Lecture-Recital and Book Launch: Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic at the Ends of Empire

Lecture-Recital and Book Launch: Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic at the Ends of Empire (Lyrebird Press)

Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) stands as one of the more astonishing and productive figures of Australian music history. To mark the publication of a new biographical study, this event discusses the substantial and lasting contributions he made to musical life here (including many years teaching music and running a Conservatorium at the VAS), as well as in England and Hawaii. The event includes a short recital of a selection of his music for voice and piano, violin and piano, and female choir and piano. Light refreshments will be served. Featuring co-authors Peter Tregear and Anne-Marie Forbes. Renowned Australian composer and conductor Dr Richard Mills AO will officially launch the book.

Bios:

Peter Tregear is a Principal Fellow of the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Professor of the University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style (Scarecrow, 2013) and Enlightenment or Entitlement: Rethinking Tertiary Music Education (Currency House, 2014) and appears regularly both as a conductor and singer, and as a music critic and arts commentator.

Anne-Marie Forbes is a singer and researcher in music history, and music and health, at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely on Australian and British Music, including editions of Fritz Hart's songs and choral works, and co-edited Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic and Musical Patriot (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) with Paul Watt, and Heart's Ease: Spirituality in the Music of John Tavener (Peter Lang, 2020) with June Boyce-Tillman.

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