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• Biddington: A Hutt Suite; computer-set 

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• Biddington: Music and Friendship  Year: 2010 

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A bouncing little piece.

• Christopher Prosser: Bouncer  

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• Prosser and Seymour: Camden Mews NW   Year: 2006 

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The title is taken from the seventeenth century Latin word Catena meaning a chain, row or series. This abstract is reflected in the composition of the piece; sections of each movement are built from short melodic motives, which once stated, keep recurring.


The first movement opens with a moment of quiet contemplation before the viola resolutely states the main theme and is followed in canon by each of the other instruments. The second movement is cyclic in structure, comprised of four sections (ABCA); the first is comparatively bright and sunny in mood, the second a quirky dance employing string glissandi, the third builds in intensity, employing clashing harmonies and fast tightly-knit motives and the fourth, a diminished iteration of the first section. The third movement is playful in character and begins with a call and response between all parts before turning into a lively dance in 7/8. The rhythmic interplay between groups of two and three quavers continues until the end of the piece.

The title Czeske Krumlov was suggested by the composer’s Czech friend.

• Christopher Prosser: Czeske Krumlov 

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• Prosser and Seymour: Camden Mews NW   Year: 2006 

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This suite of short dances were written for the composer’s visit to Dunedin and it was recorded in a short session on the last day of visit.

• Chris Prosser - Dance Suite 

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This piece was written for an old friend of mine who was at that time resident in Japan, and wanted a tune for her flute and guitar duo. The ‘favour’ in question refers to said friend’s valiant attempts to find an urgently-required copy of a piece of sheet music, for me. After I sent her this piece, she RETURN-returned the favour by generously sending me a box of eclectic Japanese confectionery!

Yvette Audain

• Audain: Devuelve El Favor (Returning the Favour) - in C; computer-set 

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• Audain: Devuelve El Favor (Returning the Favour) - in C; computer-set 

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• AUDAIN: Devuelve El Favor (Returning the Favour) - in E flat; computer-set 

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• Audain: Devuelve El Favor (Returning the Favour) - in E flat; computer-set 

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• Audain: Devuelve El Favor (Returning the Favour) - in B flat; computer-set 

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• Rosie Langabeer: Elephant  

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• Zirkus! – Sirius Music 

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I heard Alanis Morrissette’s song Hand in My Pocket when I visited Canada in 1996. I’m intrigued by songs that we remember in spite of ourselves. When Alanis sings I’m short but I’m healthy, I’m high but I’m grounded I think of Greg Oh biking to NYC. I do hope that everything’s going be fine, fine, fine.

Juliet Palmer

• Palmer: Five; computer-set 

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• Palmer: Five; computer-set 

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• Juliet Palmer: Five; video 

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• Juliet Palmer: Five 

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• Statham: Flora; computer-set 

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• Statham: Flora; computer-set 

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• Statham: Flora; computer-set 

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• In Retrospect - Quintets, Quartets and Trios by Keith Statham 

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The 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht (literally “Crystal Night” – or the “Night of Broken Glass”) was commemorated in 2008 as I was beginning to think about this work. In early November 1938 Hitler’s troops attached the Jewish people of Germany, already undergoing considerable suffering at hands of the Nazis. Nearly a hundred were killed, and upwards of 30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps. More than 200 synagogues and countless businesses were ransacked. Some consider this event the true beginning of the Holocaust.

Throughout much of this work there is a sense of busy rhythmic energy – the music is marked “with relentless energy”. In the piece I wanted to give the impression of frantic activity, of people running and trying to escape the Nazi troops. Bursting in on the music from time to time are march-like rhythms, usually from the snare drms, trying to control the flow of the piece. Eventually the music gives way to grotesque march idea which leads through to the climax of the piece. In the middle of the work there is a calmer section which is marked “sadly”. The flute plays a lament against gently dissonant chords from the vibraphone and guitar. This music is the most nearly tonal in the whole piece although there is not a single major or minor chord in the entire work (other than the quote from the Jewish anthem)!

Once the faster music reasserts itself, the music suggests the Jewish people bing overwhelmed by the force of the Nazi troops. Here, the piece incorporates the Israeli national anthem Ha-Tikva to represent those being attached – the guitar plays it softly in the background and it’s presence is only occasionally heard when the violent music surrounding it stops. The guitar’s music is finally overwhelmed and a percussion outburst marks the climax of the piece. Brief reference back to a series of chords heard earlier, and then ideas from the first part of the work, are combined in a brief Coda. The music ends inconclusively. The running continues.

Kristallnacht was written for students of New Plymouth Boys’ High School.

• Hamilton: Kristallnacht; computer-set  Year: 2009 

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• Hamilton: Kristallnacht; computer-set  Year: 2009 

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• David Hamilton: Kristallnacht 

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• NZ Premieres July 2008 to June 2009 

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