ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ works with energy, imagination and authority for music in Australia
Welcome to ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ
ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ was founded in October 2013. Its mission is stated in the banner. Key information can be found under ABOUT on the menu bar.
Check out the menu bar. MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA is a deep information source. EDUCATION is primarily about advocacy for school music and includes important research about its benefits. FREEDMAN is for the prestigious Freedman Music Fellowships. LOUDMOUTH takes you to the current edition of the Trust's monthly ezine.
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What ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ is doing
ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ has redesigned its Music in Australia Knowledge Base. The information is presented in a new structure which enables readers to find all the articles pertaining to particular sets of activities in music in Australia – for instance, various spheres of music education, the relationship between music and current issues of social concern, performance in particular musical genres, the business of music, government interventions, Australian music in its international context. A new program of addition of articles begins in the second week of August.
ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ has instigated and funded a composition competition for young people, to compose a song in support of climate action. The competition is being managed by Green Music Australia.
The Trust is also supported the Symphony for Life Foundation, which runs an ‘El Sistema’ style program for mostly young immigrant children in the Wentworthville area in Western Sydney. The program is free to the children. They attend two afternoons a week in normal times, are loaned instruments, given instrumental training and form into two small symphony orchestras of around 30 members each. During COVID, they are being taught online with weekly individual lessons.
ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ is organising the Freedman Music Fellowships, now in their twentieth year. You can see the report in the centre column.
The Trust’s monthly online magazine, Loudmouth, has just published its 50th edition! See the contents for August summarised in the right hand column.
Projects
Freedman Music Fellowships
Rajiv Jayaweera at Freedman Jazz 2013.
Photo by Keith Saunders
Reporting at the beginning of August 2020. Four finalists have been chosen for the Freedman Classical Fellowship 2020: violinist Grace Clifford, violinist Harry Ward, cellist James Morley and cellist Richard Narroway. This is one of the strongest fields ever for the Fellowship, now in its 20th year.
Normally the winner is chosen at a concert of finalists. That was scheduled to take place on August 1 in the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House. But social distancing rules closed the entire facility and all other concert venues. Various alternative scenarios have been adopted and given up. At this point we believe we have a strategy that will enable the winner to be chosen at the end of August. Watch this space, Loudmouth magazine and the Freedman Fellowship Facebook page.
The Freedman Jazz Fellowship is expected to be awarded in October. The sixteen nominees have sent in their applications and the judges are about to begin listening to the recordings and reading the project proposals. Since it is expected that it will not be possible to present a concert of finalists in October, the plan is to produce videos of each of the finalists, use the videos as part of the assessment process and then stream them in an online concert.
Thanks as always to funding from the Freedman Foundation, without which the Fellowships are not possible.
Music in Australia Knowledge Base
The only knowledge base in the world that deals systematically with the music of an entire country. Facts in words and numbers about music in Australia – and discussions of key issues facing various areas of musical activity.
Music in Australia has been entirely redesigned. Navigation is very much clearer; you can easily see everything to be found on the Knowledge Base, organised into categories where everything available on each topic is laid out clearly. A program to add another 50 articles will begin in the second week of August, 2020.
Primary School Music Education
There is a lot of thought and research behind school music education advocacy.
ARGUMENT FOR SPECIALIST MUSIC TEACHERS. Primary school music education in many states is in crisis. Teachers are not educated to teach music and in the majority of schools in most states, there is not a classroom music program. After decades of neglect, ÈÙÒ«ÆåÅÆ believes that the only – and best – solution is the introduction into every classroom of a specialist music teacher. Read the reasoning here.
There is a new reassessment of the advocacy arguments. Look under EDUCATION > ADVOCACY ARGUMENTS.
RESEARCH SUMMARY. There is abundant research in music education showing that its benefits extend well beyond learning music skills to improvements in IQ, academic outcomes,confidence, empathy, social skills and more. Read a quick summary of these research outcomes here.
Music Trust Alert!
Here now, the Loudmouth e-zine for July 2022. Here areÌý the articles.
MUSIC, THE ARTS AND THE WORLD
Why no royalties for Aust session musicians?
Two big steps forward for regional music development
Composers seek insightful collaboration
No Music on a Dead Planet!
Tired of hearing men talk about music?
Music theatre thriving in Aust
MUSIC, AND MUSIC PEOPLE
INSIDE THE MUSICIAN. Ross Edwards: If you really want to know
INSIDE THE MUSICIAN. Vanessa Tomlinson: Thinking through the building blocks of my sound practice
Music people in the Queen’s Birthday Australian Honours List
MUSIC, WELL-BEING AND MUSIC EDUCATION
Luxemburg’s free lessons from age 3
Slow fade of mus ed in Australia
Tim Minchin on your creative children
Arts ed for peace – UNESCO address
Labor’s promised universities accord
Yikes, universities’ big $ surpluses
JIG’S UP
The Voyager’s Golden Record carried culturally diverse music, not just Bach&Bite into the cosmos
Garrison Keillor’s wit and insight
Ditto, the Wesley-Smiths
Wholly remarkable, remarkably whole Leah Purcell
The Arts Minister plays the pianna
ÌýNEW ON THE KNOWLEDGE BASE
Six new articles added
FREEDMAN MUSIC FELLOWSHIPS
Find out who was nominated for the Freedman Classical Fellowship – who are the three finalists – and when you can hear them perform at the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room
Open the JULY LOUDMOUTH
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Music and Book Reviews
THE BEST MUSIC REVIEWS page in Australia. Written mainly by musicians.
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REVIEWS
BOOKS
Australia in 50 Plays. Julian Meyrick
Building interdisciplinary and intercultural bridges: whereÌýpractice meets research and theory – music education, Pam Burnard, many others
The Opera House. By Peter FitzSimons
The Rhythm Diaries: A Musical Companion. By Greg Sheehan
Waiting For Gonski: How Australia Failed its Schools,ÌýbyÌýTom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor
PODCAST
The Offcast: Conversations with Musical Mavericks: Jodie Blackshaw
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Innocence & Experience. Sydney Chamber Choir.
The Nurses at Vung Tau. Opera by Brenton Broadstock and Elizabeth Lewis
RECORDINGS
CLASSICAL
Australian Monody. The Marais Project
CONTEMPORARY
Weirder and Weirder. Ball Park Music
JAZZ
‘3’. States of Chaos
LIVE AGAIN! Burke/Gould Quartet
Wu Xing – TheÌýFive Elements. Origami
NEW MUSIC
Ebb and Flow. Romano Crivici, Elektra String Quartet
Harry Sdraulig – String Quartet No.1. Goldner String Quartet
Ross Edwards – String Quartet No.4 Ridley Gold. Australian String Quartet
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