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• Direen: Alien; computer-set 

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• William (Bill) Direen: Alien 

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America was first inspired by Kafka’s novella America (The Man Who Disappeared), and secondly inspired by migration to New Zealand and the new world.

• Direen: America; computer-set 

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• Direen: America; computer-set 

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• William (Bill) Direen: America 

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• Rimmer: Composition 9; facsimile 

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• Rimmer: Electronic Sounds for Compositions 6-10 

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• John Rimmer: Soundweb  Year: 1979 

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This work could also be performed as Duo for Soprano and Cello.

• Duet for Soprano and Cello; facsimile 

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• Besser: Duet for Soprano and Cello; facsimile 

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• Jonathan Besser: Duet for Soprano and Cello 

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• Jonathan Besser: Duet for Soprano and Cello 

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These songs were in 1979 for the tenor, John Miley. That year he gave their first performance and later recorded them for Radio New Zealand Concert. The Fairburn poems I have selected reflect different aspects of love; infatuation, vulnerability, frustration, whimsy and regret.

David Griffiths

• Griffiths, D.: Five Love Songs; facsimile 

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• Charms & Knots - songs by David Griffiths  Year: 2011 

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In 1977 John Ritchie set four poems from the English translation of Doctor Zhivago by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, and the songs were first performed in Durham in 1978. The extensive use of both ends of the vocal range fulfils the breadth demanded by the poem’s Russian originas, yet without recourse to cluttered or overly thick textures.

• Ritchie, J.: Four Zhivago Songs; computer set 

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• New Zealand Sounds - October Sound 

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• Dixon: Nocturnes; computer-set 

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• A Little Lovely Dream - music by Hugh Dixon  Year: 2007 

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• Cresswell: Prayer for the cure of a sprained back; facsimile 

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• Edward Harper and Lyell Cresswell  Year: 1997 

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Pukeko is a setting of a poem by the prominent New Zealand writer Ian Wedde and was composed in 1972 while John Rimmer was the Mozart Fellow and Ian Wedde was the Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin. The piece follows the mood of the poem with demonstrative gestures in the opening – ‘the mind can fly like a cool blue Braque bird straight to the heart of a storm’ through to the delicate textures of ‘but consider the pukeko going doubtfully on spindly legs among swamp grasses’.

At the end an improvisation features some of the players whispering the last line ‘poor ludicrous fowl’ while the soprano hums previous motives ad libitum and the horn and cello provide high wailing sounds.

Pukeko was first performed at Milton High School on 7 August 1972 during a tour of Otago schools by the Marama Players of the Department of Music, University of Otago.

• Rimmer: Pukeko; computer set 

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• Rimmer: Pukeko; computer set 

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• Ritual Auras - Karlheinz Company  Year: 2011 

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This song cycle was written in 1979 for Richard Phillips who gave its first performance. ‘Shoriken is the Japanese name for one of the eight Taoist immortals. A kakemono by Motonubu in the British Museum shows him crossing the sea balanced on the edge of his sword’ (Brasch’s own note). Throughout the poem Brasch blurs the spiritual and physical worlds to the extent that there is barely a distinction between the two. Despite a near nihilistic futility at times, there is a sense of consummation at the end where the final stanza depicts Shoriken becoming one with the sea, and the word-edge itself a wave-crest of the sea.

• Charms & Knots - songs by David Griffiths  Year: 2011 

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