Rocker Bono once declared that ‘music can change the world because it can change people’. Join these music aficionados as they celebrate and explore the transformative nature of music and song. Featuring Barry Jones, Davinia Caddy, and Hugo Race.
Hosted by Liam Viney
Hugo Race is a musician and author of the travel memoir, Road Series. His creative journey has embraced cross-cultural explorations with different traditions of music from post-punk to modern classic through Mali, Sicily, Brazil and greater Europe. He has played with bands including The Bad Seeds and The Wreckery. With a catalogue of 20 albums to his name and innumerable international collaborations, Hugo continues to live and work between Australia and Italy.
Liam is a pioneering piano soloist, collaborative musician and teacher based at The University of Queensland.
Davinia Caddy is a senior lecturer in the School of Music at the University of Auckland, where she teaches the history, theory and analysis of music. She began her musical career playing principal flute in the UK’s National Youth Orchestra, gained a PhD in music from Cambridge University, and carried out post-doctoral research at Oxford. Her most recent book is How to Hear Classical Music, which explores how classical music is faring in today’s world of frenzied Facebook updates and wireless wizardry.
Hon. Dr Barry Jones has been Victorian MP for five years. Federal MP for nearly 21 years, Minister for Science 1983-90, represented Australia at UNESCO and the World Heritage Council in Paris 1991-96 and is the only person to have been elected to all four of Australia’s learned Academies. His books include Sleepers, Wake! (1982), a best seller which ran into 27 impressions, an autobiography, A Thinking Reed (2006), Dictionary of World Biography (revised 2016, ANU, on line and as a book) and The Shock of Recognition (2016). He led the campaign for the abolition of the death penalty and was the first Australian politician to raise the issues of the information revolution (1982) and climate change (1984). He was chair of Vision2020 Australia 2002-14, of the Port Arthur Historic Site 2000-12, a board member of CARE Australia for 20 years, and a Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge 2000-01. He was awarded an AC in 2014.
