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Classical music and arts magazine Limelight is calling in the liquidators after cancelling its March edition and laying off its six employees.

• REVIEW

This gig was like a two-hour game of 'spot the influence', yet the soundscape was wholly original.

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While Sydney has been enjoying the beach, the Song Company, under the imaginative direction of artistic director, Antony Pitts, has spent the summer rediscovering the art of singing from renaissance partbooks, using the rich collection of Tudor music copied in Oxford in the 1580s by Robert Dow.

The crowd laps up the intensity.

Australian singer and songwriter Kirin J Callinan is set to face court after being charged over an incident on the ARIA red carpet last year.

Romantic favourites mixed with contemporary sounds including a piece commissioned especially for the occasion.

Justin Timberlake has leaned on his past hits in order to deliver a scandal-free Super Bowl performance almost 15 years after his controversial appearance with Janet Jackson.

• Music review

Works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Clyne and Mizzoli were all impressively played.

Thirty years on and the Necks produce the finest work this writer has heard from them.

In the past three decades a "small-is-good/big-is-bad" orthodoxy has emerged regarding the best sized orchestra for Mozart, though the composer himself didn't seem to be aware of it.

MUSIC ST JEROME'S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 3

The humour may be hokey and the special effects not so special, but John Williams' score remains immediate and memorable.

Two worthy tributes paid to Allan Browne, just in not quite the right currency

Roger Waters' Us + Them concert toured the US for six months last year. Its centrepiece is a ruthless takedown of Donald Trump that casts the US president as the "big man, pig man" of Pink Floyd's 1977 song Pigs (Three Different Ones).

Dennis Edwards, who became a lead singer of the Temptations in 1968 as they embraced psychedelic funk and won Grammy Awards for the songs "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and "Cloud Nine", died on Thursday in Chicago. He was 74.

The good ship Laneway Festival moored on the west bank of the Maribyrnong River, and was eagerly greeted by a flood of hipsters jiving in the summer sun.

In 2003 you'd be hard-pressed to find an Australian commercial radio station that wasn't blasting Evanescence's Bring Me To Life.

His ballads about the downfall of mankind are clever and catchy.

Ian Moss has been voted Australia's best ever guitarist, has the finest white soul voice imaginable and a palpable on-stage charisma. If he hadn't been in Cold Chisel, he could have fronted any band in the world – provided his laid back nature and tendency to overthink didn't get in the way. Now, after six years, he has finished his new solo album.

Celine Dion will bring her Live 2018 tour to Australia in winter.

Musica Viva, Australia's oldest independent, professional performing arts organisation, is to launch a worldwide search to replace its CEO.

Composer Missy Mazzoli imagines the tales a 450-year-old double bass could tell.

In the latest jolt to the classical musical world, New York's Metropolitan Opera has fired the veteran British stage director John Copley after receiving a complaint about what the company described as "inappropriate behaviour in the rehearsal room".