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
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
Review: Rough Ideas (Stephen Hough)
The polymath pianist offers up succinctly sketched thoughts on music and much, much more.
July 17, 2020
Review: Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 (David Wyn Jones)
A rich, entertaining “slice history” of musical Vienna.
July 6, 2020
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
Review: Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (Katherine Butler)
How public and private music shaped life with the Virgin Queen.
June 29, 2020
Review: William Robinson: A New Perspective (Nick Earls)
One craftsman pays tribute to another in a unique novella.
April 9, 2020
Review: Claude Debussy (François Lesure, translated and revised by Marie Rolf)
The Debussy bible, maybe, but the man remains an impression.
April 9, 2020
Review: Carmen and the Staging of Spain (Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz)
How the Belle Époque saw Bizet’s free-spirited heroine.
March 26, 2020
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
Review: The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America (Melissa D. Burrage)
How a whispering campaign sent a German conductor to jail.
March 23, 2020
Review: Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic
Wide-ranging portrait captures both music and words.
March 18, 2020
Review: I Have a Song to Sing (Viola Tait, edited by Elizabeth Kumm)
Unique memories from Gilbert & Sullivan to JC Williamson Ltd.
December 1, 2019