Anna Goldsworthy speaks about classical music with an almost spiritual reverence. Professor Goldsworthy believes classical music can remind us that "we have more in common than we have apart". But I think it's worth also highlighting that classical music is still something that's happening today; there are still living Australian composers," he says. Wyatt and Professor Goldsworthy agree that the …
In a series of four orations delivered by noted musicians and luminaries, the 2024 Boyer Lectures will explore the state of classical music in Australia in the contemporary age. “2024 will see the 65th anniversary of the ABC/Boyer Lectures and this year hosts four distinguished speakers presenting an anthology series addressing classical music in Australia today. “There have been four …
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." This is all Shakespeare's doing of course, we'll never know what the real Mark Antony or Henry V said, but the lesson holds good; oratory can affect the course of history. Shakespeare's great orations also remind us of the paucity of expression of many of today's …
Green hydrogen gives Australia an opportunity to slash our emissions — and if we get this right, the impact could be nothing short of nation-building, argues business leader Andrew Forrest in the first of his ABC Boyer Lectures. That's green hydrogen, the purest source of energy in the world — and one that could replace up to three quarters of …