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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
Books
Book Review

Review: Some Achieve Greatness (John Bell)

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

July 26, 2021
Books
Book Review

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

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

July 23, 2021
Books
Book Review

Review: Lowering The Tone & Raising The Roof (Raymond Gubbay)

The populist impresario’s reminiscences are entirely unputdownable.

July 22, 2021
Books, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera
Book Review

Review: A Star On Her Door: The Life and Career of June Bronhill by Richard Davies

An Aussie singing legend gets the biography she so thoroughly deserves.

June 28, 2021
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Music, Math and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music (David Sulzer)

At last, the book for science nerds no musical home should be without.

June 21, 2021
Books, Opera
Book Review

Review: Conducting Opera: Where Theater Meets Music (Joseph Rescigno)

This book more than answers what it is that conductors do. 

June 18, 2021
Books, Theatre
Book Review

Review: The Falk Studios: the theatrical portrait photography of H Walter Barnett

A fascinating visual slice of fin de siècle Australian theatrical life.

May 20, 2021
Books
Book Review

Review: Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir (András Schiff)

It may not be a memoir, but boy does András Schiff have plenty to say.

May 19, 2021

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