| | | | | "No, I'm too old, you need to be a kid to get anywhere on a musical instrument ... I'm tone deaf ... I don't have time to think, let alone practise ... people will laugh at me ... I've left it too late."
Do any of these excuses sound familiar? But it’s never too late to pick up music, and Ed Ayres shares a few very good reasons you should give it a try.
We’ve also put together a guide on how to get started, and if you need some more motivation, we heard from ABC audience members on how learning music as an adult changed their lives.
“I started violin at 68. I still have zero musical instinct and sound awful, but it’s just too good for my hands and brain to stop!” — Richard | | | | | | |
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 | | | | | | | | In this musical-theatrical collaboration, the Australian Chamber Orchestra explore Janacek's and Beethoven's “Kreutzer” Sonatas, and Beethoven’s original dedicatee, George Bridgetower. | | | | | | |
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 | | | | | | | | Claire Edwardes joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra to perform Iain Grandage’s percussion concerto, Dances with Devils, alongside music by Rimsky-Korsakov. | | | | | | |
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 | | | | | | | | Dubbed the “prince of the guitar” when he made his Wigmore Hall debut at the age of 17 in 1958, Mairi Nicolson celebrates John Williams at 80. | | | | | | |
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 | | | | | | | | Do you fancy yourself a movie buff as well as a music lover? See if you can get all of the answers in our tricky quiz on music at the movies. | | | | | | |
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 | | | | | | | | Dan Golding explores the music of Joe Hisaishi for Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films, including My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. | | | | | | |
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 | | | | | | | | Out of the hundreds of music requests that pour in every year come Mother’s Day morning, ABC Classic has picked out over two hours of listener favourites for this 2CD collection. The perfect gift for your mum this Mother’s Day – or any time! | | | | | | |
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