Gough whitlam biography of william barton
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Program: Didgeridoo player and composer William Barton
“He's one of the great virtuosos. It's a sound inom had heard before, but never with that sort of technique. The possibilities are extraordinary. This is a great man. He radiates. You watch him and think, this is impressive.” Sir Simon Rattle.
William Barton is one of a number of Indigenous composers and musicians who've managed to cross the bridge between traditional and Western music. Through a whirlwind of collaborations with composers from Peter Sculthorpe to Liza Lim, he's the first to marry the didgeridoo successfully with orchestras and classical ensembles.
A listener to ABC Classic commented, “I could hear how a didgeridoo would fit with an orchestra. It’s hard to explain, but if you put things out in the universe and you really want it to happen, then it will.”
Now 42, he was the youngest Australian composer ever voted into an ABC Classic composer countdown, bevis if it was needed that he a
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William Barton (musician)
Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player
William Barton | |
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Barton in 2018 | |
| Born | Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, didgeridoo player |
William Barton is an Aboriginal Australian multi-instrumentalist, known principally for his didgeridoo (yidaki) playing, particularly with classical orchestras. He is also a singer-songwriter and composer.
Early life and education
[edit]William Barton was born in Mount Isa, Queensland.[1] His mob are from the Roper River area, and he is a Kalkadunga man.[2]
He learned to play didgeridoo at the age of 11 from Uncle Arthur Peterson,[2] an elder of the Wannyi, Lardil, and Kalkadungu peoples of Western Queensland.
Career
[edit]By the age of 12 Barton was working in Sydney, playing for Aboriginal dance troupes. At the age of 15 he toured America, after which he decided he wanted to become a soloist rather than a backing musician and started to s
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Gough Whitlam
Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975
"Whitlam" redirects here. For other uses, see Whitlam (disambiguation).
Edward Gough Whitlam[a] (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general.
Whitlam was an air navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force for four years during World War II, and worked as a barrister following the war. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1952, becoming a member of parliament (MP) for t