Music
Music not to ears of everyone
BACKGROUND music in cafes, restaurants and clothing stores has been around ever since Major-General George O. Squier patented the idea back in the 1920s.
I'm in training for music's marathon
Geoff Strong Staging Richard Wagner's four-opera Ring Cycle in the era of the 10-second attention span seems a bit like resurrecting the musical Hair in the age of the Brazilian wax.
Wage inequality music to rock stars' ears
Jessica Irvine Even those of us whose childhood bedrooms still bear the Blu-Tack scars of Boyz II Men, New Kids on the Block and Bros posters have experienced some degree of bemusement at the outbreak of teenage...
Students need music appreciation
I TOTALLY support Sydney Symphony in its Meet The Music series which, among other things, allows students to attend high-quality classical concerts at an affordable price.
Ah, the sounds of silence: sweet music to my battered eardrums
Danny Katz 2010 was The Summer of Reno's. Everyone on my street was getting a reno, so not only was it a daily noise-scape of THWUCKKKING and GRINNNNNDING, but every time I opened my window and breathed in, I...
Sound of rock'n'roll ageing is music to the ears
John Harris On June 18, Paul McCartney will turn 70. ''There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that,'' he says in Rolling Stone magazine, though there are signs of the burdens of old age...
Classical music as a weapon
Anne Midgette For some, this art form has an exalted purpose, but now it's being used to fight crime, control crowds and punish pupils.
Music will always be worthy of more than a shuffle for me
Andrew Stafford It's funny how, 10 years since the advent of the iPod was supposed to mark the death of the album as a conceptual art form, great albums keep magically appearing.
Just shut up and listen to the music
Bernard Zuel It's a curiosity of today's music venues that so much is forbidden, interrupted or made uncomfortable.
Spare a dollar for the maker, music doesn't play itself
Kim Salmon When I began working as a musician in Fremantle some 35 years ago, I earned around $600 per week. I had a regular gig and it was ongoing.
The Hills are alive with the sound of music - and it's uplifting
Ross Cameron Baulkham Hills is an emblem of prosperous, conservative, Sydney. It's a whitebread culture, and any Liberal candidate's dream.
Pornography killed the video star - pop music's latest little death
Warwick McFadyen Rock and roll and sex have always been a tempestuous marriage.
Music in translation
Warwick McFadyen In the days that Australia has reshaped its political landscape, this writer has been listening to an album that reshapes how he thinks about music.
The power of music to sustain the spirit
Warwick McFadyen Few songs take their title from that of a historical event, the occasional mining disaster aside.
Sex, death and Kanye West: music clips need to get real
Nina Funnell Supposedly "sexy" music videos are usually not, writes Nina Funnell.
Nostalgia is killing our music scene
Jonno Seidler The Australian rock scene is starting to look a bit like the Logies; nothing ever really changes. Andrew Denton recognised this in a recent interview, when he said about Australia's night of nights:...
Rapid fire Kanye redefines music journalism
Jonno Seidler As a content producer par excellence, the most notorious MTV awards-disruptor in hip-hop is redefining how we understand pop culture by creating it faster than music journalists can write about it.
Music, the most abstract of the arts, is mathematics on the move
David Malouf We live in an age when disembodied music is all around us as if it were a quality of the air itself: in lifts, in supermarkets, coffee shops, shoe shops, restaurants, in snatches as we wait at the...
Music venues still threatened as Tote lesson not learnt
Kate Shaw Brumby has pointedly refused to alter blanket liquor licensing laws.
Magic of music is muted in iTunes era
Steve Almond When I first encountered iTunes, the wildly popular music app that allows fans to compile their own collections and digital library, I was agog.
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