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Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Ernest John Moeran: His Life and Music (Ian Maxwell)

An authoritative account of music transcending a life scarred by war and alcohol.

March 21, 2022
Classical Music, Opera
Book Review

Review: Fromental Halévy and His Operas (Robert Ignatius Letellier and Nicholas Lester Fuller)

One of the most important French opera composers gets a thorough write up.

March 9, 2022
Books
Book Review

Review: Baggage – Tales From a Fully Packed Life (Alan Cumming)

Alan Cumming shares his lighter side in honest and unsentimental memoirs part two.

February 21, 2022
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Maestro Glorioso (Raymond Holden)

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

February 12, 2022
Books, Theatre
Book Review

Review: Home Truths (David Williamson)

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

February 3, 2022
Books
Book Review

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
Books
Book Review

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
Books
Book Review

Review: Ariadne & Dionysus – A Modern Tale (Stamatia Karampini)

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

January 13, 2022
Books
Book Review

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
Books, Classical Music, Opera
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
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Mozart: The Reign of Love (Jan Swafford)

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

November 22, 2021
Books, Dance
Book Review

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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