by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 25, 2018 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
I wrote this article drawing attention to the chronic gender gap in classical and jazz music for the Things Made From Letters website, which is managed by my publisher Allen & Unwin. They asked several of their authors to contribute to their campaign to mark IWD...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 23, 2018 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
A bit of a thrill to see my GIRLS in this extract in the newspaper today, and so lavishly illustrated with a portrait of Jane Austen (herself a serious piano student throughout her adolescence and young adulthood), and one of Renoir’s familiar Jeune Filles au...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 3, 2012 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
I must be missing New York’s cold January weather. How else to explain the two ice packs I’ve clutched to either end of me this past week in a hot and humid Australian climate? Visiting a dear friend in Brisbane, I fell over my own foot while hanging out...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 14, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Poet Charles Simic wrote this loving paen to jazz piano bars in New York for the NYRB blog recently. His celebration song is closer to an elegy for the small piano bars that dotted the Greenwich Village of his youth. This was decades ago, when it was possible for a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 5, 2010 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Ruined-piano connoisseur Ross Bolleter plays in his garden. Courtesy World Association for Ruined Piano Studies WARPS.com Further to some comments I made on the Meanjin blog Spiked a few days ago in response to happy endings, which took the film adaptation of Cormac...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 10, 2009 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Look at these gorgeous paintings by Evan B Harris. Their whimsical beauty appeals to me. I bumped into them online while searching for something else. (As it is in life, so it is online.) I find particularly moving his literal intertwining of musician, instrument,...
