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Dorothy Ker  

Close-up of a Daisy

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1992, r. 1994
six pieces for SSAA a cappella choir

Ross Carey  

Dirge - Canons

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1992
for small orchestra

Jillian Bray  

Little Romance

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1992
for solo piano

Laughton Pattrick  

Maraeroa

 Year: 1992
for SA choir and piano

Laughton Pattrick  

Maraeroa

 Year: 1992
for SSA choir with soprano soloist and piano

Helen Fisher  

Nga Tapuwae o Kupe (The Footprints of Kupe)

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1992
a bicultural work for school choir, instruments and dance

  • Instrumentation
    choir, percussion, Rarotongan drums, guitars (students), Taonga Puoro (koauau), piano, clarinet in B flat, alto saxophone, horn in F, flute, guitar (advanced performer)
  • Programme Note

    Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe’s journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery of various landmarks around Whanganui-a-Tara / the Wellington region.

    While this work maintains a strong Maori theme, with karanga, haka and waiata, as well it weaves in other Pacific and European elements.

    For school choir, instrumentalists, dancers and kapa haka, this work was composed with the financial assistance of a composition grant from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, was first performed by 140 students from South Wellington Intermediate School in July 1992 for Artsplash, the Wellington Young People’s Festival.

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Gary Daverne  

Panapa and The Mountain Fairies

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1992
children's musical, suitable for 8-12 yr olds

Denise Hulford  

Snippets

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1992
three pieces for soprano and flute/cello

Bruce Baker  

Song of Faith

 Year: 1992
for SSA choir with soprano solo and piano

  • Programme Note

    This piece was originally dedicated to Prima Voce, the Form 4 to 7 choir of Epsom Girls’ Grammar School. It was written at the request of their conductor, David Hamilton, for performance at a competition administered by the New Zealand Choral Federation. The text is a rather free translation of Proverbs 3.5, made with the intention of speaking simply in the language of today while preserving the message of the source. The tune matches the words in its simplicity and directness. However it is presented in such a way as to incorporate a number of styles of singing – unison, solo, imitation, chordal, descant – while at the same time lying well within the reach of inexperienced singers. The piano part is perhaps a little more ambitious, and requires a pianist of some years’ experience. The text is as follows: Faith is trusting God when we can not make sense of everything. Look to him in all you do, and he will help you to find the best way. Do not be limited by what you understand right now.

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Samuel Gray  

Sonnet No. 30

Duration: 03' 40" Year: 1992, r. 2010
for a cappella SSAATTBB choir

  • Programme Note

    At the age of 14, ignorant of the impetuosity many would perceive in the fact that a ‘nobody’ would presume to be able to set The Bard to music, especially given his complete lack of experience of the loss of “precious friends hid in death’s dateless night”, Samuel composed this piece while preparing for Shakespeare reading competitions in his native Invercargill. Upon the death of Samuel’s long-time musical mentor and friend Russell Cowley in late 2009, Samuel excavated the hand-written score and revised it in honour of his dear friend.

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