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David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

Geoffrey Hinds  

Innocence and Experience

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1987
for tenor and piano

  • Programme Note

    This is the fourth in a series of song cycles written for Richard Phillips and had its performance in a private residence.

    The 12 poems reflect personal childhood memories of the composer alternating with later second-hand impressions of events in the ‘80s including the Springbok tour, Queen Street riots, Rogernomics and Auckland’s rampant redevelopment.

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David Farquhar  

Ode

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1963
for piano

Christopher Blake  

Sounds - an Evocation of Tahuahua, Queen Charlotte Sound

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1985
for wind quintet

Christopher Marshall  

Tangi

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1999
for SATB choir with mezzo soloist

  • Programme Note

    Te Heuheu Herea, a high chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa in the Taupo district, died in 1820 and was mourned by his son in this song of lament (waiata tangi). The text was collected by Sir Apirana Ngata in his book ‘Nga Moteatea’ of 1959. It is written in a dialect differing in several aspects from present day Maori. There is no record of the original chant; however this setting utilises some of the devices and conventions from that tradition.

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Lyell Cresswell  

The Pumpkin Massacre

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1987
for strings

  • Instrumentation
    twelve solo strings: 4 violins I, 3 violins II, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass
  • Programme Note

    Te Puoho, friend and ally of Te Rauparaha, invited the Rangitane chief Mahuri and his people to a feast at Kukutauaki in return for previous kindnesses. Kukutauaki stood in the middle of an area hostile to the Rangitane people. On his way to the feast Mahuri was warned of the danger of entering territory controlled by the powerful and dangerous Te Rauparaha whereupon he replied: “It is the boast of Te Puoho that he will not have his forehead smeared with blood.” After the feast at which a new kind of food, the pumpkin, was introduced, the guests were invited back to Maimea, at the mouth of the Waikanae River, and massacred – most likely at the prompting of Te Rauparaha. This work was composed in 1987, commissioned and first performed by the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Jennings. It has been reviewed as, “sheer instrumental drama launched on a sea of seething, trilling strings.”

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