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Kit Powell  

Reading Gaol

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1960
song cycle for baritone and orchestra

John Ritchie  

String Quartet

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1962, r. 2008
a four movement work for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    The String Quartet is dedicated to Anita, my wife. We met at age fourteen at school and parted at her death in 2001. If the movements of the work were to possess autobiographical titles they would be:

    Childhood
    Young Love
    Life’s Work
    Reminiscence

    My childhood was not all that happy, coloured, as it was, by the full force of the 1930s depression. But, thanks to the first Labour government (1935) and meeting Anita on 15 May 1936, it became immeasurably better. The Second World War separated us for over four years but post-war life went well. One job, five wonderful children, vast amounts of travel, and a university of immense academic wisdom in which to work, all combined to produce the contentment I now enjoy. If this quartet conveys a soundscape to such a background it has achieved its retrospective intention.

    -John Ritchie

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Douglas Lilburn  

Symphony No. 3

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1961
for orchestra

David Farquhar  

Three Tudor Dances

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1962
for small orchestra

Ken Wilson  

Variations on a Theme of Paganini

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1963
for four clarinets