Podcast appearances and mentions of Paul Kildea

Ben is joined by Paul Kildea and Andre Brett to discuss the history of Australian referendums. We discuss the historical origins of referendums at both the state and federal level, the dynamics of referendum campaigns, how different states tend to vote, the voters' bias towards the status quo, and discuss some of our favourite referendums. We reference some fairly obscure referendums, including the 1928 referendum in the Australian Federal Territory on ending prohibition, the 1951 and 1965 Wool Reserve Prices referendums, the national song poll of 1977 and the unsuccessful attempt to extend hotel opening hours prior to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Paul's article on state and territory referendums in the Sydney Law Review The 2016 article "An Absent Negative" by Russell McGregor about the absence of a No campaign in the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal affairs This podcast is supported by the Tally Room's supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support.

In this episode, Paul Kildea speaks with Australian actor, writer and singer Simon Gleeson. Simon talks about his childhood and how his earliest performances were together on stage with his father in amateur theatre. He also describes meeting Paul Kildea when he was 15 years old and how Paul inspired him to seriously try and make a career in the arts.

For this edition of the podcast, Paul Kildea sits down with pianist, composer and jazz enthusiast Paul Grabowsky. The pair begin by talking about Paul Grabowsky's heritage and the fascinating history of his father, which includes forming a swing band in Townsville during World War II.

Welcome to Season 2 of the podcast. In this episode, Paul Kildea speaks with oboist Celia Craig. They discuss Celia's musical background, the intricacies of playing the oboe, orchestral life, as well as her experiences as someone with chromesthesia.

Welcome to Season 2 of the podcast. In this episode, Paul Kildea speaks with artist, singer, comedian, actor and author, Paul McDermott.

In this instalment of the podcast, Paul Kildea speaks with author, screenwriter and art critic, Jennifer Higgie.

In this instalment of the podcast, Paul Kildea has a chat with Artistic Director of Elision Ensemble, Daryl Buckley.

In this instalment of the podcast, Paul Kildea has a reflective conversation with Kim Williams on his time as a composer, studying abroad in Italy with Luciano Berio and Richard Gill's advocacy for music education in Australia.

In this instalment of the podcast, Paul Kildea has a lively conversation with percussionist and curator Claire Edwardes. The dialogue starts with Claire Edwardes' kaleidoscopic background and how calling Claire just a ‘percussionist' does her no justice. She talks about her love of music from a very young age and how her love of playing music with other people has led her down the path of music curation.

In episode 8 of the podcast, Paul Kildea sits down with the native French, French Horn player Nicolas Fleury. During the episode, Paul and Nicolas discuss some of the most iconic works written for the horn.Nicolas describes some of the unique features of the horn, how the instrument works and explores the most interesting facts about a few of his favourite pieces, such as Mozart's Horn Concerto and the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings written by Benjamin Britten.They touch on Nicolas' passion for the horn and explore his journey from a young music student to an internationally renowned artist. Nicolas also touches on collaboration and touring with Emily Sun and Amir Farid, missing London and the similarities between the French and Australian lifestyles.

In episode seven, Artistic Director Paul Kildea chats with violinist, composer, and Musica Viva FutureMaker Harry Ward. Their wide-ranging conversation begins with a discussion of Harry's exciting new arrangement of Mahler's Piano Quartet, which will be debuted by pianist Konstantin Shamray, the ANAM Orchestra, and concertmaster Sophie Rowell.Harry also reflects on his disrupted 2020, which was to see him study at Berlin's prestigious Karajan Academy. Though disappointed, the disruption means he's able to join Musica Viva on tour and perform his own arrangement. Looking forward to a time when he's able to take up his placement in Berlin, Harry tells Paul about the city's rich musical traditions and culture, which he hopes to bring back to Australia and apply to his own practice.

In this episode, Paul Kildea is joined by contemporary classical, jazz and experimental composer, Alice Humphries. This insightful conversation touches on Alice's early years and her love for a wide range of musical genres and instruments, they discuss creativity and pushing boundaries within arranging music and composing during a pandemic.Alice Humphries' new work for viola and piano was commissioned by Geoff Stearn and will be premiered by Christopher Moore and Caroline Almonte in November 2021.

Paul and Jane discuss the not so linear path of her career and beginnings in advertising, identifying as an out, loud and proud feminist, miming the flute and dealing with age discrimination. With music creeping its way into her life as a teenager, during the era of rock and roll Jane relives the experience of attending Led Zeppelin's infamous concert in Sydney and talks about the chemical reactions of music and being a passionate audience member.

In this episode of the Chamber of Musical Curiosities, Artistic Director Paul Kildea talks with the Australian artist Genevieve Lacey. As he eloquently notes in the introduction, to simply refer to Genevieve as ‘a recorder player, is missing the point', as she has forged a rich career, with credits as a performer, composer, and curator. In this conversation, Genevieve reflects upon the emergence of her artistic practise, talks about how ‘a life in art is one of constant evolution', and reflects on the genesis, and importance of Musica Viva's Future Makers program. She doesn't leave without revealing tantalising information about the new collaboration she's developed with her friend and colleague, the harpist Marshall McGuire, which they'll be touring for Musica Viva in 2021.

In the third episode of the Chamber of Musical Curiosities podcast, Paul Kildea is joined by actor, producer, director and author John Bell, known for his influence on the development of Australian theatre through the 20th century. Together they reminisce on Paul's first encounter with John's work in 1984, his fond memories of University years, and leaving Australia to join the Royal Shakespeare Company; the moment in his life where he "really learned what acting was about".John touches on his time running Nimrod Theatre Company, before a period of freelancing which would inevitably lead to founding the Bell Shakespeare company in 1990, and the motivations behind this pivotal moment in his life. John and Paul then lead the conversation in a musical direction, discussing the use of music in Shakespearean productions.

In the second episode, Artistic Director Paul Kildea is in conversation with Musica Viva's own Artistic Director of Competitions, Wilma Smith. Together they discuss Wilma's musical journey from New Zealand to the United States, her subsequent studies with the legendary Dorothy DeLay, and the founding of the New Zealand String Quartet. Wilma shares the fascinating and fortunate story of how her 1761 Guadagnini violin came into her life, and reflects upon the importance of chamber playing in a musician's career, and the extraordinary talent uncovered by Musica Viva's latest venture, Strike A Chord.

Welcome to the Chamber of Musical Curiosities! In this episode, Musica Viva's Artistic Director, Paul Kildea and Australian linguist and musicologist Malcolm Gillies, reflect upon creativity, their career, and their passion for chamber music.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian describes the new positive spirit he encountered during his recent travels in Armenia, whose citizens have earned good reason to feel upbeat about their future. And composer Paul Kildea explains how Frederic Chopin's sublime 24 Preludes — written on a clunky mini-piano in an abandoned monastery in the middle of the Mediterranean — changed how the world hears music. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

Paul Kildea explores how Frédéric Chopin wrote his Preludes and what became of them after his death, while Amy Sackville looks at power and PR through the lens of Diego Velázquez

Britain has imported its culture from Europe for generations. Andrew Marr presents a special edition from Hatchlands Park in Surrey, home to the Cobbe Collection of musical instruments including pianos owned by Chopin, Mahler and Marie Antoinette. Frederic Chopin had a pan-European career. He swapped his native Poland for Paris, fled to Mallorca in search of sunshine and inspiration, and toured Britain twice, complaining bitterly about the 'crafty' locals and 'dreadful' British weather. But he had a huge impact on the musical scenes he left behind. Paul Kildea charts Chopin's journey across Europe. Sitting at the keys of Chopin's own piano, Kildea explains how this visionary composer shaped Romanticism. European composers and performers in Britain faced a tougher reception in the wake of two world wars. In her new book, Singing in the Age of Anxiety, Laura Tunbridge depicts the contradictions of a generation that viewed Wagner as a cultural high-point - but decried all things German as enemy propaganda. At the same time radio and gramophones dramatically altered the way people heard and responded to music. The digital world offers vast new audiences, but also brings new challenges to those in the arts. Munira Mirza is Director of HENI Talks, an online platform that aims to share cultural information and understanding with much wider audiences. By combining leading experts and world-famous works such as the Mona Lisa, she wants to take art outside the gallery. As former Deputy Mayor for Culture in London, Mirza envisages a future in which we have a truly international cultural scene. Producer: Hannah Sander.

In this edition of Tall Poppies, Paul Kildea talks about his latest book, "Chopin's Piano, A Journey Through Romanticism," and rising to the challenge of finding the right words to describe music. He also recalls the time in his life when the adjective – Australian - was not a positive one and shares his insatiable passion for Australia.“I have always tried to work out a way of coming up with a single image or analogy or a metaphor, that makes it really clear to a non-specialist, the phenomenon of hearing that piece of music”The conductor and author, Paul Kildea, hails from Canberra. He studied piano and musicology at the University of Melbourne before completing his doctorate at Oxford. Since his Opera Australia début in 1997, he has conducted many of today’s great artists in opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe and Australia.In 1999 he was appointed Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival and, in 2003, was named Artistic Director of one of London’s most prestigious concert venues, Wigmore Hall.Paul has also written extensively on music and culture in the twentieth century. His first three books feature the music and work of the composer, Benjamin Britten. The third, a biography, “Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century”, was published in 2013, the composer’s centenary year. The Financial Times considered it, ‘unquestionably the music book of the year’.Paul’s latest book, “Chopin’s Piano, A Journey through Romanticism,” has just been published. It tells the captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of his Majorcan pianino, the instrument he used while residing on Majorca, where he wrote a number of his renowned “24 Preludes”. It traces musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Among its protagonists are Chopin and the French novelist, George Sand, while the unexpected heroine of this book is the great keyboard player, Wanda Landowska, who rescued Chopin’s pianino in 1913.At the heart of this book’s 24 chapters, are Chopin’s 24 Preludes. It traces the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent.But it all begins and ends with the Majorcan pianino, which became a much-coveted cultural artefact during the Second World War. When the Nazis saw it as a symbol of the man and music, they were determined to appropriate it as their own.

It’s a first for the Spectator Books podcast this week: music! We’ve temporarily dispensed with our usual intro jingle to allow this week’s guest, Paul Kildea, to play us in. Paul’s new book Chopin’s Piano: A Journey Into Romanticism is a fascinating and unusual piece of non-fiction that sheds light on Chopin’s life and music, and on their afterlife, as its author pursues an Ahab-like pursuit of the piano on which he composed his Preludes in Majorca. Sam Leith speaks to Paul at the Royal Overseas League in London, so that with the help of their instrument, he could punctuate our conversation with some musical illustrations of his points. Bitter musical disputes, doomed love, George Sand and Nazis: this one has it all.

A guide to Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, featuring opera historians Philip Reed, Paul Kildea and Lucy Walker, and tenor Ian Bostridge.

A guide to Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring the voices of Britten experts Philip Reed, Paul Kildea, and Lucy Walker.

A guide to Britten's opera Albert Herring featuring the voices of Britten experts Philip Reed and Paul Kildea, and the soprano Dame Josephine Barstow.

A guide to Britten's opera Death in Venice featuring the voices of musicologist Christopher Wintle, the tenor Ian Bostridge, and Britten expert Paul Kildea.

A guide to Britten's opera Gloriana featuring the voices of Britten experts Philip Reed and Paul Kildea, the soprano Dame Josephine Barstow, and an archive interview with soprano Jennifer Vyvyan.

A guide to Britten's opera Peter Grimes, featuring the voices of Britten experts Paul Kildea and Philip Reed, and the soprano Dame Josephine Barstow.

A guide to Britten's operetta, Paul Bunyan, featuring the voices of Britten experts Lucy Walker and Paul Kildea, and the Director Francesca Zambello.

The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev Justin Welby chooses the War Requiem (Op.66) by Benjamin Britten, written for the 1962 consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, the original having been destroyed in the blitz of 1940. Presented by Mark Lawson The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive: The first performance in 1962; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on the singing in the premiere; Ben Wishaw reads Wilfred Owen; Michael Berkeley on the music and legacy of the War Requiem; The Archbishop of Canterbury reads Owen; Paul Kildea on Britten's legacy; The bells of Coventry Cathedral. Full archive details are available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/archbishop-of-canterbury

A guide to Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw featuring the voices of Britten experts Philip Reed and Paul Kildea, and the soprano Joan Rodgers.

A guide to Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave featuring the voices of Britten experts Paul Kildea, Philip Reed and archive interviews from Myfanwy Piper and Dame Janet Baker

'In the history of art late works are the catastrophes,' proposed Theodor Adorno. In this illustrated lecture Paul Kildea, author of the first major biography of Benjamin Britten in twenty years, disputes the narrative of decline that has engulfed Britten's music since the early 1970s.The 'catastrophe' in Britten's music was not its quality, but how little traction it has had in the past forty years. Kildea unpicks Britten's precarious health and shows how it made him more determined than ever to write down the music that was on his mind. He discusses key late works - including Death in Venice, Phaedre, the String Quartet No. 3 - and how Britten saw them as a way of finishing old business and charting new territory. In this lecture, as in the previous two, Kildea looks at the personal and emotional insecurities that helped shape the twentieth century's consummate musician.This is the third in a series of three lectures in which conductor Paul Kildea, author of a major new biography of composer Benjamin Britten, explores the life and music of this colossal twentieth-century artist.

James Jolly and Paul Kildea discuss Benjamin Britten. A Gramophone Milestones Podcast, in association with EFG International

On the day Penguin publishes Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, the first major biography of Britten in twenty years, author Paul Kildea traces the emergence of the greatest English musician of the last century.In this illustrated lecture Kildea explores the...

With Mark Lawson. Light Show at the Hayward Gallery in London is the first survey of light-based art in the UK and brings together artworks from the 1960s to the present day, from 22 artists including Dan Flavin, Olafur Eliasson and Jenny Holzer. Lighting designers Paule Constable and Patrick Woodroffe give their response to the works on show. Paul Kildea discusses his biography of Benjamin Britten, which has already made the news when he claimed that the composer's death was hastened by syphilis. Playwright Simon Stephens' new play, Port, opens at the National Theatre this week. Directed by Marianne Elliott, it tells the story of a family in Stockport. We first meet 11 year old Racheal, and six-year-old Billy in 1988, and the play follows them over the next 13 years of their lives. Peter Kemp reviews. Producer Ellie Bury.