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Gary Daverne  

A Jazz Burlesque

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

Alex Taylor  

antiphony

Duration: 02' 30" Year: 2009
brass fanfare

John Rimmer  

Anzacs Remembered

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2010
for baritone and standard brass band

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

Chris Archer  

Aroha

Duration: 04' 10" Year: 2010
for SATB choir

Anthony Young  

Be Still

Duration: 03' 30" Year: 2009
for SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    Much of my work is a marriage (or balancing act) between the Western art music tradition and my own position in time and place. Along with many forms, I have had a love for sacred choral music from Mediaeval times through to the present, but in not being a Christian, I have felt a reluctance to set text in which I don’t fully believe.

    In reading the work of spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle, I have discovered a new connection with biblical texts. Tolle quotes the line “Be still, and know that I am God” in his book A New Earth, as an example of a universal truth that is at the heart of all religions and belief systems. In this text “God” may be seen as the Christian God, an omnipresent spiritual dimension or the universe personified. This line, and the rest of the text, is from Psalm 46. In setting this text I have found an opening into the world of sacred choral music that aligns with my own beliefs.

    Anthony Young

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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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Graham Parsons  

By the Rivers of Babylon (SATB)

Duration: 03' 10" Year: 2013
for SATB choir with optional piano and/or drum accompaniment

Graham Parsons  

By the Rivers of Babylon (SSA)

Duration: 03' 10" Year: 2013
for SSA choir with optional piano and/or drum accompaniment

Graham Parsons  

By the Rivers of Babylon (TTB)

Duration: 03' 10" Year: 2013
for TTB choir with optional piano and/or drum accompaniment