Doublereed Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2009/05

From: Geoffrey Pearce <oboist2@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] An exciting Australian composer and other composers available for download
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 18:37:55 -0400

Hello Uchenna,

Saturday, May 9, 2009, 10:33:13 PM, you wrote:

> Thanks for this info Geoff. I am actually going to be performing 'A Summer
> Idyll' by Ian Harris at a recital as part of a one-day symposium on the
> history of Australian music at Kings College London.
> I found his music in the WIMA archive on your advice and it is all=20
> fantastic! I'm definitely going to try and perform some of the others at
> some point.
> :)
> Uchenna

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> From: "Geoffrey Pearce" <oboist2@-----.au>
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 10:48 AM
> To: "Double Reed" <doublereed@-----.org>
> Subject: [DR-L] An exciting Australian composer and other composers=20
> available for download

>> Dear List,
>>
>> I would like to draw your attention to a wonderful Australian composer
>> who was also an oboist (and cor anglais and oboe d=E1more specialist) an=
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>> incidentally, my teacher.
>> His music is published by Amoris International and is available from th=
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>> Werner Icking Music
>> Archive, housed at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) free of charge.
>>
>> The full WIMA archive is http://icking-music-archive.org/index.php
>>
>> Amoris' Page is http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Amoris.php
>>
>> Ian Harris' own page is
>> http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Harris.php
>>
>> You can see each of his works in full and also listen to an MP3 of it.
>>
>> Jennifer Paull has now retired and has given her entire and very
>> extensive repertoire for all the 5 members of the oboe family of=20
>> instruments and
>> bassoon to WIMA. This way, as she told me, musicians from all over the
>> world are able to avail themselves of it freely. That was always her
>> wish, but when she started Amoris the technology was not available. It n=
ow
>> is and everybody can download the music for their university libraries,=
=20
>> study
>> or performance. She anticipates that the transfers will be completed by=
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>> the end of the
>> year.
>>
>> Sound files are being provided for every piece and everything is being
>> checked and brought up to date. Sadly, some of the composers who wrote
>> for Jennifer have since died and their dates as well as biographies
>> and full programme notes are available inside each work.
>>
>> Jennifer may be retired, but she is FAR from inactive. Apart from
>> this large project she has also been busy writing books and articles,
>> many of which have attracted a lot of critical acclaim. She is of
>> course also playing her own extensive repertoire.
>>
>> You can reach WIMA from the Amoris site (Amoris.com) or directly.
>>
>> Ian Harris' music is really imaginative and he has written for all 5
>> oboes and bassoon. I invite you to go and see for yourselves.
>>
>> Geoff Pearce
>> Oboe, Sydney, Australia
>>
>>
>> --=20
>> Best regards,
>> Geoffrey mailto:oboist2@-----.au
>>
>>
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Deaqr Uchenna, I am pleased to hear that this piece will be
performed, its is one of my personal favourites of Ian's music, is
evocative and pleasing to the ear. I hope this and other music of
his brings you a lot of joy.

I think it was another person from the list that pointed you in the
direction of the Amoris site though, so I can not claim the credit
for your discovery.

All the very best

Geoff Pearce
Sydney

Australia

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Best regards,
Geoffrey mailto:oboist2@-----.au

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