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South Australian Flute News osiak Print Post Pub. No. 100002101 July, 2013 ABN: 96 991 331 922
The Flute Society of South Australia Inc. PLEASE visit our new website at Founder http://saflutesociety.org/ Professor David Cubbin From the President prepare for the end of year exams. This Patron will once again be held at Unley Uniting Dear Flute Society Members, Church. If you would like to perform at Alison Rosser this concert, look for the brochure inside Welcome to our July issue of Flute News! Vice Patrons this edition to register.
Associate Professor Congratulations to the six performers who There are a couple more events in the Elizabeth Koch OAM took part in the Carolyn White Memorial planning stages, an Adult Amateur Robert Brown Scholarship on Saturday June 15 at Afternoon and a second Flute Teachers Rosefield Uniting Church, Highgate. The Evening, so keep an eye out for details as winner of the First Prize was Maria they are revealed!
Zhdanovich, Grace Lund was the Second Details for our events, brochures and Prize winner and Emily Squires was awarded an Honourable Mention. I would application forms can be found inside this like to extend a warm thank you to Josie newsletter or on our website http://saflutesociety.org/. Hawkes who adjudicated the competition. Josie encouraged the competitors to keep here are only a few months until the exploring and extending their dynamic and T next Australian Flute Festival will be upon colour range, to keep striving to create the most musical performance to captivate the us … it is going to be held from October audience. 4-7 at the Australian National University, School of Music in Canberra. Have you The Adelaide Eisteddfod is the next event checked out the program yet?? It is in our fluting calendar and it will be held on looking amazing and will take some August 9, 10 and 12 at Rosefield Uniting serious planning to decide which classes, Church, Highgate. The programmes for the talks and performances to attend … I am various Divisions in the 2013 Adelaide getting the feeling it would be useful to Eisteddfod can be found on the Adelaide divide oneself into portions to soak it all Eisteddfod website at up!!
http://www.sacomment.com/aes.htm. We loser to home, it is great to see that are looking forward to having Teresa Rabe C here from Canberra, to adjudicate the Adelaide is hosting the Australasian Contents Eisteddfod this year. Double Reed Society National Conference at the University of Adelaide President’s Report 1 A s if she won’t be busy enough at the from September 13-15. With an Eisteddfod, Teresa is also going to be the impressive line-up of guest artists there New Members 2 very special guest at our Flute and Fife are two public concerts which would be Coming Events 2-5 Fun Day which will be held on Sunday wonderful to attend to support our fellow August 11. This event is aimed at our wind players! For more information visit Concerts 5 adrs.org.au. younger members; so we hope you will all come along and wear your bright funky Notes and News 5-6 I’ll look forward to seeing you at an event clothes and see what is involved with ‘A Scholarship 6 soon! Walk on the Wild Side’ and ‘Colours of the Recent Events 7 Wind’… it’s bound to be lots of fun!! Don’t Best wishes, forget about the spectacular afternoon tea Articles 8-14 which has become a necessary part of the afternoon! CD Review 15 Flute Society Info 16 We will hold our second Tutti Flutti afternoon for the year on Sunday September 22, offering another performance practice opportunity to Karen Fletcher
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☆WELCOME TO SA FLUTE NEWS Page 2 OUR NEW MEMBERS☆ Andrew Scott Emilia Bovingdon COMING EVENTS Marissa Kha Alyshia Vu Amy Beecham AUSTRALIAN FLUTE FESTIVAL Grace Lund When: October 4-7, 2013, ANU School of Music, Canberra Caitlin Gilsenan-Reed Director: David Leviston Baoshan Wu Director/Co-ordinator: Lyndie Leviston, Samuel Soetratma e-mail [email protected] We hope you enjoy being part of the Ph. (02) 8006-5345, mobile 0424-504-104 Flute Society and look forward to seeing you at our events. Post: 140 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge, NSW 2063. Website: http://www.australianflutefestival.com Please visit our website! START SAVING NOW AND PLAN TO ATTEND THIS EXCITING EVENT! vNEW BABYv Earlybird period, June 1 to July 31 Regular period, August 1 to October 3 Please visit the website for information about all the guest artists, festival programme, competition details (entries close on June 28 for the Flute, Young Artists and Orchestral Excerpts Competitions and June 1 for the Composition Competition), recitals, masterclasses, Professional Learning Day, Junior Day, private lessons and accommodation.
Congratulations to Natalie Zwar on the birth of Callum on May 6. Fabulous Flute and Fife Fun Day
vBIRTHDAYv When: Sunday, August 11 Venue: Unley Uniting Church, 187 Unley Road, Unley Happy Birthday to our Honorary Life Guest Director: Teresa Rabe Member, Brenda McMurtrie, who turns 90 on August 20. http://saflutesociety.org/. Download the brochure from
TUTTI FLUTTI – FLUTE PERFORMANCE AFTERNOON When: Sunday, September 22, 2-4 pm. Booking in for performers from 1-45 pm. Where: Unley Uniting Church, 187 Unley Road, Unley Free admission! Come along for a relaxed afternoon of flute performances. Brenda McMurtrie A scrumptious afternoon tea will be provided. See the information sheet and application form inserted in South Australian vQUEEN’S BIRTHDAY Flute News or download from http://saflutesociety.org/. v HONOURS Congratulations to flautist Minyon ADELAIDE EISTEDDFOD FLUTE AND WOODWIND DIVISIONS 2013 Pfeiffer for being awarded an OAM for ‘service to the community of When: August 9-12 Mount Barker’. Venue: Rosefield Uniting Church, 2 Carlton Street, Highgate Admission: $7 vLIBRARYv Adjudicators: Teresa Rabe (flute), Josie Hawkes (woodwind) The Flute Society Library is housed Direct enquiries for the Flute and Woodwind Divisions to the Convenor, in Elizabeth Koch’s room (LG 14) at Robert Brown, Ph. 8431-0452, e-mail [email protected]. the Elder School of Music. There is a
large selection of sheet music, flute ensemble music (duets, trios, INFORMATION FOR COMPETITORS by Robert Brown, Convenor quartets and quintets), magazines, books and cassettes. Elizabeth may We are looking forward to the visit of Teresa Rabe, our adjudicator from Canberra. be contacted during office hours on Please arrive early enough on the day to book in and to warm up without having to 8313-5343 or e-mail rush. If you need an accompanist ask your teacher for assistance or visit the [email protected] to Accompanists’ Guild of SA website at http://accompanist.org.au/the-register-of- arrange a time for borrowing.
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COMING EVENTS (Cont’d) accompanists/ to access the Register of Accompanists. Book your accompanist sooner rather than later so you have time to rehearse and to avoid the last minute rush! There is no printed Programme Book this year. Visit the Adelaide Eisteddfod Society’s website at http://www.sacomment.com/aes.htm to download PDF files that contain the programme for each Division. All competitors were sent an e-mail that asked them to look for these PDF files. A printed programme for the audience will be available during the Flute and Woodwind Divisions for $1.
To speed up booking in, could each competitor please clearly write on a sheet of Teresa Rabe paper his/her name, the names of works being performed, and their composers, ready to hand in to the booking in person? Please note that Competitors are also required to fill in and bring with them completed APRA/AMCOS Forms 1 and 2 for each section they have entered. Visit http://www.sacomment.com/aes.htm to download these forms. Competitors are required to bring a legible piano score copy of their own choice music for the Adjudicator – don’t forget to bring it with OVERSEAS NOTES you! I provide piano scores for the set pieces and Flute Music by French compiled by Masako Kondo Composers. Please don’t bring photocopies of these publications with you (this wastes paper)! Wolfgang Schulz, Principal Flute of Backing CDs may be used. Competitors are responsible for providing their own the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, playback equipment and CDs. The playback equipment used should be of good passed away on March 28, aged 67. quality and set up before the section starts.
German flautist and conductor, Kurt 2013 EISTEDDFOD PROGRAMME Redel, passed away on February 12,
FRIDAY AUGUST 9th aged 94.
1-15 pm booking in commences
1-40 pm Section F620 18 Years and Over Flute Solo French composer Henri Dutilleux 2-00 pm Section F621/W441 Flute/Woodwind Solo by any Australian composer died on May 22, aged 97. He is 2-20 pm Section F622 French Flute Solo remembered for his contributions to 3-40 pm Afternoon Tea the flute’s repertoire. 3-55 pm Section F619 Orchestral Excerpts, Grades 6 to 8 4-05 pm Section F618 Unaccompanied Flute Solo Yamaha Corporation was renamed 5-00 pm Section F617 Flute Study, Grades 5 to 8 Level Yamaha Music Japan Co. Ltd. in
5-25 pm Section F607 Flute Solo, 18 Years and Under April. 6-30 pm Dinner break 7-00 pm Section F606 Flute Solo, 16 Years and Under 8-00 pm Section F608 Grade 5 Flute Solo Overseas Flute Events 9-00 pm Finish Accadimia Musicale Chigiana
SATURDAY AUGUST 11th July 15-27 Sienna, Italy 8-30 am booking in commences with Patrick Gallois 9-00 am Section F601 Flute Solo, 10 Years and Under www.chigiana.it. 9-35 am Section F601 Flute Solo, 10 Years and Under, Folk Song
9-45 am Section F602 Flute Solo, 12 Years and Under 10-40 am Section F600 Grade 2 Flute Solo James Galway Flute Festival 11-20 am Morning Tea July 26-August 4 11-35 am Section F603 Grade 3 Flute Solo Weggis, Switzerland 12-00 noon Section F604 Flute Solo, 14 Years and Under www.jamesgalway.com
1-10 pm Lunch 1-40 pm Section F605 Grade 4 Flute Solo Academie Internationale d’Ete de 3-10 pm Section F613 Flute Duet, Grade 4 and Under Nice, France 3-35 pm Section F614 Flute Duet, Grades 5 and 6 July 15-August 12 4-10 pm Afternoon Tea
SA FLUTE NEWS Page 4 with Philippe Bernold, Davide Formisano, Maxence Larrieu, COMING EVENTS (Cont’d) Claude Lefebvre, Vincent Lucas, 4-20 pm Section F614 Flute Duet, Grade 7 and Above Philippe Pierlot, www.hexagone.net/music/academy 4-55 pm Section F616 Flute Trio or Quartet, 15 years and Under _nice.htm 5-15 pm Finish
The 28th William Bennett SUNDAY AUGUST 11th International Flute Summer 2-00 pm Open Age Brass Solo School 2-30 pm to 6-45 pm WOODWIND DIVISION July 22-August 5 Sale Marasino, Italy Visit http://www.sacomment.com/aes.htm for the programme details. with William Bennett, Lorna McGhee, Denis Bouriakov, MONDAY AUGUST 12th www.williambennettflute.com 2-40 pm booking in commences
3-00 pm Section F612 Complete Flute Sonata or Suite Academie Internationale de 4-50 pm Afternoon Tea Musique 2013 (Festival Pablo Casals) 5-05 pm Section F615 Piccolo Solo August 1-14 5-20 pm Section F609 Grade 6 Flute Solo Prades, France 6-20 pm Dinner break with Félix Renggli 7-00 pm Section F610 Grade 7 and 8 Flute Solo www.prades-festival-casals.com 8-25 pm Section F611 Open Flute Solo 10-20 pm Finish Internationale Sommerakademie August 12-24 ADELAIDE EISTEDDFOD CONCERTO Salzburg, Austria Adjudicators: Julienne Webb and Peter Webb OAM http://www.uni-mozarteum.at/de/ Venue: Salvation Army Citadel, 55 George Street, Norwood
Heat Competition When Wednesday, August 21, 6-00 pm 47th International Flute Admission $7; Members and children under 12 free Competition Final September 6-15 When Thursday, August 29, 7-00 pm Budapest, Hungary Admission Adult $10; Senior/Fulltime student $8; Children under 12 free http://filharmoniabp.hu/en/47th_inter One flautist has entered. national_music_competition
ADELAIDE EISTEDDFOD SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS’ CONCERT When Monday, September 9, 7-30 pm Where Salvation Army Citadel, 55 George Street, Norwood Admission Adult, $10; Seniors/Students, $8; Children under 16 free
MBS YOUNG PERFORMER 2013, SA FINAL When Sunday, September 15, 2-30 pm Where St John’s Anglican Church, 379 Halifax Street, Adelaide Admission Adult $10, 5MBS Member/Student $5
THE FLUTE SOCIETY PROGRAM ON 5MBS - presented by Robert Brown The Flute Society Program is broadcast on Monday evenings at 7 pm and repeated on the following Saturday at 5 pm. 5MBS is located at 99.9 on the FM Band.
Dates Program Monday, August 12 Piccolo Polkas, Peter Verhoyen and friends perform music from or Saturday, August 17 inspired by the early 1900s, the golden age of the piccolo.
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Monday, October 14 William Bennett and friends perform music for flute by Villa-Lobos, Saturday, October 19 including The Jet Whistle for flute and cello. Monday, December 9 Music for the Festive Season, including Elizabeth Koch and Suzanne Saturday, December 15 Handel playing Christmas classics.
The theme music used for the Flute Society Program is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, played by Sir James Galway, flute, with Hiro Fujikake, synthesizer.
CONCERTS Send your concert details to the Editor for inclusion in this section.
RECITALS Wednesday Lunch Hour Concerts 2013
Where: Pilgrim Church, 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide When: 12-10 pm and 1-10 pm.
Admission: Adults: $5, Concession: $4. Tickets at the door.
Enquiries: Recitals Australia, Ph. 8266-4936.
See http://www.recitalsaustralia.org.au/ for more information.
Elder Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series When: 1-10 pm. Admission: $10. See www.adelaide.edu.au/events/concert/lunch/ for more information. Friday, August 16 Flute Recital, Megan Sterling, Principal Flute, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, with Kristian Chong, piano. Music by Taffanel, Vine, Saint-Saëns and Lieberman Friday, September 27 The Shakespeare Connection, The Adelaide Baroque presents readings by Shakespeare and music by Purcell, Byrd, Morley and Johnson; includes recorder players Jayne Varnish and Lynton Rivers Friday, October 4 Woodwinds from the Band of the South Australian Police Friday October 18 Elder Conservatorium Wind Ensemble, conducted by Robert Hower
Mitcham Orchestra When: Sunday, October 27, 2-00 pm Where: Mitcham Uniting Church 103a Princes Road, Mitcham Admission: $12
NOTES AND NEWS
Congratulations to Jordan Paterson who recently won First Prize in the American Protégé International Flute Competition 2013 for his age group. Jordan has been invited to perform in the winners’ recital at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in December. Congratulations to Anna Cooper (former student of Elizabeth Koch) who recently passed a casual audition for Opera Victoria. Anna is a student at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.
Michal Rosiak’s music is available at www.mrflute.com.au. Recent compositions include Angry Tunes for 4 C flutes (heard at the Australian Flute Festival) and Swinging Metamorphosis for flute quartet (Piccolo, C flute, alto flute and bass flute). Jordan Paterson and Elizabeth Koch
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These two compositions were selected for performance at the 26th Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, held in January at Bellevue, Washington, USA. These pieces were performed by the IWO Flute Quartet. Pastorale is an intermediate piece for alto flute and piano.
ABRSM NEWS NEW PUBLISHING AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR ABRSM is pleased to announce the appointment of Robin Barry to the new position of Publishing and Product Development Director with effect from July 1. Robin will have responsibility for directing the publishing team and developing and delivering a programme of new ABRSM products. He joined ABRSM as Product Development Manager in 2004 from Oxford University Press where he worked as
Music Editor. In 2007 he became Editorial Director. Leslie East, ABRSM’s Chief Executive, said: ‘I am delighted to welcome Robin to this role. The creation of the post of Publishing and Product Development Director recognises our need to develop a co-ordinated programme of progressive new digital and print resources while providing leadership to our dedicated publishing team’.
ABRSM EXAMS
Over 650,000 exams are taken in 90 countries each year and every graded music exam is marked to the same criteria by our panel of highly qualified and skilled examiners. In Australia ABRSM assessments are held in designated exam centres at specified periods of the year.
Next last date of entry: PRACTICAL – Friday, 26 July THEORY OF MUSIC – Friday, September 13 If you would like to receive the FREE package of examination information, current syllabuses, etc., please contact our SA Representative, Ms Anastasia Nga Fong Chan, Ph. 8234-5952, e-mail [email protected].
RESULTS FOR DAVID CUBBIN MEMORIAL FUND FOR 2013 There were four applications this year.
Applicants Awarded For Simone Maurer from Ormiston, $110 Attending the Australian Flute Festival in October at the ANU Queensland School of Music, Canberra Matthew Ventura, from Cooma, $110
NSW Chloe Chung from Cammeray, $150 Attending the Flauti el castello Flute School in Tuscany, Italy, NSW in July 2013, with Leone Buyse and Sergio Castelli Mikaela Oberg from Belrose, $150 Attending the Urbino Early Music Course in Urbino, Italy, in NSW July 2013, with Marcello Gatti
DAVID CUBBIN MEMORIAL FUND FOR 2014 Grants are available to assist young Australian flautists attend a Flute Festival or Flute Event during 2014. Please send a letter requesting financial assistance to David Cubbin Memorial Fund, C/- Robert Brown, PO Box 3228, Norwood, SA 5067 by Monday, May 5, 2014. Please include your contact information - postal address, telephone number, e-mail address. Applicants are required to provide a supporting letter from their teacher.
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CAROLYN WHITE Tutti Flutti RECENT EVENTS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP TUTTI FLUTTI – FLUTE 2013 PERFORMANCE AFTERNOON Held: Saturday, June 15, Rosefield Uniting Church by Samantha Hennessy Adjudicator: Josie Hawkes Is that what you are playing? First Prize: Maria Zhdanovich
Second Prize: Grace Lund Held: Sunday, May 5, Unley Uniting Hon. Mention: Emily Squires Church Set Piece: Adagio and Allegro:
Marcello, arr. Weretka, no repeats, Once again our Tutti Flutti afternoon was AMEB Flute Fourth Grade Book, Series 3 an enjoyable event. Seamlessly hosted There were 8 entries this year; two and run by Linda Pirie and our team of withdrew. committee members, the afternoon provided a warm congenial atmosphere Maria Zhdanovich is a student at for our young players. Marryatville High School, where she There was a plethora of ages and styles plays in the Concert Band, Flute from the flautists. We enjoyed a Ensemble and School Orchestra. Her delightful duet between our smallest flute teacher is Alison Rosser. Maria player, in combination with her dad on also plays in the Adelaide Youth Sinfonia. At the Adelaide Eisteddfod guitar – a fine example of music making at its best and no doubt the crowd Maria has won Second Prize in the 12 Tuning Up favourite. There were a number of years and under flute solo and First Prize students trialling exam pieces, some new in the Grade 5 flute solo. and interesting Australian pieces from Grace Lund is home schooled by her the new AMEB syllabus and notable mother, Sharon Lund. Her flute teacher performances from a couple of the is Linda Pirie. Grace has attended the Conservatorium students. State Music Camp. Jamie Cock, our accomplished associate artist, provided engaging and Emily Squires goes to Brighton supportive accompaniment for all the Secondary School, where she plays in Flute Duet the School Symphony Orchestra and players – some of whom were playing with piano for the first time. School Concert Band. Her flute teacher is Alan Aungles. At the Adelaide A delicious afternoon tea followed, Eisteddfod Emily has won an Honorary giving everyone the chance to catch up Mention in the 12 years and under flute and mull over the nuts and bolts of the solo, Third Prize in the 14 years and performances. under flute solo, Second Prize in the Many thanks go to Linda and our Piccolo Solo and Second Prize in the committee, who really team up to make Grade 4 and under flute duet (with Erin days like this work so well. Quigley).
And of course, thanks to all the spirited Performance action young players who make these days extraordinary! We hope you enjoyed your achievements as much as we did? See you again for the next Tutti Flutti afternoon in September! Look for the information sheet inserted in South Australian Flute News.
2013 Scholarship Winners: Emily Squires, Grace Lund, Josie Hawkes, Maria Zhdanovich Flute and Guitar
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JIM WALKER by Linda Pirie
hen I first saw the line-up of amazing on hundreds of soundtracks and flute players on offer for this years’ commercial recordings’. Australian Flute Festival in Canberra later this year, there were many luminaries o - chances are I have heard him play whose names I recognised. There was one on several films I have enjoyed over the name, however, that I was unfamiliar with - years, including Memoirs of a Geisha, A Jim Walker. So I wondered who is this Beautiful Mind, Amistad, Ice Age, Seven Jim Walker? Years in Tibet, Titanic, Monsters Inc., A River Runs Through It, and many more! o answer this question I headed for the Jim Walker one sure-fire place that would answer my e is also a keen educator, teaching for question - Google. At the top of the search more than four decades, with many of his was a result for ‘jimwalkerflute.com’. You students going on to successful know someone is super-famous when they orchestral careers of their own. He QUOTES have a professional website dedicated lectures at the University of Southern entirely to their career highlights, California’s Thornton School of Music His brother’s name was Jubal; he performances and recordings. and the Colburn Conservatory of Music. was the father of all who play the harp and flute. Additionally he has conducted flute he biography on this site lists him as the Genesis 4:21 master classes and clinics in the USA, ‘Renaissance Man of the Flute’, stating Canada, Europe, South America, Korea, that: Japan and Russia. Flute music is love music from the heart. It must not stop, lest the ‘Few other flutists in history have made !ne impressive aspect that jumps out pulsing of the heart be broken. such indelible marks in so many musical from his biography, though, is this Judith Redman Robbins, in Coyote circles. From jazz to pop to classical, comment: Woman television to film to the concert hall, Jim Walker has never met a crowd that ‘Jim is not interested in simply I do not consider myself as having didn’t love his powerful, “stand and training musicians; he inspires each mastered the flute, but I get a real deliver” performances’. pupil as a whole person, and students kick out of trying. leave his tutelage feeling empowered, Sir James Galway is career highlights are impressive. In reaching for the stars’. 1969 he was appointed Associate Principal Flute in the Pittsburgh Symphony, then in his is indeed a rare quality – the ability 1977, Principal Flute, Los Angeles to inspire and truly bring out the best in a Philharmonic. After reaching what is for student, whatever their needs and many flautists the pinnacle of their career, particular abilities.
in 1980 he left the Los Angeles Philharmonic and formed his jazz ensemble is discography is equally impressive: An intellectual snob is someone Free Flight. This ensemble was wildly countless recordings with his jazz who can listen to the ‘William Tell successful, performing for the Tonight ensemble Free Flight, classical Overture’ and not think of ‘The Show, the Today Show and The Hollywood collaborations and solos. This is one Lone Ranger’. Dan Rather Bowl. Jean-Pierre Rampal - the versatile and thoroughly accomplished grandfather of modern classical flautists - musician. called ‘Jimmy’ his ‘favourite jazz flute I don’t know whether I like it, but it he opportunity to see Jim Walker in is what I meant. player’ in the 1990s - quite an accolade action at the Australian Flute Festival in Ralph Vaughan Williams on his from this legend of the flute. Fourth Symphony. October sounds like an opportunity not to ecoming well ensconced in the Los be missed – with a living legend of the Angeles music scene, Jim was the studio flute in action. This is his first visit to Playing a flute is like writing a book. flute player of choice for countless Australia, and a chance for many of us to You’re telling what’s in your heart. acquaint ourselves with this unique and It’s easier to play if it’s right from recordings, including collaborations with your heart. You get the tone, and such luminaries as James Galway, John accomplished musician and educator. the fingers will follow. Williams, Paul McCartney and Leonard Eddie Cahill Bernstein. And as his biography states, Jim Walker’s visit to Australia is ‘His bold, expressive playing can be heard sponsored by Burkart flutes.
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in backing groups for various performers LINDA VOGT, A.M: A REAL and television commercials. In 1958
INSPIRATION Jazz saxophonist Charles Munro asked Linda to help with flute embouchure and (28.9.1922 – 2.4.2013) tone production problems; the flute was becoming a popular jazz instrument. by Robert Brown Linda ended up joining his quintet for six months. Never having listened to jazz or having needed to improvise, Linda took "inda Vogt was a true pioneer and a this challenge head on. There was an major inspiration for Australian flautists. agreement that her improvisations would Born into a musical family, she grew up be annotated, but she soon learned to in Melbourne, where she studied the improvise and became a good jazz flute with Leslie Barklamb. Linda did a flautist. She enjoyed the relaxed shorthand/typing course at Stott’s approach of the jazz musicians. In Business College and from 1938 Sydney’s jazz world Linda became worked as a typist. In 1940, on Leslie known as ‘Hot Lips’!
Barklamb’s recommendation, she rom 1969 onwards Linda became became the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s extra flute, even though involved with teaching, holding positions she had never studied at a at the Canberra School of Music Conservatorium. Two years later Linda (1969/1970), ABC Training Orchestra, was invited by Sir Bernard Heinze to Pan Pacific Music Camps and the join the ABC Sydney Studio Orchestra University of NSW Music Department. as second flute and piccolo (only the Already an exponent of yoga, Linda Linda Vogt and Colin Evans second woman to play in the wind investigated the Alexander technique, section of an ABC orchestra; and this approach to posture and Constance Pether being the first). breathing became part of her teaching. Linda set out for Sydney on the Spirit of " Progress train. Leslie Barklamb arrived inda was Associate Principal Flute of at the station in time to see her depart the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Sydney and to pass a piccolo through the open Orchestra in 1973 and 1974, and played window, the first she had ever held! At at the opening of the Sydney Opera the Burwood rehearsal studios, Linda House (1973) in Prokoviev’s opera War was introduced to the members of the and Peace. Linda toured Australia and orchestra, and rehearsals began with South East Asia for Musica Viva with the Carl Pini Chamber Players in 1973. Linda playing flute and piccolo! Eventually Linda purchased a silver Linda also appeared regularly with the
Haynes flute, and changed from her Sinfonia of Sydney, conducted by Carl Rudall Carte 1867 system flute to the Pini and Neville Marriner. Linda Vogt with an alto flute that Böhm system (open G#) while on the belonged to the celebrated flautist job. In the late 1940s Colin Evans n 1966, Nicola Snekker arranged the John Amadio first masterclass given at the Sydney joined the orchestra as third flute and piccolo (when the number of flautists Conservatorium, presented by Jean- was increased to three). Linda and Pierre Rampal. This prompted Linda Colin married in 1952. Colin retained Vogt to encourage a group of his position in the orchestra for 35 professionals to meet regularly, having years, while Linda left to start a family. prepared a set piece, and to play in front of one another. Commencing in October Linda cared for her terminally ill father and her two children, Peter and 1967, these sessions were known as the Deirdre. Flute Night. In 1969, two Australian flautists, Douglas Whittaker and John "inda returned to music making in the Wion, who were based overseas, were mid 1950s, becoming well-known as a visiting Australia. Leslie Barklamb decided to organise a concert in Melba flute soloist for Musica Viva and the ABC, and as a chamber musician, Hall at the University of Melbourne, and playing in groups with Don Andrews, invited them to perform, along with Carl Pini and Robert Pikler. She also Arnost Bourek, David Cubbin, Linda Vogt played for television and film music and and Vernon Hill. To gain admission,
ARTICLES SA FLUTE NEWS Page 10 each audience member had to bring some type of flute, PURPOSEFUL PURPOSELESSNESS: and the concert culminated with everyone playing their flutes together. As a result, the Victorian Flute Guild was PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF JOHN established. At Linda’s instigation the Flute Night was rebadged as the Sydney Flute Society in 1973, becoming CAGE IN HIS CENTENNIAL YEAR the Flute Society of NSW in 1985. In the early 1970s flute societies and guilds were also established in the by Melanie Walters other Australian states. I have nothing to say n 1971 Professor James Pellerite from Indiana and I am saying it University, USA, visited Sydney and Melbourne. This and that is poetry encouraged Linda to negotiate a three month placement as I need it. for him as Artist-in-Residence at the Sydney Conservatorium in 1973. Professor Pellerite’s visit # culminated in the First Australian Flute Seminar at Easter 012 marked the centenary of the birth of John Cage, 1973, with Professor Pellerite as Musical Director and composer, philosopher, poet, painter and mushroom Linda as Executive Director: the first flute seminar or aficionado. Described by James L. McHard in The Future convention held anywhere in the world. of Modern Music as ‘the most unsettling and disruptive apostle of change in the last half of the 20th Century’, Cage continues to have a profound influence on he Australian Flute Convention Advisory and Co- ordinating Committee (AFCACC) was established in 1975 composition and sound art. One of the central tenets of to oversee the organisation of Australian Flute his music is non-intentionality: Cage did not believe that Conventions. Linda was the NSW representative. She communication is the purpose of music, having said that organised the Steering Committee that founded the ‘when I consciously wrote something sad, people and Australian Flute Association in September 1981 to critics were often apt to laugh’ and he believed that ‘the emotions – love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquillity, replace AFCACC as a national voice for the flute. At Easter 1983 Linda directed the 5th Australian Flute fear, anger, sorrow, disgust – are in the audience’ rather Convention at the Sydney Conservatorium, with William than coming from the composer or the performers. His Bennett and Vernon Hill as guest artists. Linda was a use of chance procedures (indeterminacy) and the regular presenter at Australian Flute Conventions. She concept of all types of sound being equal – ‘whether I was a Patron of the Australian Flute Society and was Patron of the Sydney Flute Festivals held in 2006 and 2007. Linda presented seminars and workshops for flute societies throughout Australia.
n 1976 Linda founded Zephyr Music Pty. Ltd., importers and suppliers of classical and educational sheet music. In 1984, under her guidance, the Flute Winston
Society of NSW launched its journal, The Flute. In the Australia Day Honours on January 26, 1989, Linda Vogt was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for her services to music. Linda recorded and promoted Australia’s flute history, and wrote articles about our flute heritage, some of which were published in the national magazine, Flute Australasia. Linda acquired a number of 1/4 important and valuable flute collections, which she presented to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum on April 14, 1992, for preservation, display and occasional performances at the museum. Her collection of historical data has also been given to the Powerhouse Museum. n 2010 Linda was guest of honour at the premiere of Constantine Koukias’ Three Pictures for Linda, a work that was performed by the flute sections of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Commissioned by the Flute Society of NSW, Three Pictures for Linda ‘acknowledges Linda Vogt’s lifetime of contribution to the flourishing flute landscape of Australia’.
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make them or not, there are always multiplicity of simultaneous visual and sounds to be heard and all of them are audible events all going together in one’s excellent’ – revolutionised how music experience and producing enjoyment. It was perceived. was the beginning for me of theatre and circus’. Although a Musicircus may uring last year, I was fortunate to include works by any composers, this have several opportunities to perform particular event included performances of Cage’s compositions. At the Earin only works by Cage: the Concert for and Soundstream Festivals , and Piano and Orchestra (with Stephen Paradise in Spinoza’s Cabinet (a pop- Whittington on piano, Peter Handsworth up art exhibition in a vacant building in on clarinet, Christopher Roberts on the city), I performed some of Number Double Bass and myself on piccolo, flute Pieces, which are a collection of late and alto flute), Suite for Toy Piano works by Cage named after the (Stephen Whittington on celesta), Cheap John Cage number of performers the piece is Imitation (Stephen Whittington, piano), scored for. These pieces use the Aria No. 2 and Aria No.2b (Kate composer’s time bracket technique: McFarlane, soprano), Theatre for each sound or note, the performer Pieces/solos with electronics (Al Thumm is given either a fixed time bracket and Iran Sanadzadeh on electronics, YOUTUBE during which to sustain the sound, or Daniel Thorpe on chess board and Jesse is given two time brackets – one Budel on food preparation), 0’00’ (Margit Trevor Wye plays Chopin’s Minute Waltz on a during which the sound is to start, and Bruenner, drawing [amplified with contact Bb Radcliff System flute d’amore that once the other during which the sound microphones] and Meredith Lane, belonged to John Amadio, should finish. I also performed in the electronics), I-IV (recordings from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwriLcg9c John Cage Day presented by the J.M. lectures given by Cage at Harvard 4U
Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice University) and Williams Mix (tape The Landfillharmonic Orchestra in Paraguay, at the University of Adelaide on composition). The performers were http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=UJr September 5 (John Cage’s birthday). spread out across the stage and into the SUHK9Luw Following Stephen Whittington’s eight audience at Elder Hall, and were free to hour performance of ASLSP (As SLow move around during the performance. A Easy way to make a carrot ocarina, aS Possible) on the organ, I Musicircus is deliberately anarchic; the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9QcFDZl participated in a Musicircus – a chaos and complexity gives the djg concept developed by Cage in 1968 ‘happening’ energy and vitality, and gives during which any number of different the audience the freedom to focus their Cindy’s flute changes colour when player moves, compositions are performed attention to whichever composition(s) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77MuARh1 simultaneously. This concept stems they choose and to create their own 65I&NR=1&feature=endscreen from an experience Cage describes in aesthetic meaning. his autobiographical statement: ‘In Jason (age 7) plays The Girl from Ipanema, Sevilla on a street corner I noticed the lex Ross, in The New Yorker on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWAeBCty
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September 4, 2012, described Cage’s beer-bottle-playing debut on national 7k&feature=endscreen&NR=1 radio!), a greater appreciation of silence continuing influence as follows: ‘He Greg Patillo plays The Barber of remains a palpably vivid presence, still and a different perspective on musical Seville, provoking thought, still spurring time, rhythm and musical development. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M argument, still spreading sublime The use of indeterminacy is also an R1dBPh49Pc mischief’. But despite this, he continues excellent preparation for developing to be a controversial figure. Daniel Asia, improvisation skills. For those flautists who Debussy’s Syrinx played on the in ‘The Put On of the Century, or the might be interested in performing some of trumpet by Alison Balsom, Cage Centenary’ in the Huffpost Arts and Cages’ music, there are a large number of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F Culture blog on January 3, 2013, argues his works which can be performed on the W-8vC9Kpfw that there are ‘trickster qualities’ to flute: the part I performed in the Concert for The Art of Jean-Pierre Rampal, Cage’s music, which is boring and not Piano and Orchestra can also be Radio-Canada Telecasts 1956- worthy of the ‘musical pantheon’ performed as a flute solo, Two was 1966, occupied by composers like Stravinsky. composed for flute and piano, and several http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c However, comparing Cage to composers of the other Number Pieces and earlier hwS3vHdUlo such as Stravinsky misses the point. chamber works include the flute (or are Cage would not have been interested in composed for flexible instrumentation). William Bennett plays the Mel Bonos belonging to any ‘musical pantheon’: he Flute Sonata, was not aiming to create musical http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x masterpieces, but to express a musical meIpfmxKBQ philosophy that would open up the ears James Galway playing Ravel’s and minds of his audience. As a Daphnis et Chloé, 1974, Berlin performer, I have found playing the Philarmonic Orchestra, music of Cage liberating and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X enlightening; it provides a different dp6hPfGSMY&NR=1&feature=ends perspective on the sounds that can be creen produced both on the flute and by non- musical objects (the Soundstream Festival Four6 performance involved my
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masterclass at the Belgrade Faculty of remembered the venue, saying how the Arts by the Director and the beautiful the Adelaide Town Hall is, and wonderfully generous and enthusiastic the year, so it was a treat to meet him flute teacher Professor Ljubisa Jovanovic again in unexpected circumstances. and his colleague, Professor Miomir During that week I also listened to the Simonovic. They have a very strong teaching of Karl-Heinz Schulz, who is woodwind studies area and the 12 one of the Principal Flutes of the Vienna flautists who prepared for the four hour Philharmonic Orchestra. The trip was class were all of a very high standard. It inspirational and I was able to thoroughly Elizabeth Koch, Jordan Paterson, was very impressive. They all had big enjoy my long service leave, not only Anouvong Liensavanh, Mandy sounds and had prepared their work because of the travelling experiences, but Hutchinson meticulously. I donated some Australian because I had a wonderful young former flute repertoire to the flute school so I student who replaced me for those weeks
hope that they enjoy these pieces and teaching my students – Anouvong
integrate them into their future repertoire. Liensavanh. Anouvong will start his fter leaving Belgrade I sailed up the Doctorate at Stonybrook (USA) this year, studying with Carol Wincenc at Julliard Danube, calling in at Vukovar in Croatia, School of Music. He has graduated from Budapest, Bratislava and finally Vienna. Yale with a Masters degree and will now I was fortunate to have contacts in embark on some more exciting Vienna. The Lea brothers, Benedict and experiences back in the US. I wish him Tobias, from Adelaide, are string members in the Vienna Philharmonic well and look forward to the next phase of his music career. Orchestra, so I was lucky to sit in every $ Elizabeth Koch and Mary-Anne day on a rehearsal of this amazing ecently I caught up with Mary-Anne Blades orchestra. The conductor, whilst I was Blades, who is Associate Principal Flute there, was Sakari Oramo, who in the West Australian Symphony conducted the Mozart Flute and Harp Orchestra. Mary-Anne was here from Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony Perth for a wedding.
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Deep Blue. Solo flute and flute and piano works by Ian Clarke. IC02. Ian Clarke (flutes), Tim Carey (piano). Recorded 2011/2012. Website: www.ianclarke.net
Tracks: 1. Deep Blue (flute and piano) 2. Curves: Magical and Woven 3. Curves: Plaintive 4. Curves: Presto 5. Touching the Ether: Part 1 6. Touching the Ether: Part 2 and 3 (three flutes and piano) 7. Hatching Aliens: Something Is There! 8. Deep Blue Hatching Aliens: Blue Alien/Alien Chill Out 9. Hatching Aliens: The Fear
Returns/Battle Tempo (flute and piano) 10. Beverley (solo flute)
British flautist Ian Clarke is becoming well-known as a composer of contemporary works for the flute. His compositions capture a wide variety of subjects and moods through the imaginative use of extended techniques. Many younger flautists are now including Ian Clarke’s compositions in their recital programmes. The release of Deep Blue on May 13 showcases some recent compositions by Ian Clarke, performed by the composer with pianist Tim Carey. Soon after its release it became the first flute CD for many years to enter the Classical Artist Charts. Brilliant performances; don’t miss this one. ♫
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