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Beverly SandsToday Beverly Sands is a remarkable singer. Her performances project elegance, style and sophistication. She is one of those singers who can engage an audience almost immediately, through her sheer presence and the outstanding qualities of her voice. Beverly's repertoire ranges from the popular standards of Gershwin and Cole Porter, the Latin rhythms of Antonio Carlos Jobim and the familiar melodies of Lennon and McCartney, to the more contemporary material associated with performers such as Vince Jones and Renee Geyer. In every case she can take the song and make it her own, delivering it with warmth, maturity and authenticity, to match exactly the mood of these complex times in which we live.
Larry Golder
Larry Golder was the doyen of guitar in Adelaide. He was equally at home with jazz, rock and classical music.
Larry was born and raised on Kangaroo Island and was proud of his ancestory. His great great grandmother was a Tasmanian aboriginal who married an English sea captain. They were among the first settlers on Kangaroo Island.
Music has passed on from generation to generation in Larry's family. His professional career began playing banjo in his mother Mavis's dance band. They played at weddings, parties and social events the length and breadth of the island.
Before his unfortunate death, a week in the life of Larry Golder would include an engagement with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, performances in the latest Lloyd Webber musical, recording session work for children's television, deputising as bass player in a funk band and accompanying singer Beverly Sands in restaurant and club engagements.
An automatic choice for visiting interstate and international acts, he had worked with artists as diverse as John Farnham, Don Burrows, Kiri Te Kanawa, Judith Durham, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rolf Harris and Demis Roussos.
Besides his performance work, Larry was a highly respected musical director and arranger, and taught master classes in guitar at the Adelaide University.
Larry was an impeccable accompanist, bringing a unique style, warmth and sensitivity to each performance. His musical partnership with Bevery Sands spans some eighteen years and he complements her performances perfectly.
Written by Bob Cother
Larry's Career HighlightsLarry Golder was a consumate professional musician, arranger and musical director. He was much in demand as a guitarist for visiting international artists including; Janis Ian, Melissa Manchester, Keith Michell, Gene Pitney, Roy Orbison, Johnny Ray, Neil Sedaka, Dick Emery, Warren Mitchell, Rolf Harris, The Platters, O.C.Smith, The Drifters, Earth Kitt, Shirley Bassey, Dame Vera Lynn, Luciano Taioli, Demiss Roussoss, Matt Monroe, Val Doonican, Danny La Rue, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and Jacki Trent and Tony Hatch.
Local Australian acts that Larry accompanied during his career include; Normie Rowe, Doug Parkinson, Ricky May, Colleen Hewitt, Bev Harrell, Judith Durham, Frankie Davidson, Gary McDonald, Dinah Lee, Freddie Paris, Doug Ashdown, John Farnham, Ray Burgess, Little Patty, Kamahl, Barry Crocker, James Blundell, Debbie Byrne, Julie Anthony, Marcia Hines, Tony Barber, Alyce Platt, and John Schuman
Musicals were a great love of Larry's. He played in the following Australian productions; Annie (1980), Evita (1980), Best Little Whore House in Texas (1981), Chicago (1981), Barnum (1982), Oklahoma (1982), The Sound of Music (1983), They're Playing Our Song (1982), Song and Dance (1984), Oliver! (1984), Sugar Babies (1987), Nine (1988), Starlight Express (1989), Cats (1989), Chicago (1999), Cats (1995), Big River (1990), Anything Goes (1990), The King and I (1991), Les Miserables (1992), Grease (1993), 42nd Street (1994), Me and My Girl (1994), A Chorus Line (1995), West Side Story (1995), Hello Dolly (1996), Hot Shoe Shuffle (1997), HMS Pinafore (1998), and The Boy from Oz (2000)
Larry frequently played with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, on guitar, banjo or even ukele. Works he played with the orchestra include; Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), African Sanctus (David Fanshew), Ebony Concerto (Stravinsky), Water Footsteps Time (B. Conyingham), Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Carl Davis), Symphonic Bohemian Rhapsody (Arr. J. Shortis), Blue Monday (Gershwin), Stava (Bernstein), Mass (Bernstein), and Threepenny Opera Suite (Wiel).
Larry played with other leading South Australian orchestras and theatre companies including the State Theatre Company (The Rose Tattoo (Tennessee Williams) and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare)), the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra (The Seven Deadly Sins (Wiel) and Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)) the State Opera Company ( Otello (Verdi) and Boojum (Wesley-Smith)).
Larry was also much in demand as a session musician. His list of credits includes recordings with; Peter Combe, Arthur Greenslade, The Adelaide Connection, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Simon Gallagher, Tommy Tycho, 5AD Big Band, Our Thing Big Band, ABC Ticklepot, Evan Jones, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The Bookplace Album, and Andrew Firth.
Larry also can be heard on the Australian Cast Album Recordings for Oklahoma, Barnum, Evita, and The Sound of Music.
Larry worked at various times as Musical Director for numerous Australian music stars and musical events including; Normie Rowe, Frankie Davidson, John Farnham, Colleen Hewitt, Dinah Lee, Channel 10 Darwin - Inaugral Telethon 1983, and Lisa Cheshire and Friends - 1985 Australian Grand Prix Concert.
Larry held continuous membership since 1978 of M.A.G.A. (Music Arrangers Guild of Australia). He arranged, copied and transcribed for Adelaide television channels Seven, Nine, and Ten, the 5AD Big Band, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and various club acts, and jazz and popular ensembles.
Larry regularly taught master classes in guitar, for the University of Adelaide.
Larry's musical talents were prodigious and will be sorely missed in Adelaide and throughout Australia.
Written by Bob Cother
The making of Sands And Golder
For as long as I have known my mother and father, they have shared their passion for music together. I'm sure I have witnessed something very special and rare. Many nights I can remember where Beverly and Larry would sit at our humble kitchen table, charts would be flung one after the other amonst musical ideas and conversations well into the early hours of the morning. The sound of Larry hurling his tasteful chords and Beverly bouncing off them with sheer delight and deep sultery tones. It is as much a part of my childhood as the smell of jasmine wafting through the air on a summers day.
Many a gig I have sat and listened proudly. A musical partnership stretching for longer than I have even been alive is obvious when you hear how masterfully they intertwine and instinctively know where the other is heading musically. Never a note wasted or thrown away.
My only sadness is that this was the only cd ever put together of their work. May it carry through the air and haunt you as it has haunted me.
Joey Elkins
