New Sound Beam
Two new CDs are currently featured on Sound Beam in Arts. Compass is the new album by the 2009 winner of Australia’s Got Talent, Mark Vincent. It includes popular favourites… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts
Folk music indoors and out
The Port Fairy Folk Festival is coming up later this month and continues its amazing tradition of presenting a vast array of performers and musical styles from across Australia and… Read More ›
Furious love, and a bit of Gunk Punk in Arts
Furious love : Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the marriage of the century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger I’m sorry, but some titles are just irresistible, and when… Read More ›
All the world’s a stage, and screen!
New books, Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts:
Am I giving away my age if I say that I grew up watching the marvellous Margaret Rutherford on TV in those wonderful Miss Marple movies, not to mention other… Read More ›
New books: industrious Victorians, artistic Italians and books best judged by their covers
I have always (unfashionably) had a bit of a soft spot for art of the Victorian era, generally dismissed as kitsch, garish, old-fashioned, etc., etc., etc.; I know all of… Read More ›
When the Ballets Russes came to town
The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is currently showing off its vast and extraordinary collection of Ballets Russes costumes; you have to hurry though, it closes in March. While… Read More ›
Summer Sound Beam 2
Sound Beam is a regular program highlighting recorded music from the Arts audio-visual collection. It is accessible through headphones at selected workstations in the Arts Reading Room. To continue our… Read More ›
Singing cats, crooning pirates, departing friends and surreys with fringes
A few new arrivals in the music collection; something old, something new, something revived…… Seussical: original off-Broadway cast, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens A musical based on the… Read More ›
New books, proceed with caution
I know that you can’t (or shouldn’t) judge a book by its cover and maybe the same can be said about the title as well, but some things just demand your attention!… Read More ›
Jumping into the music stream
Online access to well over 49,000 classical recordings, and counting! Over 716,000 individual tracks of music, and counting! Over 300 different record labels available, and counting! That’s what you… Read More ›
