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Juliet Palmer  

5 Cactus Dreams

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for voice and chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    vocalist, oboe, tenor saxophone, viola, cello, cactus and camera flash. Performed in darkness with light flashes to trigger each movement - performers also walk while playing.
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Vernon Griffiths  

A Boy's Song

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1960
for treble voice or soprano and piano

Chloe Moon  

A Crown of Windflowers

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1981
for unaccompanied treble voices

Dorothy Buchanan  

A Matter of Timing

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1996
for SATB choir with string quartet, female narrator and mezzo-soprano

Helen Caskie  

A Sweet Season but Short

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1988
for mezzo-soprano and piano

Rosemary Russell  

A Wellington Christmas or Christmas Eve Reflections

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2000
for three part treble choir with SATB choir and finger cymbals

  • Programme Note

    In the deepness of the night before Christmas, children dream of exciting and wondrous things: so do adults, but they are also fraught with arrangements and planning for the big day. a call for simplicity and remembering the loving and gifting nature of Christmas. This piece is performed “in the round” i.e. the adult choir encircles the audience and the children stand up the central aisle. The adult choir gradually moves around the audience and sings at times in smaller groupings. The audience does not know where the sound will come from next. The children need to be able to hold 3 simple parts. Finger cymbals are used to indicate stars and nocturnal animals create an interesting opening. It is depicts a New Zealand Christmas experience.

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David Farquhar  

ABC

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
for SATB choir

Gillian Whitehead  

Almost an Island

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2005
for soprano and piano

  • Programme Note

    ‘Almost an Island’, a phrase which refers to the Otago peninsula, is the title I’ve given to a short set of haiku written by peninsula poets, which I set for voice and piano as a wedding present for my then neighbours, Breffni and Dave.

    Rain blows on windows plastered with new leaves it’s spring again (Eleanor Koch)
    Golden pendant blossoms bright against blue spring sky beckon tuis (Eleanor Koch)
    Gleaming white across Arapatiki three spoonbills fly towards us (Gillian Whitehead)
    Aramoana pathway to the wide ocean memories remain (Kay Sinclair)
    Fiery rata circled by glitter almost an island (Kay Sinclair)
    Track winds past pine trees tangled vines scratching bare skin sharp smell of gorse flowers (Fran Bolgar)
    Low pressure warning on the macrocarpa thirty herons swaying (Gillian Whitehead)
    Kereru wheeling soaring and plummeting bounce now on tree-top (Joyce Whitehead)

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Maarire Goodall  

Aramoana - Pathway to the Sea

Duration: 08' 00"
for piano

Gillian Whitehead  

Arapatiki

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2004
a "landscape prelude" for piano