by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 7, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I am one of many people in the US and Australia and elsewhere who are always looking for ways to engage more people with some amazing music that doesn’t fall neatly into one musical category. We are still relying on a term called “jazz” that is often...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 2, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
My head is spinning after reading some statistics on the sales of music over the past decade. From their peak in 1999, the value of record sales has halved in ten years, according to the Recording Industry of America and quoted in this op-ed by the New York...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
On Saturday morning I scurried uptown to 126th Street, the home of the National Jazz Museum, for a symposium on the relationship between writing and jazz music with the unfortunate title The Pen is Mightier than the Sword. As usual I was wearing multiple hats for the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 24, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
This week I was fortunate to attend a performance of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town with a playwright friend visiting from Sydney, who bought tickets to the show on the personal recommendation of none other than Edward Albee....
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 20, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
On the eve of my final day as President of Sydney PEN, I am very proud of some quick work by my Management Committee member Charlotte Wood to put together a press release highlighting recent attempts by Chinese officials to pressure the Melbourne Film Festival into...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 16, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
Having spent much of June in gumboots and raincoats, a large chunk of New York’s population streamed on to Central Park’s Great Lawn on Tuesday night to hear the New York Philharmonic perform Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony...