Music

Antonio Vivaldi "Al Santo Sepolcro"Sinfonia in B Minor, Sonata in Eb MajorConcerto Amsterdam (Jaap Schroder)DAS ALTE WERK - TELDEC

Gioacchino Rossini "Wilhelm Tell Overture"Pfalzische Philharmoic (Kurt Redel)SONATINA - U.M.I.P. FRANCE

Additional MusicJean-François RogeonPhilip FaiersNorman Kaye

The music for the film is a typically eclectic Paul Cox mix. Suppliers of additional music for the film included Cox regular Norman Kaye.

Norman Kaye:

Norman Kaye was a life-time member of Paul Cox's stock company, performing in many of his films and composing underscore and incidental music for a number of his films.

Kaye had started out wanting to be a composer, and before he was 20, he wrote an opera: It was in the Satie style, hardly ground-breaking stuff.

But at the age of twenty he went to a series of lectures on serial music in London and came away thoroughly intimidated, convinced he could never become a composer. "I felt I didn't know the first thing about mathematics and I never would. It seemed vital then. (The Age 15th April 1982)

Instead Kaye became a music teacher, combining acting and teaching for some twenty years, but at the same time, he managed to write a number of scores for Cox's films, starting with Inside Looking Out and including Lonelyhearts, in which he also starred up against Wendy Hughes.

Kaye has a short wiki here.

Kaye died in May 2007, but in the meantime Cox had made a biographical tribute to him in his 2005 film The Remarkable Mr Kaye. Move Records issued a retrospective of Kaye's music in 2007, with the same title. More details of Kaye here.

Full details of the Kaye recording here:

(Below: Kaye as he appears in Inside Looking Out)

(Below: Norman Kaye with Wendy Hughes in Cox's Lonely Hearts, and below that, Kaye in later years)

Jean-François Rogeon:

While not confirmed, it would appear that Rogeon is a Melbourne artist - he and Cox at least both worked for the VCA at one point in their professional careers. A site here provided these details for him:

Jean Francois was born in France in 1940.He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Poitiers.He was invited to exhibit some of his early work in Paris at: Le Salon de L’Art Libre in 1960 at the Trocadero Gallery.Early ’62 he started on a twelve years journey that took him across the 5 Continents.This journey was financed totally from the product of the sale of water colours, gouaches and drawings produced, exhibited in each visited country (refs. available on request).In the process, Jean Francois published several series of illustrations in Venezuela and in Australia - in the early 70’s.Jean Francois finally settled in Melbourne where he completed an equivalency of his qualifications at P.I.T. under Peter Booth and Dale Hikey tuition.He then taught Art for the next twenty years starting with a posting at the original V.C.A Secondary College.During this time, Jean Francois kept on painting in oil and exhibiting regularly at the Galleries of the Alliance Francaise of Melbourne and Sydney.After retiring from the teaching profession, Jean Francois moved to Foster where he established his new studio in the very rural setting of the hills overlooking the Prom.Recently held solo shows:

• 2002 “The age of reason” Applause Gallery

• 2003 “Stitches in Time” Applause Gallery• 2004 Untitled Where Art is Gallery• 2005 “Continuance” Gas Works Gallery• 2006 “In a Fool’s paradise” Gas Works Gallery

(Below: Jean-François Rogeon)

As for Philip Faiers, another contributor to the score, it isn’t possible to confirm his identity, but he might well the same Faiers that turned to journalism and all things French. This Faiers is listed here, and there are many other references to his career online:

Founder of France Magazine in 1990. Editor 1990 – 2004. Travel writer of the Year 2003. As well as writing on all things France-related, I am a keen long-distance trekker. I have completed the Chemin de la Liberté retracing the steps of wartime escapees across the Pyrenees. In 2006 I walked the GR10 along the Pyrenees in 50 consecutive days. I have also walked the Tour de Mont Blanc and the GR20 on Corsica, and am currently walking the GR34—a 1,000 mile coastal path around Brittany. I live in South-West France overlooking the Pyrenees and am writing a book about my Pyrenean adventures.

(Below: Philip Faiers)