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Whalesong: Time and Space

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bilzzardAn Exhibition of Sculpture and Musical Performance

Sculpture and concept:
Peter Blizzard

Performance:
Adam Simmons (Saxophone)
Novak Conrad (Guitar)
Barry Cockcroft (Saxophone)
Tony Johnson (Keyboards)

Sunday 31 May 2009 12pm to 6pm
(performance commencing at 2.30)
35 Derby Street Collingwood Victoria

Australian Galleries is delighted to present a remarkable exhibition of Peter Blizzard’s sculptural work, with an accompanying experimental art performance. Whilst receiving numerous awards and commissions in Australia for public sculpture, Blizzard is also a highly regarded musician, who alongside his friend and pianist Tony Johnson has investigated the relationship between visual and performing arts since the late 1950’s. As a Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at the University of Ballarat, he initiated and organised regular experimental art performances involving a broad range of painters, sculptors, musicians, poets and dancers. A practice he continues to the present day.

To coincide with the opening of his exhibition Whale Song: Time and Space, Peter Blizzard has invited the musicians: Adam Simmons (saxophones, flutes), Barry Cockcroft (saxophones), Novak Conrad (guitar) and Tony Johnson (keyboards) to respond and improvise their captivating sounds to the shapes and forms of his sculpture, in a performance of experimental music.

His major work Whale Song Moon Halo, 2008 provides the cornerstone for the exhibition and the art performance, reflecting the artist’s strong views about the destructive nature of Japanese whaling, and the grave possibility of losing the sublime whale songs forever. Initially the musicians will provide individual solo performances, and for the first time, will hear the other’s response to the sculpture. If, after listening to one another’s performances they find some commonality in their responses, they will perform an ensemble piece based on their combined interpretations.

Peter Blizzard has been fighting cancer for the past four and a half years, and is still producing emotionally charged work which captures the inherent quality of a unique environment and it’s inhabitants. Australian Galleries invites you to celebrate with him the essential spirit of nature.

Reed Music presents Grainger Wind Symphony

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graingerwith special guests
Barry Cockcroft (saxophones)
Ken Murray (guitar)

9 new Australian works for wind symphony including 5 premiere performances. Guitar and saxophone works with original compositions by Barry Cockcroft & Ken Murray.

7:30pm Saturday June 20th 2009
Melba Hall (opposite Story St)
The University of Melbourne
Royal Parade Parkville
tickets at door $15/$20
tickets online $11

Reed Music presents a special concert with Grainger Wind Symphony playing 9 new works published by Reed Music including 5 premiere performances. The concert will also see the performance of the guitar and saxophone compositions by Barry Cockcroft, Ken Murray & Stuart Greenbaum. Australian composers featuring their new works include: Orlovich, Carter, Stanhope, Greenbaum, Abbott, Batterham, Collins, Barrett, Cockcroft & Murray.

The Grainger Wind Symphony is a Melbourne-based group of musicians who share a passion for creating quality wind-band music. The establishment of the Granger Wind Symphony was chosen to not only represent and perform wind ensemble music of the highest calibre, but also celebrate the name of Percy Grainger, one of Australia's foremost performing musicians and composers, bringing Grainger's name and music to greater recognition by the Australian public, and to the listener, the enjoyment of wind ensemble music generally.

The group has premiered original compositions in Australia by noted composers for this genre such as Alfred Reed, Frank Ticheli, Robert Downing and Vincent Persichetti.

The Grainger Wind Symphony promotes wind music by running workshops for young players and sharing the concert platform with them, as well as performing in smaller groups, such as a brass quintet, a flute trio, a woodwind group and a dance band! The Grainger Wind Symphony performs around eight concerts a year in a variety of venues around Melbourne and Victoria, including the Robert Blackwood Hall, Melba Hall at the University of Melbourne, the Melbourne Town Hall and the Yarra Valley Performing Arts Centre.

Rompduo Australian & NZ Tour

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Rompduo 2009 tour
Barry Cockcroft (saxophone)
Adam Pinto (piano)

Australia’s well-known saxophone & piano duo are undertaking a concert tour of Australia & New Zealand this year. Rompduo recently completed a 3-month residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and this year will be performing music by some of Australia’s most dynamic composers. Much of this exciting repertoire is featured on the new AMEB syllabus for saxophone released this year and will provide immediate appeal to a wide range of teachers, students and performers of classical saxophone.

7:30pm Monday 16th March Perth

7:30-8:30 Monday 16th of March 2009
Eastern Hills Senior High School Music Auditorium
Keane Street Mt Helena
Tickets at the door $12/$18
Public masterclass 6-7 (all welcome)

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7:30pm Wed 18th March Melbourne

7:30pm Wed 18th March
Fintona Girls School Balwyn
Reid Studio (enter of Millah Rd)
Tickets at the door $12/$18

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7pm Thursday 19th March Sydney

7pm Thursday 19th March
Recital Hall East
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Entry by generous donation!

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Saturday 21st March Ballarat

7pm Saturday 21st March
Ballarat High School
Robinson Theatre
Tickets at the door $12/$18
public masterclass 5:30pm (bring your instruments)

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2pm Sunday 22nd March Geelong

2pm Sunday 22nd March
Christian College Geelong
Middle School Campus
18 Burdekin Road Highton
public masterclass 11-1 (bring your instruments)
Tickets at the door $12/$18

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23rd & 24th March Hobart

7pm Monday 23rd March
Hobart Conservatorium
Tickets at the door $12/$18

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7pm Wed 25th March Adelaide

7pm Wed 25th March 2009
Bishop Hall
Elder Conservatorium of Music
University of Adelaide
$12/$18 (Con students free)
public masterclass 5pm

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Monday 30th March Brisbane

7.30pm Monday 30th March
Basil Jones Orchestral Hall
Griffith University
Queensland Conservatorium of Music
Tickets at the door $12/$18

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6pm Wednesday 1st April Wellington

6pm Wednesday 1st April
Adam Concert Room
NZSM
Tickets at the door $12/$18

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7pm Friday 3rd April Christchurch

7pm Friday 3rd April
Details available soon...

Reed Music and Copyright

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Reed Music publications may not be copied.

Reed Music and the AMCOS agreement

The AMCOS licence, established in 1991 allows Australian school teachers to make photocopies of print music publications under certain circumstances. Reed Music publications are not included in this agreement. Although Reed Music appreciates that you are using our publications and want to share them with your students...

You may not:

  • Make photocopies of Reed Music publications for your students.
  • Buy a full band composition and copy extra parts for the students.
  • Make rehearsal copies for the students.
  • Photocopy the music for the student to try at home.
  • Buy a 'class set' and copy the music for the students.
  • Use the 'AMCOS licensed copy' stamp on Reed Music publications.
  • Buy a Reed Music audio recording (CD or digital) and copy it for your students.
  • etc...

A special note for Australian instrumental teachers.

Many instrumental teachers believe that it is okay to photocopy music for their students if the schools or teacher owns a copy of the music.

This is not the case. Instrumental music teachers are completely exempt and have never been part of the AMCOS Schools' Photocopying Licence, it is for classroom music only. Instrumental teachers must be aware that any photocopies made in the process of teaching instrumental music are illegal and may be subject to considerable fines under Australian law.

Instrumental teachers may not:

  • Photocopy music they own for their students.
  • Photocopy a page from a collection of works.
  • Photocopy the music for the pianist to perform from.
  • Buy the music and copy it year after year for the students.

Why is Reed Music not included in the AMCOS licence?

Each year, millions of dollars collected through the AMCOS and participating schools in Australia. The AMCOS Schools' Photocopying Licence costs 56.62 cents per student per year. Regular surveys are conducted to see which music is being photocopied in schools and then an average is established and paid back to copyright holders, usually the publisher, who then passes it on to the composers. However, there are many more parties involved in the music industry. For example, in the above scenario, music stores have missed out up to 30 sales for each copy of the music they have sold, but never receive any financial compensation. Although the AMCOS agreement is widely implemented throughout Australia, it is poorly understood. As such, the agreement is abused and composers are missing out.

Reed Music believes that Australian music students should own original music.

  • Buying music rewards the composers and arrangers and offers them some financial compensation for their creative work. (Keep copying their music and they write less music).
  • Students with original music gain a respect for the music that is not seen from a random collection of photocopies.
  • Music books are often written to be systematic and progressive. Giving a students a page from many different books fragments their learning. If you have an idea for a better book, write one and get it published.
  • Photocopying, although easy, is entirely illegal.

Do you copy music?

As music teachers who make their living form teaching music, you may appreciate your regularly salaried income. Copying music and not buying the required originals is a sign of profound disrespect for the music profession and shows a complete lack of regard for other creative individuals. If you do not buy composers music, they do not get paid. It is that simple. Would you keep teaching music if you did not get paid?

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Rompduo Victorian Tour

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Rompduo

In recent weeks Rompduo (Barry Cockcroft & Adam Pinto) have given several concerts in Victoria, Australia. Performing several publications by Reed Music, the concerts saw the Australian premiere of several new works including the Sonata by Perry Goldstein, Naked Hum by Taran Carter, Three Places for a New Millenium by Stuart Greenbaum and two new compositions by Barry Cockcroft.

Blue Tongue is a solo piece in a blues style with a theatrical element to be performed with a sense of humour. After a brief rubato introduction, the rhythm and pulse remain relentless with a gradual increase in the dynamics and intensity of the piece. Toward the end the clarinetist should gradually disassemble their instrument while playing. The piece should be played with a sense of humour and creative ways of taking apart the clarinet could be employed.

Barry's other new piece for solo saxophone, Rock Me! is dedicated to all those musicians who aspired to be rock stars but somehow never quite made it. It features rapid quasi slap tonguing simulating an electric bass, a wild distorted section mimicking an out of control electric guitar and of course the inevitable drum solo produced by means some creative tonguing and reed work...

Rompduo also played their version of Debussy's Rhapsody and a new transcription of the Saint-Saëns Sonata for Oboe and Piano, performed on soprano saxophone. The ever popular Crazy Logic by Matthew Orlovich was heard in several concerts and remains one the most energetic works written for the duo. Adam performed the sublime Debussy's 10th Prelude. This piece is based on an ancient Breton myth in which a cathedral, which is submerged underwater off the coast of the Island of Ys, rises up from the sea on certain mornings. Sounds can be heard of priests chanting, bells chiming, and the organ playing, from across the sea.

Rompduo gave several masterclasses on their tour and worked with students from Melbourne schools, PLC, Buckley Park College, Warrnambool schools including Warrnambool College, Brauer College, King's College, Emmanuel College and Geelong School St. Joseph's College.

Rompduo will touring Australia and New Zealand in March of 2009.

Brenton Broadstock featured in Olympic Ceremony

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Brenton Broadstock

Reed Music composer Brenton Broadstock will be featured in Friday's opening ceremony at the Beijing olympics.

Australian composers William Barton, Julian Yu and Brenton Broadstock have co-written the music for the Oceania section of ceremony and their music will be played during the entrance of the athletes. The indigenous band, led by William, will perform his music first, then Julian's then Brenton's, but this will be in between music from the other continents.

Stuart Greenbaum wins 2008 Music Award

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Reed Music composer Stuart Greenbaum took out the 2008 Classical Music orchestral award for 90 Minutes Circling the Earth, a work inspired by observations made by astronauts from various countries, on how the Earth looks from outer space.

The Australian music industry celebrated the success of this year's most outstanding Australian classical music achievements at the 2008 Classical Music Awards. The Awards were presented by APRA and the Australian Music Centre, at The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House. Stuart has several works published by Reed Music including his popular works for saxophone.

Rompduo Recital

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Australian duo Rompduo - Barry Cockcroft (saxophone) & Adam Pinto (piano) will be performing a recital in Melbourne on Sunday August 24th at 2pm.

The program will feature the following pieces:

Claude Debussy - Rapsodie
Matthew Orlovich - Crazy Logic
Barry Cockcroft - Rock Me!*
Taran Carter -
Naked Hum

Perry Goldstein - Sonata*
Saint-Saëns - Oboe Sonata
Barry Cockcroft - Blue Tongue*
Stuart Greenbaum - Three Places for a New Millennium

& more...

*Australian premiere

2pm Sunday 24th August
Reid Studio
Fintona Girls School, Balwyn
enter of Millah Road

Claude Delangle in Melbourne

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Reed Music is proud to support a performance of renown French saxophonist Claude Delangle in a performance at the University of Melbourne.

Soloist, researcher and pedagogue, Claude Delangle, one of the greatest contemporary saxophonists, stands out as the master of the French saxophone. Privileged interpreter for classic works, he enriches the repertoire and encourages creation by collaborating with the most renowned composers, including L. Berio, P. Boulez, Toru Takemitsu, A. Piazzolla, and promoting the youngest. Since 1986, he is invited saxophonist in the Ensemble Intercontemporain, he also appears as soloist with the most prestigious orchestras (London BBC, Radio France, Radio of Finland, WDR Köln, Berlin Philharmonic, Kioi Tokyo) and works with D. Robertson, P. Eötvös, K. Nagano, E.P. Salonen, Miung Wung Chung, G. Bernstein and many other conductors.

French saxophonist Claude Delangle
French saxophonist Claude Delangle

He is also invited to important festivals such as the Zagreb Bienniale , Présences of Radio France or the Musica Nova Festival . The Festival Musica of Strasbourg invited him recently to offer the world premiere of the programme “ Tango Futur ”, interpreted afterwards at the Festival Aix en Musique and at the Theatre of the Palais Royal in Paris.

Passionate for his instrument, he goes beyond the work of the soloist and frequents the Musical Acoustic Laboratories of the University of Paris 7. The results of his research on specific acoustics of the saxophone will be for him a precious asset in his collaboration with composers.

His recordings for BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Erato and Verany bring out French music while revealing new musical horizons from the repertoire created by the brilliant Adolphe Sax to the avant-garde works or the popular repertoire.

After obtaining several outstanding Premiers Prix at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris , Claude Delangle was appointed professor in 1988, where he has created the most prestigious saxophone class in the world. Pupils of all nationalities long to receive this education, which combines concerts with the possibility of studying with important composers and offers a large range of interdisciplinary activities. In Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia, Claude Delangle is requested for interpretation courses.

He is currently in charge of a collection at the Henri-Lemoine-Paris publications, where he works for the publishing of new repertoires and for the republishing of classic works, not forgetting, however, the publication of pedagogical works.

During this season 2003-2004 Asia will welcome Claude Delangle four times: in Japan he will perform in a tour with the Metropolitan Tokyo Symphony, in Hong Kong with the City Chamber Orchestra, in Singapore he will record for BIS the great concertos of the repertoire with the Symphonic Orchestra of Singapore and will give recitals in China. He is also planning the premiere of Trame 1 by Martin Matalon at the Arsenal in Metz, a tour of recitals in Central America in July and concerts with the orchestras of Saint Petersburg and Novossibirsk in September. The strong point of his Parisian season will be the Festival Agora in June, for which he has been given carte blanche by the IRCAM (Institute of musical acoustics research and coordination).

Reading day at Engadine Music

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Reed Music composers Sam Seabrook and Barry Cockcroft attended the reading day at Sydney Girls High School organised by Engadine music.

Sam demonstrated her new band method Band Class 1 to many of the teachers there on the day while Barry talked to the teachers with HSC students about some of the fantastic Australian compositions now available and suitable for HSF. A recomended list for HSC is now available here complete with sample scores and recordings of many of the pieces.