Michael Hooper
@drmichaelhooper.bsky.social
Music academic in Sydney: mostly an historian of music since about 1960; also interested in performance, composition, instruments. Have written much about Australian Music. Late modernism.
Something very satisfying about generating power. New maximum for a day today.
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Something very satisfying about generating power. New maximum for a day today.
CFP: Music and Risk Symposium
27th November, 2025
Convened by Dr. Ellen Hooper (UNSW), A/Prof. Chris Stover (Griffith University), A/Prof. Michael Hooper (UNSW)
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27th November, 2025
Convened by Dr. Ellen Hooper (UNSW), A/Prof. Chris Stover (Griffith University), A/Prof. Michael Hooper (UNSW)
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October 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
CFP: Music and Risk Symposium
27th November, 2025
Convened by Dr. Ellen Hooper (UNSW), A/Prof. Chris Stover (Griffith University), A/Prof. Michael Hooper (UNSW)
forms.gle/E5mTcyAPqrV6...
27th November, 2025
Convened by Dr. Ellen Hooper (UNSW), A/Prof. Chris Stover (Griffith University), A/Prof. Michael Hooper (UNSW)
forms.gle/E5mTcyAPqrV6...
Current train reading.
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Current train reading.
Finishing the reading I started in 1999. (I forgot I didn’t finish it.)
August 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Finishing the reading I started in 1999. (I forgot I didn’t finish it.)
This week’s school drop-off train-read is Sarah Collins’s Lateness and Modernism (2019). As good on the second read as the first!
July 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This week’s school drop-off train-read is Sarah Collins’s Lateness and Modernism (2019). As good on the second read as the first!
18 more academic. (What happened to the font?!)
June 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
18 more academic. (What happened to the font?!)
17 was more radical.
June 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
17 was more radical.
Ah to be 16 again.
June 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Ah to be 16 again.
Lovely to have a rose garden. This plant doesn’t flower so often, but it’s the most fragrant of all of them.
June 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Lovely to have a rose garden. This plant doesn’t flower so often, but it’s the most fragrant of all of them.
Sitting in the garden.
June 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Sitting in the garden.
Rereading Joseph Cummins’ “The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music.” It’s very good; go read a copy.
May 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rereading Joseph Cummins’ “The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music.” It’s very good; go read a copy.
Graduation day for my students.
March 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Graduation day for my students.
Painters know how to use the edges of their frames so much better than photographers.
January 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Painters know how to use the edges of their frames so much better than photographers.
Of all the things I saw on my holiday, I think this was the least expected. Jane Austen's Cockade.
January 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Of all the things I saw on my holiday, I think this was the least expected. Jane Austen's Cockade.
Looking at sketches…
January 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Looking at sketches…
There is an anecdote (told by Felix Aprahamian) about John Ireland's housekeeper sending scores by Sorabji to Foyles. Today's score from the bookshelf is Prelude Interlude and Fugue by Sorabji, dedicated to John Ireland by KS, and bought, I suspect, from Foyles.
November 27, 2024 at 10:53 PM
There is an anecdote (told by Felix Aprahamian) about John Ireland's housekeeper sending scores by Sorabji to Foyles. Today's score from the bookshelf is Prelude Interlude and Fugue by Sorabji, dedicated to John Ireland by KS, and bought, I suspect, from Foyles.
Indonesian food for Indonesian weather.
November 27, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Indonesian food for Indonesian weather.
Today’s random score from my bookcase is Malcolm Williamson’s copy of Boulez’s Second Sonata (1947-8), bought by him in Paris in 1950.
November 25, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Today’s random score from my bookcase is Malcolm Williamson’s copy of Boulez’s Second Sonata (1947-8), bought by him in Paris in 1950.