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Chris Cree Brown  

Alphabet

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1983, r. 1986
music theatre for choir (22 voices), two musicians and soloist

Bryony Jagger  

Birds of Enlightenment

Duration: 53' 00" Year: 1978
theatre cantata based on a Noh play for choir, soloists and percussion

• Instrumentation
  soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone and mezzo soloists with timpani, percussion, recorders
• Programme Note

  Based on the Noh play Uto by Zeami. Theatre Cantata through-composed. The text falls into two parts with an interlude between them.

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  • Jagger: Birds of Enlightenment; facsimile 

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Felicity Williams  

Herbert and Harry

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1990
A dance drama

• Instrumentation
  For piano, voices and classroom instruments

Felicity Williams  

Jumping Mouse

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1990
A dance drama

• Instrumentation
  For voices, piano and classroom instruments

Dorothy Buchanan  

La Passion du Jeanne D'Arc

Duration: 1h 27' 00" Year: 1989
arranged from Alix et Pouget's score for soprano, mezzo, SSA choir and organ

Helen Fisher  

Nga Tapuwae o Kupe (The Footprints of Kupe)

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1992
a bicultural work for school choir, instruments and dance

• Instrumentation
  choir, percussion, Rarotongan drums, guitars (students), Taonga Puoro (koauau), piano, clarinet in B flat, alto saxophone, horn in F, flute, guitar (advanced performer)
• Programme Note

  Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe’s journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery of various landmarks around Whanganui-a-Tara / the Wellington region.

  While this work maintains a strong Maori theme, with karanga, haka and waiata, as well it weaves in other Pacific and European elements.

  For school choir, instrumentalists, dancers and kapa haka, this work was composed with the financial assistance of a composition grant from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, was first performed by 140 students from South Wellington Intermediate School in July 1992 for Artsplash, the Wellington Young People’s Festival.

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  • Fisher: Nga Tapuwae o Kupe; facsimile 

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  • Fisher: Nga Tapuwae o Kupe; facsimile 

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  • Helen Fisher: Works 1  Year: 1992 

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Oedipus Rex

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1983
incidental music for a play by Sophocles for TTBB choir, SATB choir and quartet

• Instrumentation
  flute, viola, cello, timpani

Felicity Williams  

Rata and the Totara Tree

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1990
arr. for stick puppets, narrator, scratch orchestra, voices and piano

• Instrumentation
  theatrical elements

Felicity Williams  

Rata and the Totara Tree

 Year: 1990
A shadow puppet play with incidental music

• Instrumentation
  For voices, piano and classroom instruments

Helen Fisher  

Taku Wana - The Enduring Spirit

Duration: 1h 02' 00" Year: 1997
for SATB choir, kapa haka, Maori and Irish instruments, 3 soloists and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  SATB choir of 40; soprano, mezzo and baritone soloists; Maori instruments: pukaea, koauau, putorino, purerehua, putatara, poiawhiowhio, karanga manu; Irish instruments: Irish flute, Uillean pipes, tinn whistles in F and C, bodhran; 2 french horns, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone; percussion: snare drum, conga, bass drum and woodblock; strings
• Programme Note

  Music drama for choir, kapa haka, orchestra, Maori and Irish instruments and soloists. Directed by Rangimoana Taylor, it includes Maori composition by Wi Kuki Kaa and lyrics by Lauris Edmond. It focuses on Nelson’s Maori-Pakeha history since 1841, stories that have contemporary resonances in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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  • Fisher: Taku Wana - the enduring spirit; computer-set 

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  • Fisher: Taku Wana - the enduring spirit; computer-set 

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  • Taku Wana – the enduring spirit (May 1998) 

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  • Fisher: Taku Wana 

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