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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Record-setting Musical Revived in Australia for Two Shows Only 

Published on 13 May, 2002 

One of the world's most successful music theatre productions is being revived in Australia, 86 years after it first opened in London.

Chu Chin Chow (based on Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves) opened at His Majesty's Theatre, London August 1, 1916 and ran for 2238 performances. It was longest running work of musical theatre until "Cats" in the 1980s.

PhotoID:84 Mackay-based performer/academic Garrick Jones has spent six months preparing for a two-show revival, which will be captured as a CD recording.

The Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music production will feature all the music from the show as well as narration of the story.

Chu Chin Chow featured music by Frederick Norton and a story devised by Oscar Asche.

Oscar Asche was an Australian Actor who worked mainly in England. He was a famous Shakespearean actor at the turn of the century appearing with his wife Lilly Brayton at Stratford on Avaon, and starring in leading roles in the West End.

Chu Chin Chow was devised as a pantomime set to music, as a diversion from the horrors of the First World War. It is full of beautiful oriental music, written with the flavour of 'orientalism', which was sweeping Europe in the wake of the Ballet Russes tour to Paris in the early nineteenth century.

Oscar Ashe produced and toured the West End production of Chu Chin Chow to Australia and New Zealand twice after the First World War where its performances were sold out in every capital city in Australia.

The production will be held at the Conservatorium of Music Theatre in Mackay on Saturday, June 8, at 2pm and then again at 8pm.

PhotoID:85 Garrick Jones has devised a two-piano orchestral reduction based on orchestral parts obtained from the JC Williamson collection, now housed in the National Library in Canberra. Garrick has arranged the vocal parts and written the choral arrangements. He will also play one of the pianos and sing one of the bravura pieces from the score.

The musical score will be presented in its entirety with soloists and the choral ensemble from among the outstanding students at the Conservatorium.

Both performances will be live recorded for future compilation into a CD set.

ENDS For details etc call Garrick Jones via 07 4940 7807 or 0404 836 445 or via 07 4940 7800