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WAGNER AND ME (G) Rating: 2/5 Selected cinemas (89 minutes)

CHAMBER MUSIC

WHO Trio Anima Mundi

Jazz

WHAT West End Composers Collective WHERE Bennetts Lane Jazz Lab, city WHEN Tomorrow, 9.30pm COST $18/$15, bennettslane.com

Composers Seize Their Opportunity To Shine With A Contemporary Cutting Edge

21st CENTURY AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS PROGRAM Iwaki Auditorium, Southgate, February 5, www.mso.com.au

Let's Hear Less Of Dead White Males

Contemporary composers deserve more exposure, comment Tony Gould and Paul Doornbusch.

Composers Poorly Served

PNINA BECHER BMW Edge, Federation Square October 14

Broad Appeal Of Conway's Festival

DEBORAH Conway is not one for sitting still. On a comparatively mild Queensland afternoon, the singer-songwriter is in a minivan driving back to Brisbane from Gympie, where she and a group of fellow composers, including Hoodoo Guru Dave Faulkner and singer Kev Carmody, conducted the latest in a series of workshops for the Queensland Music Festival.

Banner Night For Young Composers

MUSIC REVIEW: METROPOLIS 1 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, at CUB Malthouse, Southbank, May 5. www.mso.com.au

Festival Fun For Switched-on Musos

COMPOSERS and musicians from the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong have been invited to take part in the 16th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival in the United States later this month.

Written With The Stars In Mind

A composer, an author and some heavenly voices combine for an anthem to the spirit of Australia, writes Angela Bennie. THERE are not many Australian composers who can boast a reputed audience of 3 billion people for a performance of their work, but Ross Edwards can.

Danielle Pops A Tune In The Most Delightful Way

BELIEVE it or not, but the composers behind A Whole New World, from the Disney hit Aladdin in 1992, actually received an Academy Award for the high-pitched anthem.

Not Even The Composers Expected The Works

The picture Greg Barns paints of ABC Classics as the "main culprit" that undermines classical music with "dumbed down", "best of" compilations is frankly dishonest ("Attitude to classical music a few notes short of a symphony", April 25).

Settling The Score

From film scores to ad jingles, Denis Brown finds technology is changing the way composers work.

Paris In Raptures Over Two Modern Masters

Time is looking more fondly on the work of these radical composers, writes Roger Covell. How do composers famous in their younger days for radicalism look to the future of their art and reputation as they reach their 80th birthday? Paris in the past few days has been witness to hints of how a baton change might occur for two eminent seniors of music, Frenchman Pierre Boulez and German Hans Werner Henze.

Programmed For War

WAR MAY be hell but it's also a rich source of inspiration: even before the days of Homer, poets, novelists, composers and painters have all been moved by either the heroics of war or its tragedies. Or both.

Bracks Commands Opera Rescue For A Niche City

PREMIER Steve Bracks is considering ambitious plans to turn Victoria into a national hub for innovative opera aimed at producing a new generation of composers, directors, librettists, singers and set designers for the national stage.

Taking Text To The Stage

The idea of turning Les Miserables into an opera is nothing new. Puccini and other 19th century composers contemplated the idea but it didn't actually happen until the 1970s.