THE MUSIC MUST NOT DIE
Today is a sad day. It is the final day on which music, other than on The Music Show, will be featured on ABC Radio National. It is also a day of action, in which all who are dismayed by this decision are using social media, telephones and emails to inundate the ABC during the day to demonstrate the level of our concern and to … Continue reading THE MUSIC MUST NOT DIE
FINDING CONSOLATION IN SADNESS
REVIEW Still Night: Music in Poetry, Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Friday 25 November 2016, 7pm There is a gradually growing section in our hallway book shelves that contains poetry, yet it is all too rarely visited. In that respect it is like death, which we too often avoid confronting until it is thrust upon us. So much can be conveyed in poetry if we give … Continue reading FINDING CONSOLATION IN SADNESS
WOMEN COME UP TRUMPS – AGAIN
PREVIEW 19th Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival, December 4-11, 2016, Bennett’s Lane Jazz Club On the eve of Donald Trump taking the reins in the United States of America, it seems appropriate — and indeed vital — for women and men of Australia (as Gough Whitlam used to say, albeit not in that order) to come out and enjoy music mostly created and played by … Continue reading WOMEN COME UP TRUMPS – AGAIN