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Luminous was one of the ‘Century Fanfares’ commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia from ten New Zealand composers in 1998. The composer writes: ‘When I was invited to write a fanfare for the new millennium I inevitably found myself considering the last one thousand years. For me, the single most striking feature of human history during the last millennium has been the increase in travel and the settling in foreign lands of smaller and smaller groups. In the distant past, an entire race of people would slowly traverse one continent. Today, an individual, in the space of a few days, is able to completely uproot from their homeland and settle in a country on the other side of the world. A friend of mine, Pan, moved to New Zealand from China. For her, the pressure to integrate two very different sets of beliefs proved ultimately overwhelming. This work is dedicated to her memory.’

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• Dadson: MAYA; facsimile 

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• Buchanan Dadson Fisher: works 

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• Philip Dadson: Maya 

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Several of the melodic ideas in Other Echoes are based on New Zealand birdcalls: the first violin is the now extinct huia, the cor anglais is the endangered kokako (also the bassoons and clarinets). Piccolo, trumpet and horns also play native birdcalls The composer believes these specific calls lend themselves particularly well to instrumental or vocal imitation, and has done a similar thing in several works over the years including the Chaos of Delight series.

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• New Zealand New Music in Scotland 

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• Eve de Castro-Robinson: Other Echoes, music for orchestra 

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• Music by Eve de Castro-Robinson 

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• New Zealand Music for Creative Dance 

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• Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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• Sound Barrier  Year: 2006 

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• Eve de Castro-Robinson: Releasing the Angel  Year: 2011 

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Lilburn was a student when he wrote Overture: Aotearoa. It was premiered in 1940, as part of the New Zealand Centennial Matinee at His Majesty’s Theatre in London. Although it did not receive its New Zealand premiere until 1959 it has since received numerous performances and several recordings. Described as a work of “unabashed optimism”, Lilburn noted that it had a, “freshness and exhilaration”.

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• National Youth Orchestra 1975 

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• Aotearoa - Orchestral and String Music by Douglas Lilburn 

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• Music by Lilburn and Farquhar  Year: 1968 

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• Music by Lilburn and Farquhar  Year: 1969 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands and other works  Year: 1986 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1986 

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• New Zealand Composers  Year: 1995 

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• Symphony of Sails  Year: 2002 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Works   Year: 2004 

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• Sound Barrier  Year: 2006 

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• Lilburn: Overture: Aotearoa  Year: 2008 

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In his Second String Quartet Op.10, Schoenberg stepped outside the four corners of the quartet and created a sublime part for soprano. In the last movement she sings ‘I feel air from other planets’. Just as Schoenberg opened a door for classical music with his Second String Quartet, Jamaican dub started the sampling and scratching scene which grooved all the way to 90’s Bristol. Clive Randy Chin’s Easy Come Dub is a stripped down remix of The Wailers’ It Won’t Come Easy. In Only You from 1997, the Bristol-based band Portishead create an ambient space in which even the Inspector Clouseau theme finds a new identity. Compressing time and space, Secret Arnold finds room for all three – Schoenberg, Randy and Portishead.

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• Palmer: Selected Works I 

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• Juliet Kiri Palmer: selected works 

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• NZ Women Composers Vol. 1 

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The Russian word “Zarya” came to sudden international prominence in late 1998 when the first module of the international space station was launched. Russian for “sunrise”, the word conjures up ideas of the dawning of a new era, and by association, a new millenium.

The fanfare is basically one long crescendo. Beginning softly, as if the pre-dawn twilight, the music progressively gathers energy by gaining in volume and brightness. The point of sunrise is marked by significant harmonic shift. The music can by heard as a positive affirmation of the progress of the past century and of humanity’s relentless quest for knowledge.

Zarya was commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia as one of their eleven ‘Century Fanfares’ commissioned in 1999 to mark the end of the century.

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