July 6, 2020
Review: Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 (David Wyn Jones)
A rich, entertaining “slice history” of musical Vienna.
July 2, 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.
June 29, 2020
Review: Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (Katherine Butler)
How public and private music shaped life with the Virgin Queen.
April 9, 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.
March 26, 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 23, 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 18, 2020
Review: Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic
Wide-ranging portrait captures both music and words.
December 1, 2019
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
Review: So what does a conductor do? (Nicholas Braithwaite)
Braithwaite’s insider story is straight from the horse’s mouth.
September 1, 2019
Review: The Ripples Before the New Wave (Robyn Dalton & Laura Ginters)
How SUDS created James, Greer, Beresford, Hughes et al.
September 1, 2019
Review: Ottorino Respighi: His Life and Times (Michael Webb)
Much of Respighi’s mystery remains, despite pioneering work.