Film, New books, Rare Books & Arts, Television:
A selection of books proving that there’s more to popular culture than meets the eye…… Shazam! : the golden age of the world’s mightiest mortal by Chip Kidd and Geoff… Read More ›
The first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of babies in films is pretty harrowing: the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein’s epic, Battleship Potemkin (which was famously… Read More ›
A double-bill screening featuring Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist, Vladimir Ashkenazy, is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday 6 June in Arts. Allegro… Read More ›
Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
Some great Australian recordings feature on new CDs arriving in Arts. All of these and many more are currently available on Listening Posts 7 & 8 in Arts. There are… Read More ›
Music, Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts:
You know how much I love the Naxos Music Library? Well the same can be said for the Naxos Video Library, which continues to build its content with an interesting… Read More ›
Last July, one of my housemates and I spent three nights together in New York City. We were both at the end of our holidays, and winding down in our… Read More ›
Romeo & Juliet : a play in five acts by William Shakespeare is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday 23 May in… Read More ›
I just LOVE the Naxos Music Library (one million tracks and counting!), and it’s always worthwhile checking in to see what’s been added recently. Available to one and all via… Read More ›
Musicals, New books, Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts, Theatre:
We used to call them “open access” collections, but they have been transformed into the far more appealing “browsing shelves”; a pleasant notion which carries with it the possibility of… Read More ›
Something’s coming, something good: West Side story and the American imagination by Misha Berson Arguably the greatest musical of them all, West Side Story has achieved almost mythic status in… Read More ›
