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Books
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Review: A Distant Music: An Anthology of Australian Sacred Music (Crescendo Music Publications)

Going over the top the Australian way.

June 18, 2022
Books
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Review: Fugitive (Simon Tedeschi)

The pianist’s debut book takes Prokofiev as a guide to explore the bigger picture.

May 23, 2022
Books, Opera
Book Review

Review: The Annotated Ring Cycle (Frederick Paul Walter)

Walter’s up-to-date, illustrated translation comes with insightful analyses.

April 28, 2022
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Review: Every Good Boy Does Fine (Jeremy Denk)

Insights galore from the mind and piano stool of one of music’s sharpest thinkers.

April 26, 2022
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Review: See You at the Premiere: Life at the Arse End of Showbiz (Ross Smith)

Smith’s riotous memoir embraces the lows as well as the highs.

April 4, 2022
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
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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
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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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