In the mix
Music, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Within the last week, I made my final venture to a university graduate exhibition for the year. It’s a busy season to negotiate, with some institutions staging numerous events over… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts
A mixed bag of new books
The new books just keep coming in, a bit like having Xmas every week! Today’s post is just me choosing some titles that instantly appealed. Working with Bernstein : a memoir by… Read More ›
Sound Beam for Christmas.
Sound Beam is a regular program highlighting recorded music from the Arts audio-visual collection. It is accessible via headphones at selected workstations in the Arts Reading Room. Sound Beam currently features… Read More ›
Arts Down-Under
The new books shelf was bit of a challenge this week, lots of very nice arrivals but no particular theme just begging for a blog post, so I’ve decided to… Read More ›
Christmas Music in Arts
With Christmas fast approaching, the Listening Posts in Arts are alive with festive sounds. Listening Post 4 – the Christmas Channel, and Listening Post 7 – the Choral Channel, include the following… Read More ›
The art of a great strip…not what you think!
Comic books, Rare Books & Arts:
No prizes for guessing the theme that leapt (faster than a speeding bullet) off the new books shelf this week! The rise of the graphic novel continues apace, but it’s good… Read More ›
New books and accidental themes
I’m hooked! Whenever I look at the new books coming into the Arts Library I now find myself trying to spot a recurring theme that might make an interesting blog post;… Read More ›
Dreaming of Britten
Opera Australia is rolling back into town and bringing with it one of my favourite 20th century operas, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten. This is Baz Luhrman’s wildly… Read More ›
Christmas Concert Screening in Arts.
A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert is the next program in the Music & Dance on Film series, and the second of two special Christmas screenings. It will be held in Arts… Read More ›
Sound Beam for Spring
Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
Sound Beam is a regular program highlighting recorded music from the Arts audio-visual collection. It is accessible via headphones at selected workstations in the Arts Reading Room. Sound Beam currently features… Read More ›
