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Robbie Ellis  

#llamadrama

Duration: 12' 30" Year: 2010
for solo piano

• Programme Note

  Starting in a field close to Melbourne’s Western Ring Road, a llama lives a placid and slightly bored existence. Absent-mindedly picking at a chain-link fence, a gap appears: the animal can fit itself through and escape its confines. After a few cautious steps, it lurches forward and runs in sudden jerks. Making its way down a grassy hillside, it reaches the freeway crash barrier. Occupants of moving vehicles begin to notice the animal: “there’s a llama!” After a few tries, it successfully vaults the crash barrier and makes it onto the road itself. Vehicles whizz by and drivers honk their horns, but the llama is enjoying its freedom too much to be affected by them. Reports begin to reach news services: we hear a radio news theme and the growing noise of the Twitterverse.

  The din of chatter around Melbourne becomes overwhelming and little more than indistinguishable noise, so the llama retreats into its head and to its elated thoughts: “I’m free! I’m my own animal! This is my dream, I’m no longer bound by a chain-link fence! It’s a whole new world! There’s a smile on my face for the whole…”

  SQUEAL!! Its reverie is interrupted by an SUV with an absent-minded yet aggressive driver: the vehicle has to brake extremely suddenly to avoid hitting the llama, and misses it only by inches. Police have arrived on the scene and have begun to divert traffic. The llama becomes outnumbered to a greater and greater degree: there’s one last chance for escape, one tricky path to freedom, one last high-stakes roll of the “OOH TASTY TASTY LLAMA TREAT ON THE GRASSY BANK!! I LIKE TASTY LL… oh damn.”

  Thirty minutes later, in the same field close to the Western Ring Road, the llama is once again bored. Picking at the chain-link fence, there’s no chance of escape. The fence has been repaired, the gap closed, the llama’s life restored to its former boredom.

  More details here: http://www.robbie.co.nz/2012/12/09/llamadrama/

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Anton Killin  

'Another Day' Miniatures

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2008
electroacoustic

• Programme Note

  This suite of short pieces aims to juxtapose several different compositional styles relevant to the medium of electroacoustic music. Most of the source material is drawn from Allan Thomas’ Karanga Voices audio library, MTM’s open source samples, recordings of Kylie Nesbit’s bassoon and viola sounds, and recordings of local Wellington rock band Keller Kinder of which I am a member.

  ‘Another Day’ Miniatures was premiered at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington at ‘Karanga Voices’ – a concert celebrating both the Karanga Voices audio library project of Allan Thomas (which documents New Zealand heritage in sound, after which the concert is named) and five generations of electroacoustic composers in Wellington.

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Daniel Stabler  

'faccee'

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 2002
four movement work for english horn and string quintet

• Instrumentation
  cor anglais, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
• Programme Note

  ‘faccee’ is composed as a set of loosely related, programmatic movements which portray different moods through the day. ‘faccee’ is intended as a lighter work of chamber music with elements of mystery, humor, charm and satire.

  ‘Dawn’ begins the work slowly, with the darkness and solitude of morning blossoming full fruit into daylight, then relaxing into the day. Movement two, ‘Boogie’, quickens the pace and is akin to experiences while walking the streets of the city. The further one travels, the more activity one encounters until reaching the heart of the city, where a rousing canon surrounds you with people and congested traffic. Then, suddenly, you arrive at your destination and with one last exclamation are in the door.

  ‘Daydream’ is a brief visit into the realm of nostalgia and sentiment, with a pleasant, recurring melody in the english horn and violin. What better for a finale than an old-fashioned ‘galop’ ? This ‘galop’ is, rather, a musical pun on the Viennese version. The ‘Galop’ gives way to the ‘Trio Satirico’ which pokes fun at traditional trios with a duple/triple reconfiguration of 9/8; making for a gawky feel. Then on to the ‘Finale’ where themes from earlier in the day are revisited in a whirlwind finish.

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Gillian Bibby  

11 Characters in Search of a Composer

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1987
for orchestra or military band

• Instrumentation
  2 piccolo,2 flutes, ob, 6 cl,2 alto sax, 1 tenor sax,1 baritone sax, bsn, 4 hn, 6 cornets, 2 trp, 2 trm, euph, E flat bass, B flat bass, tba, cb, perc (timp, bass dr, s-dr, 2 tomtom, tubular bells, vibra phone, xylophone, tamtam, sus cymbal, castanets, ratchet.

Larry Pruden  

1218

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1977
an unsolemn overture for orchestra after Tchaikovsky - a tapestry of English tunes

• Instrumentation
  32(ca)22; 42cornets231, timpani, perc, cannon, strings– ie same instrumentation as 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky plus piano
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Michael Norris  

14 Islands

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2005
for flute/bass flute, percussion, and prepared harp

• Instrumentation
  Percussion: 2 bongos, 2 Congas, small tom; also requires: calligraphic paintbrush, large sheet of paper, white sand, two palm-sized black rocks
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Ashley Heenan  

1914 - Song Cycle

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1945
Four sonnets for Tenor and Piano

Peter Scholes (composer)  

3 4 F [PVC]

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1989
for a large group of clarinet players

Alan Starrett  

3 movements towards g

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1980
for string quartet

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Ray Twomey  

5 Pansonics (Opus 28)

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2001
for carillon

• Programme Note

  These five compositions were created to explore the unique harmonic essence of this most magnificent of instruments. The compositions were designed specifically for Timothy Hurd QSM, the carillon master of the Wellington War Memorial instrument in New Zealand, and for Gordon Slater, the Dominion Carilloneur for the Peace Tower situated in front of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Canada.

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