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Ross Harris  

Dreams, Yellow Lions

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1987
for baritone and chamber ensemble

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    violin, violoncello, soprano saxophone, flugelhorn and bass clarinet
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    Commissioned for the opening of the new National Library building in 1987, this work was the centre piece in a concert of New Zealand music which inaugurated the Library’s auditorium. Harris chose Alistair Campbell’s poetry as he has always enjoyed its vernacular quality. Included in the ensemble are some of Harris’ favourite instruments: soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and flugelhorn. Harris views this work almost as a kind of unstaged melodrama. As with his To the Memory of I.S. Totzka (2000), Dreams Yellow Lions was written in a period between work on his operas and acts as a substitute for the larger compositional form. Short instrumental interludes link the songs through various emotional states. “It’s all about memories and I always imagine an old man thinking about his younger days, dreaming away, getting old and becoming sick”.

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Peregrinations

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1987, r. 1990
for piano and orchestra

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Christopher Blake  

The Coming of Tane Mahuta

Duration: 28' 00" Year: 1987
concerto for piano and orchestra

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