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Cilla McQueen  

1/2 a minute of song for Five Voices

 Year: 1981
Graphic notation for five voices

Anthony Young  

13 - Theme and Variations

 Year: 2012
for organ and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3[1.2.p/afl]3[1.2.ca]3[1.2/Ebcl.3/bcl]3[1.2.cbsn]; 4331; timp.; 3 perc.; organ; harp; strings
  • Programme Note

    13 was inspired by the Renaissance art I saw while studying and travelling in Italy in 2009 – 10. I was taken with the bold depictions of martyrs with the attributes of their lives and deaths.

    13 is a set of 13 variations on a theme first presented by the organ. Each variation is based on one of the thirteen present at the Last Supper. The details of their lives are often sketchy, and sometimes sit somewhere between fact and legend. The order is as follows:

    Theme
    Var. I
    St Simon Zealotes – Revolutionary; went to Armenia and Persia; sawn in half.
    Var. II
    St Thomas - Doubted Christ’s wounds; went to India; pierced with lance.
    Var. III
    St Philip – Sober-minded; went to Greece and Phrygia; crucified upside-down.
    Var. IV
    St Bartholomew - Honest; went to Armenia; flayed alive.
    Var. V
    St Jude Thaddeus – Farmer; went to Syria and Armenia; clubbed to death.
    Var. VI
    Judas Escariot – The betrayer; eternally punished; hung himself.
    Var. VII
    St James the Great – Fiery temper; ‘Son of Thunder’; Judaea; beheaded.
    Var. VIII
    St James the Less – Brother of Christ; Jerusalem and went to Egypt; thrown off temple.
    Var. IX
    St Matthew – Tax collector; accompanied by an angel; Ethiopia and Persia; martyr.
    Var. X
    St Andrew - The first-called; went to Ukraine and Black Sea; crucified on saltire.
    Var. XI
    St John – Author of Revelations; ‘Son of Thunder’; went to Asia Minor; died of old-age.
    Var. XII
    St Peter – Holder of the keys to the Gates of Heaven; went to Rome; crucified upside-down.
    Var. XIII
    Apotheosis

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Jenny McLeod  

18 Easy Pieces

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1996
easy pieces for 1-4 players (or more)

Kirsten MacKenzie  

4AM

 Year: 2005
for jazz group

Mike Nock  

4SL

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit

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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Radha Sahar (née Wardrop)  

A Celtic Christmas

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2000
for unison/SATB choir and keyboard or guitar accompaniment

Vernon Griffiths  

A Christmas Choral Suite


for SATB choir and organ

David Farquhar  

A Christmas with Carols

Duration: 31' 00" Year: 1994
for SATB choir and narrator with organ

Maria Grenfell  

A Feather of Blue

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2000
for piano trio

  • Programme Note

    Commissioned in 2000 by the NZTrio, A Feather of Blue takes its title from a phrase in a poem called A View From A Window by New Zealand writer Kevin Ireland. I have always admired the wry humour and brightness of Kevin Ireland’s writing and many years ago set three of his poems for soprano and mixed ensemble. As a kind gesture Mr Ireland sent me a copy of his book of poems Skinning A Fish, and I was particularly struck by the imagery of colours, flowers, feathers and birds in this poem, which illustrates rain pouring down a window pane and giving way to a burst of sunshine after a storm.

    Maria Grenfell

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