The definitive musical autobiography from internationally acclaimed Australian pianist Roger Woodward. This is the remarkable story of one of the world’s leading musicians.In Beyond Black And White, the author documents a rich life’s journey in this part memoir, part manifesto: from boyhood lessons at the piano in Miss Pope’s lounge room, to working with the world’s most celebrated musicians, conductors and orchestras in a career that spans more than fifty years in Europe, China, Japan and the Americas. As a brilliant young artist in the early sixties Roger Woodward left Sydney to pursue piano studies behind the Iron Curtain, in Poland, at the height of the Cold War.His experiences awakened a profound sense of social justice and a deep appreciation of the relationship between art and revolution that has informed a lifelong dedication to human rights. Praise for Roger Woodward ‘a pianistic genius’ - the Guardian ‘fingers and nerves of steel’ - the New Yorker ‘one of the most consistently exciting and convincing interpreters of virtuoso avant-garde music’ - Financial times ‘unrivalled in this country’ - Sydney Morning Herald ‘Awesome’ - the times
