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score available from Wise Music program note I was not aware of the passing of Aaron Copland (1900-1990) when I started writing this fanfare early in 1992. After some initial sketches, I came across a compilation of Copland’s music that contained, among other things, his Fanfare for the Common Man. I knew the Emmerson, Lake … Read more
Youtube score available from Wise Music program note This work was commissioned by Jenny Going for Essendon Symphony Orchestra with funding from Moonee Valley Council. As a resident of Moonee Ponds – part of the greater Moonee Valley area – I walk, run, ride and drive through its streets building a ground map of intersecting … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note This fanfare was written for the opening of the C.U.B. Malthouse in Melbourne on 25 August 1990. It was conducted by Paul Kildea and written with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts as part of funding as resident composer with the … Read more
Soundcloud excerpt score available from Reed Music program note The title of this piece refers to the height at which spacecraft orbit the Earth, and by extension what the planet looks like from up there. Pictures of Earth taken from space certainly conjure feelings of majestic elation to my mind and I have attempted to … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note Contrary to visions of a delayed landing approach from hell, the title 4 Hours in a Holding Pattern actually refers to a uniquely wonderful flight from St. Petersburg to London. Taking off at sunset, the plane impossibly follows the sun and lands four hours later, still in sunset. … Read more