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A Brief History of the Big Band

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On 28 August 2010 the Bris­bane Con­tem­por­ary Jazz Orches­tra will be present­ing a two set his­tory of big band music, cov­er­ing the music from the Golden Age of big band up to the present day. You’ll hear music by Harry James, Artie Shaw, Benny Good­man, Buddy Rich, Michel Cam­ilo and Gor­don Goodwin.

This is a great chance for ABODA mem­bers to exper­i­ence the vari­ous styles they might be teach­ing at school, and hear them played by a ver­sat­ile and tech­nic­ally pro­fi­cient ensemble.

Bris­bane Jazz Club, Kangaroo Point
28 August 2010, 7.00pm
Mem­bers $15, Vis­it­ors $20, Con­ces­sion $17

Fanfare Competition — Education Queensland

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Queensland Department of Education and TrainingCon­grat­u­la­tions to all of the final­ists and award win­ners of the Queens­land Depart­ment of Education’s Fan­fare Com­pet­i­tion. These ensembles will play off on Tues­day 3 August 2010 for 5 spots in the Grand Final Con­cert to be held in the Con­cert Hall of the Queens­land Per­form­ing Arts Centre — a truly excit­ing even­ing of incred­ible music making. The win­ner of the Grand Final will be awar­ded the Erica Brind­ley Memorial Trophy. The 11 final­ists are:

Benowa SHS Con­cert Band Cen­ten­ary SHS Con­cert Band
Kingaroy SHS Stage Band
The Gap SHS Orches­tra
Bris­bane SHS Sym­phonic Band
Cen­ten­ary Heights SHS Stage Band
Yep­poon SHS Con­cert Band
Cairns SHS Orches­tra
Pimlico SHS Cham­ber Strings
Mackay North SHS String Orches­tra
Pine Rivers SHS Stage Band

Percussion Survival Guide

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A fant­astic resource for band dir­ect­ors is avail­able on the Vic Firth web site: The Per­cus­sion Sur­vival Guide. The guide is a series of videos demon­strat­ing everything you could wish to know about per­form­ing on per­cus­sion instru­ments. The videos cover bass drum, snare drum, crash cym­bals, sus­pen­ded cym­bal, gong/tam-tam, key­board per­cus­sion, tam­bour­ine, tim­pani, tri­angle and wood­b­lock. Con­tinue read­ing →