20 Aug 2024

Composer Andrew Ford on The Shortest History of Music

From Nine To Noon, 10:05 am on 20 August 2024
Bone Flute, notation and Blind Boy Fuller are among key musical moments discussed by Andrew Ford.

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Few have traversed the world of music as extensively as Andrew Ford, an Australian broadcaster, composer and writer.

Aside from hosting the weekly Music Show on National Radio for nearly thirty years, he's been a composer in residence at the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National Academy of Music and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.

His work has been performed around the world, and now he's released his eleventh book on music.

The Shortest History of Music races through thousands of years as it explores what music has meant to humans at different times.