Double Stopping

Suzanne Robinson is a former lecturer and research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, the recipient of the Kurt Weill Prize, the H. Earle Johnson Award from the Society of American Music and research grants from the Australian Research Council, the Academy of the Humanities and the State Library of NSW. Her books on modernist composers and Australian music history include Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic (2019).Curt Thompson is Associate Professor and Head of Strings at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Australia, and founder and director of the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, Australia. He has held teaching appointments at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, USA and Texas Christian University, USA, and as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician has appeared in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Salle Gaveau in Paris and Shanghai Concert Hall.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsForeword by William Hennessy AMIntroductionPart I: Leaving Australia1: For love of the violin: The travels, tribulations and triumphs of Johann KruseJohanna Selleck, University of Melbourne, Australia2: Alma Moodie: A tragic story of a true violin heroineTatjana Goldberg, City, University of London; Middlesex University; Purcell School, UK3: Miss Daisy Kennedy: ‘Of her sex without a doubt the foremost living violinist’Laura Case, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia4: Dorcas McClean: An Australian violinist in the British WorldSuzanne Robinson, University of Melbourne, Australia5: Ernest Llewellyn: Australia’s leading violinistSuzanne Robinson, University of Melbourne, Australia6: Beryl Kimber OBE: Dynamic performer and pedagogueElizabeth Layton, University of Adelaide, AustraliaPart II: Arriving in Australia7: Adventurer of consciousness: The violinist Henri VerbrugghenGoetz Richter, Sydney University’s Conservatorium of Music, Australia8: Tossy Spivakovsky in exile: The Australian yearsCurt Thompson, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Australia9: Richard Goldner: A Viennese violinist in mid-century SydneyJulia Russoniello, University of Sydney, Australia10: ‘Tones of gently cradled eloquence’: Robert Pikler, a Hungarian violinist in Australia Curt Thompson, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Australia11: From the crossroads of two tyrannies: Nathan Gutman, violinist and educatorElizabeth Sellars, Flinders Quartet, Australia BibliographyIndex

This collection of essays proves and celebrates the valuable legacies that Australians left in the violin world and the contributions of overseas violinists to the Australian scene ... This book is a marvelous initiative. Hopefully, there will be many more volumes soon!