This ‘cloak of angels’ was worn by Melba to perform before Tsar Alexander III in St Petersburg in 1891. Together with Polish opera singers Jean and Edouard de Reszke, she had been commanded by the Tsar to perform in several operas at his Imperial…
David Chesworth launched the re-release of his debut 1979 album '50 Synthesizer Greats' (Chapter Music) in September 2017 in a live performance at the Toff in Town venue in Melbourne. Chesworth recreated his parents’ 70s lounge room on stage and…
Sound artist David Chesworth was only 21 when he composed and recorded '50 Synthesizer Greats'. Originally self-released, the album 50 Synthesizer Greats is actually 37 tracks of minimal synth investigations, full of humour and playful…
This elegant studio double portrait of Percy and Rose is unorthodox in the way the composition crops out the object of their avid attention, however it successfully documents the legendary closeness between…
Photo: 21.1 x 16 cm
Photo and card: 25.2 x 20.2 cm
Portrait of Percy Grainger in his later years. He is wearing a pinstripe suit with shirt, tie, vest, jacket and pocket square and is also crossing his arms. The…
Dr Kaare Nygaard (1903-1989) was Percy Grainger’s friend as well as medical doctor and surgeon. Nygaard was also a sculptor, and he made three bronze sculptures of the composer and one life mask. He also…
Photo: 10.8 x 15.7 cm
Envelope: 11.5 x 16.1 cm
Note: 19.0 x 21 cm
Grainger died of cancer in 1961. This photograph was taken in the year before his death by his friend Burnett Cross, physicist and co-experimenter with…