New Zealand in deepest ever recession due to Covid-19 slump

GDP contracted 12.2% in Q2, the sharpest drop on record

New Zealand co-operative group Fonterra’s dairy prices plummet

Per kilogram of milk solids payout at its lowest since at least 2006

What? . . . Wow: not much new about David Lang’s festival of minimalism

Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom

David Lang: ‘Minimalism existed for about a minute ’

In curating the What? . . . Wow festival, Lang is examining the legacy of his neighbourhood, and the 1960s New York scene that gave the world minimalism

Holberg Variations: Christian Ihle Hadland, piano, 1B1/Jan Bjøranger, Erlend Skomsvoll, piano

Stradivari unstrung? New violins fare better in blind test

A study nails the myth of the yawning gap between present instruments and those of the great masters

The shock of the New Music Dublin

A fascination with music of an experimental hue was evident in this programme

Monopoly shake-up? John Wilson muscles in on NSO’s patch

It is likely to be to everyone’s benefit if the two RTÉ orchestras are allowed to compete on the same terrain

‘What isn’t music?’ Kilkenny ponders the big questions

Musical fusion of different stripes could be heard at the recent arts festival – with varying degrees of success

Festival Fit: Falling and Crashing in Kilkenny, and Fair of Muff in Cavan

Sounds like a lewd Shakespearean compliment you’d hear at Kilkenny Arts Festival, but there really is a Fair of Muff in Co Cavan, and good vintage wireless coverage at Moynalty Steam Threshing Festival

Elan paid $250,000 to former director over SEC referral

Company referred publicly to Jack Schuler as a ‘disgruntled director’

From intimacy on the guitar, to a percussive musical storm

Roland Dyens was in charming form at the Guitar Festival of Ireland, while Mantra Percussion tried to take the Drogheda Arts Festival by storm