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David Hamilton

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1987, r. 1995
for flute and chamber orchestra

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2000
suite for clarinet, percussion and strings

Instrumentation
for solo clarinet, percussion, harp, and strings. Percussion 1 (glockenspiel, maraca), Percussion 2 (suspended cymbal, 3 toms)
Programme Note

Bruce Mason’s one-man play The End of the Golden Weather is the story of a 1930s summer spent by the sea, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. It is one of the most popular and enduring works of New Zealand theatre, conveying as it does something of the nostalgia shared by most New Zealand for childhood holidays spent at the beach. Bruce Mason performed the work nearly a thousand times over tow decades from 1959, in towns and cities throughout the country, but it was not until 2000 that the play was professionally revived in a performance by Peter Vere-Jones. Gareth Farr wrote incidental music for the production, and later expanded this materials into a four-movement suite for clarinet and string with harp and percussion. The title, Te Parenga, is Mason’s name for the fictionalised Auckland beachfront suburb of Takapuna where the play is set.
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- Farr: Te Parenga; computer-set
  
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