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• John Charles: Constance (movie trailer); video 

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Goodbye Pork Pie is a 1981 film directed by Geoff Murphy and written by Geoff Murphy and Ian Mune. The film is considered to be one of New Zealand’s most popular films.

• John Charles: Goodbye Pork Pie (movie trailer); video 

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Music for a six part drama series, directed by Sam Pillsbury produced by Zenith Films/Philips-Whitehouse

Iris is the music for a film biography of New Zealand poet Robin Hyde, whose name was actually Iris Wilkinson. The film awas produced by Endeavour Films TV film and directed by Tony Isaac.

• John Charles: The Quiet Earth  Year: 1993 

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• Edwin Carr: Sinfonietta and Promenade 

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• Edwin Carr: Poems, Sinfonietta and Promenade 

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• Edwin Carr: Orchestral Works and Symphony No. 4  Year: 1995 

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• Dixon: Song Celestial; computer-set 

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• Dixon: Song Celestial; computer-set 

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• New Zealand Composers On Screen 

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A moonlit scene on a lonely beach with long slow waves rising and receding. Gradually they become more intense; their inward and outward criss-crossing revealing a dangerous undertow. The music reaches a climax, and, certain motives representing two of the principal dancers are heard. The mysterious ‘chorus’ of sirens, of Part 1, is briefly heard, and the principal Siren appears moving front stage while the ‘chorus’ recedes. The principal male dancer now rises, and in a dream, and is drawn towards her. She leads him closer to the sea and they dance to the ‘sea’ and ‘siren’ music. As he tries to hold her, she again and again is allusive, and taunts him deeper and deeper until the sea engulfs him. He drowned and thrown back by the waves onto the beach.

While living in retirement in Oakura I was given a synopsis by Val Deakin to write a ballet for her Dance Theatre in New Plymouth. She choreographed the second movement only and it was performed in New Plymouth with an ad hoc orchestra in 1989, myself conducting.

Hugh Dixon, 22 November 2009

• Dixon: Undertow at Oakura; computer-set 

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• APO play Dixon and Lodge 

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