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ARTS AND CULTURE

Egyptian musicians' night in limbo
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 July 2008
From its opening scene, The Band's Visit strikes a tone that is at once funny and sad. The film prods cross-cultural disparity for humour and stirs the humanity of its simple story.
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AUSTRALIA

'Meaningless' maths gives way to compulsory multilingualism
- Frank O'Shea
- 24 April 2008
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What Mozart and Michelangelo did with music and art, Maxwell and Euler did with numbers. But students would be better off learning a compulsory second language, rather than maths with little real-world application.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lotus flowers bloom regardless
- Anne Carson
- 15 April 2008
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Our musician guide tells how he was made to smash his violin, his love. Fifty years on and grief still shapes his hands; splinters in his palms.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Good music becomes great business
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 December 2007
In the world of popular music, the transition from intimate theatre or festival gigs, to stadium rock shows, indicates the move from an authentic emphasis on great music, to 'music as spectacle', or pure commerce. It appears Missy Higgins has reached this point.
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ENVIRONMENT

Live Earth goes with the consumer flow
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 December 2007
Live Earth had united popular musicians around the world for a series of concerts highlighting climate change. In an oblivious act of irony they had contributed, on several levels, to the very problem they were trying to confront.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Alexandra Coghlan
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 29 November 2007
Alexandra Coghlan graduated from Oxford University in 2006 with BAs in English Literature and Music, and completed an MPhil in Criticism and Culture at Trinity College, Cambridge. She currently lives in Sydney, where she works as a teacher and freelance journalist prior to returning to Oxford for a DPhil in October 2008.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Local anti-hero
- Ian C Smith
- 19 September 2007
Writing music and busking now, abstinence and rice have rendered him thin. / The film industry's movers and shakers must seem a long way behind now, his days of editing, a retrospective haze.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Ten poems: From Woman in Bushfire to man in Sea of Tranquillity
- Ten Poets
- 11 July 2007
The sound of the horse races is my father’s music / A soft dream hidden by ambition / take other paths or just stay put / silence(d) / beer and didgeredoo / the time it might take in getting home.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Saeed Saeed
- Saeed Saeed
- 11 June 2007
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Saeed Saeed has written for many of Australia's leading news publications such as the Courier Mail, the MX and the Australian. He is also a music & film critic for Mediasearch and Melbourne radio station PBSFM. Saeed also works casually as youth worker in Melbourne's northern suburbs.
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James Waller
- James Waller
- 01 June 2007
James Waller is a painter, poet and sculptor based in Melbourne, Australia. Notable exhibitions include 'Fabrics of the East' in the Sydney Opera House in 2000, a stage backdrop for the 2004 Kasmir World Music Festival, and 'Crisis, Catharsis and Contemplation' in St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, 2006.
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Peter Fleming
- Peter Fleming
- 17 May 2007
Peter Fleming is a writer and teacher, currently working at Loyola Senior High School Mt Druitt. He has written plays and musicals, lectured in theatre history and arts managment, and was a regular contributor to onlinecatholics.com
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Clive O'Connell
- Clive O'Connell
- 17 May 2007
Clive O'Connell has taught secondary school English for 34 years; currently he lectures in project management and consultancy/business organisation, and also tutors in linguistics. He has been a music and opera critic for 32 years, first for The Australian, and then the Age.
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Keywords: Music