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Cheryl Camm  

Address to the Toothache

 Year: 1987
For bass and chamber ensemble

• Instrumentation
  For bass singer, bassoon, cello, tenor trombone and percussion (suspended cymbal, side drum, bass drum)

Annea Lockwood  

Amazonia Dreaming

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1987
for snare drum and voice

Felicity Williams  

Astronomy Song, Dinosaur Blues and Monster Romp

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1987
for solo voice and piano

• Instrumentation
  optional backing jazz/rock band
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  • Felicity Williams: The Quangle Wangle  Year: 1992 

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David Griffiths  

Charms and Knots

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1987
song cycle for baritone and piano

• Programme Note

  This set of songs was written in 1987 during my time as lecturer in voice at Otago University.

  The title is drawn from the second song of the set.

  Herbert’s poetry has always been a delight to me and in these settings I have endeavoured to capture in music his unique and lively reflections on his relationship with God. His words are beautifully wrought and fathom deep waters making a challenge for musical setting. However I think the songs touch something of the intentions of this great metaphysical poet.

  David Griffiths

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  • Charms & Knots - songs by David Griffiths  Year: 2011 

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Andrew Perkins  

Composition In Red

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1987
for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola and cello

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Ross Harris  

Dreams, Yellow Lions

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1987
for baritone and chamber ensemble

• Instrumentation
  violin, violoncello, soprano saxophone, flugelhorn and bass clarinet
• Programme Note

  Commissioned for the opening of the new National Library building in 1987, this work was the centre piece in a concert of New Zealand music which inaugurated the Library’s auditorium. Harris chose Alistair Campbell’s poetry as he has always enjoyed its vernacular quality. Included in the ensemble are some of Harris’ favourite instruments: soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and flugelhorn. Harris views this work almost as a kind of unstaged melodrama. As with his To the Memory of I.S. Totzka (2000), Dreams Yellow Lions was written in a period between work on his operas and acts as a substitute for the larger compositional form. Short instrumental interludes link the songs through various emotional states. “It’s all about memories and I always imagine an old man thinking about his younger days, dreaming away, getting old and becoming sick”.

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  • Harris: Dreams, Yellow Lions; facsimile 

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  • Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 4 - Composer Portrait: Ross Harris  Year: 1987 

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John Drummond  

Farewell Duet/trio

 Year: 1987
For solo voice(s) and piano

Christopher Marshall  

Fleeting Visions

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1987
for soprano and string quartet

• Programme Note

  Cycle of four settings of poems by Ruth Dallas, for soprano and string quartet. Composed in 1987 for soprano Susan Boland, who gave the first performance in that year with the University of Auckland string quartet. Recorded and broadcast several times the following year. The songs are always lyrical and melodic, with a certain austerity.

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  • Marshall: Fleeting Visions; computer-set 

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Anthony Ritchie  

For Seven

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1987
for 2 clarinets, trumpet, guitar, 2 percussion and voice

• Instrumentation
  Percussion: xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel, timpani, standard-drum, cymbal, triangle, woodblock

Ronald Tremain  

Four Blake Songs

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1987
for soprano and cello

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  • Tremain: Four Blake Songs; facsimile 

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    $8.00
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