ABSTRACT
In commenting on the nature of John Antill's post-Corroboree output, Murdoch, together with Harold Hort and Pauline Petrus, have noted his situation in relation to his employment by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). Hort's position as a colleague of Antill at the ABC allowed him direct observation of Antill's extremely busy work schedule with the broadcaster and the lack of time offered to him for any sustained compositional activity. Murdoch observed that Antill's commitments involved 'incessant requirements to write and arrange small pieces' and speculated that if the ABC had provided him with more time and commissions for major works, Antill might have produced more significant and 'exportable' output. A basic theme among critics of Antill's music refers to the fact that so many of his later works are of either modest dimensions or slender substance, and that Corroboree is his one and only work of real stature and significance.
