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Sinfonietta depicts the tranquil and turbulent moods of one of the most beautiful and enigmatic places on Earth – Antarctica.

The opening slow movement could easily be the wide-open vistas, the distant white horizon, the isolation sensed in the explorers’ huts or even just the biting cold. Or maybe all of the above rolled into one. The ensuing dance episode is rather lugubrious – without mechanical aid, humans move slowly on ‘The Ice’ and the wildlife, such as it is, suffers similar awkwardness. Never far away is the changeable weather, bringing horrendously strong winds one minute, bright sunshine the next. The finale captures the whirling bluster and activity of an Antarctic storm and the mechanical rhythms from my first chopper ride. One of course takes what one wants from listening to a piece of music and it is not meant to be a programmatic work as such but perhaps I really do mean to depict the clowning of penguins, or at least to capture the humorous element from it amidst such a bleak landscape. Certainly, the landscape and the emotions it opened up helped shape the overall work.

I am indebted to Antarctica New Zealand for the opportunity to travel to Antarctica and gain the inspiration essential for the creation of my work.

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Harry is a back-country character created by the New Zealand poet Denis Glover in a collection of poems entitled Sings Harry, first published by his Caxton Press in 1951. In 1953 Douglas Lilburn set six of these in what has become one of the most popular and firmly established song cycles in the New Zealand repertoire.

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• New Zealand Sounds - October Sound 

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• Buchanan: Songs of Birth and Daughters; facsimile 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2004  Year: 2004 

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Te Heuheu Herea, a high chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa in the Taupo district, died in 1820 and was mourned by his son in this song of lament (waiata tangi). The text was collected by Sir Apirana Ngata in his book ‘Nga Moteatea’ of 1959. It is written in a dialect differing in several aspects from present day Maori. There is no record of the original chant; however this setting utilises some of the devices and conventions from that tradition.

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• Marshall: Tangi  Year: 1999 

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Te Puoho, friend and ally of Te Rauparaha, invited the Rangitane chief Mahuri and his people to a feast at Kukutauaki in return for previous kindnesses. Kukutauaki stood in the middle of an area hostile to the Rangitane people. On his way to the feast Mahuri was warned of the danger of entering territory controlled by the powerful and dangerous Te Rauparaha whereupon he replied: “It is the boast of Te Puoho that he will not have his forehead smeared with blood.” After the feast at which a new kind of food, the pumpkin, was introduced, the guests were invited back to Maimea, at the mouth of the Waikanae River, and massacred – most likely at the prompting of Te Rauparaha. This work was composed in 1987, commissioned and first performed by the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Jennings. It has been reviewed as, “sheer instrumental drama launched on a sea of seething, trilling strings.”

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 2 - Chamber Music  Year: 1997 

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• Norman: Wenceslas; facsimile 

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• Philip Norman: Orchestral Compositions 

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