By Mark Wilmoth Things don’t always go according to plan. Back in 1737, Charles Wesley wrote a Christmas carol called Hark, How All the Welkin Rings, Glory to the King of Kings. Welkin is an old ...

Christmas isn’t just about twinkling lights, gifts, or Santa Claus, it’s also about music that fills the air with warmth and ...

The “six-seven” shrug—so viral that it has been tapped as the 2025 Word of the Year by Dictionary.com—is the latest of the unending stream of nonsensical jokes, rituals, and competitions that spread ...

Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra concert at Assembly Hall on Sunday 16 December 2024 (3pm), leader Simon Hewitt-Jones, conductor Dominic Grier, narrator Aedan Kerney, with Worthing Choral Society (WCS, ...

With Christmas around the corner, it’s time to turn up the volume on the songs that make the season shine. Here is a list of the top 20 current and all-time favourite Christmas songs. Everyone’s taste ...

Joy and Mystery.  Yet when it comes to what can really stir us emotionally at this time of the year, I look to Christmas ...

Yet when it comes to that perennial Christmas favourite, Mozart’s ‘Sleigh Ride’, the words ‘pot and kettle’ spring to mind. A ...

Holiday riffs on “Jingle Bells,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” “Sleigh Ride” and finally finishes ...

Sleigh bells have long acted as convenient shorthand for composers to tell their listeners that this piece belongs to the ...

Whether you’re watching from home or from Sydney’s Domain, New Idea has you covered with our annual 16-page pull-out Songbook ...

For the third year in a row, the Badlands Opera Project hosted its Christmas concert, featuring musicians from across ...

No Carols in the Domain is complete without belting out the classics, so we’ve put together a handy songbook with lyrics.