Limelight asked me to review Michael Atherton's latest book Never Miss A Beat. It's an inspiring read because his life can be turned upside down, a job not working out, illness, relationship break ups, belief systems smashed but Michael gets up, shakes off the dust and rebuilds. 

Here's someone with the determination gene in spades. 

Apart from Atherton's life there's intriguing detail about the history of tertiary music education this is something I have first-hand experience of because in a former life in Melbourne I was Chair of the National Council of Tertiary Music Schools.

I particularly applaud this comment:

'I don't subscribe to dichotomies such as classical versus popular. Hard boundaries don't exist.'

I reckon Long Listen Festival's director Louise King would enjoy these words too. It's certainly a theme in Big Music.