Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

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Music from the 2019 Art Music Awards

Orchestral Work of the Year

Title: Implacable Gifts (Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra)
Composer: Carl Vine
Performer: Kathryn Stott (piano), Piers Lane (piano), West Australian Symphony Orchestra with Rory Macdonald (conductor)
Publisher: Hal Leonard/Faber

Orchestral Work of the Year winner
Carl Vine (left) with Kim Williams,
one of this year's presenters.
© Jess Gleeson / APRA AMCOS

The principle of a concerto with a single soloist is well understood: the soloist is a hero assisted, and sometimes challenged, by the orchestra. But what is the rationale for two heroes? Are they at war, competing, collaborating, or just chatting? While wondering how to reconcile these options, I was assailed by a stream of musical ideas perfect for two pianos with accompaniment, but which didn't conform to a wider architectural scheme… (Carl Vine)

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NSW Award for Excellence in Jazz

Ellen Kirkwood for [A]part and other projects and activities in 2018

Did you know that Ellen Kirkwood was a Finalist in the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship? She was nominated on the strength of this work, and for a project involving touring the work.

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Performed at the 2019 Art Music Awards by Sonya Lifschitz

Title: Stalin's Piano : for solo piano with video
Composer: Robert Davidson

Sonya Lifschitz performing extracts from Robert
Davidson's Stalin's Piano at the Art Music
Awards ceremony in Sydney. Larger view.
© Jess Gleeson / APRA AMCOS

Artists and politicians often overlap, and this suite of 'voice portraits' juxtaposes them. The piano provides a musical picture frame for the portraits, which consist of spoken recordings of iconic figures, their speech recast as music by doubling and harmonising the natural intonation, without editing and pitch-shifting. The music is intended to intensify the emotional aspects of the speech - when we listen to the music behind the words, we can tap into the deeper unspoken meanings. (Robert Davidson)

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> Read more about the 2019 Art Music Awards on Resonate

New to the AMC Shop

The Australian Voices A Cappella Songbook : 10 songs for SATB vocal groups.

A collection of works performed by The Australian Voices, this a cappella songbook incorporates new songs by Australian-based composers as well as arrangements of traditional folksongs.

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Jazz Music Series SET : All 5 Volumes / John Sangster

Remastered from the original mixed tapes by Move Records in 2018, the five volumes of John Sangster's Jazz Music Series is now available from the AMC Shop! You can buy the entire set at a reduced price ($80 + postage) or purchase individual volumes eg. Jazz Music Series 3 : Steady lads / John Sangster

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Dracula / music by David Stanhope.

This new double CD from Tall Poppies is not just a world premiere performance, but also the first time an opera has been commercially presented with a digital orchestra!

This is the first serious operatic treatment of Bram Stoker's original story: Dracula is a perfect subject for opera with the popular ingredients of sex, violence and religion. David Stanhope's marvellous work is lyrical and listenable, utilising a large orchestra with stunning effects and gorgeous harmonies.

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Back in Stock

Music composition toolbox / Matthew Hindson, Damian Barbeler, Diana Blom.

21 easy-to-navigate modules with over 120 practical exercises! The sought-after guide to creating and notating original composition is back in stock! Written by AMC represented composers Matthew Hindson, Damian Barbeler and Diana Blom, this book includes extensive musical examples & an accompanying audio CD.

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The Best of Peter Sculthorpe.

Released earlier this year to coincide with what would have been his 90th birthday, The Best of Peter Sculthorpe brings together more than two hours of his best-loved and most iconic works! From solo piano works played by Tamara-Anna Cislowska, to orchestral works and concertos performed by great soloists William Barton, Karin Schaupp and Amy Dickson, and his 18th and final string quartet.

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Australian Christmas carols : piano/vocal / by John Wheeler and William G. James.

The complete set of William G. James & John Wheeler Christmas carols includes 15 Christmas carols with an Australian twist:
The North wind is tossing the leaves,
The red dust is over the town,
The sparrows are under the eaves ,
And the grass in the paddock is brown;
As we lift up our voices and sing,
To the Christ-Child the Heavenly King.
Taken from Christmas Day

Included are carols like The three drovers, The silver stars are in the sky (Lullaby carol) & Carol of the birds.

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Australian composers in song : vocal library

This compilation features a number of pieces for voice & piano by Australian composers. It includes a preface by Kay Dreyfus and indication of approximate level for each piece (AMEB Grade 5 - Licentiate). A couple of pieces from the 2019 AMEB Syllabus for Singing are also included, notably Come sleep by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Grade 6, List D).

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Peter Sculthorpe, String quartet no. 16 / music resource kit by Lorraine Milne.

This education kit investigates the creative process of musical composition and the connection of this work to refugees in Australia's detention centres. While the kit is particularly suitable for senior students, but could also be used with younger secondary school students. Topics discussed in the kit include traditional songs or chants as the basis for a composition, characteristic techniques and special effects used by Peter Sculthorpe in his String Quartet No. 16, and extra musical ideas as inspiration for works of music.

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