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Gillian Whitehead  

Awa Herea (Braided Rivers)

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 1993
a song cycle for soprano and piano

• Programme Note

  This song cycle for soprano and piano has texts by the composer in Maori and English.

  “Awa Herea memorably evokes the physical appearance of symbolic significance of these braided rivers… cosmic weather-driven energy.” (Covell, Sydney Morning Herald).

  “Its pace was shrewdly varied and the music encompassed a range of styles – from sung declamation to florid lyricism – without incongruity.” (Jack, Independent).

  “The cycle displays all the characteristics of her [Gillian Whitehead’s] mature work. The vocal line is at once exultant and contemplative, the piano writing incisive or lulling; the formal shaping novel yet accessible. It is a memorable piece, filled with the energetic spirit of the natural world and finding through that spirit its own serenity.”

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  • Whitehead: Awa Herea; computer-set 

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  • NZIAF: Gillian Whitehead Portrait; part 2 

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  • Waikohu: Mere Boynton and Friends 

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  • Tracey Chadwell's Songbook  Year: 1995 

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  • Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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Felicity Williams  

Hemi Dances

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1988
dance drama for voice, assorted classroom percussion, piano and synthesiser

Jordan Reyne  

High Country Weather

For voice with tape/electronics

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  • Baxter: settings of poems by NZ songwriters 

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John Drummond  

La Vie En France

 Year: 1986
Theme and incidental music for educational video

Felicity Williams   Philip Norman  

Sounds, Symbols and Snippets

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1992
vocalises ('Snippets') to accompany a book by Lois M. Clausen

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  • Lois Clausen: Sounds, Symbols and Snippets; computer-set 

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Gareth Farr  

The Ballad of Glady's Dream

For solo voice with tape/electronics

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  • Baxter: settings of poems by NZ songwriters 

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David Downes  

The Maori Jesus

For solo voice with tape/electronics

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  • Baxter: settings of poems by NZ songwriters 

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Felicity Williams  

Tooth Song

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1988
for voice and piano

Alfred Hill  

Waiata Poi

Duration: 02' 30"
for voice and piano

• Programme Note

  Can include poi performance.

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  • Inia Te Wiata: Just Call Me Happy  Year: 2007 

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