Articles

Did you know the Glenn Miller Orchestra is still touring, 81 years on?

October 17, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When I first heard the Glenn Miller Orchestra was still touring 100,000 miles a year, my heart jolted: I had missed the […]

Music education matters, says Robin Wilson, violin

October 15, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering […]

Life after uni: Meg Burstow, piano

October 15, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A music degree can be an intense – and intensely rewarding – life experience. It doesn’t matter how old we are, or […]

Blood, Sweat, Opera // James Clayton, baritone

October 15, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Last year, we took you backstage with opera stars in our interview series Behind the Curtain. This year, we’re going to take you inside the […]

Backstage Music is gearing up for another series of gigs this October

October 14, 2019

BY GABRIELLE CADENHEAD We’d like to welcome Gabrielle in her first story as a CutCommon contributor! Backstage Music is an initiative which began in Sydney […]

This family is composing kids’ tunes with real-world messages that matter

October 14, 2019

BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) What are children’s songs normally about? Some kid called Mary who had a little lamb? Some […]

Menila Moineaux has started an opera company because art “can and should change the world”

October 3, 2019

BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) What’s the point of opera? To entertain audiences? Of course, all music aims to entertain. But […]

All the world’s a stage | Stephanie Sheridan, bassoon

October 1, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Should you stay in Australia to build your music career, or travel overseas in search of bigger things? What even are those bigger things? […]

Music education matters, says Sophie Spencer, trumpet

September 30, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering […]