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This piece is affectionately known as ‘Bugs’ or ‘the Bug piece’ to me, and that is what it is about: the wonderful creepy crawlies native to New Zealand. Motivation for writing this piece came from two sources. As part of my residency with the Auckland Philharmonia in 2004, I was required to write a piece for a concert specifically at children and families. Naturally, it needed simple structures, lots of energy and a bit of fun.

The second motivation with regard to a specific programme was a love for all native New Zealand fauna, and not just beautiful birds. So much music has been written with bird song or in celebration of New Zealand’s landscape. But nothing to my knowledge had been written about the humble creatures which often inspire revulsion rather than awe. Despite their not so cuddly appearance, native insects and invertebrates are just as fascinating and unique to these islands of ours as any other endemic wildlife.

The first movement is Giant Weta. Often the most notorious for exciting disgust, these magnificent insects are quite amazing, but all to often fall prey to introduced mammals.

The second movement is titled Giant Snails. Native giant snails are enormous, and often live in kauri trees, or feed on giant earthworms on the forest floor.

The Nelson Cave Spider is a extremely unique creature. Like so many other creatures and plant life of New Zealand, it is a relic of ancient times and preserved by New Zealand’s isolation.

Finally, perhaps the most unusual of all is the Peripatus, sometimes known as the velvet worm, a blue centipede-like creature that crawls through undergrowth in search of prey.

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• Two works by Anthony Young 

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• NZCT Discovery Concerts 2006 Study Guide CD  Year: 2005 

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The title In Memoriam relates to the many things and people from our individual and shared pasts that shape us and make us the way we are. It is a piece that draws on music from the past, particularly early European music and also the native birdsong and sounds of the New Zealand bush.

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• Chris Adams: In memoriam - Wellington Youth Orchestra 

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Sinfonietta depicts the tranquil and turbulent moods of one of the most beautiful and enigmatic places on Earth – Antarctica.

The opening slow movement could easily be the wide-open vistas, the distant white horizon, the isolation sensed in the explorers’ huts or even just the biting cold. Or maybe all of the above rolled into one. The ensuing dance episode is rather lugubrious – without mechanical aid, humans move slowly on ‘The Ice’ and the wildlife, such as it is, suffers similar awkwardness. Never far away is the changeable weather, bringing horrendously strong winds one minute, bright sunshine the next. The finale captures the whirling bluster and activity of an Antarctic storm and the mechanical rhythms from my first chopper ride. One of course takes what one wants from listening to a piece of music and it is not meant to be a programmatic work as such but perhaps I really do mean to depict the clowning of penguins, or at least to capture the humorous element from it amidst such a bleak landscape. Certainly, the landscape and the emotions it opened up helped shape the overall work.

I am indebted to Antarctica New Zealand for the opportunity to travel to Antarctica and gain the inspiration essential for the creation of my work.

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