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Christopher Blake

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1993
opera in two acts for soloists, chorus and orchestra

Instrumentation
2sop,1ten,2bari,SATB chorus and orchestra: (2)22(2)2(2); 2220; 2perc,timp,2keyb; strs.
Programme Note

Bitter Calm is a full length opera for five principals, chorus and orchestra in two acts. It is based on an incident at Motuarohia Island in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in the 1840s. It is a drama of human passions in the contexts of land alienation and tensions between Maori and new settlers. Premiered at the New Zealand International Festival for the Arts in 1994 and filmed for television.
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- Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile
  
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- Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile
  
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Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1968
community music theatre

Duration: 1h 58' 00" Year: 1998
a chamber opera in two acts

Instrumentation
Taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one, or ideally two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists)
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- Whitehead: Outrageous fortune; facsimile
  
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- Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune; facsimile
  
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- Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune; computer-set
  
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- Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune; computer set
  
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- Gillian Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune Year: 1998
  
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Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1997
a musical for 8-10 year olds

Instrumentation
arranged for piano accompaniment with guitar chords, lead line and tuned percussion
Availability
- Daverne: The adventures of Panapa and the Floating Island; computer-set
  
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- Three Children's Musicals by Gary Daverne
  
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- Daverne: The Tales of Panapa Year: 2011
  
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Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1980
a song-play

Instrumentation
5 actor-singers (2f, 3m) and piano
Programme Note

This song-play by Mervyn Thompson investigates the injustices that the pakeha land courts has dished out to the tangata whenua over the years. It was premiered in January 1980 and toured under the auspices of the New Zealand Students Arts Council in 1981.
Availability
- William Dart: Song Book; computer-set
  
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- Parihaka
  
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- Mervyn Thompson and William Dart: Songs to the Judges Year: 1982
  
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