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
William Barton & Stiff Gins
Kalkadunga composer and musician, William Barton will be awarded the Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music at the 2023 Art Music Awards. He’s back in The Music Show studio…
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Sun 06 Aug 2023
Distinctive strings: Tahlia Petrosian and the Gewandhaus musicians, and brother/guitar duo Ziggy & Miles
Originally from Melbourne, Ziggy and Miles Johnston are the next generation of brother/guitar duos. They are currently based in New York and studying together at The Juilliard School, and have return…
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Sat 05 Aug 2023
György Ligeti at 100
György Ligeti (1923 – 2006), the avant-garde Hungarian composer, celebrates his 100th anniversary this year. He was one of the most unique composers of the 1950s and 60s, and then kept pushing his mu…
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Sun 30 Jul 2023
Jessica Pratt's Mad Scenes, learning Anindilyakwa with Shellie Morris, & remembering Sinéad O'Connor and Tony Bennett
Opera is full of mad scenes, particularly those written in the 19th century in Italy, but there's a trend - none of the men ever go mad, only the women. In fact, the preoccupation with "mad women" in…
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Sat 29 Jul 2023
Hearing Mike Nock
In 1993, Mike Nock recorded one of his most iconic solo albums, Touch in the Eugene Goosens Hall at the ABC studios in Ultimo, Sydney.
30 years on from his last solo album, Mike has returned to same…
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Sun 23 Jul 2023
Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit & Busby Marou's endless optimism
Singing forbidden fruit with Benjamin Appl, and live music from Rockhampton duo Busby Marou.
Rockhampton duo Busby Marou have been making music together for sixteen years. They say they’re better li…
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Sat 22 Jul 2023
Chopin's Piano with Aura Go
Australian pianist, Aura Go plays Chopin - both the character, and all 24 of his Preludes - in the stage production of Paul Kildea's book Chopin's Piano. Combining live musical performances with thea…
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Sun 16 Jul 2023
Marcia Hines is Still Shining, and Evelyn Ida Morris is extending time
Fifty years after her debut recording Marcia Hines reflects on a life and career full of stories, and Evelyn Ida Morris finds their voice through improvisation on the piano.
Marcia Hines marks fift…
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Sat 15 Jul 2023
Unbreakable Bach with Michelle Nicolle
Bach is indestructible. Jazz singer Michelle Nicolle is the latest in a line of musicians to take the music of J.S. Bach and do things to it. Her jazz ensemble pops by The Music Show studio to play l…
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Sun 09 Jul 2023
Riding the waves: cosmic country, saltwater songs, and Gulu City grooves
In 2019, Freya Josephine Hollick travelled to the famed Rancho de la Luna studio in Joshua Tree to record her most recent album titled The Real World. Growing up in regional Victoria, her music educa…
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Sat 08 Jul 2023
From Little Things Big Things Grow
This is the story a song written by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly around a campfire in 1988. What started off as a casually recorded folk number has become what Carmody calls “a kind of cultural love so…
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Sun 02 Jul 2023
On the dancefloor with First Nations artists Naretha Williams and Electric Fields
Robbie speaks to Electric Fields - Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross about the perspectives that have been infused into the music through collaborative songwriting and Zaachariaha's upbringing i…
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Sat 01 Jul 2023
ANOHNI & the Johnsons reborn, Sydney trio HEKKA get on the Road
ANOHNI & the Johnsons return with My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, a kind of reunion-rebirth for the band after frontwoman Anohni Hegarty devoted over a decade to her solo work. Famed for her s…
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Sun 25 Jun 2023
Ragas on modular synth with Arushi Jain; and Freedman Fellow Tom Avgenicos takes us to Stringybark Creek
Arushi Jain is adamant that she’s not a “classical Indian musician.” Leaning on her roots in Hindustani musical tradition, she weaves together ethereal soundscapes that feature melodies and moods bas…
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Sat 24 Jun 2023
Quartet: The musical lives of four British women composers for the Big Weekend of Books
Writer Dr. Leah Broad's book Quartet charts the transition from the Victorian era to mid-20th century modernism through the lives and works of four significant female composers: Ethel Smyth, Rebecca …
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Sun 18 Jun 2023
Pop Hooks for Big Weekend of Books
Pop music is an art, it’s a science, it’s an industrial complex. Two experts, musicologist Jadey O’Regan and psychologist Tim Byron, have joined forces to write the book on Hooks in Popular Music and…
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Sat 17 Jun 2023
Remembering Kaija Saariaho
The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died over the weekend at the age of 70. Eschewing hardcore serialism and hardcore spectralism, her music found a way of describing colour and light with the orches…
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Sun 11 Jun 2023
Max Richter Sleeps again, and Balinese electro-jazz fusion with Firetail and Gamelan DanAnda
Internationally renowned composer Max Richter is in the studio for his Music Show debut. On tour in Australia to perform at VIVID in Sydney and Dark Mofo in Hobart, Max speaks to Robbie about his "pr…
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Sat 10 Jun 2023
Chamber music by French trailblazer Louise Farrenc and Leigh Harrold in praise of the vulnerable man
Pianist Leigh Harrold returns to the stage of Tempo Queer - a series of concerts run by Coady Green at Brunswick's Tempo Rubato. With oboist Dafydd Camp, Leigh presents "In Praise of the Vulnerable M…
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Sun 04 Jun 2023
Little Richard & Joy Oladokun: Blackness, Queerness & faith in America
Director Lisa Cortés’s new documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything traces the conflicts and contradictions of one of the pioneers of Rock n’ Roll. Lisa talks about Richard’s battles with his quee…
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Sat 03 Jun 2023
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