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'Affronts to the godly'

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November 2013, no. 356

Marshall-Hall's Melbourne: Music, Art and Controversy 1891–1915 edited by Thérèse Radic and Suzanne Robinson

Australian Scholarly Publishing, $44 pb, 283 pp, 9781921875502

'Affronts to the godly'

by
November 2013, no. 356

That George William Lewis Marshall-Hall (1862–1915) is far from a household name cannot simply reflect collective amnesia about Australian music of the era. While Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger remain widely celebrated, subversion of moral and religious orthodoxies left Marshall-Hall’s legacy significantly undervalued. These sixteen carefully sequenced essays, emerging from a 2010 symposium on Marshall-Hall’s life and legacy at the Grainger Museum, reflect two decades of thought and research into a man who, as the Foreword observes, ‘exercised an unprecedented influence over music-making in Melbourne’.

Benjamin Millar reviews 'Marshall-Hall's Melbourne: Music, art and controversy 1891-1915', edited by Thérèse Radic and Suzanne Robinson

Marshall-Hall's Melbourne: Music, Art and Controversy 1891–1915

edited by Thérèse Radic and Suzanne Robinson

Australian Scholarly Publishing, $44 pb, 283 pp, 9781921875502

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