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MSO invites children to jam with musicians from home this April

Calling all little (and big) kids at home! You are invited to join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra every Wednesday at 10.00am throughout April for a sweet virtual musical ride through the music of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven...

Monash My Brilliant Career Cast Recording feature

My Brilliant Career releases Original Cast Recording

April 6 - Music, Music Theatre

In 2019, the writers of award-winning musicals Prodigal, Once We Lived Here and Virgins: A Musical Threesome, Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank, gave a musical voice to Miles Franklin’s iconic heroine Sybylla Melvyn in My Bri...

SBS Blink TV Eurovision Australia Decides Montaigne

Montaigne to represent Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

April 2 - Music, Performance

After the unprecedented cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest this year, SBS has announced that art-pop singer-songwriter Montaigne will still get her shot at Eurovision glory, when the Eurovision Song Contest retu...

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - photo by Daniel Aulsebroo

MSO presents A Night (in) with the Symphony: Stravinsky Double-Bill

April 1 - Film, Music, Performance

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra invites music lovers to keep the music going this Thursday evening (2 April 2020) at 7.30pm with a special online premiere concert featuring a Stravinsky double-bill: Rite of Spring and t...

AAR Aussie Pops Orchestra and Artists featured in What A Wonderful World

Artists phone in for What A Wonderful World

March 30 - Film, Music

As a response to the devastation that COVID-19 is having on the arts and entertainment industry, John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra and friends have “phoned in” an isolation orchestra performance of What A Wonderful Wo...

From Mahler to Madonna, Bach to Buckley – the QSO-solation playl...

March 30 - Music, Performance

From the people who really know and love their music, comes the ultimate playlist for the next few months – from Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s musicians comes the QSO-solation Playlist! While Spotify is jam-packe...

Richard Tognetti with Members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presents Thursday Night (in) with the Sym...

March 26 - Film, Music, Performance

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra invites music lovers to keep the music going with a special online premiere concert series every Thursday evening at 7.30pm. This new series of pre-recorded concerts follows on from the s...

Singing away the coronavirus blues: making music in a time of crisis r...

March 25 - Music, Opinion, Performance

With constraints on our movements and general way of life becoming more and more restricted, we are feeling a loss of control not experienced since the second world war. In being confined to our homes, we are missing our...