Hear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of music.
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Sunday 10 July: marking NAIDOC Week 2022 with established First Nations artists who have led political and personal music making across the years.
Saturday 9 July: NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year Dr Lois Peeler reflects on a life enriched by music - from being in the Sapphires, to the importance of the arts at Worawa Aboriginal College. And we hear about the powerful collaboration between Kamilaroi Elder Bob Weatherall and Brisbane band Halfway.
Sunday 3 July: celebrating NAIDOC Week with Noongar conductor Aaron Wyatt and Yorta Yorta hip hop artist Neil Morris aka DRMNGNOW
Saturday 2 July: A celebration of radio, sound & music as the national broadcaster turns 90.
Sunday 26 June: the late works of Elliott Carter, the composer who worked until he was 103
Saturday 25 June: Jenny Duck-Chong on putting words to music from Purcell to Kate Bush, Alon Ilsar on inventing a new instrument, and Ben Pask on keeping George Harrison's records
Sunday 19 June: A survey of the state of music education and musical culture with Anna Goldsworthy, and Lakota Vella on her pioneering guitar hero Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Saturday 18 June: Perfume Genius stretches the definition of art pop in new album Ugly Season, and Major Zulu's journey to Australia from Zambia via London, Paris, gospel, soul, jazz and rock and roll.
Sunday 12 June: A history of jazz, and Jazz Fest, in New Orleans.
Saturday 11 June: new music from singer-songwriter-siren Sharon Van Etten, Noongar bangers from Maatakitj, and a new symphony in 8 days with Dean Stevenson
Sunday 5 June 2022: The avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson at 75
Saturday 4 June: Composer and multi-instrumentalist Rhyan Clapham's call to action to protect water, and celebrate culture and Country.
Sunday 29 May: Jono Ma on Vangelis and the age of analogue, and marking Xenakis' 100th anniversary with the musicians who love to play his work.
Saturday 28 May: ACO's principal violinist Satu Vänskä on curating an underground program, and Japanese percussionist and composer Midori Takada reflects on Through The Looking Glass forty years on.
Sunday 22 May: Leyla McCalla's tapestry of Haitian history and music; film composer Danny Elfman on working within the Marvel machine
Saturday 21 May: The music in an actor's voice, and the art of making electronic dance music.
Sunday 15 May: We hear from three composer/musicians partnerships involved in the ANAM Set about how the pieces were tailored to the musicians and their instruments.
Saturday 14 May: The Music Show broadcasts live from the Australian National Academy of Music - hearing from the Set Festival's curator and chief matchmaker, as well as composers Deborah Cheetham and Lilijana Matičevska.
The Music Show is broadcasting live from the Australian National Academy of Music on Saturday 14 May 2022.
Sunday 8 May: Simon Tedeschi on the piano, Prokofiev, and his intensely personal Fugitive. Foreign Correspondent's Matt Davis on music and change in Hawai'i.
Saturday 7 May: live music from the King Curly trio, and diving into Aphir's electronic choral project.
Sunday 1 May: singer and composer Sunny Kim tackles motherhood and migration in her newest work, and an unlikely collaboration between Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen hits the operatic stage
Saturday 30 April: Horomona Horo takes us through the revival of taonga pūoro, Māori traditional instruments, and how they are grounded in Māori cultural practice today.
Sunday 24 April: Vale Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022).
Saturday 23 April: Bassist Jonathan Zwartz on musical innovator Charles Mingus, and an audiologist on Beethoven's hearing loss and his Symphony No 9.
Saturday 16 April: Tasmania's Van Diemen's Band explore the porous musical and cultural borders of the European baroque, and Malyangapa, Barkindji woman BARKAA talks about finding strength in rapping and community.
Sunday 10 April: An exploration of the great 20th century jazz canon with music writer James Gavin.
Saturday 9 April: English wordsmith Kae Tempest on their new album The Line is a Curve and young Gubbi Gubbi singer Layla Barnett on singing with Archie Roach.
Sunday 3 April: The wunderkind pianist who became one of the great interpreters of the Romantic repertoire is still performing at 97.
Saturday 2 April: Jude Perl on their musical comedy awakening, and Chloe Lankshear on Monteverdi and the legacy of Taryn Fiebig
Sunday 27 March: The art of curating an accessible and multi-generational jazz festival, and The New Statesman's Tom Gatti on writers' favourite albums.
Saturday 26 March: Benjamin Northey on Korngold's underplayed Symphony in F-Sharp, sound artist Mara Schwerdtfeger on improvisation and sonic spaces.
Sunday 20 March: Wattleseed Ensemble's Katie Yap drops by to talk about the difference between a baroque viola and a modern one, plus an archive interview with jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Ron Carter and the Count Basie Orchestra.
Saturday 19 March: Norwegian singer, songwriter and novelist on the selflessness of singing. And Chilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana talks about her Blue Note album 12 Stars.
Sunday 12 March: rejuvenating Eastern European folk with Balkan Ethno Orchestra, the songs of the Americas with Gaby Moreno, and the songlines belonging to the Yorta Yorta and Barkindji rivers with Dhungala Baarka.
Saturday 12 March: Ethiopian groove with Chikchika, Kreol soul with Grace Barbé & Qawwalis with Farhan Shah and Sufi-Oz.
Sunday 6 March: Peter Gabriel on the genesis of music festival WOMAD, plus highlights from The Music Show's live broadcasts from there.
Saturday 5 March: Chi-Chi Nwanoku on Britain's Chineke! Orchestra; and Inni-K's new interpretation of the sean-nós tradition.
Sunday 27 February: Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard on love, frustration and the music of Yoko Ono, and WA composer Olivia Davies on pendulum waves and analogue synthesis.
Saturday 26 February: Vale Nigel Butterley (1935-2022)
Sunday 20 February: Fretwork's Richard Boothby on 17th century composer Matthew Locke and Kym Pitman's new album Stones Mumma Kissed.
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