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Dorothy Buchanan  

Carnival of New Zealand Creatures

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1999
for narrator, singer, flute, clarinet, cello, guitar, percussion

Hugh Dixon  

Lyric Sketches

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 2004
for flute, violin, horn, and cello

  • Programme Note

    Lyric Sketches had its genesis in a suggestion from the composer’s son, Michael, to arrange my Songs of Mystic Jade for his quartet, Locana.

    This cycle of structurally-related songs with the inclusion of Anthem to the Dawn and The Babbling Brook became a suite of eight pieces. The suite begins with Anthem to the Dawn inspired by a poem the composer’s wife, Rae, wrote a number of years ago. The grandioso section of the final movement, Motion, posed a problem in orchestrating the rolling arpeggios with sustaining pedal of the original piano part. I acknowledge Michael’s suggested solution which helped to retain a similar effect within the limitation of the four instruments.

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Robin Fazakerley  

Piha Waiata Po

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2002
for solo cello and chamber orchestra

Leonie Holmes  

Silver Whispers

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 2004
for SATB choir, flute, 2 pianists and 3 percussionists

  • Instrumentation
    Flute doubles alto flute; piano doubles celeste. Percussion includes: two glockenspiels, xylophone, maracas, bongos, guiro, vibraphone, large gong (or tam tam), rainstick, sandpaper block, suspended cymbal, 3 temple blocks, woodblock, bass drum,
  • Programme Note

    This group of pieces for choir and instrumental ensemble grew out of a short choral fanfare entitled Silver Whisper’, commissioned by Auckland Choral in 2000. The original fanfare is now the last piece in a suite of five movements.

    The texts are based around the celebration of life in its many manifestations, exploring aspects of spring and the wonders of nature, ranging from the scuttle of insects to the unearthly song of whales, and concluding with a song of praise to the Creator. A small ensemble of flute, three percussionists, and two pianos (one doubling celesta) gives a flexible group with which to provide atmospheric and varied shades of accompaniment to the singers.

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Christopher Marshall  

Tihei, Mauri Ora!

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1999
a cycle of settings of Maori texts for male choir and clarinet