Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from April, 2010

My Dad, Composer

I've recently discovered Brisbane's local classical music radio station, 4MBS . I've been listening to more classical music lately, prompted by my Mum sending me her massive classical CD collection last year.  I've been quite comfortable in my own, very small, classical music collection for years, but this was an opportunity to broaden my knowledge a bit.  That, and a growing frustration with commercial radio, its ads and its annoying presenters, got me switching stations lately, and I stumbled across 4MBS. Listening to a lot more classical music, as well as listening to a recent program on 20th century composers, has got me thinking about my Dad , also a 20th century composer.  Sadly for Dad, my appreciation for classical music developed slowly, and as a child I wasn't generally interested, except for the piece with the kettle and the pot having an argument.  Dad will have to supply the name of it!! I would now love to listed to all of Dad's works, especial