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 30 January, 2012

Senegal's most famous export, singer Youssou Ndour, has appealed a decision by the country's top court which rejected his application to run for president in February polls.

Dr Karl Kramer takes over as Dean at the Sydney Conservatorium in April. Dr Kramer is a tuba player educated at the Manhattan School of Music, Yale and Temple University and currently directs the music school at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

The Queensland Music Festival's management is set to confirm that trumpeter James Morrison will take the reins ahead of the next instalment of the biennial event in 2013.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) annual digital music report said 28 per cent of global internet users access unlicensed content.

Last month Marieke Hardy apologised and agreed to pay online music critic Joshua Meggitt for attacking him online, wrongly believing he was responsible for writing a slanderous blog. Action had now begun against the ABC's online and TV segment The Drum for allegedly repeating the defamation of Meggitt.

Vale Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928–January 26, 2012), Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for TV and movies and worked with legendary musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie. Vale Larry Lee Butler (March 26, 1942–January 20, 2012) Music producer/singer/musician.

Others in the news this week:
Abba, Amiina, Wally De Backer, Richard Bonynge, Bjork, Kasey Chambers, Chambers family, Beccy Cole, Chris Cornell, Richard Gill, Kate Gould, Adam Harvey, Lindy Hume, Bret McKenzie, Molly Meldrum, National Music Camp, Tim Minchin, Taryn Fiebig, Keith Urban, Lloyd Webber, Jon Weaving.

Anniversaries this week:
B: 1912–Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (d. 1997).
D: 1962–Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890).