Facing the Music
Release date: 2001-07-07
Votes: 4
Genres: Documentary, Music
Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded University of Sydney. This documentary chronicles a year in the life of an academic department that's under the financial gun.
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