David Jobling

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Kristian Chong

October 23rd 2009 02:57
Kristian Chong
Firm's guest soloist



Acclaimed contemporary music organisation The Firm will present their fifth concert in the 2009 series on Monday 2 November at 8.00pm in Pilgrim Church 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide.

The concert features acclaimed Melbourne-based, Adelaide-born, pianist Kristian Chong performing Peter Sculthorpe's Night Pieces, Raymond Chapman Smith's Intermezzi, a new work by Luke Altmann and Robert Schumann's Fantasie op.17 - one of the virtuoso and poetic cornerstones of the Romantic repertoire.

Kristian Chong is a pianist of impressive talent and sensitivity ... a true chamber musician at work
The Age


Pianist Kristian Chong is rapidly establishing himself as one of Australia's leading musicians. Performances have taken him throughout Australia and the UK, and also in China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA, and Zimbabwe. As concerto soloist he has appeared on numerous occasions with the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and various orchestras in the UK and China under conductors such as Graham Abbott, Werner Andreas Albert, Andrey Boreyko, Nicholas Braithwaite, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Nicholas Milton, Tuomas Oillia, Marcus Stenz, Arvo Volmer and Marco Zuccarini.

He has recorded and broadcast for Australian and American radio (WGBX - Boston), HKRT (Hong Kong), ABC-TV, and has appeared for Musica Viva Australia. His many competition successes include winning the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award (keyboard) and the Australian National Piano Award, as well as being a major prizewinner in the 3rd Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition.

The Firm's featured composer for 2009 is Peter Sculthorpe who celebrates the eightieth birthday.

In 2007 The Firm received an Oscart for The Best Small Concert of the Year, and in 2008 for The Best Concert Program of the Year, and Firm pianist Leigh Harrold won an Oscart for South Australian Musician of the Year.

Adelaide-based composers Raymond Chapman Smith and Quentin Grant established The Firm in 1996 as an organisation that promotes the performance of new solo and chamber works, particularly those of South Australian composers.

It also provides a performance platform for some of Australia's finest young musicians. The Firm also presents special events and tours internationally.

Single tickets are $12 ($7 concession) and may be purchased at the door.






** All secondary and tertiary music students receive complimentary season tickets, available at the door. Concert patrons receive complimentary programs and post concerts drinks and may sample authentic European tortes by Gabriele.
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Strange Breaks and Mr. Thing

October 23rd 2009 02:46
The Main Ingredients & Funkdafied Present
SAMPLED
'Strange Breaks & Mr Thing' Mix CD Launch
THIS FRIDAY - 23rd OCTOBER
@ Melt - 12 Kellett St, Kings Cross

Featuring:
DJ Mr. Thing (Ex Scratch Pervert / UK)
Katalyst
Naiki
Peter Glass
JC



** $15 ticket through Moshtix or $20 on the door **

** Happy Hour cocktails between 10pm and 12am **


FREE DOWNLOAD: Mr. Thing 'Portable Anorak' Mix HERE

The Main Ingredients & Funkdafied step back in time and dig deep in the crates for the album launch of ‘Strange Breaks and Mr. Thing’ - a five part ultimate breaks and beats series paying homage to the popular ‘Strange Games’ Series on the BBE label.
Get ready to be educated as class is in session!

Known popularly as Mr. Thing, this supreme DJ first started spinning in 1987. The first Hip Hop record I bought was Streetsounds Crucial Electro and my first import 12" was BDP's POERY but my first actual record was - (cringing) Adam & The Ants "Kings Of The Wild Frontier"

From these humble beginnings Mr. Thing went on to become one the World's finest DJ's as testified by the following accomplishments.

DMC TEAM WORLD CHAMP (SCRATCH PERVERTS) 1999
DMC UK CHAMP 2000
DMC WORLD 3RD PLACE 2000

Mr. Thing doesn't stand still with spinning records. Alongside amassing a fantastic record collection from digging trips across every continent, he practiced his production skills and has gone on to remix and produce records for a credible assortment of UK acts.

BBE and Mr. Thing have known each other for over 10 years and it was just natural that this collaboration had to happen. The result is Strange Breaks and Mr. Thing a five part ultimate breaks and beats series and a homage to the popular Strange Games Series on the label.


I wanted to do an extension of my 'Anorak' series of mixtapes, which were already a homage if you like to Kon & Amir, Muro & the Conmen etc, but put some stuff out there that covered all bases of music & breaks from the ultra rare to some reasonably common stuff people might have passed up before!

Mr. Thing is a world class DJ capable of rocking any party in any town and has performed/toured with DJ Jazzy Jeff, J Live, Marley Marl, Beastie Boys, DJ Premier, DJ Vadim, Run DMC, Slum Village, Mark B & Blade, KRS One and Jehst.
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song company

October 23rd 2009 02:31
The Song Company
A Free-Range Christmas
Sunday 29 November at 3pm


More and more, music lovers are discovering the delights of the Song Company. And if they're not, they should be - The musicality of the songs and their arrangements, as well as the choice of repertoire itself, is exceptional - something the Song Company is renowned for. But also significant in this concert is a focus on simple, old-fashioned storytelling - The performers themselves have good, sometimes beautiful voices and deliver the repertoire with charisma and humour. Never boring, this concert is a celebration of Christmas, of story-telling and of faultless music.
State of the Arts, December 2005


In celebration of the festive season, Big Notes presents The Song Company’s A Free-Range Christmas. This Christmas celebration for all creatures great and small is playing at Riverside Theatres on Sunday 29 November 2009 for one performance only.

This reprise of the very popular Christmas show, A Free-Range Christmas, by the 'un-embarrassable' Song Company stars Clive Birch, Mark Donnelly and Richard Black.

A Free-Range Christmasutilises old fashioned story telling with a modern twist. It is a humourous family friendly performance featuring serious and beautiful music. In A Free-Range Christmas, The Song Company is let loose in a menagerie of animals from around the world, domestic or wild, alive or extinct, big and furry or small and slimy. Wolves, oxen, cats and dogs, tigers and lambs, donkeys, ducks, dogs and doves all join in for this extravaganza of songs, carols, stories and poems delivered by The Song Company in its inimitable way.

Formed by Charles Colman in 1984, The Song Company is a group of six full-time professional singers led by internationally acclaimed Artistic Director, Roland Peelman. The Song Company aims to create a distinctive and dynamic new voice, relevant to the audiences of today and tomorrow. A Free-Range Christmas reflects this with their broad repertoire of songs, carols, stories and poems, from early music, through to modern classical vocal arrangements, which include Nuns of Chester Carol, Animal Songs, Carols from France and Winnie the Pooh.

Adults will enjoy this as something for the kids, while children will detect that undisguishable thread of coy adult humour throughout… the Song Company again showed themselves not only unembarrassable, but brilliant… as one of Australia's most outstanding music ensembles, they scrimp and save, helping young composers and spreading delight with an always-generous spirit
The Sydney Morning Herald, December 2005



songcompany.com.au




THE SONG COMPANY, A Free-Range Christmas
VENUE: Riverside Theatre, Corner Church and Market Streets, Parramatta
DATES: Sunday November 29
TIMES: 3pm
SINGLE TICKET PRICES: Adults $37, Conc $33, 30 & Under $29
Bookings Riverside Box Office 02 8839 3399
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THE SONG COMPANY

October 23rd 2009 02:29
The Song Company
A Free-Range Christmas
Sunday 29 November at 3pm

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A Free-Range Christmas

October 23rd 2009 02:25
The Song Company
A Free-Range Christmas
Sunday 29 November at 3pm

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Helpmann Academy workshop program

October 23rd 2009 02:09
Adelaide Festival 2010
Artists' Week | Helpmann Academy


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GOOD VIBRATIONS FESTIVAL

October 23rd 2009 01:53
GOOD VIBRATIONS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES THE LINE UP FOR 2010

AND IT'S ALL KILLER


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Follow The Sun

October 23rd 2009 01:37
It is with a lot of happiness that Chris Byrne is releasing Follow The Sun.


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Realist figurative drawings by Kim Buck

October 23rd 2009 01:26
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WU TANG Enmore Theatre, Sydney

October 23rd 2009 01:13
WU TANG

NEXT THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER


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Comment by David Jobling
on REVIEW | When We Are Old & Gay

October 11th 2008 02:20
Thanks Ann

Yes, Pat and Adrian are an extremely talented couple and you'd have to go a very long way to find anyone with the talent to string lyrics and music together in the way Miss Pat can!

Comment by David Jobling
on HOW AUSTRALIA CONTROLS ITS ARTISTS

October 10th 2008 01:39
There's a lot of this engineering culture based on a committee of folk who all bow to a Chair then fork out dollars. It's the bowing to the Chair, and also the Arts Minister's Discretionary cash deployments that I feel affronted by.

Recently in South Australia Mike Rann Premier and Arts Minister had some extra cash

(is it such a common thing for the Premier to be Arts Minister Bob Carr in NSW, Mike Rann in SA..? it seems it's such a political appointment/portfolio; any way to continue) in the State Arts Department funding coffer, so at the Ministers own discretion he doled out wads of cash to a variety of folk who hadn't even actually asked for it or proposed to do any particular project with it...

I mean really; what about all the artists who put applications that were unsuccessful into the last round and were told "There's not enough money to go around so apply again later" - what message would they be getting besides - 'we're not interested in your work but someone else we like could do with a few thousand bucks. Oh look here's some bucks we have to get rid of....'

And the Committee Chair... well, you can talk a lot about Committees but when it boils down to it most that I've been on eventually acquiesce to the Chair for one reason or another... so if the Chair announces that we need to fix our thoughts on a particular thing and support it for some greater good - greater cultural good - the committee just run with the Alpha Chair..

curious and annoying for ground level artists who are these days given tags like 'emerging' - someones niece or nephew who wants to be an artist... 'mid career' some poor bugger who has been around for a while seeking support for various projects maybe getting the funding maybe not... and 'established' someone who has had quite a fair slice more than once - and consequently is likely to have had some commercial success if not a chance to build a profile in the 'industry' - I think I'll go and write an article: thanks for the inspiration.


Comment by David Jobling
on John Doe remembers Paul Newman

October 7th 2008 00:22
I seriously doubt everyone knows that Norm, some people are too young to know it. Clearly you know it, so well done Norm

Comment by David Jobling
on John Doe remembers Paul Newman

October 5th 2008 22:52
Hi y'all,
it's true - Bette Davis did take the studio she was contracted to into a long and drawn out court case to get out of her contract because she was dissatisfied with the roles she was being given - and while I haven't ever said Paul Newman was the first actor to set up his own production company (after all most of the big male silent film stars ran their own production companies) I do remember him as one of the first to actually come together with other successful actors to produce their own films, thus cutting out the instances where they felt themselves wrong for the part they were contracted to play (best example: Barbra Streisand at 22 years of age playing Dolly Levi who is meant to be in her 50's in Hello Dolly); it didn't involve long drawn out court battles over who own rights to whom as far as performance was concerned. They probably realized that Davis was wrongly discriminated against for several years and had to resort to placing full page adverts in Variety Magazine as an actor seeking employment.

Convinced that her career was being damaged by a succession of mediocre films, Davis accepted an offer in 1936 to appear in two films in England. Knowing that she was breaching her contract with Warner Bros., she fled to Canada to avoid legal papers being served upon her. Eventually, Davis brought her case to court in England, hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros.[23] She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir Patrick Hastings, who represented Warner Brothers. Hastings urged the court to "come to the conclusion that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what she wants is more money". He mocked Davis's description of her contract as "slavery" by stating, incorrectly, that she was being paid $1,350 per week. He remarked, "if anybody wants to put me into perpetual servitude on the basis of that remuneration, I shall prepare to consider it". The British press offered little support to Davis, and portrayed her as overpaid and ungrateful.[24]

Davis explained her viewpoint to a journalist, saying "I knew that, if I continued to appear in any more mediocre pictures, I would have no career left worth fighting for."[25] Davis's counsel presented her complaints – that she could be suspended without pay for refusing a part, with the period of suspension added to her contract, that she could be called upon to play any part within her abilities regardless of her personal beliefs, that she could be required to support a political party against her beliefs, and that her image and likeness could be displayed in any manner deemed applicable by the studio. Jack Warner testified, and was asked, "Whatever part you choose to call upon her to play, if she thinks she can play it, whether it is distasteful and cheap, she has to play it?" Warner replied, "Yes, she must play it."[26]


From Wikipedia: Legal case
The case, decided by Branson J. in the English High Court, was reported as Warner Bros. Studios Incorporated v. Nelson in [1937] 1 KB 209. Davis lost the case and returned to Hollywood, in debt and without income, to resume her career. Olivia de Havilland mounted a similar case in 1943 and won.

Comment by David Jobling
on A Cut Of The Action: Top Ten Female Directors

October 5th 2008 01:19
I'd have to acknowledge Barbra Streisand for Yentl - no easy feat to direct a musical, or a film with music - that looks so incredibly authentic and with such feminine insights; then The Prince of Tides was a great film - it handled some very difficult subjects concerning male rape and violent repression in men with sensitive insight.





Diane Keaton has made some terrific films as well, particularly Heaven (documentary) and from memory a particularly good episode of 'Twin Peaks' ...



I was disappointed in Gillian Armstrong's latest, it didn't quite cut it for me although it was a nice idea. I did enjoy My Brilliant Career and Startstruck; although I 'm under the impression Startsruck left so many scars in it's wake among the principal players in the film it's a shame - I believe there's still a rift between Jo and Gillian all these years later.

Never the less, the notion that there are no women directors around is hard to defend these days, not quite a balanced proportion but better than it was (and before) in the 19-Seventies and thanks are due to plenty of women who took a heap of abuse for asserting themselves in the hard core main stream film industry.

Comment by David Jobling
on New gay papers, Taxpayer fund Mardi Gras

October 5th 2008 00:47
Doug - do you pod cast the show or live stream it on the web at all? Be interested to know, don't get a lot of very political active news on the radio here in Adelaide.. we have Radio Adelaide but it only has one 'gay' program a week and is quite conservative.. unfortunately..

I took a compilation of scenes from Aliens (James Cameron), with the Big Female Alien in pursuit of Ripley, once in an editing exercise and placed the opening credits music from Gentlemen Prefer Blonde's (Howard Hawks..?) under it - made me laugh..

also a loop of Marylin's "No no no no" intro to 'Diamonds are a girls best friend"... I put that under the shower scene from 'Psycho' (Hitchcock) and that was very strange - kind of funny but very dark..

One thing I've always thought is, scenes from 'Ghost' with Demi and Patrick trying to communicate - with Kylie Minogue "Can't get you out of my head" would work quite well - not quite the soppy feeling, a little more up beat than the film actually is..