Music Show (Music)
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- Host: Andrew Ford
- The Music Show is a mix of music, interviews and information about the latest developments in music, hosted by composer Andrew Ford. It aims to entertain and inform a wide audience about music, providing two hours of essential listening every week.
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15 November 2008
Sat, Nov 15
Guests this week are singer songwriter Dan Wilson, conductor Oleg Caetani, singer Katie Noonan and Valanga Khoza, talking about Miriam Makeba
8 November 2008
Sat, Nov 8
Two prickly American songwriters talk to Andrew Ford: Steve Earle and Martha Wainwright
1 November 2008
Sat, Nov 1
Richard Tognetti has been at the helm of the Australian Chamber Orchestra for 20 years
25 October 2008
Sat, Oct 25
What do the following have in common? The Mills Brothers' 'Paper Doll', Billie Holiday's 'God Bless the Child', George Formby's 'With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock', Tommy Dorsey's 'Song of India' and Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten performing 'The Foggy, Foggy Dew'? The answer is that they were all banned from being broadcast by the BBC (and all for different reasons)
18 October 2008
Sat, Oct 18
On The Music Show this week: 10 ways to play Beethoven's 5th, or what difference does the conductor make? Andrew Ford talks to David Patmore, author of The A-Z of Conductors, an ambitious history of recording during the 20th century
11 October 2008
Sat, Oct 11
The Music Show broadcasts live, direct from The Spiegeltent and the Melbourne International Arts Festival
4 October 2008
Sat, Oct 4
On The Music Show this week: music director, conductor, educator and advocate Richard Gill; pianist Angela Hewitt on playing Bach; and one of the world's great guitarists, Ry Cooder, talks about his CD/novella double I, Flathead
27 September 2008
Sat, Sep 27
Guests on this week's show: director Neil Armfield, oboist and conductor Jeffrey Crellin and harpist Mary MacMaster
20 September 2008
Sat, Sep 20
On The Music Show this week, composer Andrew Schultz, guitar virtuoso Bob Brozman, author Philip Reed and CD reviews with Rob Murray
13 September 2008
Sat, Sep 13
Jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell, Beethoven types Peter and Stephanie McCallum along with violinist Christian Tetzlaff and soul singer Tina Harrod
6 September 2008
Sat, Sep 6
On The Music Show this week: Many different ways with Schubert, with guests tenor Steve Davislim, and composers Gordon Kerry and James Ledger; the many faces of The Vamp with Meow Meow and Iain Grandage; and the art of improvisation with Gabriela Montero
30 August 2008
Sat, Aug 30
On The Music Show this week: author Sheila Weller talks about her book Girls Like Us and the music of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon; live performance from Brisbane's Clocked Out Duo and Adelaide's Seraphim Trio; and the independent and virtuosic Bob Malone
23 August 2008
Sat, Aug 23
US conductor David Robertson delivers his Stuart Challender Lecture "Is Classical Music Relevant?" with musical illustrations
16th August 2008
Sat, Aug 16
Distinguished French Horn player who now sits in as "extra" horn with his alma mater talks about more than 45 years as one of the great modern horn players
Don Burrows
Sat, Aug 9
Jazz legend Don Burrows, 80 years old, discusses his long career in music
9 August 2008
Sat, Aug 9
This week on The Music Show, two octogenerians: Madam Pat (Thompson) talks to Andrew Ford about her life story as a 'vaudevillian belter'; and Don Burrows at 80probably the most influential figure ever in Australian jazzhe talks to Andrew about his long career
2 August 2008
Sat, Aug 2
On The Music Show this week, Winsome Evans talks to Andrew Ford about her long career in music
26 July 2008
Sat, Jul 26
On The Music Show this week, one of the world's most distinguished orchestral and operatic conductors, Zubin Mehta
19 July 2008
Sat, Jul 19
On The Music Show this week: celebrated Australian soprano and anti-prima donna Lisa Gasteen talks about her international operatic career and about 'being Brunnhilde' all over the world
12 July 2008
Sat, Jul 12
This week, another chance to hear The Music Show from The Famous Spiegeltent last October [20/10/07] featuring guests from the 2007 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts
5 July 2008
Sat, Jul 5
Guests on this week's show: Dr John on New Orleans; composer Ros Bandt; guests from the 2008 World Shakuhachi Festival being held in Sydney; and the Andrew Robson Trio
28 June 2008
Sat, Jun 28
An electric fiddler from Finland, a jazz sextet led by a French horn, an art song outfit singing Waltzing Matilda and consumate cabaret from New York: that's the mix in this week's Music Show, most of it with live performance
21 June 2008
Sat, Jun 21
Guests on The Music Show this week: cellist David Pereira, composer Mary Finsterer and CD reviews with Rob Murray
14 June 2008
Sat, Jun 14
South Indian singer Aruna Sairam peforms her dynamic Karnatic vocal tradition, Klezmania with Michael Alpert play and discuss all things Klezmer , David Stanhope, the multi-talented national treasure talks, brass, pianos, composing and conducting and last but not least, cabaret singer contemporary music specialist Marie Angel
7 June 2008
Sat, Jun 7
On The Music Show this week: Lorna Luft, Judy Garland's daughter, currently touring Australia, Shakuhachi master Riley Lee, Finnish violinist and conductor John Storgards and Percy Grainger's friend, conductor Gerald Gentry
31 May 2008
Sat, May 31
On the Music Show this week we talk to Don Burrows, now in his 80th year, about his long career in jazz
24 May 2008
Sat, May 24
On The Music Show this week, two living legends: American tenor saxophone player Sonny Rollins and Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Pena
17 May 2008: Live from Canberra...come and join us!
Sat, May 17
The Music Show is broadcasting live from the Street Theatre in the national capital as part of the Canberra International Music Festival
10 May 2008
Sat, May 10
On The Music Show this week, two theatre works about girls and words; a female jazz drummer and a book of poems about songs
3 May 2008
Sat, May 3
Composer Tristram Cary died this week
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