ARTS ALIVE	PGM 10 - 2007   TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 5 March 2007
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 00"

This week, the winner of the Helen Lempriere award for sculpture is announced* in what may be a first for Australia, a workshop devoted specifically to the libretto and the art of writing lyric for music* will be part of the 10 days on the Island festival in Tasmania* and we look at the transformation of war memorials from passive sites of remembrance to active sites for the examination of the role of war in history and culture.

Our guest is Brendan Gullifer, author of The Pocket Book of Aussie Patriotism.  With a title like that it could be a hand book for Xenophobes, a satire of Aussies social norms, or a ready reckoner of historical facts and fictions.  We・ll find out later on the program but first a round up of news*

STING   NEWS:  	(approx. 4.30)   STING

Part of the first movement of Meldolsholm・s Opus 12 in E flat, performed by the new Hamer string quartet.  They will play their debut concert at the Australian National Academy of Music on Tuesday March 20 at 7.00 pm.  The Hamer Quartet is named for the late Sir Rupert Hamer, premier of Victoria and the state・s first minister for the arts.

Item 1a: Anna Swartz #1 (10 secs)
Starts with: ：And the winner of this year・s*
Ends with: *(applause)；

Chair of the judging committee for the Helen Lempriere award for sculpture, Anna Swartz, announcing the winner on 28 February in the grounds of Werribee Park mansion, on the south-west outskirts of Melbourne.  

Item 1b: Anna Swartz #2 (2.47)
Starts with: ：(applause)*
Ends with: *the story of this work.；

Julia Davis from Brookvale in Sydney, winner of this year・s Helen Lempriere prize for sculpture, reputedly the richest sculpture prize in Australia.  We will have Julia on next week・s program to talk about her work and career at greater length.  

Other prize winners were Louise Paramour whose work, Industrial Jam Session was highly commended and Jos Van Hulsen who received the Encouragement awards for Casualty Numbers.  And the Wyndham City Council acquired a work called Boy, by Matt Calvert, for permanent display in the municipality.  The exhibition is open in the grounds of Werribee Park until Sunday 27 May when the $5,000 popular choice award will be announced.

Writers workshops are a dime a dozen these days , but a writers workshop specifically devoted to writing libretto* the spoken or sung part of music theatre* seem rare.  Ihos Opera, the Hobart-based opera company, is holding such a workshop during the 10 Days on the Island festival this month.  We spoke to Ihos・ producer, Marianne Fisher, and first asked whether the workshop was only of interest to those interested in classic opera composition*

Item 2: Ihos Workshop (4.47)
Starts with: ：I think you・ll find that the workshop covers a broad area* Ends with:  *I should imaging you would. Absolutely.；

Marianne Fisher, producer with Ihos Opera in Hobart. The workshop runs from 23 to 27 March under the direction of Willem Bruls.  And an application to attend can be made on-line at www.ihosopera.com but there are only a few places left.

Now I think everyone must have heard the Billy Thorpe one of Australia・s founding rockers died on 28 February of a heart attack at age 60.  Here, from the late 1960s when Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs looked like Beatles clones but certainly did not sound like them, is their performance of Sick & Tired.

Track 1: Sick and Tired / Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs

Item 4A: Brendan Gullifer (8.29)
First words: You・re listening to*
Last words: *more conversation with Brendan.

Track 2: Let the Franklin Flow / Shane Howard

END VOICE	27 min 00 sec		END OF PART ONE	30 min 00 sec

Item 4B: Brendan Gullifer (7.19)
First words: You・re listening*
Last words: *thanks no worries.

Track 3: Shadow of Your Love /Shane Howard

B/A track.  Visiting Melbourne・s Shrine of Remembrance last week to record that conversation with Garrie Hutchinson about war correspondents, reminded me how some war memorials had changed from passive memento more* places of contemplation of events now very distant from most Australians* to places of active recollection and interpretation* not celebration* of Australia・s part in wars of the past century or so.  To investigate that transformation I went back to talk to the Chief executive of the Shrine, Denis Baguley, but first asked about the old Shrine*

Item 5: 
First words:
Last words: * 

That was Denis Baguley, the chief executive of The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne*  And that brings this week・s program to an end.  Thanks for listening* 

I・m Vincent O・Donnell and we leave you with another track from the late Billy Thorpe*  This is from the soundtrack of the film of the concert at Sunbury Victoria in 1972 that some call the Australian Woodstock.  Here is Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs with the Chuck Berry standard CC Rider*

END VOICE	51 min 50sec 		PROGRAM ENDS	55 min 50 sec

APRA Details:
Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec.
Sting 1:   "Meldolsholm・s Opus 12 in E flat；/meldolsholm/Hamer Quartet/P/ 0.30secs
Track 1:  ：Sick and Tired；/ ???? / Billy Thorpe and the Azrecs/P/ Rage TV/ 2 min. Track 2:  ：Let the Franklin Flow；/Shane Howard / ditto/ CP/ GRO40405/ 2.35 Track 3:  "Shadow of Your Love；/Shane Howard/ ditto/CP/ GRO40405/ 1.40 Track 4:  "CC Rider・ / chuck Berry / Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs/ P/film soundtrack: Sunbury/3.36