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• Jonathan Besser: Jean - The Ballet  Year: 1990 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 3 

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• New Zealand Composers On Screen 

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• Memory and Desire - soundtrack from the movie  Year: 1997 

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This work was commissioned and premiered by The Royal New Zealand Ballet at the Westpac Trust St James Theatre, Wellington on February 27, 1999.

Through most of 1998, the commissioned creative team including composer Philip Norman, choreographer Russell Kerr and designer Kristian Fredrikson worked on the adaptation of James M Barrie’s enchanting story. “We ate, slept and dreamt crocodiles, pirates and mermaids.”

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• Peter Pan 

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• Philip Norman: Peter Pan  Year: 1999 

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• Norman: Peter Pan  Year: 1999 

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• Davidson: Robert Schumann / Symphony no. 5; computer-set 

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• Davidson: Robert Schumann / Symphony no. 5; computer-set 

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• Davidson: Robert Schumann / Symphony no. 5; computer-set 

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• Matthew Davidson: Robert Schumann / Symphony no. 5 

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New Zealand’s landscape has long been a source of inspiration for artists and composers. I was fortunate enough to have enjoyed frequent trips to the mountains when young, and I still remember them fondly to this day. I have written quite a number of works on the theme of New Zealand’s natural environment. So I was very pleased to be asked by the Dunedin Sinfonia (now Southern Sinfonia) and Natural History New Zealand to compose ‘Southern Journeys’.

After initial discussions in 1999, I was given freedom to come up with my own ‘synopsis’ for the piece. The music was to be written first, and then recorded by the Dunedin Sinfonia so that images could be put to the music. This was a considerable luxury for the composer, as normally the film is made first and later the music is written to fit the images. Natural History was insistent that I should compose my music without the restriction of specific images, and for that I am very grateful.

Although Southern Journeys is programmatic, I have attempted to incorporate a symphonic logic into the music. Themes are developed and transformed, and there is an element of cyclic form with the return of the opening theme at the very end of the work. Ideally, the music should be able to stand alone without film, and still make sense.

The first movement is subtitled ‘Ancient South’ and portrays southern landscape, particularly remote areas such as mountains and sounds. The land is constantly being changed by water, snow and wind, the most dramatic example being the effects of avalanches. In the second movement, ‘Southern Adventures’, humans interact with Nature, at sea, in caves, on rock faces, in the air. Although these adventures are often difficult and treacherous, we feel exhilerated by this risky communion with Nature. The third movement, ‘Seasons in the South’, begins with the stillness of lakes and forests in Autumn, and moves on to explore southern bird and sea life. Winter announces its arrival with a storm, followed by the thawing of snow and ice and the first signs of Spring. The last movement, ‘Our Place’, explores our own environment and contrasts it with the natural environment we have witnessed in the previous movements. A note of caution is sounded: we cannot take the natural beauty of the South for granted. We have to respect and care for it, so as to maintain the balance between our needs and the needs of Nature. At the end of the movement a harmony exists between the beautiful aspects of a city like Dunedin and the natural environment.

Southern Journeys received financial assistance from the Millennium Fund and Natural History New Zealand.

• Anthony Ritchie: Southern Journeys  Year: 2000 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Southern Journeys  Year: 2002 

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• Kenneth Young - orchestral music  Year: 1998 

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• Evans: Symphony - Organ; facsimile 

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• NZ Music Readng Panel 1998 

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• Evans: Symphony - Organ 

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A full length symphony for large orchestra in three movements. It takes its title from the sequence of three sonnets The Islands by the New Zealand poet Charles Brasch. The music mirrors the unsettled air of the poetry and contrasts violence with delicacy and beauty as a metaphor for our times.

• Blake: Symphony - The Islands; computer-set 

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• Christopher Blake: The Islands  Year: 2002 

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The initial musical thoughts for Symphony III came from two related sources of inspiration – the paintings of Marc Chagall and Klezmer music. I had been playing accordion in a klezmer band in Wellington for a year or so before starting the work. I was intrigued by the genre and began writing klezmer influenced tunes for the band to play.

The simple klezmer tunes are woven into the piece in different ways. Some of them are treated as symphonic themes that are developed and transformed while others are quoted as melodies from popular music. There are passing references to dances, marches, and the use of solo violin and the novel appearance of accordion make reference to folk-like musical ideas inspired by klezmer.

Symphony No. 3 is in one movement divided into five sections generally alternating between slow and fast music. Sometimes the music is very transparent and simple at other times dense web-like textures emerge.

Symphony III can be heard as a unfolding journey, following paths whose destination is uncertain or unknown. It might almost be thought of as a saga, a story which is sometimes mysterious, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic but, I hope, always stimulating to the listener’s imagination.

Ross Harris

• Harris: Symphony III; computer-set 

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• NZ Premieres July 2008 to June 2009 Vol. 2 

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• Ross Harris: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3  Year: 2012 

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• Lilburn: Symphony No. 1; facsimile 

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• Lilburn: Symphony No. 1 

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• Douglas Lilburn: The Three Symphonies  Year: 1968 

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• Lilburn: Symphony No. 1 and other works  Year: 1986 

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• Lilburn: Three Symphonies  Year: 1993 

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• Lilburn: The Three Symphonies  Year: 2001 

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