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Music, Arts & Letters
Right Composition: Meeting Composer Carl Vine
Anna Goldsworthy
Many years ago in Sydney, moments before I was due on stage, the stage manager breezily mentioned that the composer might be in the...
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'Mrs Carey’s Concert' by Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond
Anna Goldsworthy
Mrs Carey’s Concert, a new documentary by Bob Connolly (of Rats in the Ranks and Facing the Music) and Sophie Raymond, offers a familiar...
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Classical Complex: The Sydney Symphony's Mahler Cycle
Anna Goldsworthy
In the summer of 1910, Gustav Mahler consulted Sigmund Freud, seeking advice on his troubled marriage. “Mahler gave me the impression of...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comforter
Anna Goldsworthy
“Are you OK, dear?” the nurse asks. Whether I am OK is hardly the issue, when we are surrounded by people screaming. They are trapped in...
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Piano Lessons. Anna Goldsworthy, with Helen Garner
At Janet Clarke Hall in Melbourne, Helen Garner launches Anna Goldsworthy's new memoir, Piano Lessons. Garner is followed by Goldsworthy...
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Anna Goldsworthy
Last year, when Peter Garrett announced the withdrawal of funding from the Australian National Academy of Music, he must have been startled...
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Improvisations: Jazz pianist Andrea Keller
Anna Goldsworthy
To get to Melbourne's Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, you have to drive down Little Lonsdale Street and park by the church. It is dark down...
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Wunderbar: Oliver Sacks’s ‘Musicophilia’
Anna Goldsworthy
Some years ago, on a break from an extended piano tour, I spent a weekend on the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland. After weeks of...
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Like Love in a Marriage: Melbourne’s International Chamber Music Competition
Anna Goldsworthy
"Competitions are terrible," says Stefan Heinemeyer, the diminutive, twinkling cellist of the Atos Trio, from Germany. "You go in with...
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Ein Schwindel!: Norman Lebrecht’s 'Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness'
Anna Goldsworthy
Classical music is dying again. It's a morbid habit that it just can't shake, at least according to Norman Lebrecht, who has built...
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