Academics
“Tall Poppies Talk,” a springboard into an unfamiliar world
This will be the first of two emails this week, as the next episode of Tall Poppies, The Podcast will be published in the next few days.
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Musicians
Tall Poppies The Podcast, Series II from January 2020
Standing room only at the fourth “Tall Poppies Talk” Salon with musician Stan Dodds
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Academics, Writers
Author Gail Jones, Guest Australian Salon, Berlin
A few days back, the Tall Poppies Talk, Australian Salon, welcomed Australian writer and academic, Gail Jones, as the guest of honour.
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Musicians
Tall Poppies: Postcard – Soprano, Joan Sutherland
“ I think some young singers want to do too much too soon and it’s fatal. Some of the young people I don’t think realise just how tough it is.”
(Joan Sutherland, 1926 -2010)
Musicians
Shannon Barnett, Jazz Musician Extraordinaire on Tall Poppies
A short note to introduce the latest Tall Poppies, The Podcast, which features the exceptional jazz musician, Shannon Barnett.
“New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz and the way that that happened was that it really was a melting pot of different cultures…
Literature
Tall Poppies: Postcard – Animation Writer, Director & Producer, Adam Elliot
It was back in 2009 that I met with the Academy Award-winning animation writer, director and producer, Adam Elliot, who hails from the Australian state of Victoria.
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Musicians
Tall Poppies: Postcard – Poet, Robert Gray
As it is the European summer, I’ve had time to visit my archives to select a few interviews with renowned Australians I have had the honour of interviewing over the last decades. In the next few weeks, I will be publishing 10-minute excerpts from a few of these interviews.
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Musicians
Another successful Tall Poppies Talk Australian Salon, with guest Rhys Martin
A few days ago we hosted another “Tall Poppies Talk” Australian Salon in Berlin. This time the focus was on the work of the Newcastle (NSW) born dancer, choreographer and educator Rhys Martin.
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Musicians
“Tall Poppies Talk,” an Australian Salon, founders David Jackson and Breandáin O’Shea
It has been a busy few weeks for the Tall Poppies project.
The first “Tall Poppies Talk,” Australian Salon took place recently in Berlin, where around 40 people attended the event.
Musicians
Coming up on Tall Poppies, The Podcast: Siobhan Stagg, Singer
“That was a phone call that changed my life completely,” said singer, Siobhan Stagg, recollecting the day the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra called to ask her to perform “Brahms’s Requiem”.
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