Anna Goldsworthy

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44 ENTRIES Anna Goldsworthy is a pianist and writer. She is the director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide.



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Illustration by Jeff Fisher

Society

There are no words

Finding solace and surprise around a family Scrabble board with a grandmother in decline

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

Culture

The slow fade of music education

An elegy for music, learning and impoverished culture

Detail of cover of Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’

Culture

Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’

A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

article

Roosting

The trials and transcendence of packing and unpacking in order to move house

Image of Gwyneth Jones in Tosca, 1982

Culture

The glass curtain

Classical music’s problem with women

Detail from the cover of ‘The Precipice’

Culture

What are the odds?: Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’

The Australian philosopher’s rational exploration of existential risk is bracing but ultimately hopeful

Image of Satu Vänskä, Australian Chamber Orchestra

Culture

Fermata: Musical performance in lockdown

What becomes of the communion of classical musicians, composers and audiences during social isolation?

He is risen!

Society

He is risen!

Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny

Screen-free day

Society

Screen-free day

C’mon, kids. It’ll be fun …

Unfinished business: A short story

Culture

Unfinished business: A short story

Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?

Image of Svetlana Alexievich

Culture

Beyond imagination

Nobel Prize–winning journalist Svetlana Alexievich brings together an extraordinarily diverse group of Russian voices

Sweet dark purpose

Culture

Sweet dark purpose

Scaling the IVF mountain in Julia Leigh’s ‘Avalanche’

Felled by grace

Culture

Felled by grace

Helen Garner’s work collected in ‘Everywhere I Look’

Steven Avery

Culture

The art of manipulation

True crime and entertainment in Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’

The lost art of listening

Culture

The lost art of listening

Has classical music become irrelevant?

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