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John Rimmer  

Beyond the saying

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 1990
electronic music

Eric Biddington  

Flute Concerto No. 2

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1990
for flute and chamber orchestra

Jonathan Besser  

Jean

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1990
ballet in three acts for full orchestra, based on the life of Jean Batten

Denis Smalley  

Piano Nets

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1990
for piano and tape

Denis Betro  

Symphony No 1

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1990, r. 2011
a symphony in four movements.

  • Instrumentation
    picc2222contra 4 331 Tp Perc(2) Str
  • Programme Note

    At age 15, during school holidays, I hitch-hiked the length of New Zealand from Dunedin to Auckland with various side trips in between. The sheer beauty and panorama of rolling hills, lofty mountains and shimmering sea entered my soul and stayed there. Sleeping rough in the great openness somehow connected me to the natural wonders that were all around me and this connection became ingrained and part of my being.
    The composing of my first symphony allowed me to relive that life changing experience and the work recalls impressions and emotions that I felt at the time, but not specific places.
    -Denis Betro

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Annea Lockwood  

Thousand Year Dreaming

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1990
for chamber ensemble and slides

  • Instrumentation
    oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 4 didjeridus, 2 tenor trombones, 2 conch shells, percussion
  • Programme Note

    This work is scored for 10 piece ensemble of winds, brass, percussion and slides from the Lascaux Caves.

    “It opened with an arresting effect I’d never heard before: Art Baron and Scott Robinson blowing through conch shells, played a series of converging glissandi in opposition directions, creating wild beat patterns…Even had you closed your eyes, it was like the piece suddenly emerged from its lair and took over the atmosphere”. Gann, Village Voice, New York

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Juliet Palmer  

Three Poems from the Bulin File

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1990
for clarinet, tape, video and slides

  • Instrumentation
    electroacoustic tape, proj video, mobile video, slides, with music theatre elements
  • Programme Note

    Gu Cheng, the exiled Chinese poet whose poetry and person form the basis of 3 Poems, lived on a small island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. The video images are of Gu Cheng and his poet wife Xie Ye on Waiheke Island, animations of Gu Cheng’s disturbingly whimsical drawings and the poem’s Chinese text. The tape uses diverse sounds and music – cooking oil, a Russian folksong sung in Chinese by the couple and – potatoes!

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