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U3A Music Appreciation Session with David Ford – Saturday 5 May 2pm

Australian International Music Festival

Sydney 25th June – 2nd July 2012

Cooma Music Observation Tour

World-Projects.com.au

Do you have a love of music? Are you learning an instrument? Are you interested in learning more about playing in an ensemble? Do you play or perform in an Orchestra, patient
Concert Band, Jazz Band or in a Choir? This tour is for you.

 

Australian International Music Festival (AIMF) hosts choirs, bands and orchestras from Australia and around the world. For performing groups that pay to participate in this yearly event they would receive world class workshops and perform in landmark venues across Sydney. Luckily we have been offered access to observe these international groups & clinicians work and perform. If you are interested in observing workshops, performances and listening to international groups then please sign up and come to Sydney.

 

10 spots are available for interested people to come and meet musicians, clinicians, and watch performances in Sydney Opera House, Angel Place Recital Hall, St Andrews Cathedral and Sydney Town Hall. The only costs are for the tour is to pay for your own transport, accommodation (you can organise your own and staying with a family friend to reduce costs is completely up to you) and food. Entry to the concerts, workshops, adjudicated performances and rehearsals are all free, yes, free. If you are 18 years old or younger you will need to also come with a guardian or parent. For more information on the AIMF 2012 please go to www.worldprojects.com.au and click on the Australian International Music Festival page.

 

While at the festival you will watch clinicians from Australia, USA and many other parts of the world run highly advanced workshops with some music groups from Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Japan, USA and other parts of the world. Some of the groups will be beginners but the majority will be very advanced or semi-professional world-class groups. There will also be a combined Orchestra and Choir work performed at the command performance at the end of the festival. Nearly every day is completely full of organised music of one sort or another. Choir workshop then a jazz band, then a joint exchange rehearsal, then concert bands for rest of day, next day might be massed choir rehearsals with George Torbay (One of Australia’s best Choir clinicians), then Orchestra workshop, with concert band exchange rehearsal in evening. This is just an example of what could happen for you to watch over a two day and night at the festival. A more in-depth description of what could happen at the festival is available on the website above so have a look at that too. If you allow from 9am to 10pm every day for learning and listening then you are close to the amount of music that you can observe in the time there. There is also an occasional moment of free time for shopping or your own site seeing but it might be only one morning in the whole week.

 

To participate in this wonderful experience at the AIMF all you need to do is to send an email to wotney@hotmail.com and instructions will be sent to you. You will have to look after your own accommodation, transport and food requirements for the time in Sydney but assistance can be offered in organising that for you. The suggestion for accommodation is the YHA Sydney Central located just next to Central Railway Station as it is cheaper and closer to all the venues for the festival at around $47.00 per night per person. Transport from the YHA to the venues are all walkable but can take up to ¾ hour – Opera House is the furthest away so perhaps a train from Central to Circular Quay with a walk from the Quay to the Opera House. Please budget for these little incidentals.

 

Small example budget for someone who does not stay at a friends’ house is;

Accommodation – YHA Central – $47.00 x 7 $329.00

Train travel where required $ 40.00

$369.00

Please also keep in mind you will have to pay for your food too. Entry to the venues for all festival organised events is free for us and us only. Most participants that come to participate in the festival as musicians in a group pay over $400 each just to join, they also then have to get there, pay for accommodation and food all on top of that participation fee. As you can see we are very lucky to be observers at this event which would otherwise have cost several hundred dollars more.


 

Australian International Music Festival

Sydney 25th June – 2nd July 2012

Cooma Music Observation Tour

World-Projects.com.au

Do you have a love of music? Are you learning an instrument? Are you interested in learning more about playing in an ensemble? Do you play or perform in an Orchestra, sickness Concert Band, web
Jazz Band or in a Choir? This tour is for you.

 

Australian International Music Festival (AIMF) hosts choirs, bands and orchestras from Australia and around the world. For performing groups that pay to participate in this yearly event they would receive world class workshops and perform in landmark venues across Sydney. Luckily we have been offered access to observe these international groups & clinicians work and perform. If you are interested in observing workshops, performances and listening to international groups then please sign up and come to Sydney.

 

10 spots are available for interested people to come and meet musicians, clinicians, and watch performances in Sydney Opera House, Angel Place Recital Hall, St Andrews Cathedral and Sydney Town Hall. The only costs are for the tour is to pay for your own transport, accommodation (you can organise your own and staying with a family friend to reduce costs is completely up to you) and food. Entry to the concerts, workshops, adjudicated performances and rehearsals are all free, yes, free. If you are 18 years old or younger you will need to also come with a guardian or parent. For more information on the AIMF 2012 please go to www.worldprojects.com.au and click on the Australian International Music Festival page.

 

While at the festival you will watch clinicians from Australia, USA and many other parts of the world run highly advanced workshops with some music groups from Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Japan, USA and other parts of the world. Some of the groups will be beginners but the majority will be very advanced or semi-professional world-class groups. There will also be a combined Orchestra and Choir work performed at the command performance at the end of the festival. Nearly every day is completely full of organised music of one sort or another. Choir workshop then a jazz band, then a joint exchange rehearsal, then concert bands for rest of day, next day might be massed choir rehearsals with George Torbay (One of Australia’s best Choir clinicians), then Orchestra workshop, with concert band exchange rehearsal in evening. This is just an example of what could happen for you to watch over a two day and night at the festival. A more in-depth description of what could happen at the festival is available on the website above so have a look at that too. If you allow from 9am to 10pm every day for learning and listening then you are close to the amount of music that you can observe in the time there. There is also an occasional moment of free time for shopping or your own site seeing but it might be only one morning in the whole week.

 

To participate in this wonderful experience at the AIMF all you need to do is to send an email to wotney@hotmail.com and instructions will be sent to you. You will have to look after your own accommodation, transport and food requirements for the time in Sydney but assistance can be offered in organising that for you. The suggestion for accommodation is the YHA Sydney Central located just next to Central Railway Station as it is cheaper and closer to all the venues for the festival at around $47.00 per night per person. Transport from the YHA to the venues are all walkable but can take up to ¾ hour – Opera House is the furthest away so perhaps a train from Central to Circular Quay with a walk from the Quay to the Opera House. Please budget for these little incidentals.

 

Small example budget for someone who does not stay at a friends’ house is;

Accommodation – YHA Central – $47.00 x 7 $329.00

Train travel where required $ 40.00

$369.00

Please also keep in mind you will have to pay for your food too. Entry to the venues for all festival organised events is free for us and us only. Most participants that come to participate in the festival as musicians in a group pay over $400 each just to join, they also then have to get there, pay for accommodation and food all on top of that participation fee. As you can see we are very lucky to be observers at this event which would otherwise have cost several hundred dollars more.


 

Australian International Music Festival

Sydney 25th June – 2nd July 2012

Cooma Music Observation Tour

World-Projects.com.au

Do you have a love of music? Are you learning an instrument? Are you interested in learning more about playing in an ensemble? Do you play or perform in an Orchestra, tadalafil
Concert Band, viagra dosage
Jazz Band or in a Choir? This tour is for you.

 

Australian International Music Festival (AIMF) hosts choirs, bands and orchestras from Australia and around the world. For performing groups that pay to participate in this yearly event they would receive world class workshops and perform in landmark venues across Sydney. Luckily we have been offered access to observe these international groups & clinicians work and perform. If you are interested in observing workshops, performances and listening to international groups then please sign up and come to Sydney.

 

10 spots are available for interested people to come and meet musicians, clinicians, and watch performances in Sydney Opera House, Angel Place Recital Hall, St Andrews Cathedral and Sydney Town Hall. The only costs are for the tour is to pay for your own transport, accommodation (you can organise your own and staying with a family friend to reduce costs is completely up to you) and food. Entry to the concerts, workshops, adjudicated performances and rehearsals are all free, yes, free. If you are 18 years old or younger you will need to also come with a guardian or parent. For more information on the AIMF 2012 please go to www.worldprojects.com.au and click on the Australian International Music Festival page.

 

While at the festival you will watch clinicians from Australia, USA and many other parts of the world run highly advanced workshops with some music groups from Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Japan, USA and other parts of the world. Some of the groups will be beginners but the majority will be very advanced or semi-professional world-class groups. There will also be a combined Orchestra and Choir work performed at the command performance at the end of the festival. Nearly every day is completely full of organised music of one sort or another. Choir workshop then a jazz band, then a joint exchange rehearsal, then concert bands for rest of day, next day might be massed choir rehearsals with George Torbay (One of Australia’s best Choir clinicians), then Orchestra workshop, with concert band exchange rehearsal in evening. This is just an example of what could happen for you to watch over a two day and night at the festival. A more in-depth description of what could happen at the festival is available on the website above so have a look at that too. If you allow from 9am to 10pm every day for learning and listening then you are close to the amount of music that you can observe in the time there. There is also an occasional moment of free time for shopping or your own site seeing but it might be only one morning in the whole week.

 

To participate in this wonderful experience at the AIMF all you need to do is to send an email to wotney@hotmail.com and instructions will be sent to you. You will have to look after your own accommodation, transport and food requirements for the time in Sydney but assistance can be offered in organising that for you. The suggestion for accommodation is the YHA Sydney Central located just next to Central Railway Station as it is cheaper and closer to all the venues for the festival at around $47.00 per night per person. Transport from the YHA to the venues are all walkable but can take up to ¾ hour – Opera House is the furthest away so perhaps a train from Central to Circular Quay with a walk from the Quay to the Opera House. Please budget for these little incidentals.

 

Small example budget for someone who does not stay at a friends’ house is;

Accommodation – YHA Central – $47.00 x 7 $329.00

Train travel where required $ 40.00

$369.00

Please also keep in mind you will have to pay for your food too. Entry to the venues for all festival organised events is free for us and us only. Most participants that come to participate in the festival as musicians in a group pay over $400 each just to join, they also then have to get there, pay for accommodation and food all on top of that participation fee. As you can see we are very lucky to be observers at this event which would otherwise have cost several hundred dollars more.


 
 

Australian International Music Festival

Sydney 25th June – 2nd July 2012

Cooma Music Observation Tour

World-Projects.com.au

Do you have a love of music? Are you learning an instrument? Are you interested in learning more about playing in an ensemble? Do you play or perform in an Orchestra, discount
Concert Band, here
Jazz Band or in a Choir? This tour is for you.

Australian International Music Festival (AIMF) hosts choirs, information pills
bands and orchestras from Australia and around the world. For performing groups that pay to participate in this yearly event they would receive world class workshops and perform in landmark venues across Sydney. Luckily we have been offered access to observe these international groups & clinicians work and perform. If you are interested in observing workshops, performances and listening to international groups then please sign up and come to Sydney.

10 spots are available for interested people to come and meet musicians, clinicians, and watch performances in Sydney Opera House, Angel Place Recital Hall, St Andrews Cathedral and Sydney Town Hall. The only costs are for the tour is to pay for your own transport, accommodation (you can organise your own and staying with a family friend to reduce costs is completely up to you) and food. Entry to the concerts, workshops, adjudicated performances and rehearsals are all free, yes, free. If you are 18 years old or younger you will need to also come with a guardian or parent. For more information on the AIMF 2012 please go to www.worldprojects.com.au and click on the Australian International Music Festival page.

While at the festival you will watch clinicians from Australia, USA and many other parts of the world run highly advanced workshops with some music groups from Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Japan, USA and other parts of the world. Some of the groups will be beginners but the majority will be very advanced or semi-professional world-class groups. There will also be a combined Orchestra and Choir work performed at the command performance at the end of the festival. Nearly every day is completely full of organised music of one sort or another. Choir workshop then a jazz band, then a joint exchange rehearsal, then concert bands for rest of day, next day might be massed choir rehearsals with George Torbay (One of Australia’s best Choir clinicians), then Orchestra workshop, with concert band exchange rehearsal in evening. This is just an example of what could happen for you to watch over a two day and night at the festival. A more in-depth description of what could happen at the festival is available on the website above so have a look at that too. If you allow from 9am to 10pm every day for learning and listening then you are close to the amount of music that you can observe in the time there. There is also an occasional moment of free time for shopping or your own site seeing but it might be only one morning in the whole week.

To participate in this wonderful experience at the AIMF all you need to do is to send an email to wotney@hotmail.com and instructions will be sent to you. You will have to look after your own accommodation, transport and food requirements for the time in Sydney but assistance can be offered in organising that for you. The suggestion for accommodation is the YHA Sydney Central located just next to Central Railway Station as it is cheaper and closer to all the venues for the festival at around $47.00 per night per person. Transport from the YHA to the venues are all walkable but can take up to ¾ hour – Opera House is the furthest away so perhaps a train from Central to Circular Quay with a walk from the Quay to the Opera House. Please budget for these little incidentals.

Small example budget for someone who does not stay at a friends’ house is;

  • Accommodation – YHA Central – $47.00 x 7 $329.00
  • Train travel where required $ 40.00
  • Total $369.00

Please also keep in mind you will have to pay for your food too. Entry to the venues for all festival organised events is free for us and us only. Most participants that come to participate in the festival as musicians in a group pay over $400 each just to join, they also then have to get there, pay for accommodation and food all on top of that participation fee. As you can see we are very lucky to be observers at this event which would otherwise have cost several hundred dollars more.



 
 

Australian International Music Festival

Sydney 25th June – 2nd July 2012

Cooma Music Observation Tour

World-Projects.com.au

Do you have a love of music? Are you learning an instrument? Are you interested in learning more about playing in an ensemble? Do you play or perform in an Orchestra, visit web
Concert Band, life
Jazz Band or in a Choir? This tour is for you.

Australian International Music Festival (AIMF) hosts choirs, bands and orchestras from Australia and around the world. For performing groups that pay to participate in this yearly event they would receive world class workshops and perform in landmark venues across Sydney. Luckily we have been offered access to observe these international groups & clinicians work and perform. If you are interested in observing workshops, performances and listening to international groups then please sign up and come to Sydney.

10 spots are available for interested people to come and meet musicians, clinicians, and watch performances in Sydney Opera House, Angel Place Recital Hall, St Andrews Cathedral and Sydney Town Hall. The only costs are for the tour is to pay for your own transport, accommodation (you can organise your own and staying with a family friend to reduce costs is completely up to you) and food. Entry to the concerts, workshops, adjudicated performances and rehearsals are all free, yes, free. If you are 18 years old or younger you will need to also come with a guardian or parent. For more information on the AIMF 2012 please go to www.worldprojects.com.au and click on the Australian International Music Festival page.

While at the festival you will watch clinicians from Australia, USA and many other parts of the world run highly advanced workshops with some music groups from Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Japan, USA and other parts of the world. Some of the groups will be beginners but the majority will be very advanced or semi-professional world-class groups. There will also be a combined Orchestra and Choir work performed at the command performance at the end of the festival. Nearly every day is completely full of organised music of one sort or another. Choir workshop then a jazz band, then a joint exchange rehearsal, then concert bands for rest of day, next day might be massed choir rehearsals with George Torbay (One of Australia’s best Choir clinicians), then Orchestra workshop, with concert band exchange rehearsal in evening. This is just an example of what could happen for you to watch over a two day and night at the festival. A more in-depth description of what could happen at the festival is available on the website above so have a look at that too. If you allow from 9am to 10pm every day for learning and listening then you are close to the amount of music that you can observe in the time there. There is also an occasional moment of free time for shopping or your own site seeing but it might be only one morning in the whole week.

To participate in this wonderful experience at the AIMF all you need to do is to send an email to wotney@hotmail.com and instructions will be sent to you. You will have to look after your own accommodation, transport and food requirements for the time in Sydney but assistance can be offered in organising that for you. The suggestion for accommodation is the YHA Sydney Central located just next to Central Railway Station as it is cheaper and closer to all the venues for the festival at around $47.00 per night per person. Transport from the YHA to the venues are all walkable but can take up to ¾ hour – Opera House is the furthest away so perhaps a train from Central to Circular Quay with a walk from the Quay to the Opera House. Please budget for these little incidentals.

Small example budget for someone who does not stay at a friends’ house is;

  • Accommodation – YHA Central – $47.00 x 7 $329.00
  • Train travel where required $ 40.00
  • Total $369.00

Please also keep in mind you will have to pay for your food too. Entry to the venues for all festival organised events is free for us and us only. Most participants that come to participate in the festival as musicians in a group pay over $400 each just to join, they also then have to get there, pay for accommodation and food all on top of that participation fee. As you can see we are very lucky to be observers at this event which would otherwise have cost several hundred dollars more.



 
This session will be led by David Ford. David plans to discuss a mixed selection of Modern Movie Themes, no rx
some Classical Music, pills
and a little Irish Thunder.

  • Venue: Cooma Public School hall
  • Time: Promptly at 2pm

All U3A members and interested prospective members are welcomne to attend.

Contact: Jackie Fox

  • Phone: 6452 1231
  • Email: russfox1@bigpond.net.au

Trio Empyrean Concert – Sunday 4 March 2012

Trio Empyrean in Recital

  • Wendy Lorenz, visit piano
  • Andrew Lorenz, violin
  • David Pereira, cello

When: Sunday 4 March 2012 at 2.30pm

Where: St Paul’s Anglican Parish Hall, Commissioner Street Cooma

Tickets: At The Fabric Salon & at the door

Formed in 2008, Trio Empyrean brings together three of Australia’s most experienced and respected ensemble musicians. Friends since their student years at the Sydney Conservatorium, each has gained national recognition in both solo and ensemble capacities, having belonged to such groups as the New England Ensemble and Australian Piano Trio – in the case of the Lorenzes – and the Australia Ensemble and the Australian Chamber Orchestra – in that of David Pereira.

 

All three have featured as soloists with Australia’s major orchestras and have released a range of recordings over a number of years. (See individual biographies below) Sharing a passion for the chamber idiom and now all resident in the Canberra region, the three have taken the opportunity to pool their collective experience in forming Trio Empyrean and look forward to sharing the many masterpieces of the trio repertoire with Australian music lovers.

Contact details:

Phone: 0439 309375 Email: wendylorenz@hotmail.com

Trio Empyrean - Andrew Lorenz, David Pereira & Wendy Lorenz

Wendy Lorenz Active as both pianist and teacher, Wendy Lorenz has performed extensively throughout Australia and overseas and appeared for many of the major radio and television networks in Europe and Asia. A ‘Student of the Year’ graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium and Beethoven Bicentenary Medallion winner, she has also belonged to a number of successful chamber ensembles including the highly acclaimed New England Ensemble, the Australian Piano Trio, the Young Sydney Piano Trio, the Phoenix Ensemble and currently the Empyrean Piano Trio, together with violinist Andrew Lorenz and cellist David Pereira. In the solo realm she has appeared as concerto soloist with many of Australia’s leading orchestras and has featured as soloist on commercial releases with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also active as a music educator, she has taught at the NSW Conservatorium, the South Australian College of Advanced Education, and the Universities of New England and Southern Queensland, where she was also Head of Music from 2000 to 2004 inclusive. An experienced presenter of workshops, masterclasses and piano teaching seminars throughout Australia and overseas, (including guest residencies in China, Singapore, Malaysia and the USA), she has served as National Chair of the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference Committee and is an accredited Federal Examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Andrew Lorenz has enjoyed a varied and successful career as solo violinist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, teacher and conductor. A graduate of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music and holder of a Master of Philosophy in the area of the Australian violin concerto, he has been soloist with many of Australia’s major orchestras including the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra and the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, and a former Associate Concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He has also lead a number of Australia’s leading chamber groups, notably the New England Ensemble, Australian Piano Trio and Phoenix Ensemble with which he toured extensively throughout Australia, Europe, North America and Asia, also broadcasting for many of the world’s major radio and television networks including BBC London, NHK Tokyo, Sender Freies Berlin, Suisse Romande Geneva and others. Andrew has given national premieres of violin concertos by Arthur Benjamin, John McCabe and Joseph Myslivecek. In 2005 he gave the world premiere performance of Alexander Negerevich’s violin concerto, recently released on CD. For thirty years he has taught at tertiary level at the Universities of New England, Adelaide and more recently, he was the Senior Lecturer in Violin and Viola at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba from 1986 to 2006 where he also conducted the USQ Orchestra and directed the McGregor Winter Chamber Music School. Andrew has also led for the Australian Opera, D’Oyle Carte Opera, London and the New Symphony Orchestra of London for the Nederlands Dance Company.

Trio Empyrean - Andrew Lorenz, Wendy Lorenz & David Pereira

David Pereira During the last twenty years David has established himself as an outstandingly versatile cellist while holding the most coveted positions in the country. He was for eleven years cellist of the Australia Ensemble, for seven years Principal Cellist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and for three years Principal Cello with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Other associates in performance have included Flederman, the Seymour Group, The String Soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic, Felix Ayo, The Chilingirian Quartet, Roger Woodward, and the Sydney String Quartet. David Pereira graduated with the Performer’s and Teacher’s Diplomas from the Sydney Conservatorium as “Student of the Year” and has a Masters Degree in Cello Performance from the Indiana University. As concerto soloist David has appeared with the major orchestras in Australia and New Zealand and high praise has been awarded to his recordings. The Wild Russians, with Lisa Moore, piano, on Tall Poppies (TP018), received the inaugural ABC Award for the Best Australian Recording in 1993). His first CD of solo Australian cello music was released in July 1996 (Cello Dreaming, TP075). In October 1996 his recording of Carl Vine’s Inner World for cello and sampled cello was released as the first Australian art music CD single (TP101). In late 1997 Pereira was awarded the Sounds Australian Award for the Best Performance of an Australian Composition in the ACT (Carl Vine’s Inner World). In 1998 he was awarded the Sounds Australian National Award for the Best Performance of an Australian Composition for his recording of the Lumsdaine Garden of Earthly Delights. This recording also won him his second ABC Award for the Best Australian Recording (1998).

Proudly presented by Snowy Monaro Arts Council Inc



Audition Notice – Gilbert & Sullivan Extravaganza! (31 January)

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Auditions for Solo Singing & Acting parts taken from various scenes from Gilbert & Sullivan musicals. (all the best bits)

Audition Date: Tuesday 31st January 2012 at 7pm

@ the new hall at Cooma Public School.

Performance Dates: 1st & 2nd June

Prefered Audtion Pieces:

Soprano

I have a song to sing o (Yeoman of the guard)
Buttercup’s aria (HMS Pinafore)

Alto

On the day when i was married (Gondalaiers)
He Loves (Iolanthe)

Contralto

When our gallent norman foes

Baritone

I am the monarch of the sea (HMS Pinafore)

Bass


Mikado’s song (The Mikado)
When a fellons not engaged (Pirates)

Any other pieces from the selected works however please inform Robert Shearer (0426 196 914) of prefered piece.

Script excerpts for Audition

Ladies (option 1 & 2)

Iolanthe. She is; and thus she welcomes her daughter-in-law! (Kisses her.)
Phyllis. She kisses just like other people! But the Lord Chancellor?
Strephon. I forgot him! Mother, none can resist your fairy eloquence; you will go to him and plead for us?
Iolanthe. (much agitated). No, no; impossible!
Strephon. But our happiness – our very lives – depend upon our obtaining his consent!
Phyllis. Oh, madam, you cannot refuse to do this!
Iolanthe. You know not what you ask! The Lord Chancellor is – my husband!
Strephon and Phyllis. Your husband!
Iolanthe. My husband and your father!

Ladies (option 3) Mens (option1)
Ko-Ko. Indeed! Had he any reason to be dissatisfied with his position?
Katisha. None whatever. On the contrary, I was going to marry him — yet he fled
Pooh-Bah. I am surprised that he should have fled from one so lovely!
Katisha. That’s not true.
Pooh-Bah. No!
Katisha. You hold that I am not beautiful because my face is plain. But you know nothing; you are still unenlightened. Learn, then, that it is not in the face alone that beauty is to be sought. My face is unattractive!
Pooh-Bah. It is.
Katisha. But I have a left shoulder-blade that is a miracle of loveliness. People come miles to see it. My right elbow has a fascination that few can resist.
Pooh-Bah. Allow me!
Katisha. It is on view Tuesdays and Fridays, on presentation of visiting card. As for my circulation, it is the largest in the world.
Ko-Ko. And yet he fled!

Mens (option 2)
Mikado. (looking at paper) Dear, dear, dear! this is very tiresome. (to Ko-Ko) My poor fellow, in your anxiety to carry out my wishes you have beheaded the heir to the throne of Japan!
Ko-Ko. I beg to offer an unqualified apology.
I desire to associate myself with that expression of regret.
We really hadn’t the least notion —
Mikado. Of course you hadn’t. How could you? Come, come, my good fellow, don’t distress yourself — it was no fault of yours. If a man of exalted rank chooses to disguise himself as a Second Trombone, he must take the consequences. It really distresses me to see you take on so. I’ve no doubt he thoroughly deserved all he got. (They rise.)

Mens (option 3)
Sir Joseph. Madam, it has been represented to me that you are appalled by my exalted rank. I desire to convey to you officially my assurance, that if your hesitation is attributable to that circumstance, it is uncalled for.
Josephine. Oh! then your lordship is of opinion that married happiness is not inconsistent with discrepancy in rank?
Sir Joseph. I am officially of that opinion.
Josephine. That the high and the lowly may be truly happy together, provided that they truly love one another?
Sir Joseph. Madam, I desire to convey to you officially my opinion that love is a platform upon which all ranks meet.
Josephine. I thank you, Sir Joseph. I did hesitate, but I will hesitate no longer. (aside) He little thinks how eloquently he has pleaded his rival’s cause!

Gilbert and Sullivan Extravaganza – The Songs

Opera Scene Song Cast
Yeoman of the Guard Overture
3 Gallant Norm Carruthers, 2nd Yeo, Phœbe, Chorus
7 I have a song to sing O Jack Point, Elsie, lst Citizen
HMS Pinafore 2 Hail, men-o’-war’s men,  

I’m called Little Buttercup

Buttercup Chorus
8-9 Now three cheers Captain, Joseph Porter, Aunt,
16 Never mind the why Captain, Porter, Josephine
Mikado 10 I am so proud Pooh Bah, Pish Tush, Koko
16 Mia Samma Mikado, Katisha, Chorus
17 A more humane Mikado Mikado, Chorus
8 Three little maids Yum-Yum, Pitti Sing, peep bo
23 There is bueaty in the bello of the blast
Pirates of Penzance 5 Climbing over rocky mountain Chorus of Girls
17 When the foeman bears his steel
24 When a felon’s not engaged Sergeant Chorus
Gondoliers 15 Dance a Cachucha
2 From the sunny Spanish Shore Duke, Duchess, Casilda & Luiz
Dialogue
3 In enterprise of martial kind
19 On the day when I was wedded
Iolanthe 6 Loudly let the trumpet bray Chorus
20 The nightmare song
Dialogue 23 & 24 “My Lord, a suppliant at your feet… He loves!…It may not be” Iolanthe, Chancellor, Queen, Philllis, Straffen & Faries
Dialogue 25 Finale”Soon as we may”

The Cast:

Narrator
Female: 

Carruthers

Elsie

Phœbe

Iolanthe

Queen,

Philllis,

Yum-Yum

Pitti sing

peep bo

Katisha

Aunt

Buttercup

Duchess

Casilda

 

Male 

Chancellor

2nd Yeo,

Straffen

Sergeant

Mikado
Ko ko

Pish tush

Pooh bah

Captain,

Joseph Porter,

lst Citizen

Jack Point,

Duke

Luiz

Contact: Allan Spencer 6452 6067 / email: allan@coomamusic.com.au

or Robert Shearer 0426 196 914 / email: ac16_221a@hotmail.com


Photos from the Jerrabomberra Carols

Here’s some great photos of the Jerrabomberra Carols.

Click on thumnails for larger image:


South East Arts – New Website!

I’ve just been sent some photos of the Peter de Jager Cooma concert.

It reminded how great that concert was. Wow can that b There’s some nice images of Marie Cox giving Peter a belated Principles Award for excellence in Music from Cooma North Primary School 🙂


South East Arts, order formerly SEAR (South East Arts Region) have a fantastic new website.

Click here.

This will be an essential website for all artists and musicians in the area. Add it to your favorites list and come back often as there will be constant new content to delight and inform. Enjoy!

Jerrabomberra Carols – Saturday 3 December – with Robert Shearer & Cooma Harmony Chorus

Cooma Harmony Chorus will be singing  a concert of Christmas Carols at

Jerrabomberra on Saturday 3 December.

The Chorus will perform with the Hall District Band and Soloists.

The soloist will include our own Robert Shearer and Bronwyn Douglas (the lovely alto who performed in this year’s Sing your own Messiah)

The organizer, noun Rodney Clancy is expecting an audience of over 6, view 000 people. It will be a lovely day, approved with barbecues, fairy floss, icecream stalls, fireworks and lots of rides for the kids. And of course a  visit from Santa.

It’s all happening at David Madew Oval, Jerrrabomberra. The fun starts at 3 pm. The carols concert will be from 8 to 9 pm.

Santa arriving care of the South Care Helicopter

Robert Shearer (Tenor)

Handel’s Messiah – Saturday 12 November 2011

Experience the splendor and majesty of one of the greatest works written by George Frideric Handel.

(You don’t need to sing you can just come to listen and enjoy)

Soloists Elizabeth Shearer, see Bronwyn Douglas, patient Robert Shearer and Joshua Burke will be accompanied by a chorus of local singers and chamber orchestra conducted by Rodney Clancy.

A limited number of Audience Tickets are now available at The Fabric Salon, 42 Vale Street, Cooma.

  • $25 Adults
  • $20 Concessions
  • $15 SMAC Members
  • $5 Children

Any tickets that might be left over will be sold at the door.

For Phone Bookings call 6452 3480

Sing Your Own Handel’s Messiah, Concert Details:

  • When: Saturday 12 November 2011 Rehearsals from 9.00 am, Evening Performance 7.00 pm
  • Where: St Paul’s Anglican Church Hall, Commissioner Street, Cooma

The Soloist:
Elizabeth Shearer

Elizabeth Shearer has been studying voice for 9 years both privately and through the Queensland Conservatorium. She is currently undertaking her third year of a Bachelor of Music degree (Majoring in voice) under the direction of the acclaimed Professor Jan Delpratt.

Elizabeth has recently had roles in the Queensland Conservatoriums Production of two of Puccini’s one-act operas; Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica. She has also performed in the university’s production of Purcell’s Fairy Queen (2011), Massenet’s Cendrillon (2010), Handel’s Saul (2009), and the Val Machin Opera Scenes (2009, 2010). She has been a featured soloist at Albert St Uniting Church, soloist in the MTAQ highlights Queen St Mall (2010) and QPSR Carols On The Rails (2007).

She has performed as a member of chorus in Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Faure’s Requiem and Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Brisbane Chorale and in an excerpt of Puccini’s Turandot as part of the Encounters Music Festival (2010).

Joshua Burke

Joshua Burke is a 3rd year student at the ANU’s School of Music and is studying under Rohan Thatcher. He is currently a scholar at the Wesley Uniting Church in Forest, ACT. As a student of the School of Music he has participated in the productions of Dido and Aeneas and the world premiere of Grimm and the Blue Crown Owl.
Joshua discovered his passion for singing when he got involved with his high schools A’Capella group and Barbershop Quartet. He wishes to continue his study of singing into the future

Robert Shearer

Robert Shearer is a gifted tenor and singing teacher. He commenced his studies in 1999, and has undergone extensive vocal training and music studies in some of Australia’s leading tertiary music institutions.
Robert received a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, studying there with Adele Nesbit. Since then he has completed a Master of Music in Voice and Opera at the ANU School of Music under the tutelage of Stephen Bennett, during which time he was a Wesley Scholar. He is currently a student of heldentenor Glenn Winslade.
Robert has a great affinity with English art song and 20th century classical music, especially the works of Britten, Le Gallienne and Rubbra.
In 2009 he furthered his studies in correct vocal production by participating in Neil Semer’s Australian Vocal workshop; this workshop also helped to give him a wider view of the performance of vocal music.
In addition to singing, Robert has been composing since 2005 with a number of orchestral and vocal works to his name.

Proudly Presented by Snowy Monaro Arts Council


Live Music at Snowy Ride 2011 – Friday 4 November

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The Messiah - 12th November

Extra Messiah rehearsals with Leslie Spencer for the all singers (SATB) in the chorus are planned for:

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Monday 7 November at 7.00 pm at St Pauls Anglican Church Hall, (behind the church in Commissioner Street)

Free of charge – All welcome.

Leslie has also been doing some more rehearsals for the individual parts. Please contact her for details. Mobile: 0428 907 510

For more information on Sing your Own Handel’s Messiah click here.

 

 

MAP COOMA CBD (click to enlarge)

 

At Centennial Park, sovaldi
Cooma.

FREE ENTERTAINMENT!

Timetable:

  • 2.00 pm   Jay Podger
  • 3.30 pm   Matt Charlesworth
  • 4.30 pm   Vendulka & Vasek
  • 5.00 pm   The Barstars
  • 6.30 pm   Numeralla Fingerplunkers

Get amongst the music, shop colour & noise of The Snowy Ride.

Proudly presented by:

COOMA-MONARO HISTORIC AUTOMOBILE CLUB

 

Jay Podger - Country & Old Rock 'n' Roll

Matt Charlesworth-Singer/Guitarist

Matt Charlesworth -Singer/Guitarist

Vasek & Vendulka

Numeralla Fingerplunkers


 

P J* aged 7

 

Adrian Reichenback tumbled on this old newspaper article yesterday. It shows Peter de Jager playing the piano at 7 years of age. His smiling face is reflected in the polished front of the piano. A nice little flash back in history don’t you think?

 

Well a now 21 year old Peter de Jager, internist a concert pianist and winner of the 2011 International Chopin Competition is coming to perform in his home town of Cooma on Sunday 6th November.

Sometimes dreams come true. Amazing, you couldn’t make this stuff up!

For more information about Peter de Jagers Cooma concert click here.

*When Peter de Jager was 7 we all called him PJ.


U3A Music Appreciation with Robert Shearer – Saturday 5 November 2011

As heard on ABC Classic FM…

Matt Withers can be heard regularly on  ABC Classic FM. Often he’s performing with Bradley Kunda in the Brew Guitar Duo.

Matt Withers Classical Guitarist (as heard on ABC Classic FM)

Renowned classical guitarist, ascariasis Matt Withers will be performing in Cooma in October this year as part of his “Solo” CD tour.

  • When: Sunday 30 October 2011 at 3.00 pm.
  • Where: St Paul’s Anglican Church Hall, endocrinologist Commissioner Street, Cooma NSW
  • Cost: $20 Adults, $15 Concesssions, $10 Students  (includes free afternoon tea)
  • Tickets will be available at the door and Cooma School of Music, shop 2, 123 Sharp Street Cooma.
  • Phone Bookings: (02) 6452 6067

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE

Click here for more information on Matt Withers

This is the 8th and final session this year.

Robert Shearer will introduce an audio/visual presentation on Analysing Opera.
  • Time: 2pm
  • Place:  Cooma Public School hall, sickness
    Commissioner St.
  • Cost:  $1.00
For U3A members and interested, prospective members always welcome.

Contact: Jackie Fox 6452 1231