WILLIAMDUCKWORTH

How often do any of us get the chance to hear a 40-voice Renaissance motet performed live? The famous one, too, Spem in alium by the English composer Thomas Tallis (1505-1585). And how often does this one piece (performed twice) become the entire program, particularly since it's about 10 minutes long? The answer, thanks to Make Music New York and The Dessoff Choirs, was late afternoon Monday a week ago at the R.C. Church of St. Andrew in lower New York.

Premiere
Writing on Water, ensemble version
with Nozomi Omote, marimba soloist
and Ba Da Boom Percussion, Vanessa Tomlinson, director

Also on the program: Lou Harrison's Labrynth, conducted by Jan Williams,
Steve Reich's Sextet, and selections from Earle Brown's Folio #2.

Ian Hanger Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane, Australia
6:30 pm, admission $15/10
Friday, 4 June 2010

Always Changing, Moving Ahead
an Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio National feature on
William Duckworth and Nora Farrell, narrated and produced by
Into the Music's executive producer Robyn Ravlich
Broadcast dates and times:
17:05 Saturday 17 April 2010
01:05 Sunday 18 April 2010
15:05 Friday 23 April 2010
Streamed lived from http://www.abc.net.au/rn
Streamed on demand for four weeks after the first broadcast at Into the Music

The Time Curve Preludes, Book 1
Bruce Brubaker, piano
The Gallery Series, Rooke Recital Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 8:00 p.m.

Watch Bruce Brubaker discuss creating the drones for the Time Curve Preludes

One of the things I like about Brisbane is the opportunity to hear music I wouldn't ordinarily hear in New York. Not that it's not there, but that it gets lost amid the multitude of concerts that are available each night, many of which I only hear about in retrospect, if at all. One such example is Djan Djan, which Nora and I heard at the Judith Wright Centre on Friday night.

Bruce Brubaker's recording of The Time Curve Preludes will be featured
on the MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS broadcast in the San Francisco Bay area on
Friday, March 12, 2010 | KALW-FM 91.7 | 11pm Pacific Time and streamed live on kalw.org
.
After the broadcast it will be archived for on-demand streaming at
http://otherminds.org/mfom


Nora and I have been back in Australia for a week now. It was a strange trip flying straight from the blizzards of New York to the monsoons of the South Pacific. Even though Queensland is known as the Sunshine State, it has rained almost continually since we arrived, not to mention the two weeks before. And more rain is forecast for at least another week. All in all, however, the warmth of a southern hemisphere summer trumps the cold of a northern hemisphere winter, but, as Nora says, under these conditions, not by much. What's really strange is that during our last trip (May-Nov.