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Joe Dolce

Poet, Songwriter and Performer

!! New !!

Crooked Timber

Essays on Film and Music

foreword by Bruce Beresford

New studio album
Green-eyed Boy of the Rain

We need to keep in mind when critiquing Dolce’s music that each of these songs is the work of a highly-informed and serious poet and composer in the deepest classical music sense, in fact one who has not only written oratorio and opera, but orchestrations and string quartet scores, studied the twelve-tone works of Arnold Schoenberg, the Dadaism of Luciano Berio, inverted or reversed melody lines, and the mathematic intricacies of J.S. Bach, as much as being an initiate of the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds and the Beatles, among other influences, and embracing the nuances of folk music and verse from Renaissance times onwards, as well as being a well-versed practitioner of a myriad of literary styles and a keen observer of—and participant in—contemporary Australian arts and culture. Rupert Guenther.

"We talked to Joe Dolce in November - an exciting article [The Queen’s Gambit: The Accelerated Polgár Variation] was born out of it!" Judit Polgár, Hungarian Chess Grandmaster