Martin Wesley-Smith Australian composer

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Roger Covell: The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon Dec 14 1987:
"... Wesley-Smith is becoming a phenomenon of Australian music, an extraordinarily distinctive composer."


Michael Brimer: The Australian, Tues Aug 4 1987:
"It was ... a most stimulating evening. Wesley-Smith's musical personality comes across as open-hearted, direct and rooted in basic values - in fact, a most attractive musical personality altogether. Apart from the attributes which one would normally expect to find in a serious Australian composer today, one comes across evidence of both his experience in composition for children and his involvement with Dixieland jazz. His architecture is satisfying and his gestures are convincing."

David Gyger: Opera Australia, August 1989:
"In Boojum!, Songs for Snark-Hunters and Songs of Australia, the Wesley-Smiths have come up with a genuinely innovative, undemandingly popularist, satirical musical theatre genre that is unmistakably Australian and thoroughly entertaining; and one that is at the same time intermittently spiced with explicit concern for larger issues such as the environment, the Indonesian rape of East Timor and the absurd trivialising values of commercial television."


Martin
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Wesley-Smith 		Tall Poppies
Records 		Quito
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