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Canberra conductor Leonard "Lenny" Weiss was on Thursday judged co-winner, with Argentine-Italian conductor Fernando Oscar Gaggini, of the 21st Khachaturian International Competition, held in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
HELEN MUSA reviews Northern Lights, a performance by Scandinavian violinist Johan Dalene and Tasmanian pianist Jennifer Marten-Smith.
How visionary Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson changed music – and JADEY O'REGAN's life.
Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose summertime anthems made him one of rock's most influential artists, has died at 82.
When the curtain rose on the new Canberra Theatre on June 24, 1965, a crowd of VIPs crammed in to see Minister for the Interior Doug Anthony launch Australia's first multi-purpose theatre centre, reports HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA lines up all the big arts events of the coming week in her latest Artsweek column.
From modest beginnings when a bunch of ANU students got together, Luminescence singers have catapulted on to the wider Australian music scene as a respected professional six-voice ensemble, writes HELEN MUSA.
SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews Raquel Ormella's exhibition of protest, Am I in Your Way?
A 19-year-old Canberra jazz singer is well on her way to success, with a scholarship and a place at the noted Eastman School of Music in upstate New York, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Turkish-Australian soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal is returning to Canberra on Sunday with a passion project, a concert of all-Cuban music simply titled, Cuba.
Australia's Sarah Snook has won a coveted Tony Award for best leading actress in a play for her widely acclaimed performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
LEN POWER reviews Love's Four Seasons, a performance by The Song Company with guest director Eamonn Dougan.
Luminescence is turning 10 with a gala concert and Canberra Rep's staging a sequel to a notorious play lead the arts news in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Gladys a Musical Affair.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Harp and Flute, a performance by Alice Giles and Laura Chislett.
"It's peak Netflix doco-making, with all the glossy graphics and dramatic bass lines they can possibly cram in, but the quality is undeniable." Streaming columnist NICK OVERALL takes a look at the latest American Manhunt series.
Based on the award-winning coming-of-age book and film, the Looking for Alibrandi stage show is shining a spotlight on discrimination during a national tour.
Opening night for this provoking play about what humanity is doing to the planet was cut short when a cast member was taken ill, but the second night saw a solid audience with returnees wanting to see how this epic was going to finish.
Book reviewer COLIN STEELE looks at two books with the common theme of war, one a fictional thriller, the other a factual account of an English city's wartime work.
