Described as "Australia's poet of the piano" Isador Goodman died 36 years ago. It wasn't until late in life that he gained the widespread, in Australia, popularity that he did.In 1944 following and joining the bandwagon of" the extraordinary popularity in the 1940s of short concertos such as that of Richard Addinsell ("Warsaw Concerto", 1941) Goodman was inspired to compose his "New Guinea Fantasy for piano and orchestra" (1944). In this work we find the lyricism and the brilliance, the conciseness and the know-how of this particular style exercise, which is the Hollywood "short concerto". " YouTube
Australia owed much to the bravery of its "Chocos" the young conscripts sent to New Guinea to fight the Japanese in WWII. The Chocolate Soldiers "Chocos" as they were cruelly mocked by the regular troops "you'll melt in battle Choco" inflicted the first defeat on seasoned Japanese troops and held out until relieved by regulars. [ww2today.com]
The New Guinea people rendered huge assistance to the Australians however it was 64 years before the arrogant Australian governments officially recognised the contribution of the Papua New Guineans [en.m.wikipedia.org]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.A like for the history and sociological lessons provided by your intro and the two links provided. Earlier today I puzzled over the the lack of interest that so many children have toward history, which was admittedly also the case for me. You should have heard the groans of displeasure when I told a group of 8-10 year olds I was working with that the the next activity was going to be history trivia. There was one in the group who was excited about the prospect, and some others who showed signs of enjoyment once things got underway. I tried to play to the tendency of us all to like showing our knowledge. I wonder how much of the disinterest could be countered by a different teaching approach, and how much is due to the mind simply not yet having acquired the necessary life experience to make it relevant? I know that even for myself, I have a lot of catching up to do.
Rossy92
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July 24, 2018
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I'm not quite sure as to what you are trying to say here. Are you saying that I'm wasting my time with my write up / intro or that it's no good?
@FrayedBear I'm not sure what was so unclear, though I did leave out the word "wonder" as well as the question mark in the second to last sentence. I am saying that I found your write-up on the "Chocos" highly interesting and informative, as well as the two article links. Thank you. I find history much more interesting in my maturity than I did in my youth, and feel certain that I am not the only one for whom that is the case. That's why I say I have a lot of catching up to do, knowledge-wise. I was pondering whether the disinterest in history so prevalent in the young could be remedied? The music was "meh".
@Rossy92 Quite agree with your last sentence on the music. First time that I had heard it. Interesting time when it was written. A time when emotions were running high in Australia expecting invasion by the Japanese.
Your first sentence had no closure to say it was appreciated by you.
@FrayedBear I don't mean to belabor the point, but I think we could both be on the verge of a breakthrough on insight into communication. I simply omitted the "I gave" from the first sentence. In full it would have read: "I gave a like (to the post) for the history and sociological lessons provided by your intro and the two links provided." I was stating my reasons for giving a "like" to the the post, while also implying that the musical piece was not one of the reasons.
@Rossy92 ? now it is perfectly clear to my simple mind, if I actually learnt english grammar at school and the necessary parts of a sentence I could have properly explained myself. As I didn't properly learn to be able to properly explain myself there is a problem I create for you. ?Namaste
@FrayedBear I wish I could do all those neato (do Australians, or have they ever, commonly used the word "neato" ?) emoji symbols on my laptop. I believe I've seen you mention that you typically use a mobile device, and I absolutely abhor texting on a phone. I find it difficult to navigate and make too many errors, often unintentionally sending messages before I'm finished, or equally bad, accidentally deleting all I've spent the last five minutes typing.
@Rossy92 Interesting emoji point. Each android emoji must be defined in in numeric terms for the program. We used to be able to create symbols on computers from using I think, this is a long time ago, ctrl+3 numbers to create a symbol. There were also whole pages of different tables that gave different fonts. I would have thought that by now Microsoft would have given you emoji. I have just enquired and been informed that you need Windows 10. The following article describes it [pcworld.com]
I thought however that certain characters are reproduced from ordinary keys eg. Smiley 
Or the following tabulation lists all the wonderful emoji and dingbats etc. If it reproduces on your computer screen you merely have to copy one onto your clipboard and then paste it where you want - [unicode.org]
@FrayedBear Thanks for all the info. I've tried copy/paste but it doesn't seem to work with this site. I sent a thank you through messenger but the page was so full I couldn't see the send button so not sure if it got to you.
@Rossy92 it arrived thanks and has been replied to.
Isadora Duncan was a dancer. Funny they should have similar names.
Her scarf killed her as it got wrapped around the wheel of the convertible she was riding in.
Angela Isadora Duncan was an American dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age ... Wikipedia
Died: September 14, 1927, Nice, France
Children: Maria-Theresa Duncan, Anna Duncan, Irma Duncan, Margot Duncan, Deirdre Duncan, MORE
Pook
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July 24, 2018
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Pook:
@FrayedBear 2 famous people with same name? Funny as in odd. Can you provide another name shared by 2?
Isador Goodman
Pianist, Person, Musician, Composer, Film music contributor, Musical Artist, TV Personality, Deceased Person
Isador Goodman AM was a South African-Australian Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. He became a household name in Australia in the 1930s-1970s, taught at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music for 50 years, introduced many Australians to... (via Duckduckgo).• @Pook I'm glad that you tracked him. I was doubting my CD cover and YouTube. Now I'm just doubting my sanity! My conversion or that of my editor of Goodman to Duncan is fascinating. That I have continued to have total dissonance on the issue even more fascinating. However your patient perseverence has finally got through - thank you.
• Google probably came up with Goodman but I ignored it being fixated on Duncan - I could not not understand why you raised the name, YouTube's image above clearly showing Goodman which I must have put into the tube search engine to locate! It may also have been that I was looking for an Australian pianist but by the name of Duncan thanks to what was already on the post.
• It fascinates me how a person can eschew their country of birth and live most of their life elsewhere but still be slotted back into the box of origin. Such is the crudity of nationalism.
• Name Angela Isadora Duncan. Married Sergei Essenin, 1922 to Feb 1924 (divorced). Mother of - 24th Sept, 1906: Dierdre, to Gordon Craig (son of Ellen Terry)*; 1st May, 1910: Patrick, to Paris Singer (son of sewing machine magnate Isaac Singer). Reportedly married to Gordon Craig. Both children also killed due to an out of control car rolling into the Seine and drowning them.
[stagebeauty.net]
• I am sure that there are many others in the past who have used the same names. Nowadays the internet seems to have resulted in far greater protection of performing names and so it probably happens less frequently. However I did quickly find the following list of 20 people with commonality of name:
[mentalfloss.com]