MCA: One Voice for Music

  • The 2012 Australia Day Australian Honours in music and the arts.
  • MCA’s biggest advocacy initiative in 2012 will continue all year. Meetings will be organised with every Minister for Education, every school system, principals, teachers, to press for improvements to music education. If you would like to be involved, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • MCA will be pressing for increased funding for tertiary music institutions following the somewhat favourable recommendations of the Higher Education Base Funding Review.
  • MCA will organise an expert symposium to attempt to find solutions to maintaining a good presence for Australian music on broadcast and online media.
 

Music Council Diary

Date

Event

 Location
Mar 1

Deadline for Music Forum items, Autumn edition
Mar TBA

Music and Media Symposium

 Sydney TBA
May 21-25

Making Music Being Well

 Multiple, nationally
Jun 1

Deadline for Music Forum items, Winter edition
Jul-Aug TBA

Freedman Jazz (awards playoff)

 Sydney TBA
Sep 1

Deadline for Music Forum items, Spring edition
Sep 6

Music: Count Us In, culminating day

 Multiple, nationally
Sep 22

Australian Youth Music Council career workshop

 Sydney TBA
Sep 23-24

Annual Assembly

 Sydney TBA
Dec 1

Deadline for Music Forum items, Summer edition
There will be many more events not yet scheduled. This diary will be updated regularly.
 

 

Monday 23 January, 2012

Arts Minister Simon Crean repeatedly returns to two common threads: how the economy must be driven by research and creativity, and how the arts have a huge capacity to help underpin that innovative culture.

Greg Page, the original Yellow Wiggle, will be reuniting with The Wiggles! Sam Moran, who has been the Yellow Wiggle for the past five years, has graciously offered to step aside.

Peter Hebbes has stepped down as the General Manager of the Australian Music Publishers’ Association.

The US Supreme Court has upheld a federal law giving copyright protection to millions of foreign-produced books, movies and musical pieces and restored copyright protection to works that had entered the public domain. The proposed US anti-piracy bills throws up a real danger that the laws could become an easy way to silence critics, causing Wikipedia, Google and many other websites to stage online protests against the legislation.

Serious injuries involving pedestrians wearing headphones have more than tripled since 2004, a US study showed.

Vale Etta James (1938-20 Jan. 2012) Soul and blues singer, Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) Dutch harpsichordist, conductor and a pioneer of the early music movement.

Other people in the news this week:
Brian Cadd, Bob Corbett, Georgina Darvidis, Harmony James, Jay-Z, Tim Minchin.

Anniversaries this week:
B: 1752–Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832);1782–Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871); 1862–Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934) .
D: 1992–Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909); 1992–Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915).