Arts & Culture
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The Editor of Quadrant Music, Alexander Voltz, has won the symphonic section of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.September 3, 2024
3 mins
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Fortunately, Opera Australia’s 'diversity and inclusion' statement 'celebrate[s] different perspectives' and will therefore accept my musings in the spirit intendedSeptember 1, 2024
21 mins
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Some have argued that Auden was a victim of his own naivety regarding the prospect of impending war. A few days before its declaration and while on a Greyhound bus at the end of that 1939 “honeymoon” with Kallman, he had written home to England: “There is a radio on this coach, so that every hour or so, one has a violent pain in one’s stomach as the news comes on. By the time you get this, I suppose, we shall know one way or the other.”August 29, 2024
16 mins
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This is the paradox of the War Against the Past: those who are waging it are, inadvertently, denying themselves the capacity to win. For if your past is evil, if your centuries-old story is defined by bitterness and bad faith, how can you possibly hope to redeem yourself?August 29, 2024
13 mins
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John Thewall is released from prison with his hands damaged from torture. Coleridge and Sara are conflicted as to whether it is safe to let him stay in the country with them and he is asked to leave.August 29, 2024
17 mins
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Put shortly, a progressive, left-leaning Sydney-based artist visits her archaeologist brother in Bolivia. She is told that Che Guevara fought his last campaign in the wilds of Bolivia and that one of his lieutenants came from the utopian colony nearby founded by William Lane and other Australian radicals. Inspired by what she has heard, and well aware of Che Guevara’s popularity on university campuses in the United States and Australia, the progressive artist decides to enter a portrait prize for an image to be installed over the entrance to the New South Wales Gallery. Her image, linked to Che’s supposedly heroic campaign, will symbolise the victory of progressive thought down under.August 29, 2024
25 mins
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Altogether, auteur theory sounds fascinating and, no doubt, develops excellent skills of analysis for students of film, as they dissect and discuss this or that auteur director’s body of work. But what is it doing in an English course, in high school, in Year 10?August 29, 2024
15 mins
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Clark’s account is dizzying, traversing what he sagely calls the only truly European revolution. He moves across France, Prussia, Hungary, Wallachia, Poland, Croatia, Spain, and beyond.August 29, 2024
9 mins
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Magee began with the conviction that “to anyone thinking like this the only human activity that seems to have any importance at all is the search for meaning in life”.August 29, 2024
25 mins
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It is unlikely that the young Culshaw ever gave more than three minutes’ thought to antipodean residence. Yet lo and behold, the 1970s found him doing consultancy work for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and even giving lectures at the University of Western Australia.August 29, 2024
18 mins
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Arnold Bax was not a lewd man, but he was forcefully sensual, a self-styled 'brazen romantic. Farewell, My Youth goes as far as to pine for the 'lovely, bewitching entanglement of sex!' This must have been, for its time, a radical expression. His music, with its many conditions of ecstasy, deserves to be heard widelyAugust 25, 2024
41 mins
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Apart from growing up in fatherless homes, what the three most prominent women at the centre of the scandal have in common is the arrogance of their predators. Quite correctly, they assumed there would be no price to pay and, beyond that, they would be admired for their 'freedom' in defying those despised 'bourgeois conventions'August 25, 2024
22 mins
