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Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra
The Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra is an Australian orchestra affiliated with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and in 1999 had about 60 musicians. The orchestra has collaborated with numerous artists, including Australian alternative rock band, Jebediah and Indonesian artist Chrisye. It was hired by composer Guy Gross with Derek Williams as orchestrator and conductor to record the soundtrack for Stephan Elliott’s feature film '' Frauds'', starring Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis (band), Genesis and had a successful solo career, ac ..., Hugo Weaving and Josephine Byrnes. References Australian orchestras Music in Victoria (state) {{VictoriaAU-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an Australian orchestra based in Melbourne. The MSO is resident at Hamer Hall. The MSO has its own choir, the MSO Chorus, following integration with the Melbourne Chorale in 2008. The MSO relies on funding by the Victorian State Government and the Federal government and support from private corporations and donors. It is supported by Symphony Services International. Sophie Galaise joined the MSO as its first female managing director in 2016. Its chairman is David Li (). History The founder of the Albert Street Conservatorium Orchestra was musician and conductor Alberto Zelman. This orchestra gave its first concert on 11 December 1906. In 1923, Bertha Jorgensen became the first female leader of a professional orchestra in Australia, and she went on to play with the orchestra for 50 years and became the longest-serving female leader of an orchestra on an international scale. In 1927, the Albert Street Conservatorium Orchestra combin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jebediah
Jebediah are an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. They were formed by Chris Daymond on lead guitar, Bob Evans (musician), Kevin Mitchell (aka Bob Evans) on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, and Vanessa Thornton on bass guitar. They were joined a year later by Kevin's older brother, Brett Mitchell, on drums. After winning the National Campus Band Competition, the group were brought to national attention when their 1996 single "Jerks of Attention" received heavy airplay on Australian alternative radio station Triple J – which was followed by their breakthrough debut album, ''Slightly Odway'' (8 September 1997). The band released four studio albums by 2004: three entered the top ten on the ARIA Charts, ARIA Albums Chart; their second album, ''Of Someday Shambles'' (3 October 2000), is the highest charting at number two. After touring to celebrate their tenth anniversary, the band went on hiatus in 2005. Kevin Mitchell continued s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrisye
Hajji Chrismansyah Rahadi (; born Christian Rahadi ; 16 September 1949 – 30 March 2007), better known by his stage name Chrisye (), was an Indonesian progressive pop singer and songwriter. In 2011, ''Rolling Stone Indonesia'' declared him the third-greatest Indonesian musician of all time. Born in Jakarta of mixed Chinese Indonesians, Chinese-Indonesian descent, Chrisye became interested in music at an early age. At high school, he played bass guitar in a band he formed with his brother, Joris. In the late 1960s, he joined Sabda Nada (later Gipsy), a band led by his neighbours, the Nasutions. In 1973, after a short hiatus, he rejoined the band to play in New York for a year. He briefly returned to Indonesia and then went back to New York with another band, the Pro's. After once again returning to Indonesia, he collaborated with Gipsy and Guruh Sukarnoputra to record the 1976 indie album ''Guruh Gipsy''. Following the success of ''Guruh Gipsy''; in 1977, Chrisye recorded two o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Gross
Guy Gross is an Australian film and television composer. He is known most for writing the award-winning music for the Australian science fiction series ''Farscape'' and the international hit film ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''. He also composed for the animated television series '' Blinky Bill'' and '' Dumb Bunnies''. He has 91 credits as screen composer. Personal Gross began film scoring while studying classical composition at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, Australia. He is the son of film producers Yoram and Sandra Gross. Gross composed music for the family animation business in High School. Gross was a partner and a director of Trackdown Digital, an Australian film music and audio recording center and is now part of the Church Street Studios collective. From 2012 to 2017 he was President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. Filmography * Composer (90 credits) * Producer (1 credit) * Music Department (14 credits) * Director (3 credit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Williams (musician)
Derek Leslie Williams (born 20 September 1952) is a New Zealand-born Scottish composer, record producer, conductor, and orchestrator known for his scores for ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'', '' Bodysurfer'', '' Children of the Dragon'', '' Come in Spinner'', ''The Crossing'', ''Crush'', '' Frauds'', '' The Other Side of Paradise'', '' Ring of Scorpio'', ''Seven Deadly Sins'', '' Thank God He Met Lizzie'', '' Visionaries'', and for Frank Bennett, Glenfiddich, Sir Robert Helpmann, Grace Knight, Debbie Newsome, Caroline O'Connor, and Torvill and Dean.Skiffington, Toni. (1 February 1997). 'Derek came out to find success and become a role model'. Page 14 (full page). '' Rotorua Daily Post'' He is currently serving his 8th term as Chair of the Wagner Society of Scotland, a member of the International Association of Wagner Societies (RWVI)Members > Scotland RWVI. and at the 2024 Assembly of Delegates at Deutsche Oper Berlin, was elected to serve a 5-year te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frauds (soundtrack)
The soundtrackDiscogs to the 1993 film '' Frauds'', featuring Guy Gross's score. ''Frauds: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' # "Roland's Suite" – 2:30 # "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 2:12 # "Waterfall" – 2:29 # "Beth" – 1:31 # "Jonathan" – 3:30 # "Burglary" – 2:51 # "Nightmare" – 2:34 # "Accusation" – 4:56 # "Confession" – 2:30 # "Christmas Vomit" – 3:28 # "House of Games" – 3:27 # "Roland's Bedroom" – 3:45 # "Toyland" – 3:44 # "The Game Begins" – 3:06 # "Roland Turns" – 4:15 # "Matthew" – 2:37 # "Finale" – 4:24 # "Roland's Toy Piano" – 2:16 Tracks 1, 3-18 performed by the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra Track 2 performed by Marcia Hines and Bob Coassin's Big Band All tracks orchestrated and conducted by Derek Williams , Composer = Guy Gross Guy Gross is an Australian film and television composer. He is known most for writing the award-winning music for the Australian science fiction series ''Farscape'' and the internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Elliott
Stephan Elliott (born 27 August 1964) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His best-known film internationally is '' The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' (1994). Career Elliott began his career as an assistant director working in the Australian film industry in the 1980s. His first two feature films, '' Frauds'' (starring musician Phil Collins) and '' The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'', along with his shorter films ''Fast'' and ''The Agreement'' were produced by Rebel Penfold-Russell's Australian production company Latent Image Productions. ''Frauds'', ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' and '' Welcome to Woop Woop'' were all officially selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, with "Priscilla" winning the ''Prix du public'' as well as an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. In 2004 Elliott had a skiing accident and was hospitalised for several months. He said the accident caused him to rediscover his sense o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frauds (film)
''Frauds'' is a 1993 Australian thriller comedy film starring Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving and Josephine Byrnes. The film focuses on Roland Copping (Collins), a sociopathic insurance investigator who blackmails a married couple (Weaving and Byrnes) about the accidental killing of their friend during a prank gone wrong. It was selected to be In Competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film opens with a boy named Roland Copping celebrating his 8th birthday, where his mother gives him a pair of dice that belonged to his father. Roland and his brother Matthew make a raft, and Roland tells Matthew to get on the raft after rolling the dice. Sending it on the river, Matthew jumps onto an overhead crane while the raft goes over a waterfall. Roland runs off to tell his mother, who runs onto the crane and grabs Matthew, but he slips and falls into the river, going over the waterfall. Years later, the now-grown Roland is now an insurance investigator and a practical joker wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis (band), Genesis and had a successful solo career, achieving three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. In total, his work with Genesis, other artists and solo resulted in more US top-40 singles than any other artist throughout the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night (Phil Collins song), One More Night", "Sussudio", "Another Day in Paradise", "Two Hearts (Phil Collins song), Two Hearts" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down". Born and raised in west London, Collins began playing drums at the age of five. During the same period he attended drama school, which helped secure various roles as a child actor. His first major role was the Artful Dodger in the West End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is a British actor. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Born in Colonial Nigeria to British parents, Weaving has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He landed his first major role as English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series ''Bodyline'' (1984). He rose to prominence with his appearances in the Australian films ''Proof'' (1991) and ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' (1994), winning his first AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the former. By the turn of the millennium, Weaving achieved international recognition through roles in mainstream American productions. His most notable film roles include Agent Smith in the first three ''The Matrix'' films (1999–2003), Elrond in ''The Lord of the Rings'' (2001–2003) and ''The Hob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Byrnes
Josephine Byrnes (born 1966) is an Australian actress best known for her work in television, including a lead role in '' Brides of Christ'' for which she won a Logie Award The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Television in Australia, Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The eve .... accessed 3 November 2014 Filmography Film Television References External links * 1966 births < ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
