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David Downes  

A Green Piece

 Year: 1989
dance score for tape

• Programme Note

  “Habits and routines and the struggle to change them……” Created for choreographer Sarah Major.

• Availability

  • David Downes: Saltwater  Year: 1993 

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Felicity Williams  

Aborigine Creation Myth

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1988
dance drama for children

• Instrumentation
  various tuned and untuned percussion

Chris Cree Brown  

Alphabet

 Year: 1986
music theatre for school group

John Drummond  

And Grandmother Played Bridge

 Year: 1981
lyrics and music for a masque from the memoirs of Nicholas Zissermann

William Dart  

Away with the Fairies

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1983
a divertissement for diva

• Instrumentation
  voice and piano
• Programme Note

  Away with the Fairies is a string of kitsch songs about fairies and pixies, animals and children. They are linked by recitatives which, like the songs, include quotations from other composers’ music.

• Availability

  • William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $20.00
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Chris Cree Brown  

Bars

 Year: 1983
electroacoustic music for dance

Susan Frykberg  

Caroline Herschel is minding the Heavens

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1988
An electroacoustic music theatre

• Instrumentation
  For computers, synthesisers, acting and song

Kit Powell  

Christophorus

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1981, r. 1982
Christmas cantata for baritone, children's chorus, wind orchestra and percussion

• Instrumentation
  Solo baritone, childrens' chorus Orchestra: 2222; 2220; timp., perc.(2), pno, organ; no strings. Uses slide projections
• Programme Note

  The first version was written in 1981 collectively with Andre Fischer, a pupil at the Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland in Bülach. It is a setting of words from an advent calendar by Max Bolliger. It is scored for baritone soloist (Christophorus), children’s chorus and wind orchestra, with percussion. The work was performed twice in December 1981.

  Christophorus tells the story of St. Christopher, a very strong man, who is searching for an ogre who rules the world. Each year, instead of finding the ogre, he finds a child in distress. In the eighth year, still searching, he meets Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. During the night, when Jesus is born, the child speaks to him and says he has met the ogre seven times already. Christophorus now knows what the ogre is, but is much less sure of his ability to conquer lt.

  The characters of and the children whom he meets are dressed in costume, but do not act. The Cantata is, however, illustrated by a series of slides which are shown during the whole performance.

  In 1982 in Christchurch I revised Christophorus and translated the text into English. It was performed for a season before Christmas of that year, with James Dames singing the part of Christophorus. This revised version has double wind, piano, organ and three percussionists, plus the children’s chorus. A recording was made.

• Availability

  • Powell: Christophorus; facsimile 

    Score and parts | Hardcopy - facsimile
    
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Chris Cree Brown  

Construction, Connundrum, Con Moto

 Year: 1982
music theatre for 5 musicians

• Instrumentation
  common woodwork tools, common household appliances and common instruments eg whistle.

Felicity Williams  

Courage

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1989
Dance drama

• Instrumentation
  For voice, piano, classroom instruments