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Gary Daverne  

A Jazz Burlesque

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1992
for string orchestra

David Hamilton  

A Long Time Ago

Duration: 01' 45" Year: 2006
for concert band

  • Instrumentation
    flute and optional piccolo, oboe, clarinet 1, 2 and 3, alto clarinet, bass clarinet; alto saxophone 1 and 2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1 and 2, horn in F, trombone, baritone, tuba, bass; percussion
  • Programme Note

    This arrangement is based on a previous arrangement of the piece, which I had made for various combination. It was made for my ex-colleague Mary Siew and her band at Shanghai American School, prior to a planned visit there in early 2007.

    New Zealand is too young a country to have a true ‘folk’ tradition and much traditional folk music is really variats of earlier British songs, often with local names and places substituted for the originals. In this piece it deals with the seas and the lives of sailors.

    My source for some of the folk song arrangements I’ve made is Neil Colquhoun’s collection Songs of a Young Country: New Zealand Folksongs published over thirty years ago.

    David Hamilton

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David Hamilton  

Across the Line

Duration: 02' 10" Year: 2006
for concert band

  • Instrumentation
    flute and optional piccolo, oboe, clarinet 1, 2 and 3, alto clarinet, bass clarinet; alto saxophone 1 and 2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1 and 2, horn in F, trombone, baritone, tuba, bass; percussion
  • Programme Note

    This arrangement is based on a previous arrangement of the piece, which I had made for various combination. It was made for my ex-colleague Mary Siew and her band at Shanghai American School, prior to a planned visit there in early 2007.

    New Zealand is too young a country to have a true ‘folk’ tradition and much traditional folk music is really variats of earlier British songs, often with local names and places substituted for the originals. In this piece it deals with the seas and the lives of sailors.

    My source for some of the folk song arrangements I’ve made is Neil Colquhoun’s collection Songs of a Young Country: New Zealand Folksongs published over thirty years ago.

    David Hamilton

  • Availability

Yvette Audain  

Arioso

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2009
An arrangement of an arrangement: originally by Fiocco (oboe melody; accompanimental instrumentation unknown), and arranged for piano by Bent and O'Neill before its eventual string transcription by Yvette Audain

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Aurora

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1990
fanfare for orchestra

Andrew Perkins  

Ave Maris Stella

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1999
for string orchestra

Robbie Ellis  

Beatrice

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2010, r. 2012
a short orchestral feature for cor anglais

  • Instrumentation
    solo cor anglais, flute, horn in F, strings
  • Programme Note

    In 2010, I co-wrote The Lover’s Knot with playwright Renee Liang as part of the 2010-2011 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Composer Workshops, which led to a performance with actor Stuart Devenie and conductor Kenneth Young. Stuart played the role of Walter Bolton, the last man given the death penalty in New Zealand, in the hours before his execution.

    Various instruments represent various characters in this story – clarinet for Bolton’s flighty paramour Florence, contrabassoon for the stench of death, and harmon-muted trombones for the justice system. Bolton’s ailing wife Beatrice is represented by extensive solos for the cor anglais. At the request of Lee Martelli, Education Manager of the APO, I excerpted one of these into a demonstration piece for an education concert.

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Lissa Meridan  

blast

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2002
for orchestra

Ryan Youens  

Blimp

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2011
A short, one movement work for orchestra