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Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers – My African Legacy.

• Jonathan Besser: Lands of our Fathers - my African Legacy  Year: 2004 

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‘Almost an Island’, a phrase which refers to the Otago peninsula, is the title I’ve given to a short set of haiku written by peninsula poets, which I set for voice and piano as a wedding present for my then neighbours, Breffni and Dave.

Rain blows on windows plastered with new leaves it’s spring again (Eleanor Koch)
Golden pendant blossoms bright against blue spring sky beckon tuis (Eleanor Koch)
Gleaming white across Arapatiki three spoonbills fly towards us (Gillian Whitehead)
Aramoana pathway to the wide ocean memories remain (Kay Sinclair)
Fiery rata circled by glitter almost an island (Kay Sinclair)
Track winds past pine trees tangled vines scratching bare skin sharp smell of gorse flowers (Fran Bolgar)
Low pressure warning on the macrocarpa thirty herons swaying (Gillian Whitehead)
Kereru wheeling soaring and plummeting bounce now on tree-top (Joyce Whitehead)

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• Whitehead: Almost an Island; computer-set 

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• Mozart Fellows Concert 2007 - Vol. 1 

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• McCallum: Aspiration's Meaning; computer set 

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• McCallum: Aspiration's Meaning  Year: 2004 

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• Selection 05  Year: 2005 

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• sync / shed  Year: 2001 

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• sync / shed  Year: 2001 

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Bele Doette (‘Lovely Doette’) is based on an anonymous 12th century Chanson de Toile. The vocal line follows the original song-line closely for two of the eight stanzas and refrains.

Doette is at a window, reading, when she receives the news that her friend Doon has been killed in a jousting contest. The refrain reads “See now what grief I have”, and at the end she vows to become a nun in the church of St Paul. The original transcription of the song is published in the Anthology of Medieval Music, edited by Richard Hoppin (1978). Pitches are notated in the transcription but no rhythm. Therefore, rhythm is freely interpreted while the original melismas and word setting are maintained. The refrain is expanded beyond the original. The oboe has a dual role. First, it freely develops motifs based on the song-lines by a process using magic squares. These motifs are used in the introduction and interludes between stanzas and refrains. Second, the oboe has a dialogue with the soprano that involves imitation and decoration, particularly in the refrains.

Bele Doette was commissioned by Pepe Becker, and written for her and oboist, Robert Orr. It has been composed as part of Ritchie’s research at the University of Otago.

• Ritchie, A.: Bele Doette; computer set 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Bele Doette; audio 

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• Becker; From the far point of the rising of the sun (Part I)  Year: 2005 

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Camlot, a collaboration between Glenn Colquhoun and Gillian Whitehead, is a response to a visit by ten artists on the Breaksea Girl, skippered by Lance Shaw and Ruth Dalley, to Dusky and Doubtful Sounds in Fiordland, and particularly to a trip up Camelot, the river that flows into Gaer Arm in Doubtful Sound. Glenn’s poems, cryptic and spare, relate to old Chinese poetic forms, and the cycle traces the poet’s travelling up the river, and, changed by what he learns, his return to the open water. The titles of the poems draw on imagery very apparent
on this journey.

One thing that was made very apparent on that journey was the extent of the degradation of the environment, because of the depredations of deer, goats, rats, possums and other pests, which have made the forest a silent place, where biodiversity is acutely threatened.

The first performance of Camelot took place in St Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin on 8th October, 2008, during the Otago Festival of the Arts. The performers were Janet Roddick (voice), Emma Sayers (piano) and Ben Hoadley (bassoon).

Both the performances and the journey to the sounds were devised as a fund-raiser by the Caselberg Trust, which is raising money to purchase the Broad Bay house of Anna and John Caselberg, for use by resident artists.

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• Gillian Whitehead: Camelot 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Camelot 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Arapātiki CD  Year: 2012 

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Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers – My African Legacy.

• Jonathan Besser: Lands of our Fathers - my African Legacy  Year: 2004 

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• Sunrise: Music from New Zealand for Young Pianists  Year: 2008 

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• Sunrise - Music from New Zealand for Young Pianists  Year: 2008 

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Original music for the documentary Lands of Our Fathers – My African Legacy.

• Jonathan Besser: Lands of our Fathers - my African Legacy  Year: 2004 

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