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Television newsreader (spoken voice), Nobelman (baritone), Castelli (tenor), Galileo (baritone), Boy/Angel (mezzo soprano), Three Priests (tenor/baritones), Heretic (baritone), Christina (soprano), Military Man (baritone), Sea Captain (baritone), Troubadour (mezzo soprano), Cardinal Bellarmino (tenor), Pope Urban VIII (bass baritone), Pope John Paul II (baritone), small chorus of townspeople; flute doubling piccolo, oboe, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, horn, piano, percussion, violin and cello. Electroacoustic music played through at least eight loudspeakers. DVD of visuals.

• Rimmer: Galileo; electroacoustic part 

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• Rimmer: Galileo (visuals) 

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A song-drama exploring gay rights, written at the time when there were moves around New Zealand to pass the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. Many of the songs are based on true incidents and are presented in a cabaret format. The show toured the country in 1982 under the auspices of the New Zealand Student Arts Council.

• William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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2 male soloists, 2 male narrators, chorus of 2 tenors, 2 basses, piccolo, fl, alto fl, vibraphone, 1 percussion: windchimes, gong, hand drum

• Buchanan: Greenleaf; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Greenleaf; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Greenleaf; facsimile 

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for five sopranos, four mezzo sopranos, one alto, four tenors, three baritones, two bass (actors/singers may duplicate roles within a production)

Plot Summary:

Diane Forest is an artistically successful author who makes a deal with Mephistopheles to become financially successful.

• Davidson: Love or Money; computer-set 

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• Matthew Davidson: Love or Money; MIDI 

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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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flute, B flat clarinet, percussion, timpani, piano, strings; Characters: Miss Brill, middle-aged couple, young couple: 2 sopranos; 1 mezzo; 2 baritones (one is high baritone/low tenor); 2 non-singing roles

• Buchanan: The Mansfield Stories; computer-set 

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• Buchanan: Miss Brill; computer-set 

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• Buchanan: Miss Brill; computer-set 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: Two Operas 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: The Mansfield Stories 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: It Began with a Pony  Year: 1998 

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Taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one, or ideally two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists)

• Whitehead: Outrageous fortune; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune; facsimile 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune  Year: 1998 

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soprano and mezzo soloists, string trio (violin, viola and cello) and alto flute with accompanying tape

Based on his grandmother’s diaries, the premiere of Philip Brownlee’s opera was reviewed by Alan Wells in The Listener. “Here, recorded natural sounds were juxtaposed with live ensemble, taped oral history and its artistically sung rendition, and youthful experience with aging memory.”

• Brownlee: Phyllis Remembers; computer set 

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Quartet is based around the trials and tribulations of a touring string quartet, the Ithaca String Quartet, with the action being set on the West Coast of NZ before moving to the capital, Wellington, for the tour finale. The seven scenes are continuous, and explore the relationships of Penelope and Buddy (New Zealanders), Nadezhda (a moody Russian violinist) and Julian (a new-age American cellist).

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• Anthony Ritchie: Quartet 

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Undoubtedly, this is one of Whitehead’s more unusual collaborations. The work, intended for five dancers and organ, with soprano added at the composer’s request, was to have been performed in five cathedrals around Britain during the summer of 1982. Due to the cancellation of the dance component however, the work received performance in only one of the cathedrals – Carlisle – but was later presented with a solo dancer, Bronwyn Judge, at the 1987 Sonic Circus in Wellington. The singer on that occasion was Glenys Taylor and the organist Douglas Mews. The composer initially delayed beginning work on the piece, since her sister was expecting a baby, and a Requiem did not seem an appropriate preoccupation. The successful birth was however followed by two close-family deaths and it was these which provided the composer with the emotional impetus to proceed with the composition. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

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• Whitehead: Requiem; computer-set  Year: 2001 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 3 - Composer Portrait: Gillian Whitehead  Year: 2000 

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