Brett's Bonanza

What better riposte to Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett and his autocratic attitude towards the Australian National Academy of Music could there be than the awarding of the Grawemeyer Award to the academy's director, Brett Dean? The $US2000,000 Grawemeyer is considered the world's premier prize for musical composition. This speaks more than the thousands of words already expended on the rights and wrongs of Garrett's decision to close the academy. It brings perspective to the level at which the academy operates and demonstrates tthe academy is far more than some elitist school for a bunch of spoilt classical wankers as some would have us believe.

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