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Jane Stanley reports from Tanglewood
I am writing from the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) in the United States, where I am currently a Composition Fellow. Tanglewood is a summer academy for composers, conductors, singers and instrumentalists...
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Applications are now open for the 2009 Bundanon Artist in Residence Program. While musicians are increasingly finding their way to the Boyd homestead by the Shoalhaven River, there is still room for more applicants.
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International Congress on Women in Music
At the end of 2007 I received an invitation to attend the International Congress on Women in Music hosted in Beijing. A piece of mine had been selected for performance during the festival. The chance to visit China was very tempting as, being a former student of Larry Sitsky who often speaks of his early musical upbringing there, China features prominently in my musical imagination.
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1925 - 2008
The passing of Tristram Cary in Adelaide last week is indeed a sad loss. Tristram's contribution was immense, and largely unrecognised publicly. Many people worked with him, or were influenced by him, and many more have benefited from his work over many decades. Jim Cotter offers some reflections, and we invite others to also add their thoughts and memories of this pioneering musical spirit.
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On Tuesday 8 April 2008 at Australia House in London a gala concert took place featuring the six talented finalists in the Performing Australian Music Competition (PAMC) 2008.
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Colin Bright reports on his experience with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra as 2006 Trans Tasman Composer Resident.
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A New Angle on National Music Camp
In January, resonate contributor Melissa Lesnie attended Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp, as part of the Words About Music program. Here she reflects on her two-week stint as intrepid camp journo, and how such a role interacts with that of the young performers, composers and arts administrators thriving within the same musical training ground.
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In the past six months I’ve had the opportunity to be involved in two different projects: the premiere event of Chronology Arts in Sydney and the 07-08 Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers program with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In some ways the two could not be more contrasting...
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Members of Canberra-based Clarity Clarinet Quartet – Nicole Canham, Sam Kelson, Lisa Manning and Matthew O’Keeffe – have recently finished a week-long intensive workshop for their project Six Memos. resonate invited Clarity to blog about their experiences during the series of workshops. What follows is the second installment of their daily reflections...
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Clarity Clarinet Quartet
Members of Canberra-based Clarity Clarinet Quartet – Nicole Canham, Sam Kelson, Lisa Manning and Matthew O’Keeffe – are currently engaging in a week-long intensive workshop for their project Six Memos. Throughout the week their main aim is to memorise 80 minutes of music and develop movement, lighting and set design with director Caroline Stacey, set designer David Sequeira and lighting guru David Longmuir...
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International Society for Contemporary Music World Music Days 2007
The large proportion of works from Asian countries was, for me, an interesting feature of this year’s ISCM festival, particularly because it’s clear that this was not merely a result of the host country being Hong Kong...
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Composer Development Program
With Symphony Australia’s 2007/2008 Composer Development Program starting last week, resonate caught up with Adam Starr, one of this year’s participants to find out why he applied for the program and what experience he’s had with writing orchestral music in the past.
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The 2007 Flametree Festival
The 2007 Flametree Festival, directed by Heidi Jones and James Beck, was recently held at Bundanon – Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s ‘living arts centre’ on the South Coast of NSW. Percussionist Claire Edwardes, one of the performers at the Festival, described the event as a ‘once in a lifetime experience’...
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In an article published by the American Music Center e-zine New Music Box on music economics in May this year, Marc Geelhoed discussed the difficulties of audience-building, addressing methods for publicity and promotion...
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I was lucky enough to attend and perform at the opening event for the Sounds Unusual Festival in Alice Springs recently and was blown away by the location and the community of dedicated humans who worked together to create an extraordinary evening of sound, light and fire...
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For Richard Toop, a recent release of Third Stream music by Don Banks brings back fond memories. It also raises 'out of sight, out of mind' issues that apply to some living Australian composers too...
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MODART07 and the creative process
I have a confession: I have never blogged before. While having been aware of the trend for a while and indulging in the occasional reading, when I was asked to write about my MODART07 experiences for the resonate group blog, I had a sudden panic – how do I do it?
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Gondwana Voices chorister, Alexandra Stuart-Watt, aged 13 from NSW, writes about her experience of an unforgettable world tour in which Gondwana Voices – Australia’s national children’s choir - performed its Australian repertoire across the globe…
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Today marks the 75th birthday of Richard Meale. Such a milestone not only marks the passing of time, but also provides an opportunity to pause for reflection...
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Pain, anguish and anger were the last things I expected to feel during the Sydney gigs of the Liquid Architecture Festival a few months back...
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The idea of ‘performance practice’ means wildly different things to different people. I frequently play music from centuries past, where long-dead composers are scant help with interpretative questions...
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Introducing young people to contemporary classical music can be a challenging but rewarding experience... but the very words contemporary classical music often causes apprehension, fear, and misconception...
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After reading Danielle Carey’s interview with Andrew Ford in a past issue of Sounds Australian (No.67, 2006), I initially felt surprised by the boldness of Ford’s comments towards Australian musicologists...
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