TALL POPPIES RECORDS New and classical music by Australian composers and performers

Dobbs Franks

Dobbs Franks is an American conductor whose Australian career takes in symphony, chamber-orchestra and opera-pit work, including live concert and broadcast recordings of contemporary scores.

Live recordings capture him with major Australian orchestras in music of the 1980s.

He conducts Images for orchestra and a clarinet concerto on David Joseph Selected Works, Vol. 1 (MD 3301), and the suite Valleys and Mountains on Bruce Cale: Orchestral Works (TP188).

He has also directed Australian opera and ballet orchestral forces for the soundtrack of the film Crush.

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Front cover art for Bruce Cale: Orchestral Works

Bruce Cale: Orchestral Works

Tall Poppies is delighted to present Australian orchestral works that might well have slipped from view forever but for the archives of their composer, Bruce Cale.

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