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Lyrebird Rising - Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962 (Hardcover)
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Lyrebird Rising - Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962 (Hardcover)
Series: Miegunyah Press S., no. 14
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Lyrebird Rising is a study of the extraordinary life of Louis
Hanson-Dyer (1884-1962), which began in the Melbourne of the Land
Boom and ended in Grace Kelly's Monaco. Born into a wealthy family
- her father was a parliamentarian and controversial doctor -
Louise developed her interest in music early, and used her wealth
(augmented by marrying a man 25 years her senior) to advance the
arts in Melbourne. She assisted the poet Shaw Neilson and
underwrote musical ventures, but increasingly felt the tug of
Europe. In 1932, in Paris, she established Editions de
l'Oiseau-Lyre (Lyrebird Press), and as a music publisher set about
reviving baroque and medieval music, in rare editions notable both
for their scholarship and sumptuousness. Later (assisted by a
second husband, 25 years younger) she began to make discs to
illustrate these editions. From that original idea the recording
venture grew and grew: in 1950 Louise made the first long-playing
records in Europe, and by the time she died Oiseau-Lyre was a
famous label, putting out some of the earliest recordings by such
people as Dame Joan Sutherland, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville
Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and Dame
Janet Baker. Lyrebird Rising re-creates the ambience of Melbourne
in the twenties, Paris in the thirties, and London in the fifties;
it also discusses expatriatism, explores the paths open to a
dynamic woman at the time, and examines the changes in musical
taste that were set in motion by the rise of musicology, radio, and
the gramophone record.
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