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Chris Adams  

Art Miniatures

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2010
for flute and piano

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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Chris Adams  

Atthis (mezzo-soprano & guitar)

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2010
for mezzo-soprano and guitar

Chris Adams  

Atthis (viola & guitar)

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2010
for viola and guitar

Stephen Lange  

Ave Maria

Duration: 02' 50" Year: 2010
for SSA choir and piano

  • Programme Note

    Using the traditional Ave Maria text this work gradually builds from unison, to two part, to three part. There are some uplifting key changes and the piece features a brief, but beautiful, a cappella section in the middle (optional accompaniment given).

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal  

Baxter Songs

Duration: 09' 50" Year: 2010
A setting of three poems by James K Baxter for baritone and piano.

  • Programme Note

    ‘Baxter Songs’ is a setting of three poems by James K Baxter. The three poems are ‘High Country Weather’, ‘Let time be still’ and an extract from ‘Stephanie’. The first two poems were composed early in the poets career and express his more romantic sentiments. When I hear these poems, I think of Baxter as a young poet in the South Island (Otago and Canterbury universities) exploring the Otago hinterland. I think, too, of the early days of his relationship with Jacqui Sturm and imagine the two of them exploring the hills and mountains. The extract from ‘Stephanie’ is from much later in Baxter’s life. He is older now and life has had its way with Baxter (or perhaps the other way around?). The poem follows a family tragedy and there is a sense of heartbreak in the voice.

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Robbie Ellis  

Beatrice

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2010, r. 2012
a short orchestral feature for cor anglais

  • Instrumentation
    solo cor anglais, flute, horn in F, strings
  • Programme Note

    In 2010, I co-wrote The Lover’s Knot with playwright Renee Liang as part of the 2010-2011 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Composer Workshops, which led to a performance with actor Stuart Devenie and conductor Kenneth Young. Stuart played the role of Walter Bolton, the last man given the death penalty in New Zealand, in the hours before his execution.

    Various instruments represent various characters in this story – clarinet for Bolton’s flighty paramour Florence, contrabassoon for the stench of death, and harmon-muted trombones for the justice system. Bolton’s ailing wife Beatrice is represented by extensive solos for the cor anglais. At the request of Lee Martelli, Education Manager of the APO, I excerpted one of these into a demonstration piece for an education concert.

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Natalie Hunt  

Beneath

 Year: 2010
for B flat clarinet, violin and piano

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh  

Black Sand

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2010
for mixed chamber ensemble

Juliet Palmer  

Bout

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2010
for chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    for saxophone/bass clarinet, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin and cello
  • Programme Note

    Bout is inspired by the sport of women’s boxing. In an interview with Canadian boxing pioneer Savoy “Kapow” Howe, I was struck by her detailed demonstration of the inner monologue of a fighter. Melodic and rhythmic material from her words insinuate themselves into the piece, along with referee’s whistles, counts and bells, training routines and the dogged persistence of the fighter.

    Bout: A round at fighting; a contest, match, trial of strength, physical or intellectual.

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