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Kangaroo Valley Voice $2.50 Volume 25 Issue 2 ISSN 1833-8402 Circulation 800 AUGUST 2019 Martin Wesley- Dr Mary Moran The Hampden Smith concert OAM Bridge story Page 3 Page 7 Page 10 e: [email protected] www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 2 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice Regular Articles Published by Kangaroo Valley Voice Inc. 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Send all communication including payments to Kangaroo Valley Voice, PO Box 6079 Kangaroo Valley or email to kvvoiceinvoices@gmail .com August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 3 Martin Wesley-Smith and friends ... Martin Wesley-Smith is a composer, but he Martin has written a wide range of music, hasn’t written much music recently because but this concert will present a vocal of poor health. He has lived in Kangaroo repertoire only; many of the performers Valley for twenty years and during that have been associated with The Song time has contributed in several ways to the Company, based in Sydney. The singers are local community: he was the moving force donating their services out of respect and in getting the Dirty Dan movies made, he love for Martin. Proceeds will go to the has organised many concerts (especially the Kangaroo Valley-Remexio Partnership. Buster Keaton series, over thirteen years), Martin’s ill-health prevented him from he directed and sang in The Thirsty Night going to Adelaide last month for the state Singers, he has created websites for various opera company’s production of Boojum!, parties, and so on. All of this was voluntary which he wrote about in an earlier issue and unpaid. of this journal. I can report that it was a It is a tradition in the musical life of Australia great success, much better than its original to present a concert of a composer’s work at production in Adelaide 33 years ago. the beginning of each decade. There was a Sunday’s concert is called Wesley-Smith concert for Martin in the valley for his 60th Songs. You could wait for the 80th birthday birthday and one for his 70th birthday. There event but you might miss out. If you come would be one for his 80th but it is likely that along to the Hall at 3pm on the 11th you he’ll have carked it by then (lung cancer). might have the chance to attend both He’s already looking pretty crook. Roland concerts! Peelman and friends have therefore brought By Peter Wesley-Smith, it forward to THIS MONTH, Sunday 11 August. Martin’s brother And just two of the reviews of the very successful Boojum! performed in Adelaide last month and reported in the Voice ... congratulations Martin and Peter: Boojum! is a wonderful piece of It has taken precisely a third of a century performance. Part operetta, part for Boojum! to return home to Adelaide. The Martin Wesley-Smith musical theatre, it sits in that question: was it worth the wait. The answer: and Elena Kats-Chernin more experimental genre of music a resounding yes! … I think Boojum! is a true Concert, Sunday 11 August theatre. musical and theatrical masterpiece. 3:00 pm, Kangaroo Valley Hall Diana Carroll, ArtsHub, July 11 2019 Vincent Plush, Limelight, July 6 2019 $20 per seat. Water Delivery Service ' 0418 426 343 or 4465 1042 drinking tank pool spa dam Ba$er spray & dribble bar for road works and dust suppression Page 4 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au August 2019 Letters to the editor ... THE KANGAROO VALLEY VOICE Inc. Homelessness & Empty Rooms Friends and fellow members of Kangaroo NOTICE OF Valley Community, with the really cold ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING nights that we are experiencing, I am more and more often thinking of those NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual who have no homes. These people are General Meeting of the Kangaroo Valley not necessarily ne’er-do-wells who don’t Voice Incorporated will be held on: use their money as others think it should be used. It may be a case that a woman Date: TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2019, and her children have fled family abuse, commencing at 6pm. or some one who has lost his job and now can’t afford rent. Hearing news casts of Place: 6 Rectory Park Way, Kangaroo these costs I shudder, thank God I have Valley, NSW. my own house because with my income from CentreLink plus my small UK pension Time: 6.00 PM I am better off than most BUT I am finding it difficult to manage to keep my head above water. I love books and I am now buying less of them than I have done for many years. That is my discomfort, but I have a two bedroom house in Glenmack Park. How many of us here in this community feel able to welcome an unfortunate into their home for a short Voice period? I am willing to offer a bed to a woman of any age, with a child (if there VoiceAdvertising Advertising is one) although they would have to share a bed! I have thought long and hard about RatesRates 20192018 this disgraceful situation, I have prayed forfor completed completed ads* ads* that these unfortunate people would find supplied as .jpg files somewhere to be safe and warm and that supplied as .jpg files somehow rents would be tailored to the ability of homeless people to pay for a Size (mm) B/W Colour roof over their heads. We are a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY friends, 1/8 page (60 x 90) $40 N/A we pride ourselves on being for the fair go and underdog I think that we should begin (90 x 60) to put our money where our mouths are and instead of just saying “Why doesn’t 1/4 page (90 x 130) $55 $145 the Government do something?” Why not (130 x 90) do something ourselves? Please contact me if you have any thoughts on this and we can organise a 1/2 page (190 x130) $85 $185 meeting in one of our many great coffee 1/2 page (Back Cover) $220 spots to discuss the ideas we have. Full page (190 x 270) $140 $280 Win Palmer Full page (Back Cover) $300 Centre Spread $560 (if available) Directory [email protected] Small $21 per issue for 6 month sub Large $42 per issue for 6 month sub * a fee will be charged for ads to be made up Small Directory Ad: 90 x 55mm Large Directory Ad: 90 x 85mm August 2019 Kangaroo Valley Voice www.kangaroovalley.nsw.au Page 5 A Sunday Afternoon of Music @ The ARTS LAB After screening two great documentaries part of the trio “The Half Truths” with the in the last couple of months (The Final violinist Kathryn Brownhill.