This is my arranging project for today for Fluteworthy, a fantastic initiative driven by flautist Lamorna Nightingale, creating quality Australian home grown repertoire and resources for flute teachers. It’s been such fun creating arrangements for them… and for their upcoming repertoire book I’m even going to compose a brand new work (about Grade 3 level I think). Exciting times :D
What is it about classical music that keeps you away from our concerts? -
I would like to say this is an interesting new discussion on this topic, but it’s actually quite predictable *sigh* Classical music’s snooty image doesn’t seem to be shifting any time soon…
Any opinions? I’m not intending to get into an argument about it here, but all opinions are welcome *grin* Suffice it to say this is why I chose the repertoire I chose for my album The Good, the Bad and the Awkward. I see it as a kind of ‘bridge’ for people into classical music. I hope it works.
seltzerlizard asked: Hey Sally, I love your new album! I'm going to play it over and over again!
Oh wow… thank you! And thank you also for taking the time to write a few words to me. It means a lot to me to know that there are people out there in the world enjoying listening to my work as much as I enjoyed creating it!
Stay ever rad,
Salx
“hey there sally, “the good, the bad and the awkward” is magnificent. please celebrate every night for a year.” —
A fan of mine (aaawwwww…)
Is this my favourite piece of fan mail ever? I think it is, I really do!
I like this. I feel it sums up the great dichotomy of my life. Classical vs., well, everything else!
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notenoughthyme asked: Just so you know, I am hardcore fangirling over your new CD. You don't even know. ♥♥
You are too sweet!
And you post so much cool stuff on your Tumblr. I am such an old lady I can hardly keep up :s (Just sayin’) *lol*
kainiindustries asked: Have you considered to perform some Satie's compositions? That would be nice. And your version of The God, The Bad and The Ugly is really pleasant by the way. Greetings.
You’ll be pleased to know there is some Satie on my current album! Check it out here *grin*
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thesobsister asked: Great arrangement and performance for "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." Thanks for posting it. I've meant to write you for some time, as I'd purchased "Mad Love" and very much enjoyed it. Your playing on "Opening" is such a great welcome to that collection. Regards. -tss
Thanks so much for your lovely words. It’s really nice to know one’s work is appreciated! :)
Philip Glass and Me on the iTunes chart. Together again!? So it would seem. I rather like it that this keeps happening ;)
“
We often presume creativity is the domain of youth, that great artists are young geniuses, brash and brilliant iconoclasts…
…But there’s another path to artistic success, one that doesn’t rely on sudden flashes of insight but on the trial-and-error accumulation of knowledge that ultimately leads to novel manifestations of wisdom and judgment. This is Eastwood’s and Bourgeois’ path — and it was the path for a host of other artists: Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. (Twain wrote “Tom Sawyer” at 41 and bettered it with “Huckleberry Finn” at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.)
” —It’s never too late to create David W Galenson and Joshua Kotin in the LA Times, 30 January 2007.
Hear hear!!
“Al Jarreau… released his first album at age 35… Iannis Xenakis did not even begin studying composition until 30, with Messiaen. Leonard Cohen did not release his first album until he was 32 years old.” —
from the current Wikipedia article on “Late Bloomers”.
This makes me a ‘late bloomer’, I suppose. Ah well, better late then never!
Oh my goodness… Look how many times Gariboldi has listened to my album!! It’s only been out since Friday, he must have it on an repeating loop.
Incidentally hi Tumblr is great and you should all go follow him. Get on it!