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Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult (Nigel Simeone)

One of British music’s most enduring bromances goes under the microscope.

November 20, 2023
Books, Theatre
Book Review

Review: Everything and Nothing (Heather Mitchell)

An actor speaks, offering thoughts that are illuminating, humane, intelligent and sharp.

October 23, 2023
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Book Review

Review: Queer Opera (Andrew Sutherland)

More is less in this study of how the lived queer experience is represented in opera.

September 15, 2023
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Review: The Great White Bard (Farah Karim-Cooper)

A radical reassessment that refuses to throw the Bard out with the bathwater.

August 21, 2023
Books, Classical Music, Instrumental
Book Review

Review: Enough: Scenes from Childhood (Stephen Hough)

Insight, humour and the unexpected litter Hough’s childhood memoir.

July 24, 2023
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Review: Inner Song (Jillian Graham) 

This handsome new biography sets the record straight.

June 19, 2023
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Book Review

Review: Why We Sing (Julia Hollander)

Rich fruitcake of a book guaranteed to make you want to break into song.

May 11, 2023
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Review: The Simonsens of St Kilda (Roger Neill)

Neill charts the remarkable adventures of a Melburnian operatic dynasty.

April 24, 2023
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Review: Silent Films/Loud Music (Phillip Johnston)

An Australian composer on music’s power to enrich the sound of silence.

March 20, 2023
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Book Review

Review: Cranko – The Man and his Choreography (Ashely Killar)

The ballet icon’s life and work undergo a forensic examination that pulls no punches.

February 20, 2023
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Book Review

Review: The Music of Liza Lim (Tim Rutherford-Johnson)

Rutherford-Johnson illuminates the shape-shifting mycelial web of connections out of which Lim’s music emerges.

January 23, 2023
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Book Review

Review: Suzuki – The Man and his Dream to Teach the Children of the World (Eri Hotta)

Exploring one man and his method through the history of 20th-century Japan.

December 23, 2022
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Review: Clementi and the woman at the piano (Erin Helyard)

Erin Helyard investigates the 18th-century London music market and the crucial importance of women.

November 21, 2022

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