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Helen Bowater  

Chameleon

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1994
for orchestra

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Nigel Keay  

Symphonic Poem: Ritual Dance of the Unappeasable Shadow

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1994
for symphony orchestra

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  • Instrumentation
    2222; 4231; strings; piano; percussion: timpani, bass drum, cymbals, sus. cymbal, tamtam
  • Programme Note

    Symphonic Poem: Ritual Dance of the Unappeasable Shadow is a single movement work based on material from the opera At the Hawk’s Well. In some cases there has been extensive reworking, affecting also its construction which follows an arch form with a lively opening and closing.

    Symphonic Poem was given a workshop reading by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir William Southgate in 1994. This event was recorded by Radio New Zealand’s Concert FM. It was also performed by the New Zealand Secondary School’s Symphony Orchestra in 1995 as part of its Auckland Course.

    Peter Adams wrote of the work in a review for the Otago Daily Times (August 1, 1994): “Nigel Keay’s Ritual Dance of the Unappeasable Shadow made a powerful impact on first hearing; the dark core of the work had a brooding intensity while the flanking outer sections were vital and colourful with their Indonesian gamelan-inspired sound world.”

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Martin Lodge  

Symphony No. 1 (Flowers of the Sea)

Duration: 28' 00" Year: 1994
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3(picc)2(ca)2(bcl)2(cbsn); 6331; 2 timp; 3 perc; harp; strs
  • Programme Note

    Completed as the major work during Martin Lodge’s year as composer in residence with the Auckland Philharmonia, this single movement symphony for large orchestra has been hailed as “a remarkably poised and beautiful work… [containing] some of the most moving and beautiful melodic writing I have heard … Martin Lodge is a single-purposed writer with the true symphonist’s knack of sustaining an idea with economy”. (Ian Dando, Music in New Zealand).

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