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Lyell Cresswell  

Ixion

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1989
for orchestra

Noel Sanders  

Marram

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1980, r. 1986
for orchestra

John Rimmer  

Meeting Place

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1984
for orchestra, this work, originally written for the Auckland Youth Orchestra and has had many performances throughout New Zealand.

Jack Body  

Melodies for Orchestra

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1983

  • Instrumentation
    3(1pc,1alt.fl)222; 4331; 2perc,pf,hp; strs.
  • Programme Note

    This work reflects my developing interest in the incredible diversity of melodic forms and styles as found outside the traditions of Western art music. The basis of the piece is a series of three transcriptions which I notated from recordings. The first is a Greek fiddle tune Horos Serraborrowed from a recording of Greek folk music; the second is a fragment for solo bamboo flute (saluang) which introduces a kind of sung poetry from West Sumatra; the third Hindi film theme as played by a street band in Pune, India, an ensemble comprising four clarinets, two trumpets and two drums. (The latter two recordings I made my self).

    These transcriptions for orchestra attempt to capture something of the style of playing and timbre of the original performances. Around these more or less literal reproductions I have added an orchestral fabric whose purpose is to create coherence and continuity within the work. I am not able to justify bringing together three different musics which are so unrelated culturally speaking – my intention is simply to try to convey something of the joy and excitement I experienced when I encountered each one for the first time.

    Jack Body, 1983

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Ross Harris  

The Hills of Time

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1980
for orchestra

John Charles  

Utu

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1987
suite for orchestra adapted from incidental music for the film Utu (1982)

Gary Daverne  

Youth of Auckland

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1986
concert overture for orchestra

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