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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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John Ritchie  

Concerto for Alto Saxophone

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1998
for E flat saxophone and small orchestra

Anthony Ritchie  

Flute Concerto

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1993
arranged for flute and piano

Anthony Ritchie  

Leaf

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1998
for solo piano

Gillian Whitehead  

Moments

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1993
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Anthony Ritchie  

Sinfonietta

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1992
for small orchestra

Michael Vinten  

Te ia o Nuku

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1990

Ross Carey  

Tombeau

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1993
for violin and piano

  • Programme Note

    Written in Hiroshima while I was a Master’s student at Elisabeth University of Music, and first performed at my graduation concert from that institution. The piece opens with the ascending four-note motif from Debussy’s The Snow is Dancing from the Children’s Corner suite; gradually the motif is repeated in various ranges of both instruments, followed by soft passages from firstly piano, then violin. The piece concludes with the transposed motif heard over a chordal ostinato. The piece was influenced in some way by the music of Morton Feldman, whom I was studying at the time. Published by Wai-te-ata Press Music Editions, Wellington, and released on CD in a performance by Mark Menzies and Dan Poynton, on Wai-te-ata WTA001.

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