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William Dart  

Away with the Fairies

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1983
a divertissement for diva

• Instrumentation
  voice and piano
• Programme Note

  Away with the Fairies is a string of kitsch songs about fairies and pixies, animals and children. They are linked by recitatives which, like the songs, include quotations from other composers’ music.

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  • William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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Gillian Whitehead  

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1982
for mezzo and chamber orchestra

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  • Whitehead: Eleanor of Aquitaine; facsimile 

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Five Responses

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1989
For women's voices, male speaker, and mixed ensemble

• Instrumentation
  for 3 sopranos, 3 altos, male speaker, alto fl, piccolo ,E-flat clarinet ,B-flat clarinet , bass-clarinet, horn, percussion (xylophone, timpani, 5 temple blocks, tambourine, 15 maracas, windchime, clicker,marimba, cymbals, balloons, pingpong balls) hp,pf. Extras: 13 balloons (with pins); brick (for piano pedal); 100 plus table tennis balls
• Programme Note

  This work for mixed ensemble and female voices drew its inspiration from a series of paintings by Ken Robinson which were hung up behind the performers. “Drawing on Spanish texts from Pablo Neruda and St John of the Cross, Eve de Castro-Robinson has produced some wonderfully exotic music. Timbres are perfectly judged, from the vibrant exoticism of alto flute in Edged to the mysterious ceremony of horn and timpani in Black Drop and solo lines have a tremendous sense of tautness and cohesion.” William Dart, Music in NZ

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  • de Castro-Robinson: Five Responses; facsimile 

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  • de Castro-Robinson: Five Responses; facsimile 

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  • Eve de Castro Robinson: Works 3 

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Philip Norman  

Fresh Revolving Pleasures

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1981
a chamber musical

• Instrumentation
  soprano, alto, baritone and solo piano

William Dart  

Give us a Kiss

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1981
a musical for 4 actor-singers, narrator and piano

• Programme Note

  A song-drama exploring gay rights, written at the time when there were moves around New Zealand to pass the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. Many of the songs are based on true incidents and are presented in a cabaret format. The show toured the country in 1982 under the auspices of the New Zealand Student Arts Council.

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  • William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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Gillian Whitehead  

Hotspur

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1980
for mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble

• Instrumentation
  clarinet, clarinet/bass-clarinet, violin/viola, cello, percussion (marimba, 9 drums in high to low sequence, drum of fluctuating pitch, bass drum, 5 suspended cymbals, ching - Thai finger cymbals, bell tree, rasp, 2 woodblocks, 3 temple blocks, wood chimes)
• Programme Note

  This monodrama for mezzo soprano and chamber sextet, commissioned by Northern Arts UK, tells of the 14th century North of England warrior Henry Percy (Hotspur), seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Mortimer, in a striking ballad sequence written by Fleur Adcock.

  Whitehead’s imaginative score combines exotic and arresting instrumental colours, a strong dramatic vocal line (often with flamboyant flourishes) and an admirable overall conception of the mood changes and tonal graduation of the work. (William Dart, NZ Listener)

  She has the rare gift of knowing when to us nightmarish vehemences and when to be utterly straightforward and calm. (Roger Covell, Sydney Morning Herald).

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  • Whitehead: Hotspur; facsimile 

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  • Gillian Whitehead: selected works 

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  • Anthology of Australian music - Dramatic vocal music  Year: 1997 

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Gillian Whitehead  

Out of this Nettle, Danger

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1983
a monodrama on Katherine Mansfield for mezzo-soprano and chamber sextet

• Instrumentation
  flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello, percussion, keyboard
• Programme Note

  “Out of this Nettle, Danger is intimate, acute, fleet, with a fascinating sensitivity to the deep implications of the text. There is a big range of percussion instruments, used with the greatest economy and power of suggestion so that no sound or thematic fragment is perfunctory, each has a voluptuous, expressive, original shape. The piece moves forward in small episodes, held together partly by text, partly by the sheer consistent quality of the imagination.” (Oakes, The Independent)

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  • Whitehead: Out of this nettle, danger; facsimile 

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  • Gillian Whitehead: Out of this Nettle, Danger; audio 

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Dorothy Buchanan   John Densem  

Roadshow

Duration: 1h 00' 00" Year: 1982
a road safety musical

• Instrumentation
  multi-media presentation, concept
• Availability

  • Roadshow  Year: 1983 

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  • Roadshow  Year: 1983 

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John Drummond  

Robin Hood

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1983
music and lyrics for a pantomime

William Dart  

Songs to the Judges

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1980
a song-play

• Instrumentation
  5 actor-singers (2f, 3m) and piano
• Programme Note

  This song-play by Mervyn Thompson investigates the injustices that the pakeha land courts has dished out to the tangata whenua over the years. It was premiered in January 1980 and toured under the auspices of the New Zealand Students Arts Council in 1981.

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  • William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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  • Parihaka 

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  • Mervyn Thompson and William Dart: Songs to the Judges  Year: 1982 

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