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Bryony Jagger  

A Nursery of Pain

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for solo treble recorder (with optional spoken voice )

Kit Powell  

Father's Telescope

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
a playful music theatre piece for singer, speaker and tape about power and submission

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Five Responses

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1989
For women's voices, male speaker, and mixed ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    for 3 sopranos, 3 altos, male speaker, alto fl, piccolo ,E-flat clarinet ,B-flat clarinet , bass-clarinet, horn, percussion (xylophone, timpani, 5 temple blocks, tambourine, 15 maracas, windchime, clicker,marimba, cymbals, balloons, pingpong balls) hp,pf. Extras: 13 balloons (with pins); brick (for piano pedal); 100 plus table tennis balls
  • Programme Note

    This work for mixed ensemble and female voices drew its inspiration from a series of paintings by Ken Robinson which were hung up behind the performers. “Drawing on Spanish texts from Pablo Neruda and St John of the Cross, Eve de Castro-Robinson has produced some wonderfully exotic music. Timbres are perfectly judged, from the vibrant exoticism of alto flute in Edged to the mysterious ceremony of horn and timpani in Black Drop and solo lines have a tremendous sense of tautness and cohesion.” William Dart, Music in NZ

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Flute Song for the Birds

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989
for solo flute

Dorothy Buchanan  

Mary Magdalene and the Birds

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
a song cycle for mezzo and clarinet

Gillian Whitehead  

Moon, Tides and Shoreline

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    In this work, inspired by Paekakariki on the Kapiti Coast – ‘home’ during the composer’s six-week residency at Victoria University in 1989 – the relationship between music and environment is particularly strong. The cello’s low repeated D, which opens the piece, is the fundamental pitch heard in the sea and the restless semi-quavers evoke the continuous movement of waves crashing on the Paekakariki shore. Whitehead’s fascination with medieval philosophy and music, incorporating concepts of natural cycles, is reflected both in the title and in the compositional process, where magic squares were used to generate the background structure.
    (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

    “This is a rich evocative piece that is never merely picturesque, as the title might suggest. It has a lyrical complexity reminiscent of Tippett… (it) achieves moments of great beauty.” (Tim Bridgewater, The Dominion).

    “The highlight for me was the premiere of Gillian Whitehead’s Moon Tides, and Shoreline. … Perhaps there are marine associations to be heard in the score, but, more importantly, one appreciates the work’s cool and eminently logical form. The various musical motifs are inventive in themselves and intriguingly handled.” (William Dart, Music in New Zealand)

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Helen Fisher  

Pounamu

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1997
for SSAATB choir, alto soloist and koauau

  • Programme Note

    Inspired by sparkling waters of Tasman Bay Nelson, this choral work (SSAATB) was originally composed with flute accompaniment, which has been substituted in performances by the Shakuhachi (traditional Japanese flute) and also the Koauau (traditional Maori flute). There are recordings of Pounamu with each of these flutes. The piece’s choral texture uses Maori vowel sounds and a text which is a whakatauki (proverb) from the Waikato region.

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Stephan Schulz  

Pressure

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989
for baritone and SATB choir

David Farquhar  

Smile My Weeping

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1989
For medium voice and piano

David Hamilton  

Song for a Young Country

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1989
for SSAATTBB choir