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Chris Adams  

Chamber Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Contrabassoon/Bassoon

Duration: 08' 30" Year: 2010
for tenor saxophone, contrabassoon/bassoon and ensemble

Samuel Holloway  

Hauptstimme

Duration: 03' 30" Year: 2010
for ensemble (16 performers)

  • Instrumentation
    piccolo, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, horn, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, 2 soprano voices, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, piano, percussion (vibraphone and marimba)

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 Cree Brown  

Munted

 Year: 2012
for large chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tuba, 2 perc, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass.
  • Programme Note

    Munted: An object is munted when either an object is broken beyond repair of the function of the object is severely compromised. Christchurch suffered major earthquakes on 4 September 2012 and 22 February 2011. The composer also was treated for throat cancer in early 2011. The title could refer to either the above.

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Anton Killin  

Pictures

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2012
for mixed chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, french horn, soprano or mezzo-soprano, violin, viola, cello, doublebass
  • Programme Note

    ‘Pictures’ for ensemble juxtaposes moments of complex interlocking rhythms and melodic fragments with moments of silence and moments of stasis. The musical material that comprises this composition exemplifies a wide palate of articulation; the melodic fragments are based on the names of several core members of SMP Ensemble, to whom this composition is dedicated.

Pieta Hextall  

Portals

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

Peter Scholes (composer)  

Relic

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2010
for 13 players

  • Instrumentation
    fl/picc, ob, cl in Bb, hn in F, tpt in Bb, tbn rototoms (starting G below middle C, GABCDEFGA) one player harp, vln1, vln2, vla, vc, cb
  • Programme Note

    In 1997 I visited Cairo to work with Arabic musicians and a dawn trip to the pyramids was on the schedule. Then there was a visit to a local tourist shop and I came away with my own relic – a plaster copy of a golden Isis with wings outstretched. The seller did warn me that it was not the real artifact. It has sat in my studio and in idle moments I have pondered the fact that this goddess was worshipped as far back as 2500 b.c. and later her worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world until the 6th century. Temples to Isis were built in Iraq, Greece, Rome, even as far north as England where the remains of a temple were discovered at Hadrian’s Wall.

    “Relic” opens with a call from the harp and drum and through the melodic and darker passages I seek to convey a sense of ritual – each element in its place, taking time to breathe, delivering then moving on. The fast second section exploded into this piece quite spontaneously as the potential of the harp and drum combination demanded to be realized. Unison and ornate figures dominate the melodic material and an urgent dance in the Locrian mode is the result.

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David Hamilton  

There's Something Funky About Mary

 Year: 2011
for wind ensemble, boomwhackers and piano