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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
June 1992: Music and the arts, House Notes
The Great New Zealand Songbook Les Cleveland, Godwit, Auckland, 1991, $29.95 Les Cleveland’s friendly and informal approach illuminates this collection of 60 New Zealand songs from early ballads to goldrush classics and Ruru Karaitiana’s ‘Blue Smoke’. An excellent introduction is…
Tagged with: Godwit, Harrison Bray, Issue 5, John M Jennings, Les Cleveland, Mike Harding, Nota Bene Music, Philip Norman, Ross Harvey, School of Music, The Canterbury Series of Bibliographies, University of Canterbury, Winter 1992
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review, Sociology
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review, Sociology