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Richard Bolley  

a little cummings piece

 Year: 1972
for soprano, 6 violins, 2 violas, tubular bells and vibraphone

Vernon Griffiths  

A Marriage Hymn

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1972
A song with piano accompaniment and optional duet

Lyell Cresswell  

Four Sentimental Songs

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1972
for soprano, piano, and a bag of wooden clothes pegs

Gillian Bibby  

Musik für drei Hörer (Music for 3 Listeners)

Duration: 41' 00" Year: 1972
for clavichord, voice, and percussion

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    Percussion: antique cymbals, 3 African zebra-skin drums, bamboo windchimes

Gillian Bibby  

Musik für drei und einige Hürer

Duration: 41' 00" Year: 1972
Music for 3 and sundry listeners

  • Instrumentation
    For electric clavichord, amplified voice and drums and electronically modified antique cymbals and bamboo windchimes

Dorothy Buchanan  

Peace Song

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1972
for voice(s) and piano

Dorothy Buchanan  

Peace Song

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1972, r. 1997
arranged for soprano and cello

John Rimmer  

Pukeko

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1972
for soprano, flute/piccolo, oboe, horn, cello, piano

  • Programme Note

    Pukeko is a setting of a poem by the prominent New Zealand writer Ian Wedde and was composed in 1972 while John Rimmer was the Mozart Fellow and Ian Wedde was the Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin. The piece follows the mood of the poem with demonstrative gestures in the opening – ‘the mind can fly like a cool blue Braque bird straight to the heart of a storm’ through to the delicate textures of ‘but consider the pukeko going doubtfully on spindly legs among swamp grasses’.

    At the end an improvisation features some of the players whispering the last line ‘poor ludicrous fowl’ while the soprano hums previous motives ad libitum and the horn and cello provide high wailing sounds.

    Pukeko was first performed at Milton High School on 7 August 1972 during a tour of Otago schools by the Marama Players of the Department of Music, University of Otago.

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Bryony Jagger  

Six Basho Haiku

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1972
for low contralto and chamber ensemble

Kit Powell  

Six Mother Courage Songs

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1972, r. 2004
for soprano and piano

  • Programme Note

    Six Mother Courage Songs were written for a performance of Brecht’s Mother Courage in the Ngaio Marsh Theatre in Christchurch under the combined direction of Don McAra and Mervyn Thompson in 1972. They were revised and arranged as a cycle for Soprano and Piano in 1985 in Switzerland and again in 2004.

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