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Chloe Moon  

A Crown of Windflowers

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1981
for unaccompanied treble voices

Jenny McLeod  

Childhood

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1981
ten short songs for unaccompanied SATB choir

Denise Hulford  

Dreams

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1981
for mezzo-soprano and flute

  • Programme Note

    In April 1981 Denise Hulford ‘discovered’ Sam Hunt’s poem DREAMS and was immediately impressed with the very descriptive words which became an inspiration for this setting of the poem for Mezzo-Soprano and Flute. As a composer and singer Denise Hulford has been fascinated by the voice and its potential for manipulation whilst being able to blend with other timbres.

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William Dart  

Give us a Kiss

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1981
a musical for 4 actor-singers, narrator and piano

  • Programme Note

    A song-drama exploring gay rights, written at the time when there were moves around New Zealand to pass the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. Many of the songs are based on true incidents and are presented in a cabaret format. The show toured the country in 1982 under the auspices of the New Zealand Student Arts Council.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Hine e Hine

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1981
arranged for SATB choir with piano accompaniment

Anthony Ritchie  

Lament for Barney Flanagan

 Year: 1981
for baritone and piano

Gillian Whitehead  

Pao

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1981
for mezzo-soprano, piano and clarinet

  • Programme Note

    ‘Pao’ is the name given by Maori to two-lined epigrammatic songs which comment on a wide range of subjects such as love, war, politics or religion; often topical, often improvised. Most of the songs set here were collected in 1864 from Maori prisoners captured during the the land wars in the Waikato area south of Auckland. The couplets are not connected in any way except for the central group, for unaccompanied voice, concerning Pikeri, a character famous at the time for his escapades evading the police; in this instance, enforced separation during a love affair is charted.

    The English translations of these pao are used with the kind permission of the late Margaret Orbell, and come from her Maori Poetry, an introductory anthology (Heinemann, 1978).

    Pao was commissioned by the Northumberland-based Syrinx Trio, with financial assistance from Northern Arts; the first performance was given by Syrinx in Newcastle in 1981.

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Willow Macky  

Sweet Singing Bells

 Year: 1981
arranged by John Randal for three part voices and bells