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Originally called A Song of Tamatea, this work was revised in 2000 to become An Offering for Parihaka.

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• David Hamilton: A Song of Tamatea 

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This is the fourth in a series of song cycles written for Richard Phillips and had its performance in a private residence.

The 12 poems reflect personal childhood memories of the composer alternating with later second-hand impressions of events in the ‘80s including the Springbok tour, Queen Street riots, Rogernomics and Auckland’s rampant redevelopment.

• Hinds: innocence and Experience; facsimile 

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in part 1: tuned PVC pipes, metal chimes, roto-toms, voices, trom-tubes, spun drones, rattle-jackets and kerosene cans

in part 2: voices, tuned wood, metal and PVC pipe lengths, 3 tenor slide trombones and 3 saxophones, soprano, alto, tenor and surf sticks

Pacific 3-2-1-Zero (parts 1 and 2) is a work of protest against nuclear testing and waste dumping in Oceania. The structure is based on an image of isolated islands of acitivity connected by common waters whose currents now innocently carry nuclear contamination.

The work takes place in the round, with the instruments in Part 1 arranged centrally to indicate the symbol for nuclear disarmament.

The syllables heard in the first vocal section are taken from the names of individual islands within Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. These are mirrored and inverted in the same way as the rhythms in the music are. In a later vocal section the names of contaminated islands testing sites: Mururoa (France), Fangata’ufa (France), Christmas Island (UK/USA), Johnston Island (USA), Enewetak (USA), Bikini (USA) are sung, then shouted and drummed on tins to sound both lament and warning.

Part 2, developed in 1983, expresses hope and is dedicated to the emerging force of solidarity among the people of the Pacific.

• From Scratch: Pacific 3-2-1-zero Parts 1 and 2  Year: 1986 

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• From Scratch: Pacific 3.2.1 Zero, Eye/Drum  Year: 1994 

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‘Pao’ is the name given by Maori to two-lined epigrammatic songs which comment on a wide range of subjects such as love, war, politics or religion; often topical, often improvised. Most of the songs set here were collected in 1864 from Maori prisoners captured during the the land wars in the Waikato area south of Auckland. The couplets are not connected in any way except for the central group, for unaccompanied voice, concerning Pikeri, a character famous at the time for his escapades evading the police; in this instance, enforced separation during a love affair is charted.

The English translations of these pao are used with the kind permission of the late Margaret Orbell, and come from her Maori Poetry, an introductory anthology (Heinemann, 1978).

Pao was commissioned by the Northumberland-based Syrinx Trio, with financial assistance from Northern Arts; the first performance was given by Syrinx in Newcastle in 1981.

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• Whitehead: Pikeri; computer-set 

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• Whitehead: Pikeri; computer-set 

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• Kowhai - an album of songs by NZ women composers  Year: 1994 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Pikeri from Pao; audio 

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5 actor-singers (2f, 3m) and piano

This song-play by Mervyn Thompson investigates the injustices that the pakeha land courts has dished out to the tangata whenua over the years. It was premiered in January 1980 and toured under the auspices of the New Zealand Students Arts Council in 1981.

• William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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• Parihaka 

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• Mervyn Thompson and William Dart: Songs to the Judges  Year: 1982 

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flute/piccolo, oboe/cor anglais, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, bassoon

• Blake: Sounds - an Evocation of Tahuahua; facsimile 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 2 

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• Hamilton/Harris/Blake/Pruden: Nix Olympica and other works  Year: 1989 

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twelve solo strings: 4 violins I, 3 violins II, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass

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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• Sound Barrier  Year: 2006 

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Under the African Sun comes from Passengers, a music theatre work by Fiona Farrell. First Produced in Palmerston North to commemorate Suffrage Year, the play is based on the experiences of young women coming to New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century on one of the early sailing ships. The ship is becalmed in equatorial waters and one of the women gradually loses her mind, jumps overboard and drowns.

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• Little Dancings - a selection of flute music by New Zealand composers  Year: 1998 

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