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VIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.
Australian composer and teacher Anne Elizabeth Boyd was born in Sydney on 10 April 1946. Growing up in central Queensland, the Australian landscape had a strong influence on her music. At Sydney University she became one of the first students of (and had a close personal relationship with) Peter Sculthorpe, who became another important influence on her output as a composer. She later studied at York University in England.
She taught at Sussex University (1972-77), at Hong Kong University (1981-90) and then became the first Australian and the first woman to becaome a music professor at Sydney University.
Her output as a composer has a strong east Asian influence - particularly of Indonesia and Japan - and often contains a meditative or spiritual element.
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CD Spotlight. Artistic Merit - Music for saxophones, heard by Bill Newman. '... daring and exploratory.'