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And, of course, adapting to the circumstances is all part and parcel of improvisation.” “One of the things that constantly amazes me,” she said, “is how adaptable human beings are – how adaptable life is. This sense of letting things fall into place naturally, of adapting to circumstances, rather than making things happen, is a sentiment that Judy has often stressed: she seems to have floated through life on a cloud of placid acceptance. “One’s whole life is an improvisation really, when you think about it, and I’d never quite thought about it till this very moment!” In an interview recently with Janice Slater, she was struck by a sudden insight that could well be the key to her personal philosophy: “In a sense, aren’t we all improvisers?” she declared. It is not entirely surprising that Judy Bailey is an improvising musician and, in fact, highly values the component of improvisation that is part of her make-up as a composer. During that time, Judy Bailey has been a central figure).

If so, she will undoubtedly throw light on a very under-researched period in the history of Australian jazz – the modern era in Sydney, which has been the major engine-room for Australian jazz as a whole over the last 25 years.

(Perhaps she will write that book herself and achieve a credit as an author. Obviously, these amount to a substantial catalogue of achievements and when, in the future, students of the arts and culture in Australia are, hopefully, writing the biographies that are much needed of our major musical artists, the book on Judy Bailey will have to be a large one.

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.A quick glance through Judy Bailey’s career shows that she has had an extraordinarily full one in various areas of music: classical musician jazz pianist, composer and arranger concert performer television and recording session musician composer of advertising jingles musical director for club entertainers teacher at the NSW Conservatorium of Music jazz educator in the schools: cultural ambassador for Australia on overseas tours composer of children’s music for ABC Radio teacher of “music and movement” in schools member of the Music Board of the Australia Council lecturer and performer in the Sydney Opera House’s Bennelong Program and, not least, winner of the inaugural APRA Music Award for Jazz Composer. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that, that nation might live. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 19 November 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USAįour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.