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Ross Harris  

Aria

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1993
for piano

Bronwen Thomson  

Cantus

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1993, r. 1995
for SATB choir with soprano and alto soloists

  • Instrumentation
    soloists from choir
  • Programme Note

    Cantus uses many of the visual elements in the poem The Voice by John Paisley. His watery images – the sea, surf, tides, fountains, beaches and singing in the untroubled depths – are underlined by many of the melodic shapes in the music. Surging, falling and echoing motions are used in keeping with the ebb and flow of the poem, nad solo voices move in and out of the main chorus as in the poem. The light notes mingle with the darkened air.

    Cantus was written in 1993 and modified in 1995 for the NZ Secondary Schools Choir. Its first public performance was given by Bel Canto Vocal Ensemble at the 1996 NZ International Festival of the Arts.

    (Bronwyn Thomson 1996)

Bryony Jagger  

Epithalamium 1

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1993
for treble recorder

Christopher Marshall  

Faleula E!

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1993, r. 1997
for a cappella SSATBB choir

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Tingling Strings

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1993
for solo piano

Lyell Cresswell  

Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1993
for piano

  • Programme Note

    ’Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue’ is a short, condensed piece. There is no background, only the bright foreground music of primary colours divided up by loud percussive chords. “The zip (vertical stripe) acts as a divider, marks off intervals, and by regulation of its color intensity indicates stresses, as a species of visual music” (Harold Rosenberg – ‘Barnett Newman’). Primary colours have always provided a challenge for painters. Barnett Newman faced this challenge with four paintings – Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blur I, II, III and IV. ’Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue’ was written for Ananda Sukarlan in 1993.

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