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Michael Hooper

@drmichaelhooper.bsky.social
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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.

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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Something very satisfying about generating power. New maximum for a day today.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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...
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Unexpected parenting advice. #ranciere
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Current train reading.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Finishing the reading I started in 1999. (I forgot I didn’t finish it.)
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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!
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
18 more academic. (What happened to the font?!)
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
17 was more radical.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Ah to be 16 again.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Lovely to have a rose garden. This plant doesn’t flower so often, but it’s the most fragrant of all of them.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Sitting in the garden.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Rereading Joseph Cummins’ “The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music.” It’s very good; go read a copy.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Graduation day for my students.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Painters know how to use the edges of their frames so much better than photographers.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Of all the things I saw on my holiday, I think this was the least expected. Jane Austen's Cockade.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Bit blowy.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Looking at sketches…
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Indonesian food for Indonesian weather.
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Michael Hooper @drmichaelhooper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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.
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