Anne Boyd
Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM (born 10 April 1946) is an Australian composer and professor of music at the University of Sydney.
Early life
Anne Boyd was born in Sydney to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd (née Osborn).
Her father died when she was age 3, and her mother sent her to live with relatives on a sheep station (Maneroo) near Longreach, in central Queensland. This intimate experience with the Australian landscape – its expansiveness, its dramatic changes, and its "indescribable energy" – had a profound influence on her future as a composer. She began composing while still at Maneroo, at the age of eight, for the resources she had available: recorder and voice. She moved to Canberra aged 11, and although she was pleased to be reunited with her mother, she missed the beauty of the outback terrain.
In New South Wales, she received her education at Albury High School and Hornsby Girls' High School.
Boyd studied music at the University of Sydney, where she was one of Peter Sculthorpe's first students. Sculthorpe had a profound influence on her; she said that his music was the first time she had heard music which expressed her experience of the Australian landscape. In the early 1970s she and Sculthorpe were engaged to be married, but they broke the engagement as they believed one composer in a household was enough. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree, she received a PhD in composition from the University of York in England.
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ALBUMS
- The Sound Of Passion released: 1998
- The Swoon Collection II released: 1997
- Strange Attractions released: 1997
- Sydney Intervarsity Choral Festival 2008 released:
The Sound Of Passion
Released 1998- The Four Seasons: Winter (Allegro non molto)
- Songs of the Auvergne: Bailero
- Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy)
- Suite Bergemasque: Clair de la Lune
- The End of the Day
- Concerto in E-flat: Polonese
- Tam O'Shantar Scherzo
- Port Essington: Theme and Variations
- From Uluru
- 'Percussion' Symphony: Tarantella
- Carillon for Sacha
- Memento capricioso
- Russian Rag
- Pastime Rags: Slow Drags No.4
- Piano Concerto: III
- Trio Sonata in C, Wq 149: Allegro di molto
- Nisi Dominus: I
- Sinfonia da Pacifica: Recitativo - Lento tranquillo
- As All Waters Flow (excerpt)
- The Four Seasons - Winter (Allegro non molto)
The Swoon Collection II
Released 1997- Griselda - "Per la gloria d'adorarvi"
- Sense and Sensibility - My Father's Favourite
- Valse Frontenac
- Deo gratias
- Thaïs - Méditation
- The Battlers - "Love Me Sweet"
- Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2
- Goldfish Through Summer Rain
- Much Ado About Nothing Op. 11 - Garden Scene
- We Praise Thee
- Concerto for Oboe in D minor - Adagio
- The Lass of Patie's Mill
- Jocelyn - "Angels Guard Thee"
- Bovaglie's Plaid
- Magnificat cum Alleluia
- Prelude in E-flat minor
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It's All In Our Head
by: IneptIf what you want is out of sight, and all thats there is black and white,
Its easier to choose the wrong path.
But if you choose to believe, a painting your life can be,
With a light on youll see, color right on.
And with it, will be the life that we want,
Without it, we will throw away what we got,
So we will, so we will, not give in.
CHORUS
When we fall from our dreams its hard to pick ourselves up,
But its all in our heads; its all in our heads!
When we think theres nothing left, its hard to convince ourselves,
That its all in our heads, its all in our heads!
No when you fall in to this hell, theres others here, you just cant tell.
And like you, theyre all needing help.
But if theres still room to breath, then hope will show you the way,
To a new world where light, will surround you.
And with it, will be the life that we want,
Without it, we will throw away what we got,
So we will, so we will, not give in.
CHORUS
So, just believe, and we will feel, so alive,
And we will find the perfect way to survive.
Then we will be, so in love,
With the lives, that once has us, in denial.
CHORUS
If what you want is out of sight, and all thats there is black and white,
Its easier to choose the wrong path.
But if you choose to believe, a painting your life will be,
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