Category: Features – Archive

November 26, 2021 / Features - Archive

Your phone battery is dead and your car radio goes on the blink, only picking up two stations. One exclusively plays lollipops by Kylie Minogue and Taylor Swift, while the other sticks stolidly to the sonic experiments of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the dense free jazz improvisations of Cecil Taylor. And…

November 6, 2021 / Features - Archive

Not many artists can be certain they’ve created a masterpiece. John Coltrane, who placed little credence in his own genius, had an inkling of something special when he’d finished composing A Love Supreme. Perhaps that was why he rarely played it in concert. How do you improve on perfection? For…

November 3, 2021 / Features - Archive

Nick Parsons remembers the mounting piles of books on the kitchen table. They were new-minted Australian plays published by Currency Press, the new-minted company of his parents, Katharine Brisbane and Philip Parsons. Setting up a business selling local plays might sound like one of those jokes about how to turn…