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A weekly roundup of music in the news, delivered on Monday evenings. Principally Australian with some international items. Here's some highlights from

Monday 23 January, 2012

Arts Minister Simon Crean repeatedly returns to two common threads: how the economy must be driven by research and creativity, and how the arts have a huge capacity to help underpin that innovative culture.

Greg Page, the original Yellow Wiggle, will be reuniting with The Wiggles! Sam Moran, who has been the Yellow Wiggle for the past five years, has graciously offered to step aside.

Peter Hebbes has stepped down as the General Manager of the Australian Music Publishers' Association.

The US Supreme Court has upheld a federal law giving copyright protection to millions of foreign-produced books, movies and musical pieces and restored copyright protection to works that had entered the public domain. The proposed US anti-piracy bills throws up a real danger that the laws could become an easy way to silence critics, causing Wikipedia, Google and many other websites to stage online protests against the legislation.

Serious injuries involving pedestrians wearing headphones have more than tripled since 2004, a US study showed.

Vale Etta James (1938-20 Jan. 2012) Soul and blues singer, Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) Dutch harpsichordist, conductor and a pioneer of the early music movement.

Other people in the news this week:
Brian Cadd, Bob Corbett, Georgina Darvidis, Harmony James, Jay-Z, Tim Minchin.

Anniversaries this week:
B: 1752–Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832);1782–Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871); 1862–Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934).
D: 1992–Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909); 1992–Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915).

A comprehensive weekly guide to Australian employment opportunities, by category. Delivered on Monday evenings, it includes some international opportunities as well.

Volume 18, Number 1
ISSN 1327-9350

Table of Contents
In this issue: Jennifer Condon, Sappho: Alive and well in Portugal; Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Sappho; Archie Roach receives the Red Ochre Award; Moorambilla Voices: Up close in remote NSW; Stephen Phillips Interview; Changing Voices; Children's participation in singing; Musing on music and museums; Virtual Orchestras; Australian listeners dudded?; Childhood music lessons may provide lifelong boost; Mozart minors in ( vitamin) D; BER Partnership leads to great new music building; A guide to postgraduate music study in Australia; Six snapshots of Eugene Ughetti; International award for Music: Play for Life; 'There’s nothing you can say that can't be sung...'; Dispatches from Music: Play for Life HQ; Excellence'; The money from music workshop; The Music Council is up to its new tricks. Read CD and book reviews, music gossip—and so much more.

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