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Anthony Ritchie  

A Bugle will Do

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1995
for full orchestra

• Instrumentation
  pc2233cb; 2331; timp.; 3 perc (triangle, tomtoms, bass drum, suspended cymbal, xylophone, tam tam, log drum); strs
• Programme Note

  In 1995 I was approached by the NZSO to write an overture to commemorate the recent death of New Zealand’s most famous war hero, Sir Charles Upham. Upham was famous for having won the Victoria Cross twice for bravery during World War II. He was, however, extremely modest when it came to discussing his achievements. Some years before his death it was suggested to Upham that he have a state funeral; he simply replied, “A bugle will do”. This comment seemed like a good starting point for my piece.

  There are no bugles in the orchestra, but the opening section depicting the horrors of battle contains plenty of brass. Sub-titled Maleme and Ruweisat Ridge, the music is fast and furious, built from several motifs, and includes the opening rhythm for the most well known Maori haka (war dance), Kamate, kamate. The music builds to a climax, and the scene changes to a bleak Colditz Castle, where Upham was imprisoned during the war. While in prison he dreams of rural NZ, and the farm near Kaikoura called ‘Landsdowne’, where he eventually settled after the war. This brief pastoral section links into a coda celebrating the outbreak of peace. Motifs from earlier in the piece return but changed into brighter modes. ’

  A Bugle Will Do was first performed by the NZSO in 1996 under Andrew Sewell, and was subsequently performed in the USA.

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Gareth Farr  

Aoraki

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2004
for soprano, Maori instruments, percussion and synthesizer

Tony Ryan  

Haka!

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1996
for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  pic2,2CA,2Bass,2 Contra; 4331; Timpani; 3 Perc; Strings (optional organ part)
• Programme Note

  Commissioned by the Christchurch Youth Orchestra and premiered by them, it has subsequently been played by the Auckland Philharmonia, in Australia and in the USA by the Eugene Symphony Orchestra. It is full of pounding rhythms and a vital sense of action and movement as befits a work which takes the Haka as its inspiration.

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Hau

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2008
a short vocal lament for voice and crystal glass

• Instrumentation
  crystal glass - B flat; best performed by a non-trained voice which is able to produce effective vocal harmonics
• Programme Note

  While thinking about producing a tribute to Stockhausen specifically for singer-songwriter Karen Hunter to perform, I decided to base it on Stockhausen’s famous vocal work Stimmung, focussing only on names of Maori gods. I then learnt of the very sad early death of NZ singer Mahinarangi Tocker, literally while I was eating muttonbird for the first time, at Moeraki. Various elements thus came into play in the work – tuning, lamentation, the elements, Maori waiata and a strong sense of ritual.

  The Maori word hau has a variety of meanings including wind and breath.

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Gareth Farr   Richard Nunns  

He Poroporoaki (Saying Goodbye)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2008
for string quartet and taonga puoro

• Programme Note

  This work was intended to feature something of New Zealand’s spirit and is a ‘deconstructed’ version of Now is the Hour.

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Gareth Farr  

He Tango mo Elena

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2002
tango for orchestra, solo violin, tenor and Kapa Haka

• Instrumentation
  solo violin, 2.2.2.2, 4.2 trpt(in C).3.1, timp., perc., male voice, kapa haka, strings
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Aroha Yates-Smith   Hirini Melbourne  

Hinemokemoke

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for female voice and taonga puoro

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  • Melbourne and Nunns: Te hekenga-a-rangi  Year: 2003 

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Helen Fisher  

Ko Wharepapa Te Maunga

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1989
for brass octet

• Instrumentation
  2 trumpets, 4 french horns, trombone, tuba
• Programme Note

  This brass octet with its somewhat dense texture of waiata-like fragments, is inspired by the spatial as well as the dynamic and energetic qualities of the mountain. The Maori title may translate as ‘The Mountain Called Wharepapa’, which is the original name for Mount Arthur in the Nelson district, a significant mountain in my childhood landscape. This piece is dedicated to the memory of my father, Tas McKee.

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Dorothy Freed  

Lament for Te Wano

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1974
for a cappella SATB

• Programme Note

  For unaccompanied SATB choir this work has a Maori text which is attributed to Rangiamoa.

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Judy Bailey   Richard Nunns  

Late Summer/Te Hiku o Raumati

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2000
for taonga puoro and piano

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  • Tuhonohono  Year: 2000 

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