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It is a historic story of a young man who travels from England via Australia, in the early 1820s, to become an ordained minister and set up a Wesleyan Mission in the Hokianga, in Northland, New Zealand.

The story portrays the relationships, frustrations, conflicts and troubled times with the early settlers, the native Maori people and their Chiefs, especially Chief Te Aara, Tamati Waka Nene and Patuone.

There is his special love for his devoted wife Jane, their learning, teaching and preaching, their unjustified exile to Tonga, then his reinstatement two years later to the Weslyan Mission in the Hokianga, culminating in the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi at Horeke, in the Hokianga.

• Daverne: A Man With a Mission; computer-set 

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• Nicholas Palmer: 10 Short Pieces 

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The full title of this work is Aliens disguised as Elvis kidnapped my grandmother’s appendix in a previous life after having been sucked through a black hole singularity on a Sunday afternoon picnic in the park with Aunt Jemima Puddleduck while discussing the simultaneity of states of sub-atomic particles, K. 666.31. The work is also known as The Enigma of Arrival, the purpose of this piece is to portray the epic struggle of Life and Death on a microcosmic and macrocosmic scale.

• Davidson: Aliens Disguised As Elvis...; computer-set 

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orchestra, chinese instruments, baritone, actor, 2 chinese folksingers, chinese opera singer

• Festival '98 - ALLEY, an opera by Jack Body 

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2 sopranos playing percussion; 1 bass playing percussion; Bass; Tenor; Dancer; women's chorus; flute, alto flute, clarinet in A, bass clarinet, bassoon; horn, trombone, bass trombone; timpani, piano; strings (including solo electric violin); Percussion: Javanese drums, bass drum, tamtam and optional Javanese gong, gender, slentem, kempul.

An operatic setting of the dance-play by W.B. Yeats which is also performable as a dramatic cantata in a concert version. This is a one-act work and is ritualistic in nature reflecting Yeats’ modeling of the text on the Japanese Noh play. The music is at times dark and atmospherlc, and the archetypal symbolism and metaphysical suggestion of the text, wlth its archaic language and bleak images, is a rich source of inspiration for this. The musical language is comprehensive with tonality and atonality used in conjunction with each other to express literary ideas. Written for five solo singers with the main roles being a tenor and a bass, and a dancer, the backing ii provided by a 30 or so piece orchestra including piano, solo electric violin, and gamelan instruments.
(Programme note from composer’s website)

• Keay: At the Hawk's Well; facsimile 

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• Keay: At the Hawk's Well; facsimile 

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• Nigel Keay: At the Hawk's Well; video 

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• Nigel Keay: At the Hawk's Well 

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• Nigel Keay: At the Hawk's Well 

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flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, horn in F, bassoon and piano

• Biddington: Beauty and the Beast; facsimile 

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• Nicholas Palmer: 10 Short Pieces 

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

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.

• Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile 

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• Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile 

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• Blake: Bitter Calm (Scenes 1-3) 

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bagpipes, cello, marimba/harp/tenor drum (1 player), violin, flute/piccolo (1 player), clarinet/bass clarinet/soprano and alto saxophones (1 player)

This dance theatre project was commissioned to celebrate the New Zealand Women’s Suffrage Centennial, and explores a range of historical and contemporary issues. It is based on documents written by Kate Shepherd and was choreographed by Susan Jordan.

• Fisher: Bone of Contention; facsimile 

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• Fisher: Bone of Contention (excerpt); facsimile 

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• Helen Fisher: Bone of Contention  Year: 1993 

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Contralto, soprano, baritone and canary with piano accompaniment

• Drummond: Bridge to Somewhere; facsimile 

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• Drummond: Bridge to Somewhere; facsimile 

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