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Juliet Palmer  

5 Cactus Dreams

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for voice and chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    vocalist, oboe, tenor saxophone, viola, cello, cactus and camera flash. Performed in darkness with light flashes to trigger each movement - performers also walk while playing.
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Alex Taylor  

Attention:

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2010
for actor and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2022; 4331; timp; 2 perc; strings
  • Programme Note

    On May 25 2010, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, also known as “Three Strikes” legislation, sponsored by David Garrett, the ACT Party, and the Sensible Sentencing Trust, and supported by the National Party, under Prime Minister John Key. The law imposes mandatory maximum sentences on offenders who commit three “Strike” offences, removing judicial discretion. An almost identical bill was passed in California in 1994. California’s crime rate remains 11% above the national average, its prison population has increased to nearly 200,000, and its recidivism rate is the highest in the United States.

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Claire Cowan  

Bus Stop

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2003
for six percussionists

Alison Isadora  

Letter to Liz

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1990
for voice and cello (one player)

Philip Dadson  

MAYA

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1999
a counter-millennial fanfare for orchestra

Dorothy Buchanan  

Queen of Rivers

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
incidental music for film for clarinet doubling soprano saxophone

Graham Parsons  

Recorder Suite: Scenes from the Merchant of Venice

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1996
Four movement work for recorder sextet

Claire Cowan  

Skip

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2004
for two percussion

  • Instrumentation
    for two skipping ropes, two whistles, one water bottle, with ambient bird noises and optional video background park footage
  • Programme Note

    Two fearless percussionists duel with skipping ropes and whistles, creating rhythms and improving their cardiovasular fitness simultaneously.

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Kit Powell  

Snakes and Ladders

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1991
for cello and piano

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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