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David Pereira Cello Concert

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Brew Guitar Duo_Songs & Dances_CDThe new CD “Songs & Dances” by the Brew Guitar Duo is now available.

Bradley Kunda and Matthew Withers are based in Canberra where they have been studying guitar for many years with Tim Kain. They gave a stellar performance in Cooma on Sunday 15 November. This concert was part of their “Songs & Dances Tour”. What a great concert! These guys put the fun back into classical music. The audience loved the rapport between these awesomely gifted young players. It was a varied and entertaining programme with music from Cuba, pill Venezuela, Spain and France, as well as contemporary Australian composers, Phillip Houghton and Richard Charlton. There was even a  great jazz standard ” Mr Sandman”, as well as some great arrangements of the Ralph McTell’s “Streets of London” and the Beatles’ song “The Fool on the Hill”.

Bradley and Matthew played together with wonderful precision and phrasing. There are many delightful melodies, flashes of technical brilliance, as well as subtle, delicate and beautiful musical gems. You also feel that these guitarists are having a lot of fun playing together.

Samples of the new CD may be heard on their website as well as information about their tour dates:

http://www.brewguitarduo.com/

Track Listing:

  1. Dance from “La Vida Breve” – M. de Falla, arr E. Pujol
  2. Streets of London – R. McTell, arr. J. Williams
  3. Cuban Dance – J. Guimaraes (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  4. The Fool on the Hill – J. Lennon & P. McCartney, arr. L. Brouwer
  5. Spanish Romance – Traditional (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  6. Mr Sandman – P. Ballard (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  7. Que no te quiera mas – V. Sojo, arr. I. Kircher & A. Montes
  8. Venezuelan Waltz No. 3 – A Lauro (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  9. Spanish Dance No. 6 – E. Granados, arr. J. Williams
  10. Recuerdos de la Alhambra – F. Tarrega, arr. J. Sagreras
  11. Something Sweet (From “Two guitars dine out: a musical degustation”) – R. Charlton (commissioned by the Brew Guitar Duo)
  12. Tournedos Rossini (From “Two guitars dine out: a musical degustation”) – R. Charlton (commissioned by the Brew Guitar Duo)
  13. Sons de carrilhoes – J. Pernambuco, arr. H. Villa-Lobos
  14. El Valsecito – V. Sojo, arr. I. Kircher & A. Montes
  15. Gnossienne No. 1 – E. Satie

Available from:

Cooma School of Music
Shop 2, Parkview Arcade, 123 Sharp Street,
Cooma, NSW 2630
Phone: 02 6452 6067
Fax: 02 6452 4938
Email: allan@coomamusic.com.au
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Title: David Pereira Cello Concert
Location: Wesley Music Centre, try
20 National Circuit Forrest ACT
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Description: Friday 11 December at 7:30pm. David Pereira Cello Series 2009 Concert V
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2009-12-11

Brew Guitar Duo new CD “Songs & Dances” $25

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Brew Guitar Duo_Songs & Dances_CDThe new CD “Songs & Dances” by the Brew Guitar Duo is now available.

Bradley Kunda and Matthew Withers are based in Canberra where they have been studying guitar for many years with Tim Kain. They gave a stellar performance in Cooma on Sunday 15 November. This concert was part of their “Songs & Dances Tour”. What a great concert! These guys put the fun back into classical music. The audience loved the rapport between these awesomely gifted young players. It was a varied and entertaining programme with music from Cuba, diabetes and pregnancy Venezuela, Spain and France, as well as contemporary Australian composers, Phillip Houghton and Richard Charlton. There was even a  great jazz standard ” Mr Sandman”, as well as some great arrangements of the Ralph McTell’s “Streets of London” and the Beatles’ song “The Fool on the Hill”.

Bradley and Matthew played together with wonderful precision and phrasing. There are many delightful melodies, flashes of technical brilliance, as well as subtle, delicate and beautiful musical gems. You also feel that these guitarists are having a lot of fun playing together.

Samples of the new CD may be heard on their website as well as information about their tour dates:

http://www.brewguitarduo.com/

Track Listing:

  1. Dance from “La Vida Breve” – M. de Falla, arr E. Pujol
  2. Streets of London – R. McTell, arr. J. Williams
  3. Cuban Dance – J. Guimaraes (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  4. The Fool on the Hill – J. Lennon & P. McCartney, arr. L. Brouwer
  5. Spanish Romance – Traditional (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  6. Mr Sandman – P. Ballard (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  7. Que no te quiera mas – V. Sojo, arr. I. Kircher & A. Montes
  8. Venezuelan Waltz No. 3 – A Lauro (arr. Brew Guitar Duo)
  9. Spanish Dance No. 6 – E. Granados, arr. J. Williams
  10. Recuerdos de la Alhambra – F. Tarrega, arr. J. Sagreras
  11. Something Sweet (From “Two guitars dine out: a musical degustation”) – R. Charlton (commissioned by the Brew Guitar Duo)
  12. Tournedos Rossini (From “Two guitars dine out: a musical degustation”) – R. Charlton (commissioned by the Brew Guitar Duo)
  13. Sons de carrilhoes – J. Pernambuco, arr. H. Villa-Lobos
  14. El Valsecito – V. Sojo, arr. I. Kircher & A. Montes
  15. Gnossienne No. 1 – E. Satie

Available from:

Cooma School of Music
Shop 2, Parkview Arcade, 123 Sharp Street,
Cooma, NSW 2630
Phone: 02 6452 6067
Fax: 02 6452 4938
Email: allan@coomamusic.com.au

Strange Weather Gospel Choir

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Title: Strange Weather Gospel Choir
Location: Llewellyn Hall – Canberra School of Music. ANU
Link out: Click here
Description: An Evening of Musical Celebration to mark the choir’s 14 years of public performances & community involvement.
Also featuring: John Mackey & Tanamasi African Drumming Troupe
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Saturday 21 November 2009

Adults $20/ Concessions $14 / Child $15 / Family $55 / Groups 8+ $16 per ticket

For more information go to: http://www.strangeweather.org/

Lamplighters’ Male Voice Choir

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lamplightersTitle: Lamplighters’ Male Voice Choir
Location: St Paul’s Anglican Church Hall, recipe Commissioner Street, anesthetist Cooma
Description: Male Choir from Wollonong.
Also featuring our own Viki Parsons, here a young soprano with a beautiful voice.
Afternoon tea provided
Tickets at Fabric Salon.

Start Time: 2.30 pm
Date: Sunday 29 November 2009

Presented by Snowy Monaro Arts Council Inc.

Update-Music Festival Snowy Mountains Christian School

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Title: Music at the Bowling Club
Location: Cooma Bowling Club
Description: Open mic afternoon to raise money for Cooma Hospital. Contact:Elaine Schofields 6452 5925
Date: 2009-10-08
SMCS MUSIC FESTIVALParticipating Bands/Groups/Choirs.

1.  Canberra Concerto Orchestra Concert Band

2.  St. Francis Xavier College – A.C.T.

3.  Cooma District Band

4.  Salvation Army, web
Cooma

5.  Snowy Mountains Grammar School, drugs
Jindabyne

6.  Queanbeyan High School

7.  Snowy Mountains Christian School Concert Band

8.  Eden Marine High School

9.  Heartsong Choir – Bega

10. Harmony Chorus – Cooma

There will be many individuals attending as well, physiotherapy
as players or singers, mostly secondary school age, university or more advanced in ‘life’s experience’.

Sectional Rehearsal Groups – BAND

GROUP                                                TEACHER

1.  Flute                                               Liz Mitchell (A.C.T.)

2.  Clarinet                                          Judith Marriott (Cooma)

3.  Saxaphone                                      Bryan Hooley (Murrumbateman)

4.  Trumpet                                         Helen Gill (Candelo)

5.  French Horn                                   Ron Bennett (A.C.T.)

6.  Trombone                                      Michael Bailey (A.C.T.)

7.  Low Brass                                       Chris Wall (Cooma)

8.  Percussion                                      Veronica Walshaw (A.C.T.)

Combined Choir Conductor/Clinician – Rodney Clancy (A.C.T.)

“Heartsong” – Geoff Badger (Bega)

Harmony Chorus – Leslie Spencer (Cooma)

Accompanist  -  Carol Wagner (Jindabyne)

Concert Band Sectionals and the Choir Workshops will run at Snowy Mountains Christian School, Cnr Boona & Baroons Sts, Cooma (opposite Snowy Hydro in Mittagang Rd.)

Phone 6452 4333.  Fax:  6452 4300.

  • All Band and Choir participants should arrive at SMCS by 9.30am for the Welcome and introductions.
  • The P & FF Committee has prepared a menu for the day. Prices are listed.
  • All participants are asked to pay $10 as they arrive.  This money will help cover the cost of professional tutors. Name labels will also be provided on arrival.
  • The Combined Band items are:

1.  Title theme to Chicken Run

2.  Fiddler on the Roof – Medley

Parts are available by contacting me, Phil Horneman on 0401 624 138 or at night on 6452 1255.

  • No preparation is necessary for the Choir activity.

A Special Request: Could all band/choir directors let me know by fax, phone or email:

  • Instruments – how many of each type, e.g. flutes, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Sax’s, Percussion, etc.
  • Voices – how many of each voice type, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass.

This information will help the tutors to prepare for the day.

PROGRAM

9.30am            Welcome to SMCS

10.00am          Sectional Rehearsal No. 1. / Choir Workshop 1

11.00am          Break

11.20am          Sectional Rehearsal No. 2 / Choir Workshop 2

12.00noon       Lunch

1.00pm           Combined Item Rehearsal / Combined Choir Rehearsal, both at SMCS

2.00pm           Concert Part 1

2 – 3 items from individual Band groups or Sectional Ensembles, the

massed band items, and Choir items.

3.15pm            Afternoon Tea

3.45pm            Concert Part 2

Sectional Teachers will be prepared with one or two easy arrangements for each group, e.g. Flute Choir.  Some time may be used for the combined Band parts, but the bulk of the time will be used to prepare a performance for the afternoon concert.


CONCERT PROGRAM

(This Program will be adapted if necessary)

2.00pm            Part 1

Instrumental Groups x 2-3

Harmony Chorus

Instrumental Groups x 2-3

Heartsong Choir

Cooma DISTRICT BAND

Combined Choir Item

3.15pm            Afternoon Tea

3.40pm            Part 2

SMCS CB

Canberra Concerto Orchestra CB.

St Francis Xavier CB.

Combined CB Items

4.30pm            Finale & Tidy up.

Approx.

SPECIAL REQUEST 1  The SMCS music festival will be a UNIFORM DAY.  That is, all school bands/groups should attend in school uniforms.  All Community Bands/Groups are asked to perform in their usual performance attire, but are welcome to wear neat casual attire during the day.   (Classrooms can be used as change rooms if required).  The Concert is open to the public and I would like us to look our best on stage.

SPECIAL REQUEST 2  Could all Concert Band musicians be sure to bring:

1. Music stands

2. Instrument(s)

3. Combined Item music

4. Performance music.

5. School uniforms or concert dress.

A photocopier will be available early in the day for emergencies.  Both Rodney Clancy and myself have original copies of the Combined band charts.

Just a reminder there will be a canteen on the day with BBQ and healthy food!

Thank you again for your participation.

Yours sincerely,

Phil Horneman

Email:  phil.horneman@smcs.nsw.edu.au Phone:  0401 624 138   6452 1255

Phone SMCS:  6452 4333,   Fax:  6452 4300.

P.S. Activities at the Festival will be recorded on camera and video, interviews may also take place in the breaks.  The aim will be to present an article to the Journal of the Music Council of Australia – MUSIC FORUM.

Music Festival-Snowy Mountains Christian School

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Alpine Hotel: 170 Sharp Street, viagra 60mg Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452 1466 Email: info@alpinehotel.com.au

Australian Hotel (The Aussie): 137 Sharp Street, phlebologist  Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452 1844

Coffey’s Hotel: 6 Short Street, geriatrician Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452 2064 (Performers’ Night (open mic)  every Thursday at 7.00 pm.)

Cooma Country & Bowling Club: 6 Mawson Street, Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452   1229

Cooma Exservices Club: 106 Vale Street, Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452 1144 Email: kade@coomaexservicesclub.com.au

Cooma Hotel: Corner of Massie & Vale Streets, Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452 2003

Dodd’s Hotel: 94 Commissioner Street, Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452 2132

The Royal Hotel: Corner of Sharp & Lambie Streets, Cooma NSW 2630 Ph: (02) 6452 2132 Email: royalhotelcooma@bigpond.com
SMCS MUSIC FESTIVALTitle: Music Festival-Snowy Mountains Christian School
Location: SMCS Cnr. Baroona Avenue & Boona Street Cooma North
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Description: For Orchestra Concert Band players and Choral Singers. Workshops & Concert $10 per person all day
Time: 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Date: Saturday 31 October 2009

Concert Band Features:

  • 7 Bands, shop including Canberra Concerto Orchestra Concert Band
  • Sectional rehearsals
  • Bands venue: SMCS 9.30 to 4.30

Choir Features:

  • All interested singers welcome
  • Special guest choirs: Heartsong Choir (Bega) & Cooma Harmony Chorus
  • Choir Workshops
  • Venue: St Pauls Anglican Church Hall, treatment
    Commissioner Street, Cooma (9.30 to 12.00 then SMCS 12.00 to 4.30)

COMBINED CHOIR & BAND CONCERT 2.00 pm at SMCS

  • Ph: (02) 6452 4333
  • Fax: (02) 6452 4300
  • Email: phil.horneman@smcs.nsw.edu.au

Registrations just $10 per person

Alice Giles-Harp Concert

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Alice Giles

Alice Giles

Title: Alice Giles-Harp Concert
Location: Llewellyn Hall, health ANU School of Music, recipe Building 100, Childers St, ANU, Canberra
Link out: Click here
Description: Alice Giles performs some of the greatest music ever written for harp in her first Canberra solo recital.

“The program includes pieces by Britten, Spohr and Salzedo as well as the long awaited world premiere of beautiful work by Israeli composer Moshe Lustig, written in 1941.

A recital filled with music to enchant, excite, and astonish; this program will be recorded in May for CD by Tall Poppies.”

Start Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Friday 3rd April 2009
End Time: 9.30 pm

Contact: 6125 5700

Click here to find out more about Alice Giles.

Minh Le Hoang Classical Guitar CD Launch

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Rehearsals

This is the time of year when new things are started. If you know of anyone who may like to come to a chorus rehearsal and see if it suits them, drugs do invite him or her. Perhaps a cake night to welcome potential members would be fun.

If you are new to the chorus yourself, abortion please do come along on Tuesday the 3rd or any Tuesday after that.  You can call the shop on 6452 6067 or email me here if there’s anything at all you’d like to know. The chorus is for women and men. We are a secular choir who sings unaccompanied music of all kinds, in two or three parts. We have been going for about thirteen years and while we sing for the love of it, we also perform on average about once a month at all kinds of town events. The first month you attend is free and after that we charge $15 dollars a month.  

We have a dedicated committee who handles the general organization, money, rent, costumes, birthdays etc and a secretary, Jane Reed who writes a wonderful newsletter on line. We will give her the wherewithall to put it on here. Not me of course but a delegate from  the next generation.

Our first rehearsal for 2009 will be Tuesday night 3rd of February at 7.00 pm for a start at precisely 7.15. We have be

 

Performances

 Our first engagement of the year looks like being the 27th of March, the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Lambie Street Preschool.  Stephanie Hann is organizing it and her vision is something like this:

  • Children who have been making lanterns at workshops gather at the Royal Hotel, dressed in white robes, carrying said lanterns.
  • The Monaro Strings and Winds is playing outside the pub lovely wafting  music. 
  • The children follow the recorder player, surely our own Rowena Evans, and her drum playing mates down the street, passing en route our Hannah Spencer playing  her harp under a large tree. (The children will be distracted from thinking of the pied piper by accompanying parents.) 
  • At the far end of the street will be the Cooma Harmony Chorus welcoming them with songs that portray childhood in a positive light.  (I will definitely change this message when I leave my son’s company). 

So I’m thinking We Are, the wafty overlappping one we did some years back. I have the words but am having difficulty finding a complete version of the music. If anyone has one, and it is a number of pages long, I would be grateful if you could get it to me. Apart from that, we might still have the Owl and the Pussycat and I can arrange some children’s songs, depending on what Stephanie would like, and our lullabies would be suitable as well – La Mar and All the Pretty Little Horses. I would particularly like to make a lantern or two so I’ll keep you posted. Rumour has it  Kevin Hambly will have full sized lantern horses, so this is our chance to do something equally not usual.

More singing possibilities this term:

I think the airport opening will still happen this autumn, and I have Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, the band version, to arrange. (Yeah, I’m on it.) I am open to other  suggestions like Up in the Air I Fly, etc. I have a list.

Also there is Easter. I have said we are a secular choir and so we are but there are some beautiful chorales by Bach that we could use during the Easter season at any concert. Now that we have tenors and basses, some music is available to us which wasn’t before.  

 There is also a peace festival that happens in autumn in Canberra which we may be singing in, and Roslyn knows of a thing also. The Cooma Music Competition is tentatively Sunday the 31st of May. No doubt more will come. I am in the process of choosing and preparing repertoire so do let me know early if you may need us.
Classical Guitarists, view Harold Gretton and Véronique van Duurling in Concert

Once only in Canberra! A sublime mix of classical guitar music. From the meditative, Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba” to the Hungarian Romanticism of Mertz, from the operatic and capricious Legnani to the elegance and grace of classic-era France you will be transported by a delightful program performed by two international award-winning guitarists.

Venue: All Saints Church Ainslie, intersection of Cowper, Foveaux and Bonney Streets, Ainslie, ACT.
Date: Saturday 31st January 2009
Time: 3pm
Cost: $15, $10 concession (Canberra Classical Guitar Society members, ANU Friends of the School of Music members, pensioners, seniors, students)

Les and I will be driving up from Cooma so let us know if anyone needs a lift.

http://www.classicalguitarcanberra.org.au/wp/

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Classical Guitarists, health
Harold Gretton and Véronique van Duurling in Concert

Once only in Canberra! A sublime mix of classical guitar music. From the meditative, Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba” to the Hungarian Romanticism of Mertz, from the operatic and capricious Legnani to the elegance and grace of classic-era France you will be transported by a delightful program performed by two international award-winning guitarists.

Venue: All Saints Church Ainslie, intersection of Cowper, Foveaux and Bonney Streets, Ainslie, ACT.
Date: Saturday 31st January 2009
Time: 3pm
Cost: $15, $10 concession (Canberra Classical Guitar Society members, ANU Friends of the School of Music members, pensioners, seniors, students)

Les and I will be driving up from Cooma so let us know if anyone needs a lift.

http://www.classicalguitarcanberra.org.au/wp/

Minh Le Hoang Classical Guitar Concert and CD Launch

Canberra guitar virtuoso and competition winner (including Tokyo International Guitar Competition 2007) Minh Le Hoang in a solo concert to introduce his new CD “The Fall of Birds.”

Enquiries 0422 274 039.  Adults $20, apoplexy
concession/students $15.  Tickets at the door.

Friday, ed
6 March 2009, 7:30pm, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, ACT.

Minh Le Hong

Minh Le Hong