MAY 2007 - DEC 2009
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JANUARY/MARCH 2009 News Flash!  Maree’s play Staff Only is a finalist in the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition, New Orleans. CAPALDO TEYCHENNÉ Erinn Sherlock of Nashville has agreed to record the jazz-feel song I’m Longin’ for competitions in Sydney and the UK. Will soon start work on the Treacle & Stars Song Cycle MAREE Working on ideas for a one-act play for the Wollongong Workshop Theatre’s Masterclass edition of Workshorts (Sept-Oct) and for a one-act play competition in Sydney. Completed the submission for the Bylines 2010 Writers’ Desk Calendar (Missouri, USA) Started work on an outline and sample scenes for a feature-film competition in London. Rehearsals have begun on Virus, Worm & Spy! for the International Women’s Day performance STEVEN Is getting back to work on creative projects and updating the website! NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNÉ Finishing the last section (lyrics & music) of the mini-musical On Christmas Eve. Will soon commence work on the final shaping (both script & music) of the film script On Windy Spring Nights for future competitions overseas. MAREE Performed If A Lamington Could Skate at the Laugh Shoalhaven Comedy Festival (elimination round) at Sussex Inlet Tavern. Maree was dressed as the stage nun, Sister Maria Angelica, at the the time. She lost to an 82-year-old stand-up comedian. Performed Gimme an Aussie Chrissy Do! at the Laugh Shoalhaven Comedy Festival (finals) at the St Georges Basin Country Club. Maree was dressed as the extroverted Tuppence Haypni at the time and, once again, she lost to the same octogenarian stand-up comedian. Re-considering her non-career as a stand-up comedian. Re-fined her one-act play Staff Only and entered a play competition in the USA. STEVEN Is getting back to work on creative projects and updating the website! OCTOBER 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNÉ The script and CD of Street City have been sent to a local theatre company for consideration. The mini-musical On Christmas Eve, to be entered in a Sydney competition later this year, is almost finished. The lyrics of A Pretty Silk Flower were published in the e-newsletter Winning Writers (Massachusetts, USA) MAREE Maree did a performance reading from Act Two of Street City at the announcement of the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize in the main gallery of the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre. She is currently preparing an entry called Young Juan from Chile for the Laugh Shoalhaven Comedy Festival. STEVEN Diary of An Honor Band Conductor was published in the Summer edition of the Canadian Music Educator’s Journal Moreton Bay was performed by the Sydney Youth Symphonic Wind Ensemble Moreton Bay was performed by the Manly Selective High School Band at the Sydney School Band Festival is working on the final segment from On Christmas Eve is working on the final music edits from Street City AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNÉ ANOTHER NEWS FLASH!!! Our song A Pretty Silk Flower has made the semi-finals in the 2008 UK Songwriting Competition! NEWS FLASH!!!
Our song A Pretty Silk Flower has been shortlisted in the 2008 Australian Songwriting Competition! Street City is currently being prepared for submission to theatre companies MAREE Maree is continuing to work on her TrIckY WordS series and at this stage has completed Book 1 and is nearly halfway through Book 2! STEVEN Steven is working on an original work for wind ensemble and finishing off On Christmas Eve JUNE - JULY 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNÉ Street City is currently being prepared for submission to theatre companies MAREE Maree is continuing to work on her TrIckY WordS series and at this stage has completed Book 1 and is nearly halfway through Book 2! STEVEN FINALLY! Steven and Brad have arrived in Australia. Steven has started his new position as Lecturer in Music Education at the University of Wollongong and Brad has commenced his studies to become a personal trainer. Steven has started work on the new song As I Lay Dreaming MAY 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE We recently entered the song A Pretty Silk Flower in an international song competition MAREE Is continuing to work in great detail on Books 1-9 of the TrIckY WordS series STEVEN Has finished his schedule of adjudicating, guest conducting and conducting clinics and is now focusing on ‘the move’! Is working on If A Lamington Could Skate... which was originally written by Maree and Steven in 1995. This new version is to be submitted to a children’s play/musical competition. The Street City Musical CD is now complete and a demo version will be available shortly on the ‘new’ website. More details coming... APRIL 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE We are working on the final audio mix of A Pretty Silk Flower which was recorded by Sarah Wyatt earlier this month MAREE Is working in detail on Books 1-3 of the TrIckY WordS series STEVEN Is at UNLV (US) from April 9-16 as an Assistant Producer for the next UNLV Wind Orchestra Series CD to be released in December this year on Klavier Records Finishing the audio editing for the recording of the Street City Musical CD which took place late last month. Much thanks to Sarah, Amy, Isaiah, Mark and Alex for their fantastic work on this project! MARCH 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!! We are delighted to announce the news that Steven has accepted a position in Music Education at the University of Wollongong and will be moving back to Australia in June! MAREE The 8th of March 2008 was the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and Maree’s stage character, Sister Maria Angelica, delivered the Celebratory Eulogy. Sister Maria was ably assisted by her memory prompter, the formidable Marg McHugh. Jen Saunders performed a powerful rendition of A Pretty Silk Flower in its premiere performance and Maree is still on Cloud Nine about it! STEVEN Well, Steven said it would NEVER happen, but Steven and Brad were married on March 11 in a lovely ceremony at their home in Victoria. Katie was the ring bearer! Steven was adjudicating at the 2008 Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival from March 3-7 FEBRUARY 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE Preparing to commence work on their next project! Stay Tu.ned for more details! MAREE Maree is writing some performances pieces for the annual celebration of International Women’s Day. They include The Celebratory Eulogy for the Centenary of IWD for her stage character, Sister Maria Angelica, and the first performance of her folk song A Pretty Silk Flower STEVEN Finishing preparations on a project to record 11 of the songs from Street City with live singers JANUARY 2008 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE HUH??? SSSh! They’re resting . . . So much has happened, but so little can be published about it at this stage MAREE Now that the Nun Fun! and TrIckY WordS series are more under control, Maree is dusting down her files and notes on the (fictitious) town of Pittslind for the proposed musical: Goanna Bar. The musical will be based on the brawls and incidents that occurred when she played piano in some of the roughest hotels and clubs in Victoria during the late 1980s Maree combined her holiday trip to Toowoomba, Mullumbimby and Tamworth with research on Japanese gardens, rainforests and private gardens for future children’s stories. Of special interest was the bronze statue of a ‘forgotten hero’: the Australian Waler Horse which served Australia with valour during WW1 STEVEN Steven and Brad drove to the wonderful ski village of Fernie in British Columbia where they spent Christmas with Brad’s family. They then travelled to Lethbridge, Alberta, to spend a few days of ‘home time’ with the Bakers and finally drove back to Victoria via Calgary, Banff, Revelstoke and Vancouver. What a trip! No research or creative time was undertaken at all! DECEMBER 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE Two submissions containing scene extracts from Street City (plus a CD of the music) have been sent to a European Music Theatre director who currently resides in Australia and to a competition based in Sydney MAREE Her short story The Wisdom of Getting (translated as The Beginning of Wisdom) was read in German by Abak Safai-Rad on Radio hr2 - Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting) (Frankfurt) Read her poem Treacle & Stars at Ron Pretty’s poetry evening at the South Coast Writers’ Centre (Wollongong) Back working on her Nun Fun! series about the (imagined) every-day lives of Mother Fred, Mother Michael, Mother Chilly, Sister Rose and Sister Veronica The forecast for Maree’s Christmas Day in Australia: ‘bloody hot’! STEVEN Has finally! completed the music for Aren’t I Just a Lil’ Old Devil! (Maree hasn’t yet stopped celebrating) Completed work on Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble Working on Bring Us Your Hearts from Street City The forecast for Steven’s Christmas Day in Canada: -25ºC. And that’s the HIGH! NOVEMBER 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE We are thrilled that our song Eagle of the Wind has just received a Commendation in the Open Section of the Escape ArtFest songwriting competition. Congratulations to the winners, Tracy and MD Verdugo, for their song Great Divide (Southern Shoalhaven NSW) MAREE Still wrestling with the words there their they’re there’s and theirs and how to present them in an interesting and entertaining way to determined non-spellers STEVEN Completing work on Skeena Scenes for the Caledonia High School and Terrace Community Wind Ensembles (Terrace, BC) Writing a journal of his experiences conducting the 2007 BC Honor Wind Ensemble which will be submitted to the Canadian Music Educators’ Journal for publication (CA) OCTOBER 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE Working on Comin’ To Get Ya and Cold, So Cold from Street City MAREE Performed a piece of satire called Images Political - a bleakly humorous Eulogy for the Dead and Dying Liberal Party - at the Festival of Sedition. She was dressed as the character Sister Maria Angelica at the time with an unpublishable slogan pinned onto her wimple. (Huskisson, NSW) For photos of this amazing event, go to www.shoalhaven.nsw.greens.org.au and click Festival of Sedition on the main menu. Working on the structural overview of the six literacy & music books called T r I c k Y WordS * DoNe with FUn! (at home in her study, NSW) The two poems The Joy Makers and Identity Unknown have been entered into an international poetry competition. STEVEN Completed work on Sonnets and Verses, a marimba duet written for Dr. Timothy Jones, Assistant Director of Percussion Studies at UNLV (US) Completing work on Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble SEPTEMBER 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE Entered Eagle of The Wind into a songwriting competition MAREE Working on lyrics to As I Lay Dreaming … as her gift to the Choir of Hard Knocks for their first birthday celebrations (Melbourne) Wrote a performance satire Images Political for the upcoming Festival of Sedition (Huskisson NSW) In celebration of the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Maree performed poetry with other performance artists amongst the artwork in the main gallery at the Shoalhaven City Art Gallery. Maree wrote the poem Identity Unknown especially for this performance STEVEN Completing work on Aren’t I Just a Lil’ Ole Devil! from Act Two of their musical Street City Completing work on Second Journey, written for Grade 2 school band AUGUST 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE A choral work (which needs to remain anonymous due to competition rules) was entered into a choral composition contest MAREE Her lyrics for the song A Pretty Silk Flower made the semi-finals in the Lyrics Only category of the UK Songwriting Contest STEVEN Completed re-scoring Moreton Bay: An Australian Convict Song for performance by the British Columbia Honour Winds in October, 2007 JULY 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE A 15-minute extract from the musical Street City submitted to OzMade Musicals’ On The Drawing Board project (Melbourne) JUNE 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE Entered The Invisible Wall (Dear Friends!) - a complete scene from Street City - in the StageNoise Songwriting Competition (Melbourne) MAY 2007 CAPALDO TEYCHENNE Completing The Invisible Wall (Dear Friends!) - a complete scene from Street Cityhttp://www.shoalhaven.nsw.greens.org.aushapeimage_3_link_0
Capaldo Teychenné Erinn Sherlock of Nashville has agreed to record the jazz-feel song I’m Longin’ for competitions in Sydney and the UK. Will soon start work on the Treacle & Stars Song Cycle.
Maree Started work on Hot Ice a one-act play for the Wollongong Workshop Theatre’s Masterclass edition of Workshorts (Sept-Oct) Entered a synopsis and sample scenes into a screenplay competition in London.
Steven Moreton Bay for orchestra Working on creative projects including a solo piano piece and a wind ensemble composition.
Capaldo Teychenné Entered the music drama On Christmas Eve in a short musicals competition in Sydney Entered In the Name of God in a sacred music choral composition competition in New York Entered If a Lamington Could Skate in a Australian songwriting competition (Children’s category) Entered Just a Lil’ Ole Devil! in a UK songwriting competition (Open category) file://localhost/Users/Steven/Sites-Capaldo%20Teychenne%CC%81%20/Capaldo_Teychenne_2009/On_Christmas_Eve.htmlfile://localhost/Users/Steven/Sites-Capaldo%20Teychenne%CC%81%20/Capaldo_Teychenne_2009/In_the_Name_of_God.htmlfile://localhost/Users/Steven/Sites-Capaldo%20Teychenne%CC%81%20/Capaldo_Teychenne_2009/If_a_Lamington_Could_Skate.htmlStreet_City-Songs.htmlshapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1shapeimage_7_link_2shapeimage_7_link_3
Maree Finished Hot Ice, a one-act play for the Wollongong Workshop Theatre’s Masterclass edition of Workshorts (Sept-Oct) Entered Virus, Work & Spy in a short play competition in Canberra The one-act play Staff Only was read by the Illawarra Performance Writers’ Group at the South Coast Writers’ Centre Applied to the University of Wollongong to complete a Master of Creative Arts - Research in screen and theatre writing Entered the poem Henry and Kimba in a UK poetry anthology competition Entered Just a Lil’ Ole Devil! in a UK songwriting competition (Lyrics Only category)Street_City-Songs.htmlshapeimage_8_link_0
Steven Started work on the Treacle & Stars Song Cycle Completed work on Second Journey - a work for grade 2-3 wind ensemble
August-September 2009
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This is the home page of writing team Maree Teychenné and Steven J. Capaldo We are writers who create works for music theatre, choral groups, instrumental ensembles, and solo artists. Our works are written for a variety of performance settings including community ensembles and theatre companies, the school classroom, and the professional stage.
The poem Bare Trees will be published in the anthology Seasonal Gifts & Nature’s Glories in September (Forward Press, UK)
Moreton Bay (for orchestra) was premiered by the Lane Cove Youth Orchestra (Mark J. Brown, conductor) at their July concert
Steven’s article Percy Grainger’s Hill Songs - A Watershed in Wind Music was published in the Canadian Winds Journal in May
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HOT ITEMS!
On Christmas Eve is in the FINALS!! of the 2009 International Short, Sweet + Song Competition! GO AND SEE IT! It runs at the Pilgrim Theatre, Sydney from October 7-17. Book tickets here!file://localhost/Users/Steven/Sites-Capaldo%20Teychenne%CC%81%20/Capaldo_Teychenne_2009/On_Christmas_Eve.htmlhttp://sa2.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest?eventId=100053790&presenter=AUNEWTOWN&venue=&event=shapeimage_21_link_0shapeimage_21_link_1
Just a Lil’ Ole Devil! has been named as a SEMI-FINALIST!!! in the 2009 UK Songwriting Contest in BOTH the Open Song category and Lyrics Only category!!Street_City-Songs.htmlshapeimage_22_link_0
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Maree’s one act play HOT ICE will be premiered as part of Workshorts 2009! It includes Steven’s new cabaret music to The Strings of Betty GO AND SEE IT! It runs at Wollongong Worskhop Theatre from September 25-October 10. Call 4225-9407file://localhost/Users/Steven/Sites-Capaldo%20Teychenne%CC%81%20/Capaldo_Teychenne_2009/The_Strings_of_Betty.htmlshapeimage_25_link_0
If a Lamington Could Skate is in the FINAL 25!!! of the 2009 Australian Songwriting Competition! Top 10 to be announced in Octoberfile://localhost/Users/Steven/Sites-Capaldo%20Teychenne%CC%81%20/Capaldo_Teychenne_2009/If_a_Lamington_Could_Skate.htmlshapeimage_26_link_0
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