22nd October 2017
by harryfiddler
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Anna Goldsworthy‘s memoir, Piano Lessons, came out in 2009. It quickly received a slew of praise and prizes for its eloquent prose and finely drawn characters. In 2012 Goldsworthy, in collaboration with dramaturg Michael Futcher and actor/writer Helen Howard adapted the novel … Continue reading
11th September 2017
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The Omega Ensemble launched their ambitious and very busy 2018 Season last week. Two concert series, plus a festival appearance and a chamber opera casually dropped into the mix, adds up to what looks to be an exciting year. Omega’s … Continue reading
10th August 2017
by harryfiddler
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It’s Baroque week at Dartington. As I type, there are three guys in jeans and t-shirts playing natural trumpets and horns on the ramparts. As you do. Elsewhere, recorder music billows out of every other room, with the spiky twang … Continue reading
9th August 2017
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Greeted at Totnes Station by blue grey skies, green fields and a welcome drop of twenty degrees in temperature. And my father, standing on the platform, all small and wonky and smiling. It’s been a year since I saw him … Continue reading
12th July 2017
by harryfiddler
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I’m about to head off to Europe for a few weeks. Come with me! I’ll be blogging from Musique Cordiale in Seillans and from Dartington International Summer School. Of course, I’ll also be missing fabulous stuff in Sydney, but will … Continue reading
9th June 2017
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Music Remembers Me by Kirsty Beilharz The Memory of Music by Andrew Ford We’ve all experienced time travel. It’s called memory. Not the handy, short term stuff you need to function in every day life, as you hunt for your glasses or … Continue reading
17th May 2017
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The Natural Order of Things was commissioned from composer James Ledger for the Australian Chamber Orchestra by David and Sandy Libling, in honour David’s father. Simon Libling lived an extraordinary life. He was born to a wealthy family in Krakow in 1912 but, … Continue reading
8th May 2017
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Cross posted from my Unbound Page, where there are details of the book I’m researching on Dartington International Summer School of Music. A letter from William Glock to John Amis, dated July 1962 Dear Johnny The worst has happened. I’ve … Continue reading
22nd April 2017
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The latest addition to the ABC — Australia’s Banned Critics — has sent me in search of meaning again. First stop, some definitions. Criticism: the act of giving your opinion or judgment about the good or bad qualities of something or someone … Continue reading
18th March 2017
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Digging through an archive is a bit like piecing together a puzzle. Most of the bits are there, but they need putting together, and once you have put them together you realise that something is missing. It’s like the yarning, … Continue reading