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John Wells  

A New Zealand Suite (Second Suite)

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1989
for organ

Bryony Jagger  

A Nursery of Pain

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for solo treble recorder (with optional spoken voice )

Anthony Ritchie  

Ashburn Fragments

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1989
for piano

Richard Madden  

Balulalow

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1989
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Noel Sanders  

Big Dipper and Little Mouse

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1989
for piano and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    222(+bs-cl)2;2221;timp,2perc (1. glock,vibes,xylo,5toms,s-dr,ten-dr. 2. marimba,5temple blocks, 3sus cym,sizzle cymbal, sus crash cymbal,2bs-dr,gong);strings.
  • Programme Note

    “Me and him."

    “Title from two showground rides at the Royal Easter Show, Sydney. He wouldn’t come but two of my lesbian buddies took me just the same. Dodgems in the form of a piano concerto. How camp.”

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Philip Norman  

Canterbury Rhythms

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1989
for orchestra

Jack Speirs  

Cantico del Sole

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for soprano soloist, mixed choir and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3000;0330; perc, hp, pf; strings
  • Programme Note

    Commissioned by the Schola Cantorum of Dunedin to celebrate its 125th Jubilee in 1988, this work for for soprano soloist, mixed choir and orchestra sets the first part of S. Francesco d’Assisi’s Canticle of Brother Sun.

    The Canticle is an expression of the medieval belief in the beauty, goodness and intelligibility of the created world. It is also an expression of Francis’s own idea of all creation living in a spirit of fraternity and community. This vision of the total reconciliation of humanity with the universe is symbolized in a number of ways. One such is the ordering of the elements in pairs, which combine the masculine and feminine: sun-moon, wind-water, fire-earth.

    In this setting, the soprano soloist represents the feminine principle, and the choir the masculine. A version of the work has been arranged for a smaller orchestra, with organ replacing the strings. The work has been described by one critic as “one of the most exciting and satisfying works for choir and orchestra by a New Zealander”, and by another as a work which “will undoubtedly continue to be performed regularly on account of its accessibility and performability”.

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Gary Daverne  

Caprice

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1989
for six accordions

Neville Hall  

Composition for Solo Viola

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989

  • Programme Note

    “Composition for Solo Viola” explores the gradual growth of material from a single note to long chains of gestures. The soft opening sound, which returns throughout the piece, delineates each of the sections, allowing for clear perception of the process of expansion. Each new section of the piece is generated by overlaying the previous two sections, in such a way so as to expand the material both in time and spatially. “Composition for Solo Viola” was written for and is dedicated to Justine Goode.

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Countercurrents

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1989
for tenor saxophone