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‘Tis Post Referendum Season . . .
Australian holiday time is upon us, but it’s still Post Voice Referendum Season in the quixotic Land of Oz. Like poor old Don Quixote, have we been tilting at windmills? Or are the scary threats that were raised in the… Continue reading
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Blue Sky Country Christmas Concert Dec 8 2023 | River City Voices / Ngarra Burria / St Patricks Cathedral Parramatta | Humanitix
Parramatta’s River City Voices Choir and the ANU Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers present a concert of uniquely Australian Christmas music Continue reading
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Concert Repertoires & Playlists
Strangely, Australian media music curators rarely promote uniquely Australian music. Pieces of new Australian music are presented once only, as if they are exotic curiosities, and are soon forgotten. New Australian composers are classified as “emerging” – a gatekeeping bubble… Continue reading
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Australian Music: Past, Present, Future
Visitors to Australia are astounded to find that in Australia, First Nations cultures and musics are denigrated, neglected, tokenised and buried in a flood of foreign music shows. When they come to Australia they see foreign music prioritised, honoured, and… Continue reading
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“We Are Your Witnesses” at St Johns Cathedral Evensong, Brisbane, 30 July 2023
https://www.youtube.com/live/B_VDdNG_18o?feature=share Evensong from St Johns Cathedral Brisbane. The Choral Evensong Service of 30 July 2023 at St Johns Cathedral Brisbane, livestreamed on the St Johns Cathedral YouTube channel, will include my SATB Indigenous anthem “We Are Your Witnesses” as the… Continue reading
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Songs from the Heart : Hyperion CD release April 7 2023
After The Song Company’s successful September – October 2022 tour of Songs from the Heart received rave reviews from Classikon’s Pepe Newton and Sydney Arts Guide’s Lynne Lancaster, The Song Company’s live recording of the Cell Block Theatre production (with… Continue reading
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Composing Kaouwi Two Children Cooee for “Songs from the Heart”
I originally composed Kaouwi Two Children Cooee as a simple children’s song. The transliterated word Cooee comes from the Dharug Aboriginal language, the First Contact Australian Aboriginal language of the place the English renamed Sydney, the Country of the Dharug-speaking… Continue reading
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Songs from the Heart at Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle
At Newcastle’s Christ Church Cathedral on 29 September 2022, The Song Company premiered Songs from the Heart, a mainstage program of twenty four SSAATTBB choral responses to the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart from three Australian First Nations composers… Continue reading
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The Yoora Tattoo Saga . . .
. . . Ngarra Burria . . . to listen to sing . . . Continue reading
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Walking Treaty Tracks with “Songs from the Heart”
https://the.song.company/reviews/songs-from-the-heart-2022 The Song Company’s upcoming Songs from the Heart tour in September-October 2022, with commissioned music by Sonya Holowell and myself, and two co-composed pieces from Anmatjere Arrernte singer singwriter Rhubee Neale, is designed as a musical interface between Australia’s… Continue reading
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