Yes, we did it…a wonderful concert, an intense and subtly meaningful shared time …….the coming together of community, sharing in creating a special space. As I write this I am aware that I may seem to be stating the obvious, but I don’t think it can, or should be taken for granted, certainly not in …
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….the cycle has turned… the year is new, -and rebirth!
A new year, and I have returned from the wilderness (two and a half weeks spent in the wilds of Wollombi, building dry stone walls, and powering through as I compose the concerto for double bass and orchestra -big sections from the four movements are now complete). I return to my “Winds of Change” project …
Always ever this
Hmm, it was only last month, when, having finished the publication of 13 of my works for kids, I had decided not to write any more ‘educational’ material, ‘kids music’ -better get on with the big stuff, I thought to myself. Yet, with a fund-raising concert coming up with the New Gen Philharmonic (my small …
Working with the young
First rehearsal for the year with the New Gen Philharmonic yesterday, (a little chamber orchestra comprised mostly of my students). We hadn’t done anything in over a year, and it kept nagging in the back of my mind…….. so, what better time to act than the present! And what a wonderful thing to do; in …
Howling at the moon
Like a demented dog howling at the moon, so too I compose music; (don’t ask me, or the dog, why) and in this instance have come to the completion a set of 12 or so works, ostensibly for young students of strings and percussion. Written over a period of almost seven years, some of them …
A moments grace…
Continuous frantic pressure: schedules, constant communications with 13 musicians, my support team (the Inner Collective) and various organizations; weeks of constant late nights and early mornings, even while we are in the final stages of rehearsing, just days before the concert….(blurs of sound, and colours,) and then the rehearsal space/set-up is dissolved……time to move into …
The count down begins
Dear friends and colleagues Artistic survival, and the imperatives of bringing to life my musical work, The Heart of the Matter (ten years in the making) forces people to do many strange and unpredictable things, even almost out of character, I have overcome my reluctance to reaching out, and sent this blog as a newsletter. …
Dec. – Newsletter
………what, the end of the year!? There must be some kind of mistake,………..look, I’m terribly sorry, but I didn’t get my full quota of days and time. Slowly this project moves (The Heart of the Matter) towards completion -performances and recording for ABC broadcasts are scheduled for the 9th and 10th of April, whilst in …
Why a website?
A good question, and I have asked it of myself many times (both before and after starting on the site) …. but the answers only become (slowly) clearer as I entered into process of actually doing it; that is, going through archival material, histories, writing the texts, critically assessing my work and all the rest …
Transmigration of my Digital Soul….now complete!-
Within the relentless and ceaseless flux of becoming in this, our interconnected electronic age, my past-life personality has died. Yes my friends, crivici.com in its previous incarnation has ceased to exist; but, from the ashes ‘I’ arise yet once again, am reborn, as and through the transmigration of my digital soul …….. as the essence …
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