Dr Alex Burnard

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Dr Alex Burnard 1965
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In a letter dated 2nd June 1956, the famous Australian composer Percy Grainger wrote to his friend and colleague, Alex Burnard, and described the latter's musical talent in the following words:
"You seem to me to be exactly what the highest flight of Australian musical genius should be. Or put it this way: Your music is the tonal counterpoint of Norman Lindsay's most complicated and cosmic drawings, say "Man's World" or that Bachanalian One (I forget the title)."
It is a pity that such a composer as Burnard, likened to the artistic genius of Norman Lindsay, and held in such high regard by an equally gifted genius of the calibre of Percy Grainger, could have fallen into such a state of musical obscurity.

Archives, Rare Books & Special Collections Unit
University of  Newcastle

1900
1917-1924
1927
1932
1930-34
1953

1970

 Born, Malvern
Commonwealth Bank
degree of Bachelor of Music
Doctorate of Music
Chief Music Critic at the Adelaide Advertiser
Coronation Medal for his service to music as teacher, lecturer, conductor and composer
awarded the MBE for services to music, literature and education