TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shmith,Michael
TI  - Michael Shmith's Australian musical anecdotes
SN  - 0195537734
AV  - ML65 .S45 1997
U1  - 780.994 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Melbourne, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Music
KW  - Australia
KW  - Anecdotes
N1  - Includes index; Foreword --; Introduction --; Early History --; Classical --; Conductors and Composers --; Divas --; Jazz --; Country and Western --; Musicals and Operetta --; Radio --; Rock --; Index
N2  - "Australia, music and anecdotes belong together, given Australians' propensity for yarn-spinning and performing and occasionally making fools of themselves and others. There is something about the Australian character and its ability to deflate pomposity that has always given it a special licence where music is concerned. Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, for instance, as well as being two of the greatest prima donnas of the century, were quite capable of rejecting the superfluous and cutting to the quick of the matter.
In this exhilarating collection of anecdotes Michal Shmith has produced a concise history of musical performance in Australia from European settlement to the present day" -- Book Cover
ER  -