The Sydney Symphony and Credit Suisse have today announced the 2012 Fellows, ahead of what is set to be another outstanding year for this world-leading musician training program.

Outgoing Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. says the proposed purchase of British recording company EMI by recording rivals Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV is "dangerous" and must be stopped by regulators.

Encore

Since 2006 Cate Blanchett has been running a theatre in Sydney with her husband, Andrew Upton. Now she is returning to Europe in an Australian production of a German play. She and Upton talk to Jo Lennan

Intelligent Life

There is a slowly growing trend toward audio-visual orchestra concerts, symphony CEO Mark Hanson said.

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This is a book for anyone interested not just in the economic state of the symphony orchestra but in the overall financial health of the arts in the United States.

The Arts Fuse (book review)

British musicians are calling for a consistent policy on carrying instruments on planes across airlines, after a similar bill was passed in the US.

The Stage UK

New research finds listeners judge symphonic music differently when they’re told the conductor is a woman.

Miller McCune

The scene, to Brett Dean, was like a lunar landscape. The Australian composer had been invited to visit a friend's home that had survived the Black Saturday bushfires a few weeks earlier, and it was there he was inspired to compose a new orchestral work.

The Australian

Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analysed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an "appoggiatura."

The Australian

Grammys 2012 indicated change. It signalled a return to the real - songs, singers, instruments.

Herald-Sun

She's the matriarch of Brisbane, the original home of Queensland's arts and culture. The Old Museum building, 120 years old, and unlike any other in Brisbane, has a long and significant history and continues to play a crucial role in fostering emerging artists

Courier-Mail

Acoustic fans are about to be amazed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, which will perform at The Events Centre in Caloundra next month.

Courier Mail

Ever wondered what opera was like but daunted by dress codes, ticket prices or language barriers?

Courier Mail

It's the small festival that's big on talent and although last week's Laneway Festival cemented itself as the must-see event of the summer, its future in Adelaide is under a cloud.

Adelaide Now

It might not be played until well into this year, but the GWS Giants team song is sure to split the AFL community.

Daily Telegraph

"Mum, - girl did good!" Adele hollered in her thick Cockney accent, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Adelaide Now

Social networking websites cannot be forced to install filters preventing users from illegally sharing music and videos protected by copyright, the European Union's top court says.

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There's no slowing in the battle to save live music, writes Craig Mathieson.

SMH

Guitarist Clive Shakespeare, a founding member of the chart-topping 1970s Australian band Sherbet, has died from cancer. He was 62.

SMH

Universities are adopting more aggressive recruitment tactics in an increasingly competitive marketplace, with experts calling for an overhaul of the admissions system to give students more control.

SMH

Tonmi Lillman, the drummer with Finnish monster rock ensemble Lordi, which won the Eurovision song contest six years ago, has died at the age of 38, the group said on Wednesday.

SMH

Record labels and musicians have lost a bid to recover extra copyright payments from radio stations for music streamed over the internet.

SMH

Don Cornelius (1936-2012) was the smooth-voiced television host and creator of Soul Train. One of the longest-running syndicated shows in television history, it had a critical role in spreading the music of black America to the world, offering wide exposure to musicians such as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson in the 1970s and '80s.

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Given the fact almost exactly the same thing happened after the death of Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse we really shouldn't have been surprised to note Sony Music apparently decided to cash in on the passing of Whitney Houston, quietly upping the price of her album just hours after the singer was reported dead.

SMH

For the third time in recent memory, the Grammys dropped a boatload of awards on a young female singer-songwriter and her breakthrough album.

SMH

The all-male choir Men In Suits have an impressive record of being ordered out of Melbourne city venues.

SMH

She was pop's golden girl before a breakdown forced her to re-evaluate her life. Katie Melua talks about the pressures of fame

SMH

A new Sofia Coppola showcase reveals how the director uses pop music to create a sense of distance and nostalgia.

SMH

An idea sprouted over drinks at a pub has become an online film and music hub, incubating hidden talents across Melbourne.

SMH

The music giant is preparing to break into Australia's busy streaming music scene.

SMH

Liam Neeson tears up when he hears Eva Cassidy sing Danny Boy. Toni Collette's No. 1 album is Neil Young's Harvest, while Neil Finn's favourite tune is Elton John's Your Song.

The Big Day Out is often a wild rite of passage for music-loving teenagers - and now toddlers have one of their own.

Brett Lee is trying to enrich the lives of Indian children who earn their living picking through the filth in the country's rubbish tips by funding a series of music centres that teach song and dance.

SMH

An international panel of music experts has dismissed the Sydney Opera House as ''filled with performing spaces with problematic sound''.

SMH

When Lucy Warren embarked on her musical career at age five, her parents were not sure their daughter's interest in the violin was anything but a passing fad.

SMH

It is 10am in Berlin and Lana Del Rey is wondering when her life became distinct from the legend that surrounds it. The 25-year-old American vocalist has spent the past six months as the most discussed figure in popular music.

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"We have a great tradition in Amsterdam of dancing around naked on an open-air stage."

SMH

A song that almost remained unfinished and unrecorded has propelled Gotye to global success.

SMH

Melbourne band Husky has been signed by renowned US record label Sub Pop, the label that has in the past been home to bands such as Fleet Foxes, Nirvana and Soundgarden.

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