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The Music Show turns 30

ABC Radio National's long running weekend program, The Music Show, celebrated its 30th anniversary …

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Bright Shiners and Blue Poles

Steel City Strings will dust off two short works by Andrew Ford for their first concerts of 2021. …

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Audio & Video

Lotte Betts-Dean sings ‘Gone’ from Red Dirt Hymns

Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano) and Sean Shibe (guitar) performing 'Gone' from Red Dirt Hymns at …

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How to commission a Red Dirt Hymn

Andrew Ford's Red Dirt Hymns ('The right idea for strange times' - Harriet Cunningham, Limelight, …

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Featured Composition

Last Words (2013)
for soprano, violin, cello and piano

Last Words was the winner of the Vocal/choral Work of the Year category in the 2014 AMC & APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards. It was a shortlisted and 'highly commended' work for the prestigious Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prizein 2016 - Ford's work Learning …

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About Andrew Ford

Andrew Ford is a composer, writer and broadcaster who has won awards in each of those capacities. His music has been performed by the likes of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and New Juilliard Ensemble, the Brodsky Quartet, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Black Dyke Band. He has published ten books, most recently The Song Remains the Same, written with Anni Heino (La Trobe University Press, 2019), and has written, presented and co-produced five radio series. Since 1995, he has presented The Music Show each weekend on ABC Radio National.

 

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