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David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

Felicity Williams  

E Kotuku

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1989
For voice and piano

Kim Dyett  

Flute Music

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1983
for koauau

Dorothy Buchanan  

Hine e Hine

 Year: 1981
arranged for SSA choir and piano

Diane Cooper  

Hine e Hine

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1982
for solo soprano and SATB choir

Helen Fisher  

Ko Wharepapa Te Maunga

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1989
for brass octet

Philip Dadson   Wayne Laird  

Pacific 3,2,1, Zero

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1982
for voices percussion and invented instruments

  • Instrumentation
    in part 1: tuned PVC pipes, metal chimes, roto-toms, voices, trom-tubes, spun drones, rattle-jackets and kerosene cans

    in part 2: voices, tuned wood, metal and PVC pipe lengths, 3 tenor slide trombones and 3 saxophones, soprano, alto, tenor and surf sticks
  • Programme Note

    Pacific 3-2-1-Zero (parts 1 and 2) is a work of protest against nuclear testing and waste dumping in Oceania. The structure is based on an image of isolated islands of acitivity connected by common waters whose currents now innocently carry nuclear contamination.

    The work takes place in the round, with the instruments in Part 1 arranged centrally to indicate the symbol for nuclear disarmament.

    The syllables heard in the first vocal section are taken from the names of individual islands within Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. These are mirrored and inverted in the same way as the rhythms in the music are. In a later vocal section the names of contaminated islands testing sites: Mururoa (France), Fangata’ufa (France), Christmas Island (UK/USA), Johnston Island (USA), Enewetak (USA), Bikini (USA) are sung, then shouted and drummed on tins to sound both lament and warning.

    Part 2, developed in 1983, expresses hope and is dedicated to the emerging force of solidarity among the people of the Pacific.

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Helen Fisher  

Pounamu

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1997
for SSAATB choir, alto soloist and koauau

  • Programme Note

    Inspired by sparkling waters of Tasman Bay Nelson, this choral work (SSAATB) was originally composed with flute accompaniment, which has been substituted in performances by the Shakuhachi (traditional Japanese flute) and also the Koauau (traditional Maori flute). There are recordings of Pounamu with each of these flutes. The piece’s choral texture uses Maori vowel sounds and a text which is a whakatauki (proverb) from the Waikato region.

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Helen Fisher  

Pounamu

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1997
for solo flute, SSAATB choir

William Dart  

Songs to the Judges

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1980
a song-play