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A music of our own, Peter Walls
Douglas Lilburn, Memories of Early Years and Other Writings Robert Hoskins (ed) Steele Roberts, $40.00, ISBN 9781927242476 This is the Lilburn centenary year. Concerts are being branded with a special logo – a way of marking the pivotal contribution that…
Tagged with: Douglas Lilburn, Issue 110, Robert Hoskins, Steele Roberts, Winter 2015
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Worth playing, Samantha Owens
A Search for Tradition and a Search for Language Douglas Lilburn Lilburn Residence Trust, $24.99, ISBN 9780473183790 When Douglas Lilburn died at his Thorndon home in June 2001 at the age of 85, numerous obituaries, published both here and…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Douglas Lilburn, Issue 97, Lilburn Residence Trust, Samantha Owens
Posted in Lecture, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Lecture, Music, Non-fiction, Review
A troubled solitary, Peter Russell
Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music Philip Norman Canterbury University Press, $55.00, ISBN 1877257176 What serious music-lover can imagine the world without Bach? Yet we might easily not have had him. For Johann Sebastian was the last of eight children,…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Douglas Lilburn, Issue 74, Peter Russell, Philip Norman, Winter 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review