Centenary Chronicle Chapter 1*
australiaa n societ s y fo r mumsic * education e Centenary Chronicle Chapter 1 i ncorporated Robyn Archer *This address was presented at the ASME Conference in Canberra in September 2013. I begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians government, but as a centre for all kinds of of the land we meet on today, the Ngunnawal and national achievement, including the arts. Ngambri people and pay my respects to their elders Many insinuate that, along with other parts past and present, and also acknowledge, especially of the plan which were never fulfilled, this in this year of Canberra’s 100th anniversary, the ambition for a centre of arts and culture also tens of thousands of years of culture these people failed. I beg to differ. While Canberra now has continue to maintain and extend. I extend the 370,000 inhabitants, with around 600,000 in total acknowledgement to any other First Peoples here accessing the hospitals, indicating that that many today. could also access the arts and culture the capital I also wish to dedicate this lecture to the offers, it will not compete in actual numbers of memory of bassoonist Lindsay Cooper, who artists and artistic output with cities of five or four died in London a few years ago. She was a fine million; but this doesn’t mean there’s no activity musician who bravely decided that she couldn’t here, which is the myth which many outsiders bear to be tied to a symphonic life, and endless continue to spread. ‘National Treasure’ Clive repetitions of Peter and the Wolf, and so turned to Palmer, in his first comments about the National improvisation and composition for which she was Capital, to which he has been summoned by his known widely in Europe.
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