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Resonate Magazine
The Australian Music Centre (AMC), founded as Australia Music Centre in 1974 and known as Sounds Australian in the 1990s, is a national organisation promoting and supporting art music in Australia. It operates mainly as a service organisation, and co-hosts the Art Music Awards along with APRA AMCOS. It also publishes ''Resonate Magazine''. History After funds became available through the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australia Music Centre came into existence as an association on 13 August 1974. Music advocate James Murdoch was appointed inaugural director. In 1975 it moved to premises at 80 George Street, Sydney (part of the historic Metcalfe Bond Stores building), and was accepted as a member organisation of both the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC) and International Association of Music Libraries (IAML). On 27 February 1976, AMC was officially opened to the public, with the opening ceremony officiated by NSW Senator John Carrick. In Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murdoch (music Advocate)
James Murdoch (1930–2010), also known by the stage name Jaime Sebastian, was an Australian arts administrator, musicologist, composer, journalist, and broadcaster. He founded and served as the inaugural director of the Australian Music Centre and played an important role in promoting the works of Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Early life and education James Murdoch was born in 1930, the only child born to a wharfie in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New South Wales, Paddington. His parents were frequently on the move, and by the age of 14, Murdoch had lived in 19 houses and attended 15 schools. An autodidact, he learned all he could about music of all genres, from the middle ages to the present day. He also learned cello, flute, piano, and violin at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Murdoch gravitated to bohemian circles and befriended Tilly Devine, Bea Miles, and Sunday Reed. He became close friends with other members of the Heide Circle as well. Career In 1958, Murdoch was enga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moogahlin Performing Arts
Carriageworks is a multi-arts urban cultural precinct located at the former Eveleigh Carriage Workshops in Redfern, Sydney, Australia. Carriageworks showcases contemporary art and performing arts, as well as being used for filming, festivals, fairs and commercial exhibitions. The largest such venue in Australia, it is a cultural facility of the Government of New South Wales, and receives support from Create NSW and the federal government through the Australia Council for the Arts. The centre has commissioned new work by Australian and international artists, and has been home to eight theatre, dance and film companies, including Performance Space, Sydney Chamber Opera and Moogahlin Performing Arts, and a weekly farmers' market has operated there for many years. On 4 May 2020, Carriageworks Limited, the company that operates the venue, entered voluntary administration and closed, citing an “irreparable loss of income” due to government bans on events during the COVID-19 pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Gifford
Brenda Gifford (born 1968) is a Yuin classical composer, saxophonist and pianist. She was a member of the Australian rock band Mixed Relations and is an archivist in the Indigenous Collection Branch of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). Career Gifford was born in 1968 and grew up in Sydney and Wreck Bay, near Jervis Bay, New South Wales. Beginning in the late 1980s Gifford played saxophone and piano as a member of the band Mixed Relations with Bart Willoughby. During the 1990s she contributed to Kev Carmody's 1991 album ''Eulogy (For A Black Person),'' and taught music at Eora College in Redfern, New South Wales. She left her teaching job to focus on the band as it became more popular. Mixed Relations toured internationally and gained local success when their single ''Aboriginal Woman'' reached #89 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1993. The group disbanded by the end of the 1990s, and after a break of several years, Gifford began a new career as a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Finsterer
Mary Finsterer (born 25 August 1962) is an Australian composer and academic. Life Finsterer was born in Canberra in 1962. She graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne. A recipient of the Royal Netherlands Government Award in 1993, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with Louis Andriessen, then returned to Australia and studied with Brenton Broadstock, completing a Master of Music degree in 1995 at the University of Melbourne. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2003. In 2006 she received a Churchill Fellowship for her continuing work in multimedia. Finsterer is married to the photographer Dean Golja."What Happens Next: Meeting Mary Finsterer" by Andrew Ford (composer), Andrew Ford, ''The Monthly'', October 2011 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
