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A Distant Music — The Life and Times of Alfred Hill 1870–1960

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$25.00
Composer:
Thomson, John Mansfield
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Year:
1980
Format:
175x236mm, pp239, hardcover perfect-bound
ISBN:
0-19-558051-6
Description:
John Mansfield Thomson’s monograph on the life and times of Alfred Hill (1870–1960), New Zealand’s firstly full professional composer and a leading figure in Australian music from the early years of the twentieth century. A Distant Music was a joint winner of the Oxford University Press Quincentenary Biography Competition in 1978. Far more than the life and times of its subject, it is a vivid recreation of the Victorian and Edwardian eras in Australia and New Zealand, and paints a portrait of the cultural growth of the two nations. This important book is introduced by John Antill, a former student of Hill’s whos ballet Corroboree is well known, and y Douglas Lilburn.
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