Michael Atherton
Författare till The ABC book of Musical Instruments
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Verk av Michael Atherton
Ankh: Sound of Ancient Egypt 3 exemplar
Musical instruments and sound-producing objects of Oceania : the collections of the Australian Museum (2011) 3 exemplar
Australian Made...Australian Played...: Handcrafted Musical Instruments from Didjeridu to Synthesiser (1990) 2 exemplar
Lochnagar Zero Hour 1 exemplar
Cricket’s Greatest Entertainers 1 exemplar
Street Sense 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1950-02-17
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Australia
- Födelseort
- UK
- Bostadsorter
- England, UK
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Utbildning
- Sir John Deane's Grammar School, Northwich, England, UK
Matraville High School
Randwick Boys' High School
University of New South Wales
University of Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney - Yrken
- composer
musician - Organisationer
- Western Sydney University
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Medal of the Order of Australia
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Centenary Medal (2003)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Statistik
- Verk
- 9
- Medlemmar
- 23
- Popularitet
- #537,598
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
(Oh. I had never thought about my keys being made of ivory. I thought they were Bakelite. But this site sent me to inspect the keys with a torch, and yes, they have the tell-tale seam so they are ivory. I wish I didn’t know this).
I thought immediately of Michelle Scott Tucker and her bio of Elizabeth Macarthur when I read in chapter ‘Flooding the Colonies’ that Australia’s very first piano was given to Elizabeth in 1791. It came with the First Fleet on the Sirius, and was owned by the navy surgeon George Bouchier Worgan. Elizabeth describes it like this:
We have become so used to having ready access to whatever music we like, we forget how in other times, people must have ached with longing to hear the music they loved. You can just imagine how having a piano meant that these early settlers were able to play and to hear the works of the great composers. And as the settlements grew, social mobility meant that having a piano as the centrepiece of the house became tied to social status. No wonder they imported them in their thousands…
No wonder Australian POWs risked so much to have one when they were locked up in Changi. (See my Sensational Snippet for more about this).
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/08/12/a-coveted-possession-the-rise-and-fall-of-th...… (mer)