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Philip Norman  

A Short Suite

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1994
for saxophone quartet

• Instrumentation
  soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone
  
  (A string quartet version of A Short Suite is also available.)
  
  
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  • Norman: A Short Suite; computer-set  Year: 2007 

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Helen Caskie  

A Song of Aotearoa

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1994
for chamber orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2 Fl, Picc, Ob, 2 Cl, Bsn, 2 Fr Hn, Timp, Harp, Strings
• Programme Note

  For chamber orchestra consisting of 2 flutes and piccolo, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns; timpani, harp or piano; and strings. Commissioned by the Manawatu Sinfonia with funding from The Arts Council of New Zealand/Toi Aotearoa. Duration approximately 14 minutes.

  New Zealanders lives are very much influenced by the moods of nature, Maori mythology and European settlement. So this piece may evoke in the listeners imaginations, seascapes, bush scenes, majestic mountains, and in the middle section, the disruptive influence of civilization.

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David Farquhar  

Auras

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1994
for two pianos

• Instrumentation
  for rehearsal purposes only
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  • Farquhar: Auras; facsimile  Year: 1994 

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David Farquhar  

Auras

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1994
for solo piano with orchestra

• Instrumentation
  1111;4230; timp, perc, strings
• Programme Note

  Imagine the harmonics associated with each musical sound as its “aura”. This piece brings these auras into fuller consciousness: at the start the orchestra’s staccato chord is immediately decorated by the solo piano’s flourish on its harmonic series. These auras permeate the work. The piece is in a single movement – its various sections related rhythmically. It was first performed by Barbara King and the Victoria University Orchestra under Peter Walls in August 1995.

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  • David Farquhar: Auras  Year: 1997 

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David Farquhar  

Bachiana

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1994
for wind quintet

• Instrumentation
  flute, oboe, B flat clarinet, horn in F, bassoon
• Programme Note

  These six Chorale Preludes are arranged from Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, while Divisions on a Bach Pasacaglia Bass are from Bach’s organ Passacaglia and Fugue. The Preludes and Divisions may be played as a set, or as individual pieces.

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Helen Bowater  

Bowater's Box

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1994
electroacoustic installation

Philip Norman  

Bridgewater Quartet

Duration: 14' 30" Year: 1994
for flute, clarinet, violin and piano

• Instrumentation
  clarinet in B flat
• Programme Note

  Of this work for flute, clarinet in B flat, violin and piano, the press said, “Norman writes intelligently for such a non-blending ensemble and it was a well-crafted divertissement. The players [Zelanian Ensemble] obviously like it.” (Christchurch Star 28-2-96)

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  • Norman: Bridgewater Quartet; computer-set  Year: 2007 

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Juliet Palmer  

Deep Stew

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1994
for electric violin, bass clarinet, Hammond organ and drum kit

• Programme Note

  “Have you ever lost your mouth or anything in that small area… your lips, your teeth, your tongue, your tonsils? The throat – everything around there. You’d be in deep stew, yes.” Patti Labelle, Moon Shadow

  Listening to the Hammond-centred sound of the Peddlers in my parents’ car in 1974, I’d feel positively queasy. Ransacking my Dad’s cassette collection a few years, I stumbled across some of this old ‘driving music’. Somehow I no longer felt nauseous when I listened to it. Around the same time I bought my brother a collection of Rare Groove for his 30th birthday. One of the stand-out tracks is of Patti Labelle singing her version of Cat Stevens’ Moonshadow. The central section is an insanely long rant by Labelle in which each of the musicians solo (including a fabulous Hammond improv). Deep Stew takes it title and its spirit from this crazy sequence of ‘what if’s.

  Commissioned by the Composers’ Association of New Zealand with funds from the QEII Arts Council, Deep Stew was premiered in 1994 at Wellington Town Hall, New Zealand. The Bang on a Can All-Stars gave the work its American premiere in 1995 at New York’s Lincoln Center.

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Christopher Marshall  

Destinations

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1994
Two songs for bass voice, clarinet (offstage) and piano

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Juliet Palmer  

Egg & Tongue

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1994
for string quartet

• Instrumentation
  for violin 1, violin 2, viola and cello
• Programme Note

  The ‘Elgin Marbles’, taken from the Parthenon, lie at the centre of a long-standing property dispute between Greece and the British Government. Encountering these sculptures in the British Museum for the first time, I was intrigued to learn that one of the decorative motifs adorning its carved stone form was known as ‘egg and tongue’. The sensuously rounded forms of eggs and tongues alternate and repeat along the borders of the monumental sculptures, an ancient pattern combining symbols of virility and fertility. The motif is widespread: several years later, walking through the ruined architecture of the Syrian city of Apamea, I found tumbled-down stones of Roman structures bearing this same pattern, rain-washed stones in a field of crocuses. In the music of Egg and Tongue, I play with ideas of patterning and fragmentation, cultural property and style. Familiar motifs repeat, adorn, are lost and take new shapes.

  Juliet Palmer

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  • NZ Women Composers Vol. 1 

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  • NZ Women Composers Vol. 3 

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  • SOUNZfine Volume 5: New Zealand Women Composers 

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  • Palmer, Juliet Kiri: Selected Works II 

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  • Mix-up - various works by Juliet Palmer 

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  • Egg & Tongue  Year: 1997 

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