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Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner (Eva Rieger, Chris Walton)

Behind every great man, there’s a great woman (frequently airbrushed out).

February 19, 2024
Books
Book Review

Review: Speaking Musically (Raymond Holden)

Revealing interviews with classical music’s great and good.

February 2, 2024
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Creating Der Rosenkavalier: From Chevalier to Cavalier (Michael Reynolds)

A silent partner emerges into the light in Reynolds’ revealing volume.

December 22, 2023
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
Books
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
Books
Book Review

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
Books
Book Review

Review: Inner Song (Jillian Graham) 

This handsome new biography sets the record straight.

June 19, 2023
Books, Vocal & Choral
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
Books
Book Review

Review: The Simonsens of St Kilda (Roger Neill)

Neill charts the remarkable adventures of a Melburnian operatic dynasty.

April 24, 2023
Books
Book Review

Review: Silent Films/Loud Music (Phillip Johnston)

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

March 20, 2023
Books
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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