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Willow Macky  

At Christmas Time

 Year: 1977
for voice, piano and optional guitar

John Rimmer  

Composition 9

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1976
for soprano and electronic sounds

Bryony Jagger  

First Love

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1979
a song cycle for dramatic soprano and piano

David Griffiths  

Five Love Songs

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1979
for tenor and piano

Edwin Carr  

Five Wolfskehl Songs

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1977
for baritone and piano

John Rimmer  

Narcissus

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1979
for soprano, flute, trumpet, cello piano and percussion

Bryony Jagger  

Night Hours

 Year: 1979, r. 1980
a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and treble recorder

Dorothy Buchanan  

Peace Song

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1972, r. 1997
arranged for soprano and cello

Lyell Cresswell  

Prayer for the Cure of a Sprained Back

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1979
for solo mezzo soprano

John Rimmer  

Pukeko

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1972
for soprano, flute/piccolo, oboe, horn, cello, piano

  • Programme Note

    Pukeko is a setting of a poem by the prominent New Zealand writer Ian Wedde and was composed in 1972 while John Rimmer was the Mozart Fellow and Ian Wedde was the Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin. The piece follows the mood of the poem with demonstrative gestures in the opening – ‘the mind can fly like a cool blue Braque bird straight to the heart of a storm’ through to the delicate textures of ‘but consider the pukeko going doubtfully on spindly legs among swamp grasses’.

    At the end an improvisation features some of the players whispering the last line ‘poor ludicrous fowl’ while the soprano hums previous motives ad libitum and the horn and cello provide high wailing sounds.

    Pukeko was first performed at Milton High School on 7 August 1972 during a tour of Otago schools by the Marama Players of the Department of Music, University of Otago.

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