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Thank you to all participants in Playing It Together 2009. I am on such a 'high' after the last three days. Thanks to Arts Queensland and QPAC. Thanks to Patricia Pollett, Louise King and Stephen Emmerson who were such excellent and professional adjudicators, colleagues and mentors. See you all in 2010. Maybe at the Rocky Winter School in July, and most definitely at Playing it Together 2010. Paul Continue

Calling all Playing It Together Ensembles! Paul Dean will be here on-line on Tuesday 27 October @ 5pm to talk feedback... Your adjudication slips from the heats are in the mail right now -come and join us for an hour to talk about your performances, get feedback on your feedback, chat about preparations for the Semi-Finals coming up on 1 November, or just to ask any old question about Playing It Together. See you all here on Tuesday... Continue

Over Saturday and Sunday I finished my concert band piece entitled 'United News Syndicate', which I had started about three weeks prior to that but hadn't finished. The idea behind the piece was to somehow put together all the free-to-air news themes (ABC, SBS, Seven, Nine and Ten) together in one piece of music. The inspiration for it came after I learned that my favourite favourite composer John Williams wrote the channel seven news theme. Wow! My fantastic instrumental music coordinator at… Continue