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Programme Note

Written by Willow at the request of Canadian Dominion Carilloneur, Gordon Slater, in 1986 for the United Nations’ International Year of Peace, it was performed on carillon in the U.S., Holland, Belgium, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in that year. The song has been broadcast through national radio networks in New Zealand by Diane Philson and the Auckland Balkan Folk Orchestra.
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- Macky: Peace to the World; facsimile
  
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- Hope is our Song; computer-set Year: 2009
  
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Gillian Whitehead

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1981
for mezzo soprano and organ

Programme Note

Undoubtedly, this is one of Whitehead’s more unusual collaborations. The work, intended for five dancers and organ, with soprano added at the composer’s request, was to have been performed in five cathedrals around Britain during the summer of 1982. Due to the cancellation of the dance component however, the work received performance in only one of the cathedrals – Carlisle – but was later presented with a solo dancer, Bronwyn Judge, at the 1987 Sonic Circus in Wellington. The singer on that occasion was Glenys Taylor and the organist Douglas Mews. The composer initially delayed beginning work on the piece, since her sister was expecting a baby, and a Requiem did not seem an appropriate preoccupation. The successful birth was however followed by two close-family deaths and it was these which provided the composer with the emotional impetus to proceed with the composition. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).
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- Whitehead: Requiem; facsimile
  
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- Whitehead: Requiem; computer-set Year: 2001
  
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- Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 3 - Composer Portrait: Gillian Whitehead Year: 2000
  
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