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Dance
Book Review

Review: Soar: A Life Freed by Dance by David McAllister

Daggy kid makes good. McAllister recalls his readable road to riches.

October 2, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 (Edited by Michael Allis & Paul Watt)

Survey of the British zeal for musical storytelling whets appetite to listen.

September 29, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Bach and Mozart: Essays on the Enigma of Genius (Robert L. Marshall)

A multi-faceted attempt to unravel the mystery of musical genius.

September 21, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Before the Baton – Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain (Peter Holman)

Why, argues Peter Holman, do we need all that arm waving when a simple roll of paper will suffice?

August 8, 2020
Books, Theatre
Book Review

Review: The Australian Musical: From the Beginning (Peter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston)

The Australian Musical is a rigorously researched, definitive history of Australian musical theatre. A labour of love for its authors, it will be treasured by musical fans.

July 24, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Rough Ideas (Stephen Hough)

The polymath pianist offers up succinctly sketched thoughts on music and much, much more.

July 17, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 (David Wyn Jones)

A rich, entertaining “slice history” of musical Vienna.

July 6, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Musicians and Addiction: Research and Recovery Stories (Dr Paul Saintilan, Ed.)

Musicians and Addiction looks at the implications of addiction for individual musicians and the industry of which they are a part.

July 2, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (Katherine Butler)

How public and private music shaped life with the Virgin Queen.

June 29, 2020
Books, Visual Art
Book Review

Review: William Robinson: A New Perspective (Nick Earls)

One craftsman pays tribute to another in a unique novella.

April 9, 2020
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Claude Debussy (François Lesure, translated and revised by Marie Rolf)

The Debussy bible, maybe, but the man remains an impression.

April 9, 2020
Classical Music, Opera
Book Review

Review: Carmen and the Staging of Spain (Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz)

How the Belle Époque saw Bizet’s free-spirited heroine.

March 26, 2020
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: The Song Remains the Same (Andrew Ford & Anni Heino)

The history of the song, well at least for the last 800 years.

March 26, 2020

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