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Two Pieces for Flute and Piano

By Diana Blom

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Flute and  piano. c.4'30 total. Grade 4

  • 1. Sparks, c.1'35
  • 2. Foxtrot Dream, c'155

Composed 2021

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Variations for Solo Cello

By Diana Blom

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Seven variations for solo cello. c.8'00
This work, like Renaissance variations, have no theme.  Instead they work with a harmonic structure plus recurring figures.  Composed 1978.


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Violin Sonata - Newgrass Bluegrass

By Diana Blom

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Three movements for violin and piano, c.7'00
This work draws on popular and folk music idioms (bluegrass, jazz, Celtic jig) combined with minimalist devices (aspects of additive rhythmic construction in movements one and two, and repetitive extension of a theme in the last movement).

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Waltzing with Elling

By Diana Blom

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Viola and piano (or double bass), c.3'14

Waltzing with Elling is a tribute to American jazz singer Kurt Elling and jazz bass player Rob Amster.  The waltz seeks to capture some of the characteristics of 'The Waking', a song for voice and double bass from the CD 'Nightmoves '(2007), which sets a poem by American poet Theodore Roethke.  
Composed 2019

Recorded by Dawn Bennett viola and Diana Blom on Australia - East and West, (Wirr 101) available online.

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War Letters

By Diana Blom, Larry Sitsky, Nicole Murphy, Elliott Gyger

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New music commemorating WWI

Works by Elliot Gyger, Nicole Murphy, Larry Sitsky and Diana Blom and performed by Halcyon: Alison Morgan soprano, Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano, Clive Birch bass, James Wannan viola, Kaylie Dunstan percussion, Jo Allan piano and Geoffrey Gartner conductor (tracks 1-5).

One doesn't have to dig too deeply to find that many people have a family connection to WWI, with stories of relatives who returned safely ... or did not.  Four Australian composers, representing four generations, were commissioned to set letters from WWI for new music ensemble Halcyon.  The thoughts, reflections and feelings expressed in these personal letters are as fresh today as they were 100 years ago.  War Letters brings into focus the day to day experiences of the men and women taken up by war.  From these personal memories we can reflect on the enormous impact the war, as it continues in our present lives, and truly empathise with those individuals who are speaking to us from both the past and the present.
Wirr 074 

Concert Program of Schools Presentation - Tuesday 10 November 2015, Ku-ring-gai Town Hall, Pymble

Concert Program for Public Audience - Saturday 7th November 2015, Ku-ring-gai Town Hall, Pymble

Review of CD by Music Teachers' Association  NSW - The Studio - February 2017

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Un poilu australien - Elliott Gyger (2015) [1-5]
1   August - November 1914
2   April 1915 - January 1916
3   April - June 1916
4   July 1916
5   August 1916
'Dearest Mother ...' - Nicole Murphy (2015) [6-9]
6   Leaving Home
7   Egypt
8   France
9   England
10 Letter from the Trenches - Larry Sitsky (2015)
Triptych (war letters) - Diana Blom (2015) [11-13]
11  Gallipoli letter: Ellie (Frank Robinson)
12  Vietnam diary: Great bloody Xmas break (David Wilkins)
13  Afghan emails: Bread and kids (Andrew Hastie)


Whale's Song, The

By Diana Blom

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Cello and piano, c.9'00.  Grade 8
The humpback whale is, in many ways, the spirit of the ocean. Through four sections - Chant, Dance, Lament and Chant, The Whale's Song traces the migratory pattern of the humpback whale as it moves in the Pacific Ocean, through musics of New Zealand, Ecuador, Hawaii, Japan and Papua and New Guinea.  "Chant" draws on rhythms of a Maori chant about the sea, and on its return, is joined by the rhythms of a traditional Japanese chant about the sea with amplified cello evoking sounds of the humpback whale. 

Recorded by Deborah Coogan (vc/reverb) and the composer on the CD, Music of the Spirit (Wirr 011) available online


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White Rabbit Climbs Mt Kosciusko

By Diana Blom

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Solo piano. c.3'40, suggested Grade 8
This piece pays homage to The White Rabbit Collection of Sydney's White Rabbit gallery of contemporary Chinese art, and in particular to works which juxtapose the popular, the classical, the everyday and the childish - for example paintings of Bu Hua and Jing Zhiyong, sculptures of Chen Wenling and constructions of Wang Zhiyuan.  Composed 2011

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Wirripang Australian Piano Anthology - Book 1 - 2011

By Various Composers

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Piano solos - Grades 1- 4. 
21 piano works by Australian Composers 2011.  
Especially written and selected for this album as edited by Katie Zhukov  with audio files of each work recorded by Katie Zhukov in YouTube links below.
See also Book 2 (Grades 5-7) and Book 3 (Grades 8 to Dip)

Many works now on the ANZCA Syllabus

Grade 1
1.  Pentatonic Pauline - Paul Paviour, c.0'58
2.  Raindrops on the Window - Jocelyn Kotchie, c.0'53
3.  Ball Games - Squash - Diana Blom, c.0'48
4.  La Señorita - Colin Brumby, c.0'48
5.  On A Pond - Amanda Handel, c.0'55
 Grade 2
6.  At Sundown - Amanda Handel, c.1'00
7.  A Flourish of Trumpets - Phillip Wilcher, c.0'56
8.  Nick Nack Paddywack - Paul Paviour, c.0'56
9.  Lullaby - Phillip Wilcher, c.1'28
10. The tightrope walker - Jennifer Trynes, c.2'03
11. Circus Invention - Jocelyn E Kotchie, c.0'49
Grade 3
12.  Little Interlude for Billy - Andrew Schultz, c.2'20
13.  The Afghans - Stephen O'Connell, c.2'06
14.  Sunday at St Stephens - Mark Matthews, c.2'04
15.  Tip-Toe Tango - Jocelyn E Kotchie, c.1'10
16.  Ball Games - Table Tennis - Diana Blom, c.0'56
Grade 4
17.  Mistique - Mark Matthews, c.2'09
18.  Ball Games - Basketball - Diana Blom, c.1'29
19.  Rondino - Colin Brumby, c.1'42
20.  A Quiet Obsession - John Peterson, c.1'15
21.  Oracle - Mark Matthews, c.2'09

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Ziggedy Bop

By Diana Blom

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Two percussionists each playing four drums of  different pitches.
Ziggedy Bop is a tap dancing step and its rhythm permeates this work.
Composed 2003

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