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Heritage award for Sound Chapel
Rural Roads meeting
Cobar Shire Councillors, council staff and landholders in the south of the shire attended the Rural Roads meeting at Berangabah Station last Wednesday. A range of topics were discussed including: The Wool Track, upcoming works on local and regional roads, box culverts on SR12 Yathong Road, gravel pits within the area, stock races, flood damage works, the Grain Road seal extension, and Council’s grid policy. Cr Lillian Simpson, who was an observer at the meeting, said it was a very positive meeting with council receiving praise from one landholder on some recently completed road works. The quarterly meetings are an opportunity for local landholders to attend and raise any concerns they may have. ▪ Photo contributed
Continued from Page 1. Heritage NSW’s Executive Director, Sam Kidman said so much skill and time goes into heritage conservation. “These Awards offer due recognition to the architects, planners, designers, councils and curators, to name a few, who make this work possible,” Mr Kidman said. “These projects will be enjoyed by many communities across New South Wales.” The creator of Cobar’s Sound Chapel, composer and sound artist, Georges Lentz, said winning the award had been “very exciting”. “It’s confirmation of the big effort, the huge amount of commitment and work but, also the fun, that went into the project,” Mr Lentz told The Cobar Weekly. “And the fact that it is being recognised. “It wasn’t just something that we did and then that’s forgotten, but it has actually been recognised as having some sort of meaning to other people. It’s an affirmation,” he said. Mr Lentz said he was happy to hear reports that the Sound Chapel had been receiving lots of visits from people from all around the world. He said he’s very keen to be returning to Cobar and the Sound Chapel site in October for a concert with the fellows of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the string quartet. Cobar’s Sound Chapel is also in the running for two more awards having been nominated for the Australian Art Music Awards in both the ‘Sound Art’ and ‘Excellence in Regional Areas’ categories. Winners will be announced in August.
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