Andrew Ford: The Shortest History of Music

Andrew Ford: The Shortest History of Music

How do you write the history of an art, which is also a human impulse, that has been happening everywhere, all the time since before humans even existed? In particular, how do you do it in only 50,000 words? Composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford will attempt to explain.

Andrew Ford OAM is a composer, writer and broadcaster who has won national awards in each of those capacities. He has been composer-in-residence for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian National Academy of Music, Poynter Fellow and visiting composer at Yale University, visiting lecturer at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Ford has written widely on all manner of music and published eleven books, most recently The Shortest History of Music (Black Inc., July 2024). Since 1995, he has presented The Music Show each weekend on ABC Radio National.

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