ABOUT 15,000 punters turned out to the Meadows at UC last Sunday for the annual Groovin’ the Moo. The crowds braved the cold weather to rock out to many top Australian and international artists including…
WHAT is it about ukuleles? The small guitar is making a comeback and will be celebrated at a festival in the capital later this year. Andrew Hackwill runs the Tuggeranong Ukulele Gang (TUGs) and says…
Canberra International Music Festival Concert 11: “Mozart – A Perfect Love” Lalezar Hall, Turkish Embassy, May 15 Reviewed by Ian McLean HOW grand it may have been had the capacity audience at this epitome of…
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
THE Australian Youth Orchestra, one of the world’s elite pre-professional training organisations, this week launches its 2013 application process to find, inspire and nurture Australia’s most talented and aspiring young musicians. For any young orchestral…
LATE yesterday, staff at the ANU School of Music received a letter from head of school Prof Adrian Walter via an email from the general manager’s office, saying that he was no longer on leave….
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
CANBERRA’S music community will be saddened to hear of the death in Denmark of pianist and former director of the Canberra School of Music, John Winther. Winther was born on August 20, 1933 in Copenhagen,…
IT WAS undoubtedly the noisiest, and the coolest, rally in town as staff, students and members of the public gathered at the ANU’s Union Court today to protest against cuts and changes at the School…
