Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts

Wednesday 8 May 2013

Calling all Christadelphian Composers


Looking across Hobsons Bay towards the Melbour...
Looking across Hobsons Bay towards the Melbourne central business district (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The January 2014 Melbourne Conference is producing an exciting new musical based on the novel A Time To Hear by SJ Knight. The script and some key songs have been written. Casting Auditions will be held in Melbourne in June 2013, God Willing, and we encourage anyone in Victoria to apply. There are roles for all ages from young children to the elderly.

Now we are seeking composers/song-writers who can go beyond writing tunes and ballads. We need people to write chorus numbers, and orchestral music. We also need an experienced arranger to spin straw into gold!

This production is an ego-free zone, and musicians must be willing to collaborate, work closely with other writers, and take direction in order to produce a professionally harmonious whole. Compositions used will be assigned due credit and copyright, and it is hoped that a CD might be produced as a result.

This project is a rare opportunity for musicians of all ages to use their composing talents in our community. Experience in writing for musical theatre is not essential, but would be particularly welcome. Thanks to the internet, it is not necessary that you live in Victoria, or even Australia, to contribute to this vital side of the production.

For further information, or to express your interest, please contact Meg Green via Facebook message or email: meggles.g@gmail.com

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Thursday 7 February 2013

Music and young people in Christadelphia


According to Andrew De Witt

Do we need to run the kind of music workshops aimed at young musicians who would prefer to play or listen to music not normally found in the Christadelphian cultural milieu?

The use of music instruments may depend on how conservative or progressive an ecclesia might be.

"We need to protect our young people from the damage so easily done by a Christadelphian community which sometimes is more intent on preserving a mythical ‘golden age’ that is said to have existed ‘in the good old days’. Some may argue that there are some forms of western art music which are ‘special’ and ‘sacred’. Maybe not, maybe so. But in making such a rash statement they are dismissing much of the world’s vast musical output, and the heartfelt and honest thoughts and prayers of believers whose musical lexicon and soundscapes may not coincide with their own."
English: Behind the Christadelphian Hall
English: Behind the Christadelphian Hall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Read about it in:

A small rant…music, young people and Christadelphia

 

 


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