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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 14, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
A cellist from Manchester has successfully sued a venue under the Trade Descriptions Act for failing to provide live musicians at a “magical familiy musical”. Adrian Bradbury took his family to the Lowry Theatre at Salford, near Manchester, to see a live...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 29, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
I’m very excited to read The Lost Mother, the new book by Anne Summers, which I discussed with her in its early stages of development. Anne worked furiously on the book throughout 2008 and it’s wonderful to see her receiving so much attention for this new...