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Douglas Lilburn  

Dance Sequence for Expo '70

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1970
for tape (sounds of NZ birdsong)

David Farquhar  

Fives

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1971
for 5 dancers and 5 instruments

Jack Body  

Song Cycle

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1975, r. 1999
sound/light/image installation for voices and the sounds of wood and metal

Diana Blom  

Songs for Salome

Duration: 08' 45" Year: 1975
for mezzo-soprano and piano

  • Programme Note

    Robyn Ravlich is a poet and executive producer of the Radiophonic Unit of ABC Radio National in Australia. The three poems are from ‘Songs for Salome’, published in her collection of poems, The Black Abacus (1971). Each describes different aspects of women and love. Reckless Blues begins with text lines from a Bessie Smith song, and musically, draws on blues idiomatic sounds; Elegy for Judy Garland borrows from the laid-back ballad of the late 1930s-1940s made popular by Judy Garland; and Model reflects the brittle, driving world of the fashion model through constantly changing metres and a staccato repeated figure. The songs were commissioned for, and broadcast on, ‘The Coming Out Ready or Not Show’, ABC Radio 2, in November 1975, performed by Angela Giblin (soprano) and Linn Robertson (piano).

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Bryan James  

Tasman Ice

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1976
fantasia for solo flute (No. 2)

  • Programme Note

    This work was recorded in the mid 1970s and used on the sound track of a film for the then Department of Lands and Survey/Conservation about the Tasman Glacier. The film was made by Tony Lilleby, a Park Board ranger at Mt Cook in the mid 1970s and was used at various National Park Headquarters as part of audio-visual presentations for visitors. ‘Tasman Ice’ has been performed over the years by various flutists including Uwe Grodd, Alexa Still, Nicola Harris and students at Auckland University. I also performed it at a concert in Japan. As it was published in ‘Little Dancings’ it has had more performances than I know about which is great.

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Dorothy Freed  

The Circle

 Year: 1977
Incidental music for solo piano

Douglas Lilburn  

Welcome Stranger

Duration: 27' 00" Year: 1974
electroacoustic (stereo) for ballet