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I did intend to sit down and compose an orchestral epic. I really, really DID, honest. Could I help it that as soon as I made that decision, the saxes started up a 1920s tea dance in my computer?! Only it’s not all sweetness and light and good ol’ days, in fact it sometimes gets a little murky in there, to say the least…

• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Yvette Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; video 

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• Biddington: A New Zealand Fable; computer set  Year: 2007 

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• A New Zealand Fable - Eric Biddington  Year: 2008 

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A play on words (the Dutch word Bijl translates to axe in English) and the common reference to the saxophone of jazz players as a “axe”.

• Jamieson: AXE; computer-set 

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• Utting: Birds at Sea; facsimile 

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• Utting: Birds at Sea; facsimile 

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• Norman: Birthday Music; computer-set 

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• Buchanan: Clarinets Apart; computer-set 

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• Utting: Elegy; facsimile 

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• Utting: Elegy; facsimile 

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For some reason we never seem to fully escape our formative influences. In this case it is the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1959 Time Out album, featuring the smooth, lyrical alto saxophone sound of Paul Desmond, as well as time signatures not yet widely heard by the general public on a jazz recording.

Why Grooves Unspoken? Because we do not speak music, we play (or sing) it.

• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoke; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; alto or baritone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; alto or baritone version; computer-set 

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• Yvette Audain: Grooves Unspoken 

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Guardians of the North is a work for wind orchestra commissioned by the Opononi Summer School. It was written to celebrate the school but also to introduce and/or make more familiar New Zealand music to the participants. Because of this, it was written in an accessible yet challenging style in the hope to encourage interest in new music, and more specifically, New Zealand music, which lacks music for this timbre.

The summer school is set in the Hokianga, where New Zealand’s first Maori, and second European, settlements were established. Since then, no other place in New Zealand carries such rich and storied past. Maori legend has it that two taniwha, Arai-te-uru & Niwa, were situated at the entrance of the harbour to protect it from invading waka. Arai-te-uru was placed on the south head, and Niwa at the north head. They would stir the waters and lash out at the waka, ceasing their entry. These two taniwha were the … Guardians of the North.

This work was funded jointly by the Opononi Music School and Creative New Zealand.

• Youens: Guardians of the North; computer-set 

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• Youens: Guardians of the North; computer-set 

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Hawk: Seeking dust from a distant sun.

• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores for Clarinet Quartet; computer-set 

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• Hunt: Three Quirky Microscores & A Flock of Fleeting Microscores; computer set 

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• Natalie Hunt: Hawk; audio 

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• Microscore Madness! - the New Zealand Clarinet Quartet 

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