Graham Hair interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin in the Australian composers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 550292
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hair, Graham, 1943-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2002
- 2 sound files, 2 digital audio tapes (235 min.)
- Series:
- Australian composers oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Graham Hair, born in Geelong, Vic. talks about his family interest in music; his early musical education and influences; composing from a young age; public perceptions of composition in post colonial British culture; the distance between composition and performance; music teachers in country towns; playing professional piano before becoming known as a composer; enrolling at the Melbourne University Conservatorium in 1960 at the age of seventeen, graduating 1964; studying with pianist Max Cooke; his education at the conservatorium in Melbourne; contact with influential musicians; the reasons why he began to for conduct; leaving Melbourne to work as a research assistant for Catherine Ellis in Adelaide; his introduction to Aboriginal music, qualities of Aboriginal music; the emergence of a personal style of composition; the influence of Peter Maxwell Davies; his efforts to define a style distinct from English tradition; his Doctorate in Musicology; receiving an Australia Council grant to go to Princeton University (1974); Milton Babbitt; the emergence of computer music and its evolution internationally.
Hair discusses his return to Australia and working at La Trobe University (1976); collaborative projects with Keith Humble; his reasons for returning to Australia after living away; returning to America to the MIT computer music summer school (1979) then to summer school in Paris; returning to MIT in Boston (1983) and to Princeton as a visiting professor (1985); taking up a position at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music; memorable students; approaches to composition and teaching; teaching styles; techniques for helping students find their own way; the underlying philosophies of composition; composing new works, mapping out a piece; his recent works; a composition involving work of international poets; writing for women's voices; his first major work and orchestral piece; writing for a choir compared to writing for solo voices; the impact of moving to Scotland, highlights of working in Glascow; his hopes for the future.
- Notes:
- Recorded on Sept. 13 & 27, 2002. The first two sessions were recorded at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 91 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Composers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Martin, Ruth Lee, 1957-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian composers oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2002
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