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Iris is the music for a film biography of New Zealand poet Robin Hyde, whose name was actually Iris Wilkinson. The film awas produced by Endeavour Films TV film and directed by Tony Isaac.

• John Charles: The Quiet Earth  Year: 1993 

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The Love Sonnets of Michelangelo I wrote for Michael Parmenter, with whom I worked on a programme entitled Between Two Fires (also included was a dance-theatre work I created collaboratively with Michael, using his voice as well as his body, with imagery extracted from the diaries of Franz Kafka.) At the time I was focused on different styles of melody, having just completed my Five Melodies for Piano. Inspired by the lovely voices of some of the then current students in our School of Music, I felt that women’s voices gave the expressive quality I wanted, as well as providing a useful ‘cover’ for the overtly homo-erotic tenor of the texts. The original production used film, shot by my good friend Bayley Watson, showed the dancer’s prostrate figure, swathed in bandages. As the performance unfolded the cloth was gradually cut and pealed back by hands belonging to an old man whose face we never saw, the intended metaphor being of the sculptor cutting away marble to reveal the male form that he sensed already existed within the stone.

The work has since had other performances that have discarded the theatrical elements, most successfully when each setting is prefaced by a reading of the poem in translation.

These settings of some of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s most personal sonnets articulate the anguish of love and desire, as well as the despair of old age. The musical style combines the theatricality of Italian bel canto with the direct expressivity of folksong.

• Body: Love Sonnets of Michelangelo; facsimile 

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• Jack Body and Michael Parmenter: Love Sonnets 

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• Baroque Voices: How Great is the Pleasure   Year: 2001 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 6 - Composer Portrait: Jack Body  Year: 2003 

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• Buchanan: Mary Magdelene and the Birds; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Mary Magdalene and the Birds; computer-set  Year: 1993 

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• Buchanan: Mary Magdalene and the Birds 

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• Bellingham, Dennis, Rawson: NZ vocal music  Year: 2006 

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Piece of 4 was composed in Europe in September/October 1980 for the Bourges Experimental Music Festival in June, 1982. It combines my thoughts on music from found objects and on chance music, while also exploring the theme of “4”.

The first performance of Piece of 4 was on 4 June, 1982 in the Robert McDougal Art Gallery in Christchurch.

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• Powell: Piece of 4; facsimile  

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• Kit Powell - 70th Birthday Celebration - Three Chance Pieces plus One 

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• Edwin Carr: Sinfonietta and Promenade 

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• Edwin Carr: Poems, Sinfonietta and Promenade 

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• Edwin Carr: Orchestral Works and Symphony No. 4  Year: 1995 

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Undoubtedly, this is one of Whitehead’s more unusual collaborations. The work, intended for five dancers and organ, with soprano added at the composer’s request, was to have been performed in five cathedrals around Britain during the summer of 1982. Due to the cancellation of the dance component however, the work received performance in only one of the cathedrals – Carlisle – but was later presented with a solo dancer, Bronwyn Judge, at the 1987 Sonic Circus in Wellington. The singer on that occasion was Glenys Taylor and the organist Douglas Mews. The composer initially delayed beginning work on the piece, since her sister was expecting a baby, and a Requiem did not seem an appropriate preoccupation. The successful birth was however followed by two close-family deaths and it was these which provided the composer with the emotional impetus to proceed with the composition. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

• Whitehead: Requiem; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Requiem; computer-set  Year: 2001 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 3 - Composer Portrait: Gillian Whitehead  Year: 2000 

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• John Charles: The Quiet Earth (movie trailer); video 

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Originally released in 1984 the Original Soundtrack to The Silent One features music written and arranged by acclaimed New Zealand composer Jenny McLeod. The album, the 1984 Winner of New Zealand Soundtrack Of The Year, is a landmark in New Zealand’s musical heritage with an exciting blend of Polynesian, classical and popular music music styles.

From a script prepared by Ian Mune from Joy Cowley’s prize-winning novel, The Silent One tells the story of Jonasi, a uniquely gifted young man sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in a village. Separated by his special powers and his silence, Jonasi finds solace in the sea and the friendship of a huge sea turtle.

But both the young man and the turtle are seen as evil spirits by superstitious villagers. A series of natural disasters and a struggle for leadership sweep Jonasi towards his strange destiny and the revelation of his mystical powers.

The Silent One, shot on the coral atoll of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, is a story of the same conflicts found in every culture in history. It is about loyalty, love and fear, enlightenment and prejudice, corruption and lust for power, innocence and ambition, myth and mystique.

The Silent One won first prize at the 1984 International Children’s Film Festival at Frankfurt and was runner-up at the prestigious 14th Giffoni Film Festival.

Notes taken from album The Silent One (Jayrem Records)

• The Silent One  Year: 1984 

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• Jenny McLeod - The Silent One  Year: 2009 

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From the music for this feature film was drawn, Utu – Suite for Orchestra (1987).

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• John Charles: Soundtrack from Utu  Year: 1993 

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