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Jonathan Besser  

Around

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1978
short work for 12 unspecified instruments, standing in a circle

Emma Carlé  

Each of Two

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2002
for chromatic gamelan and saxophone quartet

• Instrumentation
  chromatic slenthem, saron, gong, bonang barung, bonang panerus, gender, sop saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and bari saxophone
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  • Compositions by Emma Carlé  Year: 2002 

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Hugh Dixon  

Fanfare

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2004
for brass (11 players), timpani and snare drum

• Instrumentation
  3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, side drum
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  • Dixon, Hugh: Fanfare; computer-set 

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Chris Adams  

Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version)

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2011
An arrangement for Jazz Band by the composer of the original for mixed ensemble of 9 players.

• Instrumentation
  Jazz Band: 2,2,1;4;4; Pno, Drums, Bass
• Programme Note

  When Silencio Ensemble asked me to write the original piece, it was suggested that I write something inspired by or relevant to Canterbury – one possibility being a piece inspired by the landscape. In a funny kind of way, Mad Cow-Farmer’s Disease is inspired by the landscape – going to a Canterbury river and seeing the signs that say “Do Not Swim” or another where cows are loose in the riverbed and cow shit is all over the place.

  It is inspired by dry riverbeds surrounded by farms with pumps constantly irrigating the land – the premise being that any ounce of water that makes it to the sea is wasted. These same farmers, self-titled “environmentalists,” use hypothetical science to justify their wanton destruction of the natural environment.

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  • Chris Adams: Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version) - hardcopy score & parts 

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Rosie Langabeer  

Milly Mae-Moet

Duration: 12' 06" Year: 2007
for mixed chamber ensemble of 17 players

• Instrumentation
  2 alto voices, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, 2 trombones, sousaphone, electric guitar, banjo, piano, piano accordion, cello, double bass and drum kit
• Programme Note

  Milly Mae-Moet is dressed up like a picture, anticipating the carnival today, with carousels and horses, hot air balloons. Ribbons in her hair and petticoat of crinoline, dance in the wind. Mother Mae-Moet buys candy-floss and toffee, pretty balloons for her, darling Milly Mae grows stubborn and persistent, wants more balloons. She has dreams of flying, never gives up trying for one more balloon. Milly Mae-Moet is willful and unyielding she gets her way, one more balloon, to take her away. Happily flying away too high to save…

  This piece tells the story of Milly Mae-Moet, the stubborn yet admirably driven girl who convinces her mother to buy her all the balloons at the carnival so she my fulfill her dream of flying. She happily ascends (much to her mothers distress) through the insect layer into the bird layer and eventually into infinity.

  The piece is a combination of scored sections and work-shopped improvisations that were developed with the ensemble in December 2007.

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  • Rosie Langabeer: Milly Mae-Moet 

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David Hamilton  

Miniature Concerto

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2007
for chamber ensemble

• Instrumentation
  solo flute, solo oboe, solo violin, solo cello; bassoon, 3 violins, viola, cello, piano
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  • Hamilton: Miniature Concerto; computer-set 

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David Hamilton  

Othello

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1983
incidental music for a play by Shakespeare

• Instrumentation
  3 flutes, recorders, 2 clarinets (doubling saxophone), 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, cello, percussion, piano

Alex van den Broek  

Piece No. 3

Duration: 07' 00" (can vary) Year: 2007
for double bass soloist and chamber ensemble with conductor

• Instrumentation
  flute, B flat clarinet, A clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, B flat trumpet, piano, cello
• Programme Note

  This work is adapted from a piece I wrote during my student years at the University of Canterbury. It uses tightly harmonic sections and contrasts them with loose melodic sections which were meant to express my mixed and confused feelings which were apparent to me at the time. For this arrangement I have kept these sections whilst forming a dramatic outline for the bass soloist. The conductor cues the numbered sections in any order depending on the progress of the piece.

Pieta Hextall  

Portals

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2010
for mixed chamber ensemble

• Instrumentation
  for 2 flutes (1 doubling alto flute), 2 clarinets (doubling saxophones), soprano/tenor saxophone, bassoon, trumpet in Bb, perc/piano, viola, cello, double bass
• Programme Note

  A doorstep is the highest mountain.

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  • Hextall: Portal; computer-set 

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