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Column: Art / Music / Theatre

Can you separate the art from the artist?

by Dan Golding , March 21, 2013 • 1 Comment

Imagine this: Dmitri Shostakovich, the iconic Russian composer, is sitting in a Waldorf-Astoria lecture theatre in New York in 1949. Shostakovich is giving a speech attacking Igor Stravinsky, the famous Russian composer who now lives in America. But it is not Shostakovich who speaks — in fact, … Read more »

Column: Art / Music / Theatre

Everything you ever loved is hated by someone else

by Dan Golding , February 5, 2013 • 1 Comment

It was time for a letter to the editor, wrote Lisa Hirsch. The New York Times Magazine had neglected to include any classical musicians in its audio collage of musicians who had died in 2012 (save for Ravi Shankar, and ‘you know he’s there for his pop-music … Read more »

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Modern adventures in classical music

by Sandra Hajda , April 25, 2012 • 2 Comments

A few years ago I applied to be a presenter at the classical music radio station 3MBS. I was twenty-three. 3MBS is a certain kind of Melbourne institution: it may not be as well known as FM counterpart ABC Classics but devotees make up for this through the sheer force of their passion. Read more »