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Philip Norman  

A Short Suite

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

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

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  

Bachiana

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

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

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

Juliet Palmer  

Egg & Tongue

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