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Bryony Jagger  

A Nursery of Pain

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for solo treble recorder (with optional spoken voice )

Maria Grenfell  

A Pinch of Time...

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1991
five songs for baritone (or medium voice) and piano

Craig Utting  

Apocalypse

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1985
for bass singer and chamber ensemble

Denise Hulford  

Cantata: A Disciple Dreams

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1985
for soprano, tenor, flute, cello, organ and SATB chorus

Denise Hulford  

Christmas Bells

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1995
for choir, tenor saxophone and piano

  • Programme Note

    The 100 Voice Chorale based on the North Shore of Auckland commissioned Denise Hulford to write a Christmas Carol for the Choir. After spending some time searching for a poem with a happy tone to it, and not being able to find anything suitable, Denise commissioned Jenny Pattrick to write a poem. The poem that Jenny provided was exciting, accessible and quite humorous. The final work was a fun and Christmas focused composition which was most successful, and approximately the length of a short Cantata. The work has been performed a number of times, and has always been well received.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Coming to It

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1999
for orchestra and speaker - music with poems by Sam Hunt

  • Instrumentation
    2*2*2* (doubling alto sax. in E flat) 2; 2200; 2 perc.; guitar (amplified); strings. Percussion: tam tam, bass drum, large suspended cymbal, wind chimes,glockenspiel, xylophone, bongos, 2 woodblocks (large and small), drum kit (including suspended cymbal, bass drum, small tom tom
  • Programme Note

    Coming to It was commissioned by the Wellington Sinfonia (now Vector Wellington Orchestra) to collaborate with Sam Hunt. The poems and music speak from the heart about the everyday issues and concerns of ordinary people. There are poems about mothers, fathers, lovers, children and dogs. The poems touch on life and death, and the title incidents between that on the surface seem insignificant but have meaning for those involved. The scene is set in the opening poem, Coming to It. Some of the music is bluesy in character, as in the Plateau Songs, and some is folksy in style, as in A White Gentian, where the guitar and flute play a duet. Occasionally the music specifically describes the text, as in the hammering, migraine-like You House the Moon.

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Dorothy Ker  

Dances After the Haiku

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1990
for soprano, viola, clarinet, cello and piano

  • Programme Note

    This cycle is linked to The Rock, Whatipu for solo soprano, which preceded it without break in the 1990 performance – this is the ideal format.

    This work is in five movements; the numbering of the movements relates to the cycle of poems by Denis Trussell (I, II, III, VII, X).

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Christopher Marshall  

Earthsong

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2004
for SATB choir, SA choir and orchestra

Douglas Lilburn  

Elegy

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1951
a song cycle for baritone and piano

  • Programme Note

    This song cycle was composed in 1951 and is a setting of poems by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, written as a memorial to Roy Dickson who died in an accident in the Southern Alps in 1947. The evocative settings range from the darkly sombre and dramatically powerful to the poignantly tender and sorrowful, reflecting both the moods and changing conditions of the New Zealand mountains and bush and the shifting emotions and expressions of grief over a life lost.

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Denise Hulford  

Evolution

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1985
for narrator/tenor and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2220;2221;timp,2perc (xylo, bell tree, cymbals, gong, bass drum, triangle, tambourine, woodblocks, guiro, snare drum, vibraphone);strs.
  • Programme Note

    This work for narrator, tenor and symphony orchestra highlights the impact on nature of man’s questionable progress. This idea is taken directly from Hone Tuwhare’s poem The Sea! To The Mountains! To The River which is the text for the soloist. Evolution is one continuous movement interspersed with nine vocal sections.

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