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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-07-07 20:10
I tried [failed], Diz, to EM you re: my enjoyment on hearing [to me] a new piece of music with some fine clarinet parts. It was on car radio [local FM music station] and somewhat interrupted, but it had sounds reminiscent [to me] of Grofe and Hovannes [sp?]. My thots , "was that our Diz playing so beautifully ?" . Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-07-07 22:04
Don ... I don't (I hate to admit) know the work per se, but I'm a fan of Alfred Hill's music ... I know his viola concerto, which seems to be the only work that gets an airing regularly. You're right, his style is like a blending of Vaughan Williams and Grofe (in my opinion).
Don - GBK will give you my email address ... as I use my work email address as my "passport" to the BB I prefer to keep it anonymous.
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-07-08 01:51
This is a little of what I could glean about Hill ... born in Melbourne on the 16th December, 1870, Alfred Francis Hill spent most of his early life in New Zealand. As a child Hill learnt the cornet and violin, playing the former with Martin Simonsen's opera company at the age of nine, and the latter on tour with Charles Harding's Grand Opera Company in 1884. With his brother John, he travelled to Leipzig, where both Hills studied at the Royal Conservatorium of Music between 1887 and 1891. Alfred Hill studied under Gustav Schreck, Hans Sitt and Oscar Paul during this time, and was the winner of the Helbig Prize. He was invited to play second violin with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and as such played under the conductorship of such composers as Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Max Bruch.
He then proceeded to establish his own teaching academy - focussing on harmony, counterpoint and opera writting - he wrote a few operas, all of which were performed here and a couple of them in New Zealand.
His main "claim to fame" was being a catalyst in the establishment of the Music school in Sydney: The NSW State Conservatorium of Music - or known in the vernacular "The Sydney Con" ... which is now a division of the University of Sydney.
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Author: Snowy
Date: 2004-07-08 04:26
And he left lots of descendants in Australia. Brian Martin (aka Brian Martin Flannagan) , pianist and a guy called Nettheim who played bass are two who come to mind (would both have been grandsons) and the former was around Q'land for years.
Perhaps one or more play clarinet and read this board.
Who knows.
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