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Joshua Robinson

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March 2026 Newsletter – Festival Season Approaches

Music Festivals and Survival It’s a bad time to be a music festival. By now, most of us have seen the news of big name music festivals shutting down. In Canberra, the Spilt Milk and Groovin the Moo festivals both had to shut down (although Spilt Milk has now had a resurgence). Across Australia, other […]

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February 2026 Newsletter

Does Classical Music discourage young Musicians? Over the past month, I finished reading “Class, Control, and Classical Music” by Anna Bull. It’s an ethnography of young musicians in England, participating in youth orchestras and youth choirs. It’s a damning work which doesn’t shy away from the impacts of classical music on young people — for […]

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