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Suite of pieces with poems that can be read between movements or omitted.

• Jagger: A Nursery of Pain; facsimile 

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This work for narrator, tenor and symphony orchestra highlights the impact on nature of man’s questionable progress. This idea is taken directly from Hone Tuwhare’s poem The Sea! To The Mountains! To The River which is the text for the soloist. Evolution is one continuous movement interspersed with nine vocal sections.

• Hulford: Evolution; facsimile 

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• Hulford: Evolution; facsimile 

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• Powell: Father's Telescope; electroacoustic part 

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• Powell: Father's Telescope; computer-set 

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• Kit Powell: Father's Telescope; audio 

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• Powell: Hubert the Clockmaker; facsimile 

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• Powell: Hubert the Clockmaker; facsimile 

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The Love Sonnets of Michelangelo I wrote for Michael Parmenter, with whom I worked on a programme entitled Between Two Fires (also included was a dance-theatre work I created collaboratively with Michael, using his voice as well as his body, with imagery extracted from the diaries of Franz Kafka.) At the time I was focused on different styles of melody, having just completed my Five Melodies for Piano. Inspired by the lovely voices of some of the then current students in our School of Music, I felt that women’s voices gave the expressive quality I wanted, as well as providing a useful ‘cover’ for the overtly homo-erotic tenor of the texts. The original production used film, shot by my good friend Bayley Watson, showed the dancer’s prostrate figure, swathed in bandages. As the performance unfolded the cloth was gradually cut and pealed back by hands belonging to an old man whose face we never saw, the intended metaphor being of the sculptor cutting away marble to reveal the male form that he sensed already existed within the stone.

The work has since had other performances that have discarded the theatrical elements, most successfully when each setting is prefaced by a reading of the poem in translation.

These settings of some of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s most personal sonnets articulate the anguish of love and desire, as well as the despair of old age. The musical style combines the theatricality of Italian bel canto with the direct expressivity of folksong.

• Body: Love Sonnets of Michelangelo; facsimile 

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• Jack Body and Michael Parmenter: Love Sonnets 

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• Baroque Voices: How Great is the Pleasure   Year: 2001 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 6 - Composer Portrait: Jack Body  Year: 2003 

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Piece of 4 was composed in Europe in September/October 1980 for the Bourges Experimental Music Festival in June, 1982. It combines my thoughts on music from found objects and on chance music, while also exploring the theme of “4”.

The first performance of Piece of 4 was on 4 June, 1982 in the Robert McDougal Art Gallery in Christchurch.

Kit Powell

• Powell: Piece of 4; facsimile  

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• Kit Powell - 70th Birthday Celebration - Three Chance Pieces plus One 

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• Body: Poems of Solitary Delights; facsimile 

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• Jack Body: Poems of Solitary Delights; audio 

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• Freed: Sounds and Winds of Wellington; facsimile 

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• Freed: Sounds and Winds of Wellington; facsimile 

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Commissioned in 1985 by the Wellington Regional Orchestra (now the Vector Wellington Orchestra) for a family concert under Sir William Southgate, as part of the 1986 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington, The Emperor and the Nightingale has subsequently been performed by a number of New Zealand regional and youth orchestras.

• McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale; computer-set 

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• McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale; computer-set 

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• McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale; computer-set 

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• Jenny McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale 

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• Archer: The Musical Menagerie; facsimile 

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