I'm Graham Abbott, an Australian music educator and former conductor and broadcaster. This blog was devised as a sanity-saving project in 2020 when lockdowns meant that I lost a year's work almost overnight. Here I write about classical music and share its inside stories. Until September 2025, most of these stories were be based on scripts which I wrote and presented on "Keys To Music" on ABC Classic between 2003 and 2017. (Many thanks to the ABC for permission to use this material.) From September 2025 I am focusing on sharing my experiences as a music tour leader for Hayllar Music Tours.