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John Rimmer  

Anzacs Remembered

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2010
for baritone and standard brass band

Chris Adams  

Arianna's Dance

Duration: 00' 50" Year: 2010
for clarinet quartet

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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Antonia Barnett-McIntosh  

Black Sand

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

Graham Parsons  

Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for small to medium sized TTB choir with optional accompaniment

Graham Parsons  

Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for small to medium sized SATB choir with optional accompaniment

Graham Parsons  

Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for for small to medium sized SAB choir with optional accompaniment

Graham Parsons  

Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for small to medium sized SSA choir with optional accompaniment

Juliet Palmer  

Dopey

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2010
for SSA choir and piano

  • Programme Note

    A setting of a poem by Canadian poet Dennis Lee. “Dopey” comes from the 2007 poetry collection “Yesno”, evoking – in the author’s words – “a world in which the demolition derby and the possibility of living more constructively in the natural order are both real. And at once. So, not just no; not just yes; but yesno.”

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