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Ruth Bonetti Music
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22.01.2022 Tips I learned during the Tech Challenges to teach students online #Zoom #FaceType #Skype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KRorrW_tA8&t=319s
22.01.2022 Title track from Lloyd Back. Also listen out for "Stronger" which is #2 on the lists. https://www.youtube.com/watch
22.01.2022 Standby for a sunset reprise of Last Post. A neighbour so appreciated it he asked to hear it again. Will oblige, plus some Vera Lynn songs. He shared that CO-VID19 reminds him of growing up in England during WW2.
21.01.2022 Last Post. Even in isolation, we will remember them. Update: Standby for a sunset reprise. A neighbour so appreciated it he asked to hear it again. Will oblige, plus find Vera Lynn songs. He shared that CO-VID19 reminds him of growing up in England during WW2.
21.01.2022 Looking forward to my next presentation.
21.01.2022 QYO Tuba player fights for his right to practice at home!
19.01.2022 Let's play the Last Post in our driveways and uplift our neighbourhoods.
17.01.2022 My students love playing Star Wars and John Williams other winners.
16.01.2022 Happy Australia Day. Heres a link for a cooling-down piece and some fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ThjY6GizZqc The piece Bolero is in my method Enjoy Playing the Clarinet, published by Oxford University Press.
16.01.2022 Todays concert was cancelled, but you can still hear Josie Askey-Doran play some of The Lark Ascending accompanied in this house concert by Maree Kilpatrick. Enjoy!
15.01.2022 Fun and also great for coordination and team work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfRPtDsedA
15.01.2022 What an exciting project to commission 50 composers, about half under 40 years, about half women, and including First Nation voices! It gives scope for up and coming composers to join an A-league team alongside the likes of Elena Kats-Chernin, Carl Vine and Matthew Hindson. Congratulations, Paul Bonetti
15.01.2022 When the French composer Messiaen came to Brisbane for Expo '88, he took a 5am trip to Mt Tamborine to hear a lyrebird. His notes ended up in his last compositi...on, "Illuminations of the afterlife" (Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà), along with butcherbirds, noisy pittas, kookaburras and other Oz birds. A French plein-air artist like Monet. The ornithologist Sydney Curtis recalls the trip: "we arrived at Witches Falls National Park on Tamborine Mountain just before daylight, on June 13, 1988. We stepped out of our car to a blast of loud pop music from another car. Messiaens comments were less than polite. A walk of half a kilometre or so took us to where I knew a lyrebird roosted. To my considerable relief, he was present and sang variations of his territorial song. If Messiaen was pleased with the lyrebirds performance, I was positively amazed at Messiaens performance. Here in the subtropics, our birds are not entirely silent in winter, and a number of species joined in the dawn chorus. Messiaen wrote rapidly on manuscript paper while [his wife] Madame Loriod kept him supplied with sharp pencils and recorded the sound on tape. After about twenty minutes he was satisfied he had notated what the morning offered. He then went through his notes and sang or whistled the songs so perfectly that I had no difficulty in identifying the species for him. Birdsong generally does not conform to human scales or rhythms, and these surely were songs he had never heard before. Fantastic!"
12.01.2022 Rossini's Cat Duet as quartet arrangement was a hit with my Clarinova quartet at Good Shepherd Lutheran College yesterday. Scope for some drama, costumes, even movements...hmm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bJJviAX0c
12.01.2022 Thrilled that our son Paul-Antoni Bonetti has been commissioned to compose a fanfare be performed by Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
11.01.2022 For isolated clarinet beginner students, I'm posting more info clips. This recent one is How to Assemble Your Clarinet + place your reed for the best tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vStzQSh_dDk&t=172s
10.01.2022 Opera is so cathartic!
10.01.2022 As will my students.
09.01.2022 TIPS to buy a clarinet within the post-Christmas budget: NEW vs SECONDHAND? # Cheap eBay ("It's been overhauled." Hmm...) is false economy if repairs cost $200+. # New clarinets retain their value, with good resale market, often at prices close to the outlay. # Cheap beginner clarinets have weaker metal keys that may snap or bend if dropped.... # Poorly sealed pads can cause squeaks. # Wooden clarinets produce warm, rich tone, advisable for upper grade players. You get what you pay for! Cheap, clunky instruments collect dust under the bed, frustrate practice. Spend as much as your budget will allow to find an instrument thats a pleasure to play. Invest in lessons with a qualified teacher, who can advise on instrument choice and help you/your child progress faster. See more
09.01.2022 A highlight for me was that Anne Fulton and Dr Phillip Gearing performed a composition Angel Lovers by son Dr Paul-Antoni Bonetti, great-grandson of WA Back. Exquisite!
08.01.2022 A student asked to play a duet in her online lesson, and we kinda did... Tips welcome how best to make it happen! Inspiration: https://www.facebook.com//UzpfSTEwMDAxMDQ4NjAyNDAyMDoxMD/
06.01.2022 As clarinet students begin lessons age 8, many find ways to hold its weight. Online teaching prompts innovations to fix arm-on-leg Banana Back Posture. Thanks for prompting, Harry, I chuckled all day after our fun lesson.
06.01.2022 Enjoy the sublime music played by Dr Phillip Gearing (on the organ donated by my grandparents) with mezzo soprano Anne Fulton. Thank you to Professor Deborah Terry, Vice-Chancellor of University of Queenland for launching "The Art Deco Mansion in St Lucia" and Federal MP Julian Simmers for endorsement.
06.01.2022 Meet a Brisbane composer recently returned from LA.
05.01.2022 Students who had lessons at my studio last week first washed hands while singing Do-re-mi. Now, lessons are digital, here's a singalong. https://youtu.be/MMBh-eo3tvE
05.01.2022 Highlight; to teach on the beach, so to speak. (I havent walked or swum there in too long!) Emmilou aged 9, learned three pieces in 30 minutes. Bravo! Her mother Sky said It was actually really lovely to watch her learn so from all of this there is something good coming of it.... Posted with permission. See more
04.01.2022 Some of my books for musicians. Enjoy Playing the Clarinet is the book I needed as a young beginner, even as a teacher. At good music stores and check sale prices at http://www.ruthbonetti.com/store/
04.01.2022 Enjoying playing this. Don't miss a violinist on the up, Josie Askey-Doran playing the glorious Lark Ascending, plus a world premiere.
04.01.2022 Members of the BSO are keeping up their skills over the summer break, volunteering to play in the orchestra for the Cuskelly College of Music Summer School Oper...a. This year they perform Il Trittico, a collection of three operas by Puccini. The performance is on Thursday at 5:30pm at St. Aidens. See more
03.01.2022 My students enjoy playing Andy Firth quartets.
02.01.2022 And play music!
02.01.2022 Grateful to Phil Brown for a story in Q Weekend this morning.
02.01.2022 When 28 bearded men from Mullumbimby with a love of vodka and Russian folk music came together, something strangely wonderful happened. Its just bizarre enough to make them go viral.
01.01.2022 Usually I play with Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, but this season is time out so I can enjoy this musical treat with my grandsons. Megan Bonetti Paul Bonetti Rebecca LewlsSimeon Bonetti
