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John Rimmer  

Colder far than snow

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1977
electronic tape

Larry Pruden  

Looking for a Lost Guinea-Pig at Daybreak

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1977
for piano

John Elmsly  

Metamorphosis

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1977, r. 2008
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    32(1)32(1); 4221; timp,perc; strs
  • Programme Note

    Metamorphosis was originally composed as one of a set of three pieces for symphony orchestra when I was a student of Victor Legley at the Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium van Brussel, though it has never been read by an orchestra. The title is doubly significant in that it both refers to the technical processes since all of the musical material is derived by pitch and rhythmic transformations from the opening five note figure presented by the flute in the first dozen or so bars, and that the piece represents my metamorphosis into a committed symphonic composer. Without the experience of writing this and its companions I doubt that I could have written with ease the Cello Symphony, Pacific Hockets or
    Response of later years.

    Since it was my first true essay in symphonic writing I left it undisturbed for many years, but after re-examining the score last year decided that it had many strengths. After battling with the toil of computer typesetting I have been surprised to find myself still pleased by much of the writing, and apart from one or two minor corrections the new edition is the 1977
    work largely untouched.

    At the time I was working on this, I was supervised by Victor Legley, a fine symphonic composer, harmonist and viola player who died in 1994; I dedicate the revised score to his fine mentoring and know he would have enjoyed hearing it.

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Chris Cree Brown  

Piece for Solo Flute

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1977

Ronald Tremain  

Psalm 100

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1977
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Ross Harris  

Shadow Music

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1977
for tape

John Elmsly  

Sonatina

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1977
for flute and piano

Edwin Carr  

Sonatina

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1977
for piano

John Rimmer  

Whakaari

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1977
for solo treble recorder