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Creative Fellowships etc

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:08 am
by davida march
Creative Artists Fellowship Antartica

http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=3892

I wouldn't pass the un-nutworthy clause but I met a former seal researcher who showed me all this spectacular material and told me about these fellowships for creative artists.

dm

Re: Creative Fellowships etc

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:24 am
by fredbucket
davida march wrote:I wouldn't pass the un-nutworthy clause but I met a former seal researcher who showed me all this spectacular material and told me about these fellowships for creative artists. dm
Was he by any chance researching Navy Seals? <ducks for cover>

How was lunch?

Regards
Fred

Re: Creative Fellowships etc

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:25 am
by davida march
fredbucket wrote:
davida march wrote:I wouldn't pass the un-nutworthy clause but I met a former seal researcher who showed me all this spectacular material and told me about these fellowships for creative artists. dm
Was he by any chance researching Navy Seals? <ducks for cover>

How was lunch?

Regards
Fred
She was a very tiny, Nordic lady who caught Weddell Seals. Who did the Antarctic Symphony - Nigel Westlake? Maybe he had one of these grants. This lady said lots of poets, photographers, artists and composers apply for them.
Lunch, very Italian & I bought the best recording ever - Jerusalem by Hesperion XXI -

BTW applications can be made by people from Treaty countries.

Re: Creative Fellowships etc

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:38 am
by rob
davida march wrote:...Who did the Antarctic Symphony - Nigel Westlake? Maybe he had one of these grants...
Dunno whether Mr Westlake has written such a piece but 'Max' (aka Master of the Queen's Musick - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies) certainly did - his Eighth Symphony. I could post a page of his score to give him an unashamed plug if you like and if Boosey's wouldn't mind (I suspect they wouldn't). His symphonies are fairly good, though still fairly unmemorable thematically, to me at least. Not sure he's got round to his Ninth yet.

Re: Creative Fellowships etc

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:42 am
by fredbucket
rob wrote:Dunno whether Mr Westlake has written such a piece
He has. It derives, if my memory serves me right, from the music he wrote for a TV series on Antarctica.

Regards
Fred

Re: Creative Fellowships etc

Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:09 am
by davida march
rob wrote:
davida march wrote:...Who did the Antarctic Symphony - Nigel Westlake? Maybe he had one of these grants...
Dunno whether Mr Westlake has written such a piece but 'Max' (aka Master of the Queen's Musick - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies) certainly did - his Eighth Symphony. I could post a page of his score to give him an unashamed plug if you like and if Boosey's wouldn't mind (I suspect they wouldn't). His symphonies are fairly good, though still fairly unmemorable thematically, to me at least. Not sure he's got round to his Ninth yet.
also
Vaughan Williams #7
1949-52
Sinfonia Antartica
For full orchestra, soprano soloist, and women's chorus.
Dedication: To Ernest Irving.
Five movements; Prelude: Andante maestoso; Scherzo: Moderato – poco animando; Landscape: Lento; Intermezzo: Andante sostenuto; Epilogue: Alla marcia moderato (ma non troppo).
Much of this is supposed to have been derived from his score for Scoot of the Antarctic Scoot? Scott with an accent, obviously!

Westlake's is Antarctica: Suite for guitar and orchestra

http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.a ... tid=356698 DVD