Marshall-Hall's Melbourne
Subtitle: music, art and controversy 1891-1915
By: edited by Thérèse Radic & Suzanne Robinson
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781921875502
Subjects: Social life and customs; Friends and associates; Influence; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views; Musicians; Music; Philosophy; Biography
Description: "The English conductor, composer and critic G.W.L. Marshall-Hall dominated music in Melbourne from his arrival in 1891 to his untimely death in 1915. He was a firebrand and an iconoclast hated by the clergy, feared by the press and adored by all his friends. Here, sixteen essayists examine Marshall-Hall's music, his teaching and philosophy, his friendships with artists and musicians (inc. Arthur Streeton and Percy Grainger), and the ruinous scandals sparked by his views on religion, sex and the role of the press."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Art & artists. Shackled & set free : art, music and theatre in Melbourne in the 1890s / Ann Galbally; title: Culture & controversy. Superman & society : perspectives on the aims of music education at the University of Melbourne, 1891-1915 / Kieran Crichton ; "Du holde Kunst" : the musical life of Vera Deakin / Carole Woods ; Marshall-Hall & Edward Scharf : a close friendship / Kerry Murphy ; Elise Wiedermann & Carl Pinshof : patrons of music and art in Melbourne, 1883-1920 / Pamela Niehoff ; Bohemia & brotherhood in late nineteenth-century Melbourne : Marshall-Hall's involvement with the Cannibal and Ishmael Clubs / Stephen F. Mead ; That good fellow Sugden on the side of tolerance : Marshall-Hall and the master of Queen's / Wilfred Prest ; Sir James Barnett, musical patron in Melbourne / Kenneth Morgan ; Hermann Heinicke, a champion of professional orchestral music in 1890s Adelaide : a contemporary counterpart to Marshall-Hall in Melbourne / Julja I. Szuster; title: Music & thought. Marshall-Hall contra Wagner : authors and readers in turn-of-the-century Melbourne / Matthew Lorenzon ; Artists at work : Marshall-Hall, Arthur Streeton and Henry Tate / Christine Mercer ; Marshall-Hall's Symphony in E flat & its symphonic context / Roderick McNeill ; Resisting the "Blighting curse of puritanism" : on the sexual politics of Stella / Suzanne Robinson ; G.W.L. Marshall-Hall & Percy Grainger: the 'good sort' and the 'anarcharist with definite principles / Jennifer Hall ; Romeo, Juliet & George : the genesis of the last Marshall-Hall opera / Thérèse Radic ; Marshall-Hall as an Australian composer / Peter Tregear.