Dot and the Kangaroo - Dell, Neralea T

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Biographie:
Ethel Charlotte Pedley is best known as an English-born Australian author, composer, music educator and pianist. She was born in Acton near London in 1859 and at the age of 5 started to learn the piano. The family migrated to Australia in the 1870s but shortly after she was to return to London and study at the Royal Academy of Music. She studied with her uncle who was a professor of violin, which she won a medal as well trained at the Vocal Academy with her famous aunt, Charlotte Sainton-Dolby.In 1882 Ethel returned to Sydney, Australia where she taught singing and the violin. On her return visit to London in 1988, she successfully persuaded the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music to extend their examinations to Australian Colonies. She was appointed the solo representative of the Royal Academy of Music for New South Wales with the first examiners visited in 1897. A prolific composer, writing over 200 songs, piano pieces and choral works. Professional musicians and choirs throughout Australia and New Zealand performed her music. She was also an advocate for music education and founded the Ladies' College of Music in Sydney, which provided training for young women in music. Pedley's music is characterized by its simplicity, elegance, and lyricism. Ethel Pedley's legacy as a composer and educator has been recognised in Australia, with several of her compositions being rediscovered and performed in recent years. Her music remains an important part of Australia's cultural heritage. Her compositions often featured themes of Australian landscape, folk songs, and stories from Indigenous Australian culture. She was also known for her arrangements of traditional English songs and hymns.A believer in the conservation of the Australian flora and fauna, she wrote Dot and the Kangaroo from this perspective of the disconnect from nature and wildlife. Her trips to her brother's property (Arthur) near Walgett are also thought to have had a large influence on her only published book in 1898. At age 39, Ethel was struck with cancer and passed away at the Darlinghurst home on the 6th of August 1898. The book was published posthumously a year after her death. Her brother also set up the Ethel Pedley Memorial Travelling Scholarship for music students.Her children's book Dot and the Kangaroo has become an Australian classic. It has been read by many generations since its first publication of the story of a girl called Dot who lost her way in the Australian outback and is approached by a grey Kangaroo who offered her berries to eat. The book was adapted in 1924 into a stage production and then in 1977 a film that combined animation and real-life action....

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Ethel Charlotte Pedley is best known as an English-born Australian author, composer, music educator and pianist. She was born in Acton near London in 1859 and at the age of 5 started to learn the piano. The family migrated to Australia in the 1870s but shortly after she was to return to London and study at the Royal Academy of Music. She studied with her uncle who was a professor of violin, which she won a medal as well trained at the Vocal Academy with her famous aunt, Charlotte Sainton-Dolby.In 1882 Ethel returned to Sydney, Australia where she taught singing and the violin. On her return visit to London in 1988, she successfully persuaded the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music to extend their examinations to Australian Colonies. She was appointed the solo representative of the Royal Academy of Music for New South Wales with the first examiners visited in 1897. A prolific composer, writing over 200 songs, piano pieces and choral works. Professional musicians and choirs throughout Australia and New Zealand performed her music. She was also an advocate for music education and founded the Ladies' College of Music in Sydney, which provided training for young women in music. Pedley's music is characterized by its simplicity, elegance, and lyricism. Ethel Pedley's legacy as a composer and educator has been recognised in Australia, with several of her compositions being rediscovered and performed in recent years. Her music remains an important part of Australia's cultural heritage. Her compositions often featured themes of Australian landscape, folk songs, and stories from Indigenous Australian culture. She was also known for her arrangements of traditional English songs and hymns.A believer in the conservation of the Australian flora and fauna, she wrote Dot and the Kangaroo from this perspective of the disconnect from nature and wildlife. Her trips to her brother's property (Arthur) near Walgett are also thought to have had a large influence on her only published book in 1898. At age 39, Ethel was struck with cancer and passed away at the Darlinghurst home on the 6th of August 1898. The book was published posthumously a year after her death. Her brother also set up the Ethel Pedley Memorial Travelling Scholarship for music students.Her children's book Dot and the Kangaroo has become an Australian classic. It has been read by many generations since its first publication of the story of a girl called Dot who lost her way in the Australian outback and is approached by a grey Kangaroo who offered her berries to eat. The book was adapted in 1924 into a stage production and then in 1977 a film that combined animation and real-life action....