CityNews cinema writer SIMON COBCROFT has a secret life: Christmas music tragic. Over four decades he's listened to 14,000 Christmas songs and arrived at a 17-hour playlist of the 359 songs he reckons are worth listening to.
Glam tidings of joy: ALISON BLAIR explains how Slade made Merry Xmas Everybody a seasonal hit for the ages.
After just a year at the helm, executive director of the Canberra International Music Festival Rachel Whealy will leave to take a similar position with The Song Company in Sydney.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews I Sing the Birth, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers and Luminescence Children's Choir at Wesley Uniting Church.
After a long period of dormancy, the chimes of the National Carillon are set to ring around Lake Burley Griffin again this weekend, the National Capital Authority has announced.
Reviewer LEN POWER revels in Christmas music sung by Luminescence Chamber Singers and Children’s Choir.
A Sydneysider with a globetrotting operatic career and a young family is back in Australia to play Cinderella in Opera Australia's lavish production of Jules Massenet’s opera Cendrillon.
"This concert covered hundreds of years of Christmas music." ROB KENNEDY reviews The Waiting Sky – Music for the Christmas Season, a performance by Polifemy.
LEN POWER reviews Krismas! Peace To The World, a concert of Christmas music led by Llewellyn Choir and conducted by Rowan Harvey-Martin.
"This repertoire can be boring if performed without energy and contrast, but the AHE made it absolutely thrilling." MICHAEL WILSON reviews a performance by the Australian Haydn Ensemble at Gandel Hall.
It's time to enjoy Christmas music, whether carols, pop songs playing in the shopping malls or deeply reflective classical music, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Executing this daring program with such flair and competence would have been beyond many community orchestras, but the National Capital Orchestra was up for the challenge, and delivered," writes music reviewer MICHAEL WILSON.
LEN POWER reviews the Canberra Choral Society's performance of Elijah, by Felix Mendelssohn.
ROB KENNEDY reviews soprano Rachel Mink and the Ellery String Quartet's performance of Young Voices of America.
SAM WILSON reviews the Oriana Chorale's performance of Rachmaninoff Vespers: All-Night Vigil.
SARAH BYRNE reviews Canberra Qwire's celebratory performance of The Sound of Us – A Celebration of Community in Song.
Pop star Troye Sivan and indie band Royel Otis have had a big night at the 2024 ARIAs, while Missy Higgins was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Homecoming: An Opera Gala, an informal yet elegant recital by five gifted young singers from the Queensland Conservatorium.
When American soprano Rachel Mink steps up to perform for Art Song Canberra, the audience will sense quite a different flavour from the usual lieder repertoire, reports HELEN MUSA.
