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There Ain't No Harps In Hell. Angel!
featuring Marshall McGuire - harp
Tasmania - June 2003
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*** RECENT NEWS *** |
January 2003
Colin Bright begins a 2-year Fellowship
awarded by the Music Board of the Australia Council.
The amount of the Fellowship is $40,000 per annum.
Composer Profile - New Music Australia
Feb. 20th 2002 8PM - ABC-FM 92.9 (Sydney)
Premier broadcast of
There Ain't No Harps In Hell. Angel!
featuring Marshall McGuire - harp
Primarily because of the association of angels with their instrument, harpists are
under the illusion that they will go to heaven. This piece demonstrates that this
is not true. As much as the music is beautiful and heavenly (tempo = 99.9 bpm),
the player, nevertheless, cannot help but get 'down and dirty', thus - via a tour
of purgatory (tempo =83.25 bpm) - ending up in hell (tempo =66.6 bpm), which
is where all harpists really belong!
Samples of
AC/DC's Highway to Hell
George F. Handel's Hallelujah Chorus
and fragments of
Led Zeplin (heaven) and Jerry Lee Lewis (hell)
+ Raging guitar, bass 'n' drums.
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CONCERT
12th Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music
18th September, 2001 - Sydney Opera House
- Digital Music & Imagery -
Colin Bright & Dean Edwards
Just as the technology of the piano dominated the 19th Century, and the electric guitar
the 20th Century, digital technology leads us into the 21st Century.
Extracts from cult writer William S. Burroughs and two of Australia's most
important poets Jas. H Duke and Amanda Stewart are juxtaposed with the music and
imagery. The music combines sampling, including AC/DC and George F. Handel,
computer generated sounds and recorded players.
The Wild Boys
- Homosexual warrior packs out to save the world from an oppressive police state.
- samples of William S. Burroughs with raging saxophones and drums
There Ain't No Harps In Hell, Angel !
- PREMIER! - with Marshall McGuire - harp
- The harpist would like to stay in heaven, (where harpists think they belong),
but keeps getting 'down and dirty', ending up in Hell, (where harp players truly belong).
- samples of AC/DC's Highway to Hell, George F. Handel's Hallelujah Chorus,
and fragments of Led Zeplin and Jerry Lee Lewis. Raging guitar, bass `n` drums.
Interlude - They Are Not Going Home (from The Sinking of the Rainbow
Warrior)
- in the Pacific Ocean
- samples of N.Z. ex-PM David Lange and Amanda Stewart
Ratsinkafka
- 'It's all gonna ch-ch-change at the turn of the twentieth century'.
- samples of Amanda Stewart with saxes and headbanging rhythms.
Black Years - Red Years (a.k.a. Fuck You Pal !)
- If you want to avoid being a dole bludger be sure to pick your parents carefully.
- samples of Jas H. Duke speaking, shouting and singing with grinding rhythms.
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*****
Composer: Colin Bright
Libretto: Amanda Stewart
Performers: The Song Company
& austraLYSIS
Conductor: Roland Peelman
Producer: Andrew Mclenan
Sound Engineer: Russell Stapleton
Performances:
Feral Voices - Gosford Conservatorium Orchestra 26th November 2000
Red Earth - The Australia Ensemble at the Clancy Auditorium, 9th of October 1999.
The outback - the red centre (center) - vastness - space...
Red Earth II - The Seymour Group at the Broadwalk
Studio, Sydney Opera House,
Thursday the 11th of March 1999.
A 'psyche of place' piece featuring guitar with flute,clarinet(+bass),violin,cello,piano,prcussion.
Red Earth page for info on related piece.
The Rainbow Warrior - Prelude for Orchestra - 6'30" - an orchestral suite from the opera
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - The New Monash Orchestra
- June 23 at Robert Blackwood Hall (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia).
- June 29 at the Hanoi Opera House
- July 2 at Ho Chi Minh City National Conservatory
The Rainbow Warrior - Prelude for Orchestra - The New Monash Orchestra - May 29, 1999, Melbourne. Also
later throughout Asia.
War and Peace - Fuzzbug
and Happy Birthday Australia - The Song Company
(6 singers) on 29 May 1999 at Casula Powerhouse 2.30pm.
30 May 1999 at Austr Centre of Photography, Paddington 6.30pm.
War and Peace - The Song Company (6 singers) at the
Broadwalk Studio, Sydney Opera House, Saturday the 6th of March 1999, 8.30PM.
A set of songs on poems by Jas Duke - quirky Australian humour, wit and insight.
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full blurb.
Broadcasts:
Black Years - Red Years - broadcast: ABC-FM The Listening Room, 13th September 1999.
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - broadcast: ABC-FM The Listening Room, 13th December 1999.
Check - 24 hours - ABC (Australia) radio guide or Monday's - Sydney Morning Herald - The Guide
Recordings:
A radiophonic and CD version of - The Sinking
of the Rainbow Warrior - an opera, with
libretto by Amanda Stewart, has been recorded by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) during 1999.
Performers are The Song Company & austraLYSIS.
It was originally performed outdoors on Sydney harbour at the Sydney Festival 1997.
CD released through Vox Australis - The Australian Music Centre .
Red Earth - release expected 2003 through Tall poppies.
Many Heads - Katatjuta - released through Tall poppies.
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