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Bali Moods No.1 takes as its starting point traditional Balinese gamelan music and is written throughout in an equally-tempered version of the pelog scale, one of the two predominant scale systems associated with Indonesian music. The 'moods' of the title is also meant to imply 'modes'. Bali Moods No.1 is the first of a series of three works for flute and piano to explore the varied characteristics of Balinese moods and modes.

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By marrying contemporary music with Hans Christian Andersen’s well-known classics fairytale, musically The Little Mermaid gains accessibility for children unfamiliar with opera. The story of The Little Mermaid’s sacrifice for love reveals to us life in three worlds – the subterranean world of the sea people with their strange myths and moral codes against the tangible world of land fold; together with the mysterious unknown world of the heavens and the Daughters of the Air. The Little Mermaid’s experience of these three worlds seems to reinforce the fragility of life.

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Red Sun, Chill Wind was commissioned for Geoffrey Collins, and the first performance was given by Geoffrey Collins with Nicholas Routley on Piano at the S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, New South Wales on 12th July 1981. The piece is based on a haiku by the famous Japanese poet Basho.

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Cloudy Mountain by Anne Boyd is a piece for flute and piano inspired by a painting by the Hong Kong artist Fung Chin-Wan which bears the same title. Part of a series of three works for flute and piano - the other two being Bali Moods No. 1 and Red Sun, Chill Wind - to explore the varied characteristics of Balinese moods and modes.

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Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching it, she has seen its effect on many others. In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, she recounts Louisa May Alcott’s inspiration for the book and examines why this tale set in the American Civil War has resonated through time. Alcott’s novel has moved generations of women, amongst them writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, J.K. Rowling, Cynthia Ozick and Ursula K. Le Guin. Rioux sees the novel’s beating heart in its portrayal of family resilience and its look at the struggles of girls growing into women. In gauging its current status, she shows why it remains a book with such power that people carry its characters and spirit throughout their lives.

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Composed in 1979, Goldfish through Summer Rain is a piece for flute and piano by Australian composer Anne Boyd. Boyd studied music at the University of Sydney, where she was one of Peter Sculthorpe's first students. Her music is regularly performed world-wide. The hallmarks of her musical style are its transparency, gentleness and delicacy – attributes which reflect her long involvement with Asian traditions especially those of Japan and Indonesia.

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Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching it, she has seen its effect on many others. In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, she recounts Louisa May Alcott’s inspiration for the book and examines why this tale set in the American Civil War has resonated through time. Alcott’s novel has moved generations of women, amongst them writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, J.K. Rowling, Cynthia Ozick and Ursula K. Le Guin. Rioux sees the novel’s beating heart in its portrayal of family resilience and its look at the struggles of girls growing into women. In gauging its current status, she shows why it remains a book with such power that people carry its characters and spirit throughout their lives.

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), who contributed to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer of The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most accomplished American writers of the nineteenth century. The best known (and most misunderstood) facts of her life are her relationship with James and her suicide in Venice. Uncovering new sources, Anne Boyd Rioux provides a fuller picture of Woolson’s life, her fight against depression, her sources for her writing and her capacity for love and joy. As an expatriate in Europe, Woolson explored women’s thwarted ambitions while challenging the foremost male writers of her era. Rioux reveals an exceptional artist who pursued and received serious recognition despite the stigma attached to female authors.

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In this gathering Anne Boyd Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Constance Fenimore Woolson’s life. Woolson’s stories travel from the rural Midwest to the deep South and then across the Atlantic to Italy and Britain.

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