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bagpipes, cello, marimba/harp/tenor drum (1 player), violin, flute/piccolo (1 player), clarinet/bass clarinet/soprano and alto saxophones (1 player)

This dance theatre project was commissioned to celebrate the New Zealand Women’s Suffrage Centennial, and explores a range of historical and contemporary issues. It is based on documents written by Kate Shepherd and was choreographed by Susan Jordan.

• Fisher: Bone of Contention; facsimile 

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• Helen Fisher: Bone of Contention  Year: 1993 

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Television newsreader (spoken voice), Nobelman (baritone), Castelli (tenor), Galileo (baritone), Boy/Angel (mezzo soprano), Three Priests (tenor/baritones), Heretic (baritone), Christina (soprano), Military Man (baritone), Sea Captain (baritone), Troubadour (mezzo soprano), Cardinal Bellarmino (tenor), Pope Urban VIII (bass baritone), Pope John Paul II (baritone), small chorus of townspeople; flute doubling piccolo, oboe, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, horn, piano, percussion, violin and cello. Electroacoustic music played through at least eight loudspeakers. DVD of visuals.

• Rimmer: Galileo; electroacoustic part 

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• Rimmer: Galileo; computer-set 

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• Rimmer: Galileo; computer-set 

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• Rimmer: Galileo (visuals) 

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Taonga Puoro: ipu, pahu pounamu, koauau rakau maire, panguru, hure puru hau, poi awhio whio, ua roria rau karamu, putorino rakaumatai, kouaua pponga ihu, kouauau koiwi kuri, koauau koiwi toroa, tumutumu, pupu harakehe, porotiti, purerehua kohatu pounamu, pukaea rakau manuka, karanga manu; Maori instruments and piano improvised (guidelines in score), cello notated

• Gillian Whitehead: Aftermath 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Waka, Kowhai and Tui 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Waka's Love for Kowhai 

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• Gillian Whitehead: The Storm 

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• Whitehead: IPU  Year: 1998 

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(1)2121;2220;3perc, kybds,hp;strs (10-8-6-6-4) and tape.

• Jonathan Besser: Jean - The Ballet  Year: 1990 

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Taonga puoro (Maori instruments) one, or ideally two players, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass; 6 singers (soloists)

• Whitehead: Outrageous fortune; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune; computer-set 

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• Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune; computer set 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Outrageous Fortune  Year: 1998 

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2222 (bcl); 4331; timp., perc.

• Perkins: Symphony 'Der Bote'; facsimile 

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• Perkins: Symphony 'Der Bote'; facsimile 

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2222; 4231; strings; 1 percussionist; organ

• Evans: Symphony - Organ; facsimile 

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• NZ Music Readng Panel 1998 

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• Evans: Symphony - Organ 

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(2)33(2)3(2)3(1);4431;3perc,timp,hp,pf;strs.

A full length symphony for large orchestra in three movements. It takes its title from the sequence of three sonnets The Islands by the New Zealand poet Charles Brasch. The music mirrors the unsettled air of the poetry and contrasts violence with delicacy and beauty as a metaphor for our times.

• Blake: Symphony - The Islands; computer-set 

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• Christopher Blake: The Islands  Year: 2002 

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(1)222(1)alto sax2; 4231; perc; timp; strings

The title of this symphony comes from the ominous tam tam stroke that opens the first movement, a mysterious sound heard by two of E M Forster’s characters in A Passage to India when they investigate the Marabar Caves. This is a sound which symbolises the mysteries of life and death, although Ritchie warns us not to take it all too literally. “The echo is only a starting point to a general theme of human struggle. The listener can interpret the music in his or her own way.”

The first movement opens sonorously in the tonality of G, pulsating chords leading us inevitably to the first main theme, a theme that Ritchie himself characterises as a “muscular, Brucknerian theme”, although the momentum that it engages owes more to Shostakovich. A sinuous saxophone theme is very significant in the central section, as is the lengthy oboe theme in the moderato section. The second movement opens with the sharp, bright sounds of oboes and clarinets accompanied by Cook Islands log drums. The log drum punctuates the movement’s textures and creates a sense of propulsion. A light-hearted dance introduced by string quartet offers an opportunity for a change of mood. The third movement is a lament for the victims of the Bosnian wars.

The highly evocative scoring of the opening pages was inpsired by the wailing of a Maori karanga, while tolling bells imbue this elegy with a special sense of tragedy. The symphony ends with a ‘grand dance’ which shows Ritchie has not been untouched by rock music. Several themes are brought together in an ecstatic coda, after which the music slowly unwinds over a reiterated pedal note. The opening of the first movement returns, and the final sound we hear is a single stroke on the tam tam.

Symphony No.1 ‘Boum’ was completed while Ritchie was Composer-in-residence with the Dunedin Sinfonia in 1993, and first performed the following year, under the baton of Sir William Southgate. It has received numerous performances, and was recorded for radio by the NZSO, in 1998, Auckland Philharmonia in 1996, Dunedin Sinfonia in 1994.

• Ritchie A: Symphony No. 1 - 'Boum'; facsimile 

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• Ritchie A.: Symphony - Boum; facsimile 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Symphony "Boum" 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Symphonies 1 and 2  Year: 2007 

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Orch: horn, piano, percussion, timpani, strings

• Buchanan: The Clio Legacy; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: The Clio Legacy; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: The Clio Legacy; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: The Clio Legacy; facsimile 

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