Roger Covell
Roger Covell is Professor Emeritus in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. He was principal music critic at The Sydney Morning Herald from 1960 until the late 1990s. He is the author of Australia's Music: Themes of a New Society (1967). He won the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing in 1993. In 2013 he received the Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for his contribution to music in Australia
It was refreshing, to say the least, that two sets of concerts given by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the Opera House in mid-February had the symphonies of Robert Schumann as their theme. With two symphonies assigned to each program it was possible in less than a week to hear the entire standard representation of Schumann as a symphonist. The refreshing elements in this plan included its escap ... (read more)