Loving Oz and the US (thoughts on Australia and America)
Gordon Kalton Williams
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Letter from LA
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Letter from LA Some things I have discovered since the last time I posted: In the same period that I began reading Kevin Starr’s s...
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Monday, September 28, 2015
Suppe - Light Cavalry Overture
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Continuing my series of program notes: Franz von Suppé (1819-1895) Light Cavalry : Overture Possibly the first piece of classica...
Friday, July 17, 2015
The Animals of the Bush orchestra
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Found this again the other day - a proposal I made to some orchestras back in 2010. I was told that kids wouldn’t find it interesting. I ...
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Vasks' Distant Light (Violin Concerto)
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Continuing my series of program notes: Pēteris Vasks (born 1946) Distant Light (Violin Concerto, 1996-97) For 35 years now, the...
Thursday, May 21, 2015
'Think like Thalberg': lessons from Hollywood for classical music
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When I moved to Sydney in 1987 I got to know the city by memorizing its coves and bays. In Los Angeles since 2013, I’ve memorized where ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The Little Blueprint? - thinking about Librettos
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In the early 2000s, I wrote the libretto for a musical adaptation of T.G.H. Strehlow's Journey to Horseshoe Bend . The novel is an ac...
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