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Books, Classical Music
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Review: Maestro Glorioso (Raymond Holden)

Holden rounds-up Glorious John in ten essays, the legendary ABC tours and all.

February 12, 2022
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Book Review

Review: Home Truths (David Williamson)

Australia’s arch storyteller gets to tell his own story at last.

February 3, 2022
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Review: Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound (Felicity Wilcox)

Documenting women’s musical contributions and consistent marginalisation at the movies.

January 28, 2022
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Review: Bee-Stung Lips: Barbara Hanrahan, Works on Paper 1960-1991 (Nic Brown, Jacqueline Millner and Elspeth Pitt)

Important retrospective with essays to boot illuminates printmaker’s life.

January 18, 2022
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Review: Ariadne & Dionysus – A Modern Tale (Stamatia Karampini)

Karampini offers a modern conductor’s take on an old, old tale.

January 13, 2022
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Review: Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces (Marna Seltzer, Dorothea von Moltke and Scott Burnham)

Unique insights into the role music plays in the lives of great thinkers.

January 7, 2022
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Book Review

Review: Nellie – the life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba (Robert Wainwright)

An Aussie icon turns out to have more sides than you might imagine.

December 17, 2021
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Review: Mozart: The Reign of Love (Jan Swafford)

For Swafford’s Mozart, love was in the air, everywhere he looked.

November 22, 2021
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Review: Built for Ballet (Leanne Benjamin and Sarah Crompton)

The extraordinary life and career of one of the world’s most important ballet dancers.

October 25, 2021
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times (Patrick Zuk)

Magisterial and illuminating, Zuk shines a light on one man and his musical world.

September 20, 2021
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Book Review

Review: Some Achieve Greatness (John Bell)

John Bell investigates the quality of leadership, taking Shakespeare as his guide.

July 26, 2021
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Review: The Bridgetower Sonata (Emmanuel Dongala, Marjolijn de Jager)

An insider’s view of one of history’s musical whitewashings.

July 23, 2021
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Review: Lowering The Tone & Raising The Roof (Raymond Gubbay)

The populist impresario’s reminiscences are entirely unputdownable.

July 22, 2021

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