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Pepe Becker  

Cancer

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2000
for soprano, alto, tenor and thumbpiano

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  • Becker: Cancer; facsimile 

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  • Pepe Becker: Many Waters  Year: 2000 

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  • Becker; From the far point of the rising of the sun (Part I)  Year: 2005 

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  • Baroque Voices: Brother Sun, Sister Moon  Year: 2011 

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Kit Powell  

Father's Telescope

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
a playful music theatre piece for singer, speaker and tape about power and submission

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  • Powell: Father's Telescope; electroacoustic part 

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  • Harlow - Powell: Radio NZ Archive Recordings 

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Shen Nalin  

Hymn to the Virtue of Wine

 Year: 2002
for vocal ensemble with gu-zheng, sheng, and hu-qin

• Instrumentation
  soprano I, soprano II, tenor, baritone, bass, gu-zheng, sheng, and hu-qin
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Jack Body  

Love Sonnets of Michelangelo

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1982
for soprano, mezzo-soprano, voice, and a dancer

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  The Love Sonnets of Michelangelo I wrote for Michael Parmenter, with whom I worked on a programme entitled Between Two Fires (also included was a dance-theatre work I created collaboratively with Michael, using his voice as well as his body, with imagery extracted from the diaries of Franz Kafka.) At the time I was focused on different styles of melody, having just completed my Five Melodies for Piano. Inspired by the lovely voices of some of the then current students in our School of Music, I felt that women’s voices gave the expressive quality I wanted, as well as providing a useful ‘cover’ for the overtly homo-erotic tenor of the texts. The original production used film, shot by my good friend Bayley Watson, showed the dancer’s prostrate figure, swathed in bandages. As the performance unfolded the cloth was gradually cut and pealed back by hands belonging to an old man whose face we never saw, the intended metaphor being of the sculptor cutting away marble to reveal the male form that he sensed already existed within the stone.

  The work has since had other performances that have discarded the theatrical elements, most successfully when each setting is prefaced by a reading of the poem in translation.

  These settings of some of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s most personal sonnets articulate the anguish of love and desire, as well as the despair of old age. The musical style combines the theatricality of Italian bel canto with the direct expressivity of folksong.

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  • Body: Love Sonnets of Michelangelo; facsimile 

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  • Jack Body and Michael Parmenter: Love Sonnets 

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  • Baroque Voices: How Great is the Pleasure   Year: 2001 

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  • Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 6 - Composer Portrait: Jack Body  Year: 2003 

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Gillian Bibby  

Musik für eine Aula

 Year: 1974
music for a concert hall for seven voices, four cellos, three additional instruments ad lib

Kit Powell  

Poem Then, For Love

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1983
A song cycle for two singers and percussionist involving graphic notation and theatrical elements.

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  Two singers and percussionist

Helen Fisher  

Taku Wana - The Enduring Spirit

Duration: 37' 00" Year: 2002
for two mezzo sopranos, Kai-karanga, taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments), flute/piccolo, bodhran, string quartet

• Instrumentation
  one of the mezzo sopranos needs to be familiar with performing Maori waiata.
• Programme Note

  This chamber work, composed in 2002, is based on the music drama of the same title, with music by Helen Fisher, Maori composition by Wi Kuki Kaa and lyrics by Lauris Edmond. This shorter work for two sopranos, kai-karanga, string quartet, flute, bodhran and Maori instruments was produced for a CD on the Atoll label (ACD 203). This work focuses on some Maori and Pakeha women’s stories surrounding the events of the 1843 Wairau tragedy. These are stories of compassion, which have a resonance for New Zealand today, showing a way forward for reconciliation and racial harmony.

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  • Fisher: Taku Wana  Year: 2003 

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John Drummond  

Voices

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1966
for Soprano, Tenor and Harpsichord