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Newsletter
Autumn 2006
Lorna Brown (former world
professional ice-skating champion) has been choreographing Rosemary
Duxbury's piano music for skating
Young skater,
Kirsten Marshall (above), aged 13, skating to "In the Master's
Love", piano music by Rosemary Duxbury, choreographed by Lorna
Brown (below). Former British Senior International figure skating
competitor and World Professional Champion, LORNA BROWN, was a Principal
skater with John Curry's Theatre of Skating and Ice Dancing and in
many other shows around the world. She studied classical and contemporary
dance and worked with some of the world’s greatest choreographers
before going into coaching and choreography for which she is internationally
renowned. She was Denmark’s National Coach and has taken skaters to
many international championships including Worlds and Olympics . The
experiences she gained working with John Curry left an everlasting
impression on her views of ice skating – particularly the importance
of choreography, expression and style. Lorna is originally from Scotland
but is now based in California. Lorna has been working with Rosemary's
short piano pieces: 'In the Presence'
and 'In the Master's Love'.
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Rosemary Duxbury's
latest CD "Streams" now available to buy and order in shops
"Streams" is now
available to buy and to order in shops worldwide, as well as still
being available online on this website.
If you would like to know if there is a shop near you please read
below.
The CD "Streams"
features Rosemary's latest piano music and a piece for string orchestra
& harp.
Here is a sample of some of
the latest shops now selling "Streams":
UK:
Leicester
Nighton Music, East Bond Street
(behind the Shires Shopping Centre)
London
Watkins Bookshop, Cecil
Court, Covent Garden
right in the heart of London, ask for the CD department
Norfolk
Bircham Gallery, Market
Place, Holt
Cornwall
Yew Tree Gallery
nr Pendeen, between St Just and St Ives
Gallery Anthony
Mullion Arts & Crafts Centre
Mullion, The Lizard
USA:
Maine/New Hampshire
Kittery
for ordering online from the
USA visit cdbaby.com/duxbury
for full list of stockists
in the USA, UK and around the world please select here
click here to
listen to samples of the music
to
read more about the CD
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Charasound
to publish
Rosemary Duxbury's music
Charasound are publishing
Rosemary Duxbury's music this Autumn ready for Christmas, starting
with short piano pieces: "In
the Presence", "In
the Master's Love", "Apres" and "Always".
To listen to extracts of
these pieces please click on the title of the piece. If
you have a request for a particular piece, or wish to be included
on a mailing list, please email: info@charasound.co.uk
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Talking
about her latest work, Rosemary says,“As a composer my initial
source of inspiration is from within, a place where I feel the life-force,
which can be experienced as streams of light and sound, can be accessed.
Hence the CD title ‘Streams’. If the music inspires or uplifts the
listener, and can enable them to discover that place or source within
themselves, then I am delighted and feel the music has been successful.
One of the loveliest things that I hear quite regularly from people
who have heard my music is that they went on a journey through the
music. People experience being 'transported' out of the concert
hall, often getting visual experiences. I am interested in dreams,
in soul and its nature, and it may be that the music helps people
to access that different state where they are able to experience
freedom and gain insights away from physical constraints.”
The title of “Passage (one
of the piano solos), is almost a play on words, exploring the ideas
of transformation, journey, the passage of time or a tunnel or channel
as well as simply a piece of music. Similarly, “Streams” (4 movements),
stems from the inspiration of currents of water, from a small source
to a powerful waterfall, a steady flow of energy and streams of light
and consciousness. This, too, she describes as a journey, “within
the Eternal’, reflected by melody, set against mantras of one note
or group of notes, or the hum of the harmonic.” The CD also includes
two other piano solos, ‘Always’ and ‘Apres’, and ‘Light Falling’ for
string orchestra and harp played by the Italian orchestra Sinfonica
Aosta.
Rosemary Duxbury’s music has
a strong following and her new CD “Streams” has been long awaited
by people who know her first CD, “On Wings of Light”. Both CDs have
a strong Leicester link, having been recorded in the Fraser Noble
Hall.
Report by Jane Pearson University of Leicester Press
Streams’ is
published by Charasound
info@charasound.co.uk
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