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A short orchestral fanfare, describing the flight of the albatross, a famous resident of Dunedin Peninsula.

• Ritchie A.: Albatross in Flight; facsimile 

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This fanfare for full orchestra was “…refreshing… (Its) gradual thickening of layers of bird calls to abrasive Varesian dissonances near the end had a concise dramatic momentum and coherence.” lan Dando, NZ Listener. (It) “…begins with sounds that could only be New Zealand ones.” LCM Saunders, NZ Herald.

• de Castro-Robinson: Aurora; facsimile 

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• Eve de Castro-Robinson: Aurora 

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• Eve de Castro Robinson: Works 3 

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In 1990 I attended the launch of Cilla McQueen’s new book Berlin Diary. This diary made a big impression on me, initially because it brought back memories of my own trip to Europe. I also liked the brilliant mixing of poetic and prosaic styles, and the vivid descriptions of people and places. Something else that impressed me was the strong contrast between the inhuman political situation in Berlin (the wall was still up) and the natural, peaceful beauty of Dunedin, New Zealand (Cilla’s and my own home town). A few months later the Aramoana tragedy (where a deranged gunman killed 13 people – Aramoana is a remote seaside township at the end of the Otago peninsula) changed that around. Cilla’s beautiful, almost ecstatic centrepiece in the dairy “O Aramoana” now took on a terrible subtext, and it seemed as if the inhumanity of Berlin had come to the remote beach community. A year later, the Berlin wall finally came down, and the unification of East and West Germany became a reality.

When Judy Bellingham approached me in 1991 to write a song cycle for her, I immediately wanted to set extracts from the Berlin Diary, to capture these layers of dramatic historical irony along with the essence of a marvellous text. In reality I was able to only set a fraction of the diary to music, and hence the title of my work – Berlin Fragments (which I would also like to think suggests the breaking of the Berlin wall into bits). After talking to Cilla about the work, I decided to make “O Aramoana” the heart of the work, around which somewhat shorter texts are clustered. Sections are often linked by a recurrent chord in the bottom of the piano (the dyad E-F), which I have imagined as a tombstone in musical terms. Framing the work are brief sections which convey the flight to and from Berlin (the “green below” being an unmistakable reference to a return to New Zealand).

The 23 minutes of this song cycle run continuously.

• Ritchie A.: Berlin Fragments; facsimile 

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• Bellingham, Dennis, Rawson: NZ vocal music  Year: 2006 

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Bitter Calm is a full length opera for five principals, chorus and orchestra in two acts. It is based on an incident at Motuarohia Island in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in the 1840s. It is a drama of human passions in the contexts of land alienation and tensions between Maori and new settlers. Premiered at the New Zealand International Festival for the Arts in 1994 and filmed for television.

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• Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile 

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• Blake: Bitter Calm (Scenes 1-3) 

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This New Zealand carol for SATB can be sung at Christmas or Easter. The lyric reminds us that our landscape and night sky have parallels linking us with the life and times of Jesus

• Caskie: Bright Sand and Stars; computer-set 

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• Buchanan: Carnival of New Zealand Creatures; computer-set 

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The 100 Voice Chorale based on the North Shore of Auckland commissioned Denise Hulford to write a Christmas Carol for the Choir. After spending some time searching for a poem with a happy tone to it, and not being able to find anything suitable, Denise commissioned Jenny Pattrick to write a poem. The poem that Jenny provided was exciting, accessible and quite humorous. The final work was a fun and Christmas focused composition which was most successful, and approximately the length of a short Cantata. The work has been performed a number of times, and has always been well received.

• Hulford: Chritmas Bells; computer set 

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• Hulford: Christmas Bells; computer-set 

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• Freed: Deserted Beach; facsimile 

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• Freed: Deserted Beach; facsimile 

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• New Zealand Composers: Franchi, Axtens, Bowater, Freed, Lockwood 

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• The Music of Dorothy Freed 

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• Faith Makes the Song; computer-set 

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• Faith Forever Singing - New Zealand Hymns and Songs for a New Day  Year: 2000 

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• Evans: Elegy for my Grandfather; computer-set 

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• Evans: Songs;   Year: 1996 

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