NZ music historian receives glowing reviews
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New Zealand author Robin Maconie is currently front page news in the Times Literary Supplement issue dated 29 March 2006.
The book is Other Planets, Maconie's 600-page survey of the music of German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (right), who gained worldwide notoriety after describing 9/11 as "a work of Luciferian art". The frontpage review by David Schiff describes Maconie's book in glowing terms as "a combination of music history and The Da Vinci Code."
On Planet StockhausenNew Zealand author Robin Maconie is currently front page news in the Times Literary Supplement issue dated 29 March 2006.
The book is Other Planets, Maconie's 600-page survey of the music of German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (right), who gained worldwide notoriety after describing 9/11 as "a work of Luciferian art". The frontpage review by David Schiff describes Maconie's book in glowing terms as "a combination of music history and The Da Vinci Code."
On Planet StockhausenSince returning to New Zealand in 2002 Maconie has been living in Dannevirke and the new book was written there. Copies can be obtained online via the publisher's website www.scarecrowpress.com