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Ann Carr-Boyd at 70

Four generations of music in the family

Ann Carr-Boyd has music well and truly ingrained in her family. Her Bohemian grandfather, Albert Wentzel, was a musician in an orchestra that came to play in Australia for the centenary celebrations in 1888. Her father and uncle, Norbert and Charles, both played viola in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In her teens, Ann Carr-Boyd herself was contemplating a career in visual arts, but music took over.

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The Children’s Bach

Andrew Schultz on his new opera

Despite its name, Helen Garner’s novel The Children’s Bach might seem an unlikely book on which to base an opera. Nobody dies, the action is subtle, housework is a major theme, and much of the drama is internal. But this is partly what attracted composer Andrew Schultz. ‘I thought it would be completely different from anything else I had done before’

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John Addison and Seung-Eun Lee in Adelaide

The Adelaide Contemporary Music Festival (April 4-6 2008) was a celebration of new classical music from around the world. Comprising three individual concerts, as well as a unique composer forum, the festival featured new works from Australia, Europe and Asia, including compositions written in the 1950s and premieres by emerging and established Australian and international composers.

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New Music, Clarinets and Secret Fetishes

The program for clarinettist Richard Haynes’s upcoming gig with the Melbourne-based organisation Aphids is deliberately tantalising. Titled Listen my Secret Fetish, the program includes works for clarinet and operating table, leather, watersports and a 44-gallon drum. Rhiannon Cook chats to Richard about the project and his approach to learning new works. ..

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