Music isn’t completely human. - Sainte-Colombe The fifteenth-century viola da gamba (Italian, “viol for the leg”) or gamba, is played straddled like a cello. But the resemblance ends there. It is smaller and more delicate. It has five to seven strings, rather than the four of a cello, is tuned in fourths, rather than perfect
For the first time in Quadrant’s 60-year history we have applied for a federal literary grant and been completely denied. A savage blow to our modest finances, it is a brazen political decision intended to devalue our reputation and demonstrate that it is the Left which runs and controls the arts
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Each update of the syllabus brings a greater focus on the evils of the West and the unparalleled achievements of 'indigenous scientists'. Schools bring in trainers to do workshops on indigenous mathematics, gender ideology, anti-racism and dozens of other pseudo-academic fads. Afraid of being labelled racist, transphobic or whatever, woke left conformity tightens its grip on teaching by the day