour with two of Australia's award-winning woodwind musicians.
ABC Classic’s Young Performer of the Year Eliza Shephard, plays repertoire that's not for the faint-hearted. A talented fl…
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Sat 09 Sep 2023
Keeping it fresh: completing Schubert's incomplete music, and The Cat Empire's next gen
The Cat Empire strikes back with a new line-up and sound. In 2021, The Cat Empire announced that they were disbanding after more than 20 years and played their final show with the original line up at…
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Sun 03 Sep 2023
Kurt Elling's chops and an Extremely Serious Musical Comedy: The Dismissal
Kurt Elling is probably best known as a purveyor of vocalese, having inherited the mantle from Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. But Elling is scratching a whole new itch with his SuperBlue project. Elec…
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Sat 02 Sep 2023
James Gavin on Ravaged Voices
An hour in the company of music writer James Gavin whose biographies include George Michael, Chet Baker and Peggy Lee. Gavin discusses ‘ravaged’ voices; singers whose voices became utterly wrecked i…
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Sun 27 Aug 2023
Looking to the skies: Fanny Lumsden, Georgia Mooney, and their new albums
Friends of the show Fanny Lumsden and Georgia Mooney join Andrew to play songs from their new albums live in The Music Show studio.
One quarter of All Our Exes Live in Texas, Georgia Mooney, has re…
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Sat 26 Aug 2023
Horns, Voices & Keyboard Fantasies with Stefan Dohr, Meta Cohen and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Stefan Dohr visits the studio to talk about working within that orchestra, Strauss’s second horn concerto, and Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn a…
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Sun 20 Aug 2023
Hozier's Unreal Unearth, and the legacy of Liszt
Irish singer-songwriter Hozier’s third studio album Unreal Unearth takes Dante’s Divine Comedy and its circles of hell as its inspiration. Drawing from blues, soul and Celtic traditional music, he’s …
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Sat 19 Aug 2023
Birdsong
As ABC Science Week asks Australia what the nation’s favourite animal sound is, The Music Show looks at the unique musical relationship between humans and birds. From Olivier Messiaen’s trio of birds…
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Sun 13 Aug 2023
Butchulla beats, Baez on the big screen, and Remembering Robbie Robertson and Rodriguez
Karen O'Connor is a long-time friend of Joan Baez, and one of the directors for the new documentary Joan Baez I am a Noise, which tells the story of the iconic American singer, songwriter and activis…
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Sat 12 Aug 2023
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