Chamber Orchestra Lunchtime Concert
Performance
Join Chamber Orchestra students of the ANU School of Music as they play a program of: Chaconne in g min - Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Adagio and Fugue in C Kv.546 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pelimannit (Fiddlers) opus1 - Einojuhani Rautavaara
Racial Difference, Political Liberalism and the Proliferation of Mechanics Institutes in Mid 19th Century Victoria
Seminar
In the nineteenth century, the Australian colonies witnessed a remarkable proliferation of Mechanics Institutes. By the opening decade of the 20th century, there were more Mechanics Institutes in Australia than in Britain itself, serving a population of less than 20 percent its size. Much…
In conversation with Stan Grant
Book launch
ANU/CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR Stan Grant will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on Stan's new book With the Falling of the Dusk, a deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama'…
Research Seminar: Brendan Clarke
Seminar
To Go Beyond: Creative Practice in a Spiritual Context Within the jazz and improvised music traditions, particularly in the Unites States, there have been a number of prominent artists such as Duke Ellington, John & Alice Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, Mary Lou Williams, Sonny Rollins, Charles…
England’s Green & Useful Land: Vaughan Williams, music & the land question
Seminar
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ use of pastoral idioms, together with his folksong collecting, his advocacy for ‘national music’ and his interest in amateur music-making, is typically understood within the vaunted trinity of nation—landscape—the people. It was this collection of associations, as well as…
Thesis Proposal Review | Eliane Touma | PhD Candidate
Seminar
Thesis Proposal Review: On memory, landscape and violence. PhD Candidate: Eliane Touma PMA monthly meet-up, Monday April 19 2021, Photomedia Curved Wall room, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Books that Changed Humanity: Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Webinar/Online
Youth culture, pop art, cultural studies, style – Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style was an influential early text in the march of cultural studies, but it was also very influential on artists and art criticism, and in fact Hebdige ended up teaching in art school in the US. Prof Chris…