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• Palmer: Five Cactus Dreams; facsimile 

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• Griffiths, V: A Boy's Song; computer-set 

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This piece was inspired by a most mundane and unremarkable occurrence that you may well ignore – like a flick of lights. Was it a signal, or was it accidental. If it wasn’t an accident, what would have happened if I responded. Maybe something wonderful, maybe not. Was it meant for me? Was it meant for anyone? Could things have gone sour? All these things plunge through the mind, but no one will ever know.

But even after it is shrugged off, the bitter sweet sound of opportunities lost sing on.

A Flick of Lights is in a single movement primarily for solo bass clarinet, but with two other hidden parts for effect. The hidden parts (clarinet and soprano) can be included in the programme (as in first performance) or excluded from the programme (as in second performance) if a surprise for the audience is desired. Hidden parts should be or should sound distant.

• Young, A.: A Flick of Lights; computer-set 

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• Farquhar: A little Song-Suite; facsimile 

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• Adams: A Song Cycle; computer-set 

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• Adams, C.: A Song Cycle; computer-set 

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• Caskie: A Sweet Season But Short; facsimile 

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‘Almost an Island’, a phrase which refers to the Otago peninsula, is the title I’ve given to a short set of haiku written by peninsula poets, which I set for voice and piano as a wedding present for my then neighbours, Breffni and Dave.

Rain blows on windows plastered with new leaves it’s spring again (Eleanor Koch)
Golden pendant blossoms bright against blue spring sky beckon tuis (Eleanor Koch)
Gleaming white across Arapatiki three spoonbills fly towards us (Gillian Whitehead)
Aramoana pathway to the wide ocean memories remain (Kay Sinclair)
Fiery rata circled by glitter almost an island (Kay Sinclair)
Track winds past pine trees tangled vines scratching bare skin sharp smell of gorse flowers (Fran Bolgar)
Low pressure warning on the macrocarpa thirty herons swaying (Gillian Whitehead)
Kereru wheeling soaring and plummeting bounce now on tree-top (Joyce Whitehead)

• Whitehead: Almost an Island; computer-set 

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• Whitehead: Almost an Island; computer-set 

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• Mozart Fellows Concert 2007 - Vol. 1 

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In 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War, Canadian band the Guess Who released the song American Woman. The album of the same name became their first U.S. Top Ten hit and first gold album. The group performed for President and Mrs. Nixon and Prince Charles at the White House. (Pat Nixon requested that American Woman be dropped from the set list.)

In recomposing American Woman I was thinking of two wars: the Iraq war and the strange war against the body waged by the American beauty industry. The war in Iraq costs over $2 billion per week while Americans spend more than $15 billion per year on cosmetic surgery. In 2004 nearly 12 million surgical and non-surgical beauty procedures were performed in the U.S., including more than 290,000 eyelid jobs, 166,000 nose jobs, 478,000 liposuctions and 334,000 breast enhancements. In The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report, Susie Orbach and Nancy Etcoff found that only two percent of women feel comfortable describing themselves as beautiful.

American Woman has been covered by Lenny Kravitz, Krokus and the The Butthole Surfers, among others. This version was commissioned by Motion Ensemble with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

• Palmer: American Woman; computer set 

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This song sets a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson was the son of a clergyman in Lincolnshire. His early literary attempts included a play, The Devil and the Lady, composed at 14, and poems written with his brothers Frederick and Charles but entitled Poems by Two Brothers (1827). Upon the death of his father in 1831, Tennyson became responsible for the family and its precarious finances. His volume Poems (1832) included some of his most famous pieces, such as The Lotus-Eaters, A Dream of Fair Women, and The Lady of Shalott. Tennyson’s next published work, Poems (1842), expressed his philosophic doubts in a materialistic, increasingly scientific age and his longing for a sustaining faith. The new poems included Locksley Hall, Ulysses, Morte d’Arthur, and Break, Break, Break. With this book he was acclaimed a great poet, and in addition, he was granted an annual government pension of £200 in 1845.

The Princess (1847) from which Ask Me No More comes, was followed in 1850 by the masterful In Memoriam, an elegy sequence that records Tennyson’s years of doubt and despair. The same year saw his appointment as poet laureate and his marriage to Emily Sellwood, whom he had courted since 1836 but had been unable to marry because of his precarious financial position. Occasional poems, such as the Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852) and The Charge of the Light Brigade (1855), were part of his duties as laureate. Tennyson passed his last years in comfort. In 1883 he was created a peer and occupied a seat in the House of Lords. Throughout much of his life he was a popular as well as critical success and was venerated by the general public. Unappreciated early in the 20th cent., Tennyson has since been recognized as a great poet.

• Hamilton: Ask Me No More; computer-set 

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• McCallum: Aspiration's Meaning; computer set 

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• McCallum: Aspiration's Meaning  Year: 2004 

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• Selection 05  Year: 2005 

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