Letters to the Editor - April 2024
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Nemesis
Dear Editor,
Thanks for an excellent review of Nemesis (ABR, March 2023). This is exactly what I felt when watching the documentary series. It too readily accepted the narrow terms of reference of its subjects, which serve them well and the viewer rather more poorly. The real context is not who had it in for whom, but what was at stake for Australians. And that involves addressing policy with more seriousness than these former politicians could muster.
Misha Ketchell
Gurrelieder
Dear Editor,
In response to Malcolm Gillies’ comment on my performance in Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder (ABR Arts and page 56): first, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra hired an opera singer – me – to do the Sprecher, not an actor. Second, Schoenberg wrote all the speaker’s notes. Presumably he didn’t do this for fun or in the expectation that no attention would be paid to the pitches as notated.
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