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Anna Goldsworthy

Anna Goldsworthy is a pianist and writer. She is the director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide.

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Life Sentences

‘Tock, tock, tock’

A grandfather’s metronome is a constant reminder of a passionate educator

Culture

On the beauty and necessity of music

Where to turn in times of crisis, conflict and disaster

Society

There are no words

Finding solace and surprise around a family Scrabble board with a grandmother in decline

Culture

The slow fade of music education

An elegy for music, learning and impoverished culture

Culture

Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’

A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist

Roosting

The trials and transcendence of packing and unpacking in order to move house

Culture

The glass curtain

Classical music’s problem with women

Culture

What are the odds?: Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’

The Australian philosopher’s rational exploration of existential risk is bracing but ultimately hopeful

Culture

Fermata: Musical performance in lockdown

What becomes of the communion of classical musicians, composers and audiences during social isolation?

Society

He is risen!

Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny

Society

Screen-free day

C’mon, kids. It’ll be fun …

Culture

Unfinished business: A short story

Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?

Culture

Beyond imagination

Nobel Prize–winning journalist Svetlana Alexievich brings together an extraordinarily diverse group of Russian voices

Culture

Sweet dark purpose

Scaling the IVF mountain in Julia Leigh’s ‘Avalanche’

Culture

Felled by grace

Helen Garner’s work collected in ‘Everywhere I Look’

Culture

The art of manipulation

True crime and entertainment in Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’

Culture

The lost art of listening

Has classical music become irrelevant?

Culture

‘Dancing in the Dark’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Harvill Secker; $32.99

Culture

Seeing clearly

‘Transparent’

Anna Goldsworthy

Latest

‘Tock, tock, tock’

On the beauty and necessity of music

There are no words

The slow fade of music education

Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’

Roosting

The glass curtain

What are the odds?: Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’

Fermata: Musical performance in lockdown

He is risen!

Screen-free day

Unfinished business: A short story

Beyond imagination

Sweet dark purpose

Felled by grace

The art of manipulation

The lost art of listening

‘Dancing in the Dark’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Seeing clearly

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