Guy Noble’s Soapbox: No more banging that drum
Or how a smart-thinking South Australian education initiative fell at the first fence thanks to small-minded union mentality.
Or how a smart-thinking South Australian education initiative fell at the first fence thanks to small-minded union mentality.
Properly given, and equally well-received, a kind word can change a day from cloudy with scattered showers to full sun.
They’re hell to practise, but given a touch of magic by a genius composer, scales can take us on a beautiful journey.
Starving for your art is one thing, but what’s a wannabe Diva to do when life begins to dangerously imitate opera?
It may be many people’s favourite musical, but some duff plot points means West Side Story ain’t no Romeo and Juliet.
Or should Malcolm Turnbull look to music schools if he values ideas on audiation and psycho-active emergent relationships?
Is a conductor akin to a god? Some reflections on intelligent design lead inexorably from the Deity to Herbert von Karajan.
From coffee machines to Cage, from jaywalking to joyrides, for one maestro, it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad musical world.
Everyone has an opinion on everything these days, and social media is making it all to easy to sound off.
Turns out cooking a really good French meal is akin to performing classical music; you can’t fake either of them.
How Maestro Abbott’s sluggish tempi (and that thing about onions) led to a rebellious orchestra tearing up his contract. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Or why does what seems so easy with Cheryl Barker turn out to be tricky with Teddy Tahu Rhodes? Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
And just what kind of music lover should be chosen to colonise the Red Planet? Apparently 43 Australians are in the running for a position on Mars One – the plan to put humans on Mars in the year 2024. I’m glad to say I’m not one of them, as this is a one-way mission. No return is possible. Every year or so, Mars One will send more supplies and more Martians. Some 200,000 people around the world applied and now they have selected 1,000 to undergo training and psychometric testing. (I’m a great believer in psychometric testing by the way. This is the same system that determined Jonathan Shier would be an excellent managing director of the ABC, and we all remember how well that worked out.) Eventually four Marstronauts will blast off on a one-way ride to the Red Planet. What criteria might you use to select four people to leave Earth forever? They’d have to be healthy, but musical compatibility must be up there. Imagine being a string quartet lover and having a country and western fanatic in the next bunk – your Grosse Fuge interrupted by the strains of Keith Urban. Musical tension… Continue reading Get unlimited…