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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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Craig Utting  

A Celebration

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1988
for large orchestra

Anthony Ritchie  

A Poem Just for Me

 Year: 1988
arranged by Anthony Ritchie for soprano, baritone and piano

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

A Resonance of Emerald

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988, r. 1990
for mixed chamber ensemble

Helen Caskie  

A Sweet Season but Short

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

Margaret Wegener  

A Sympathy With Sounds

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1988
for SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    A Sympathy With Sounds was composed in 1988 to celebrate the centenary of a certain choral society, to the specifications of the conductor. When the work was completed, both the composition of the choir and the conductor had changed and it was never performed by that society. The work is suitable for an SATB choir of moderate strength and ability, provided there are sufficient singers to cope with the ocasional divisions.

    A Sympathy with Sounds… and some lovely sounds there are too!” – Brian Kay

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Clare Maclean  

A West Irish Ballad

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1988
for unaccompanied choir

David Hamilton  

An Offering for Parihaka

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

Alison Carey  

Aotearoa

 Year: 1988
a hymn for mixed voices

  • Programme Note

    Aotearoa was written with words by Tolla Williment, a New Zealander with Wesleyan missionary ancestors in Northland in the 1820s. She has had a biography published, as well as short stories, poems and books for children.

    Aotearoa was performed by the Laings Road Methodist Choir at the service commemorating the 75th anniversary of the building of the latest church in Laings Road, in March 2002.

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Matthew Davidson  

Between the Lines

Duration: 07' 45" Year: 1988
Analog tape piece

  • Programme Note

    This work uses, as its sound source, an array of human voices, all of which are deceased political and/or historical figures. It is not intended to be entirely comprehensible at a first hearing as I wished to convey, in part, our cultural over-stimulation in comparison to say, 100 years ago. Musically, it is shaped as a canon, and (taking my inspiration from a comment by Dylan Thomas to the effect that what originally attracted him to language was not its meaning but its sound) I have assembled increasingly fragmented parts of speeches into a confusing labyrinth which will hopefully stimulate harsh emotion. How’s that for a run-on sentence!

    Between the Lines was realized at the Electronic Music Studios at the University of Toronto, and re-mastered in Studio A of the Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States.

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