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Starting in a field close to Melbourne’s Western Ring Road, a llama lives a placid and slightly bored existence. Absent-mindedly picking at a chain-link fence, a gap appears: the animal can fit itself through and escape its confines. After a few cautious steps, it lurches forward and runs in sudden jerks. Making its way down a grassy hillside, it reaches the freeway crash barrier. Occupants of moving vehicles begin to notice the animal: “there’s a llama!” After a few tries, it successfully vaults the crash barrier and makes it onto the road itself. Vehicles whizz by and drivers honk their horns, but the llama is enjoying its freedom too much to be affected by them. Reports begin to reach news services: we hear a radio news theme and the growing noise of the Twitterverse.

The din of chatter around Melbourne becomes overwhelming and little more than indistinguishable noise, so the llama retreats into its head and to its elated thoughts: “I’m free! I’m my own animal! This is my dream, I’m no longer bound by a chain-link fence! It’s a whole new world! There’s a smile on my face for the whole…”

SQUEAL!! Its reverie is interrupted by an SUV with an absent-minded yet aggressive driver: the vehicle has to brake extremely suddenly to avoid hitting the llama, and misses it only by inches. Police have arrived on the scene and have begun to divert traffic. The llama becomes outnumbered to a greater and greater degree: there’s one last chance for escape, one tricky path to freedom, one last high-stakes roll of the “OOH TASTY TASTY LLAMA TREAT ON THE GRASSY BANK!! I LIKE TASTY LL… oh damn.”

Thirty minutes later, in the same field close to the Western Ring Road, the llama is once again bored. Picking at the chain-link fence, there’s no chance of escape. The fence has been repaired, the gap closed, the llama’s life restored to its former boredom.

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For the composer, Fantasia is a particularly significant work. It was her first ever commission. Numerous performances in Europe by Tessa Birnie – including a premiere broadcast on Radio Turkey! – led to subsequent performances by other pianists. Displaying a new technical confidence from her studies with Peter Maxwell Davies, the work’s single unified structure marks a turning point in Whitehead’s composing method. The title, refers not so much to free fantasy but to the imagination required to create music from minimal material; in this case – the opening three-note motive. The work is in three sections, corresponding to these notes, and fabric of the entire piece is generated from them. There are patterns that emerge within sections, as well as those spanning the entire piece, (trills and tempi changes included). Because of the inherent symmetry of the generated material, with layers building up both forwards and backwards, Whitehead’s original intention was to make a palindromic structure, but it became instead a through-composed work with coda. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

• Whitehead: Fantasia on three notes; facsimile  Year: 1969 

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• Tessa Birnie: Piano Music by New Zealand Composers 

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

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• Young, K.: Fantasy for Two Pianos; facsimile  Year: 1991 

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• New Zealand Composers  Year: 1994 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 4  Year: 2000 

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• Carr: FIve Bagatelles; facsimile 

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Originally composed for Margaret Nielsen this set of short pieces for piano explores unconventional melodic styles inspired by the composer’s fascination with melodic styles outside the Western “classical” tradition, including, among others, bagpipe music, and the Chinese guqin zither. It has been recorded by both Margaret Nielsen and Daniel Poynton.

• Body: Five Melodies; facsimile  Year: 1984 

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• Body: Five Melodies; computer-set  Year: 1996 

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• First Fifteen - a selection of piano music by NZ composers  Year: 1996 

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• Jack Body: Five Melodies; video 

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• Sea Changes  Year: 1986 

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• You Hit Him He Cry Out - Dan Poynton  Year: 1996 

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One of the most beautiful sounds of the New Zealand forest is the clear, bell-like call of the Kokako. The first and last pieces in this set of five piano pieces develop various melodic ideas of this call while the remaining pieces suggest various flight patterns and man’s encroachment on the habitat of the bird.

This popular piano work in five sections has had many performances worldwide including Norway, Morocco and Paraguay.

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• First Fifteen - a selection of piano music by NZ composers  Year: 1996 

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• Margaret Lion plays Rimmer and Farquhar 

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• Mozart Fellows Concert 2007 - Vol. 1 

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• Sea Changes  Year: 1986 

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• Lilburn: Nine Short Pieces for Piano; computer-set 

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• Lilburn: Nine Short Pieces; computer-set  Year: 2003 

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• Tessa Birnie: Piano Music by New Zealand Composers 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Complete Piano Music Volume 2 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Piano Music  Year: 1995 

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David Farquhar composed this Ode for Piano in 1964. It was commissioned by the town of Cambridge, New Zealand, for the Centenary celebrations of that year. The first performance was given by William Vosper in the Cambridge Town Hall in March 1964.

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• Georgina Zellan-Smith plays New Zealand piano works  Year: 2000 

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In music, as in life, the off-beat provides variety, contrast, opposition to the heavier on-beat, giving the whole rhythmic life and bounce. In dance terms, the on-beat relates to the feet, the off-beat to the upper body. These eight pieces use these off-beat qualities in a variety of ways, ranging from sharp opposition to smoother integration.

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• First Fifteen - a selection of piano music by NZ composers  Year: 1996 

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• Georgina Zellan-Smith plays New Zealand piano works  Year: 2000 

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• Carr: Sonata for Organ; facsimile 

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