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Jenny McLeod  

18 Easy Pieces

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1996
easy pieces for 1-4 players (or more)

• Instrumentation
  miscellaneous instruments/keyboards
• Programme Note

  Though written for beginners, these pieces are quite attractive, and could be programmed for other than beginners concerts!

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  • McLeod: 18 Easy Pieces; computer-set 

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Anthony Ritchie  

Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1996
soprano saxophone and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2221; 2210; 1 percussionist (timp., cym., sus. cym., xyl., b.d., tri.); strings
• Programme Note

  This is a quirky but also soulful piece for an unusual and beautiful instrument. It is reasonably easy to play for the orchestra. It was commissioned by saxophonist, Mark Hobson. It lasts 17 minutes. (The original title of this work was Cartoon: Fantasy for Soprano Saxophone and orchestra)

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  • Ritchie A.: Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (Cartoon); facsimile 

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Christopher Marshall  

Eastman Overture

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1996, r. 2005
extended overture for large orchestra

• Instrumentation
  2222; 4331; 3perc; pf; strings
• Programme Note

  Composed in 1996 to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York and incorporating melodies of significance to the school and to the Rochester community. Melodious, sentimental, good humoured music.

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  • New Zealand Music: Marshall and Keay 

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Anthony Ritchie  

Memories

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1996
dance music for tape

Dugal McKinnon  

Ouir

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1996
for narrator, ensemble and prerecorded sound

John Elmsly  

Seven Postcards

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1996
for piano trio

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  • Elmsly: Seven Postcards; facsimile 

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Philip Norman  

The Ballad of Settler McGee

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1996
arranged for symphonic band

• Programme Note

  The Ballad of Settler McGee was commissioned by Concert FM in 1990, New Zealand’s sesqui-centennial year, for closing concert of the World Youth Festival in Christchurch, September 2nd, 1990.

  The work was originally written for the combined forces of the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra, the New Zealand Youth Choir, the National Youth Concert Band, the New Zealand National Youth Pipe Band, the New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra, the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Brass Band, and a competition-wimming Maori ensemble and rock band, all conducted by John Hopkins.

  Though Settler McGee is a fictitious character, his ballad is based on the life of an early pioneering figure. Of Celtic origin, this settler emigrated to New Zealand, through Hobart, in the early 1830s. He lived with and married into a Maori tribe, was present at the sighing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and fought in several early wars. He played a prominent part in negotiating the ensuing peace and in promoting understanding between the Maori and Pakeha people. With deliberate symbolism, our Settler McGee died on the day New Zealand gained Dominion status.

  This arrangement and revision of The Ballad of Settler McGee for concert band was commissioned by the Christchurch Youth Symphonic Band, conductor Mark Hodgkinson, with funding provided by Creative New Zealand and completed in 1996. It was premiered by the Auckland Wind Orchestra, conducted by Peter Thomas, on 8 August 1998 in the Aotea Centre, Auckland, as the winning entry in the 1998 Sky City Community Trust Auckland Wind Orchestra Composer’s award.

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David Hamilton  

The Dragons are Singing Tonight

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1996
for mixed-voice choir (SATB) and brass band

• Programme Note

  Commissioned by Auckland Choral Society, this work is scored for mixed-voice choir and brass band. The poems are from a collection of the same name by American poet Jack Prelutsky. The work is a light-hearted look at the subject of dragons, largely from their own perspective.

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Anthony Ritchie  

The Eagle has Landed

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1996
chamber opera

• Instrumentation
  two baritones, tenor, soprano, mezzo soprano; string quartet and piano
• Programme Note

  Based on the 1969 moon landing and Jules Verne’s novel From the Earth to the Moon the premiere of this short opera was described in The Listener by Alan Wells as an “unclouded crowd-pleaser.” He went on to say, “Stuart Hoar’s libretto for this entertaining romp brought together Apollo astronauts and moon-stranded fictional characters from Jules Verne, while Ritchie’s tuneful score gleefully quoted Tchaikovsky and patriotic Americana to underline (and undermine) the action.”

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David Farquhar  

The Uses of Adversity

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1996
a chamber opera

• Instrumentation
  two sopranos, 1 mezzo, 1 tenor, 1 baritone; string quartet and piano
• Programme Note

  Alan Wells in The Listener reviewed the premiere of this work in May 1997. “Comedy was indeed to the fore … the moments of deliberate inaudibility, when the protagonist … retreated into his ‘deafness’, were wittily simulated (right down to tinnitus on the violin’s top string.”

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  • Farquhar: The Uses of Adversity; facsimile 

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  • Farquhar: The Uses of Adversity; facsimile 

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