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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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Alex Taylor  

Attention:

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2010
for actor and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2022; 4331; timp; 2 perc; strings
  • Programme Note

    On May 25 2010, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, also known as “Three Strikes” legislation, sponsored by David Garrett, the ACT Party, and the Sensible Sentencing Trust, and supported by the National Party, under Prime Minister John Key. The law imposes mandatory maximum sentences on offenders who commit three “Strike” offences, removing judicial discretion. An almost identical bill was passed in California in 1994. California’s crime rate remains 11% above the national average, its prison population has increased to nearly 200,000, and its recidivism rate is the highest in the United States.

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Philip Dadson  

MAYA

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1999
a counter-millennial fanfare for orchestra

Dorothy Buchanan  

Queen of Rivers

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
incidental music for film for clarinet doubling soprano saxophone

Kit Powell  

Snakes and Ladders

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1991
for cello and piano

Diana Blom  

Songs for Salome

Duration: 08' 45" Year: 1975
for mezzo-soprano and piano

  • Programme Note

    Robyn Ravlich is a poet and executive producer of the Radiophonic Unit of ABC Radio National in Australia. The three poems are from ‘Songs for Salome’, published in her collection of poems, The Black Abacus (1971). Each describes different aspects of women and love. Reckless Blues begins with text lines from a Bessie Smith song, and musically, draws on blues idiomatic sounds; Elegy for Judy Garland borrows from the laid-back ballad of the late 1930s-1940s made popular by Judy Garland; and Model reflects the brittle, driving world of the fashion model through constantly changing metres and a staccato repeated figure. The songs were commissioned for, and broadcast on, ‘The Coming Out Ready or Not Show’, ABC Radio 2, in November 1975, performed by Angela Giblin (soprano) and Linn Robertson (piano).

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Kit Powell  

The Green Man

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1989
music theatre piece for solo percussionist

Philip Norman  

The Juggler

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1992
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2(1)32(bass cl.)2 (contra bassoon); 432(1)0; timpani; 3 percussionists; harp; piano (or electronic equivalent); strings
  • Programme Note

    An orchestral overture which has been described as “… a highly successful piece that could bear repetition not just in this context (Pops concerts) but in more traditional concerts.” Evening Post February 1993.

    It has already had over 20 performances by four different orchestras and works well with a live juggler.

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Simon Eastwood  

(un)seen

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2011
for alto flute/piccolo, cello and percussion (2 woodblocks and a cowbell)

  • Programme Note

    seen was written as music for dance in collaboration with choreographer Justyna Janiszewska. It explores the boundary between what is seen and unseen, know and unknown, heard and unheard. The music for this piece is built upon ideas influenced by gamelan music, mainly the idea of building a rhythmic texture up from the one rhythmic line layered on to of itself at different speeds. Each section explores a different aspect of the relationship between these different layers. However, this rhythmic framework itself is never fully exposed, and so itself remains unheard while it exerts an influence on the piece from a distance.

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