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Jack Body  

14 Stations

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2000
for amplified pianist

Lachlan McKenzie  

Alice in Wonderland - a ballet suite

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 2003
a ballet suite for orchestra

Anthony Ritchie  

Concertina

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1999
dance music for violin and piano

  • Instrumentation
    violin and piano with parts for squeezebox
  • Programme Note

    Dance music for violin, piano, squeezebox and percussion

    It can be performed live as well, in part or in its entirety, though some effects are better achieved through the recording. The work is in nine sections which run continuously.

    This work was composed for violinist Paula Smart and pianist Terence Dennis, who first recorded the work in March 1999.

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Dorothy Freed  

Down the Long, Long Trail

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1978
incidental music for four solo voices, violin, cello, piano and drums

Philip Dadson  

Eye/Drum

Duration: 29' 00" Year: 1992
For tuned PVC pipes, soprano saxophone and percussion. Players also use their voices.

Murray Biggs  

Four Oriental Pieces

Duration: 28' 00" Year: 1983
for flute and percussion

Dorothy Buchanan  

Just Looking

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1987
music for dance, for trio

Ronald Tremain  

Murder in the Cathedral

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1962
incidental music for radio play

Helen Fisher  

Nga Taniwha

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1991
bicultural work for dance and school instrumentalists

  • Instrumentation
    flute, clarinet, recorders, voices, percussion, piano, rock band
  • Programme Note

    This children’s dance theatre work choreographed by Rangimoana Taylor is based on taniwha (sea-monsters) Whataitai and Ngake, a traditional Maori legend from the Wellington region.

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Helen Fisher  

Nga Tapuwae o Kupe (The Footprints of Kupe)

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1992
a bicultural work for school choir, instruments and dance

  • Instrumentation
    choir, percussion, Rarotongan drums, guitars (students), Taonga Puoro (koauau), piano, clarinet in B flat, alto saxophone, horn in F, flute, guitar (advanced performer)
  • Programme Note

    Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe’s journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery of various landmarks around Whanganui-a-Tara / the Wellington region.

    While this work maintains a strong Maori theme, with karanga, haka and waiata, as well it weaves in other Pacific and European elements.

    For school choir, instrumentalists, dancers and kapa haka, this work was composed with the financial assistance of a composition grant from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, was first performed by 140 students from South Wellington Intermediate School in July 1992 for Artsplash, the Wellington Young People’s Festival.

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