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Juliet Palmer  

5 Cactus Dreams

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988
for voice and chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    vocalist, oboe, tenor saxophone, viola, cello, cactus and camera flash. Performed in darkness with light flashes to trigger each movement - performers also walk while playing.
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Chloe Moon  

A Crown of Windflowers

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1981
for unaccompanied treble voices

David Farquhar  

ABC

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
for SATB choir

Kit Powell  

Floetenspieler und Fledermaeuse

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1987
for solo flute and tape

Dorothy Buchanan  

Flute Song for the Birds

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989
for solo flute

Bryony Jagger  

From the Land of the Tattooed Faces

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1985
for tenor, oboe and reciter

Bryony Jagger  

Great Sea

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1980
for boys choir

  • Instrumentation
    can also be accompanied by two flutes, trumpet and percussion

Anthony Ritchie  

Olveston Suite

Duration: 07' 40" Year: 1988
six pieces for piano

  • Programme Note

    Olveston Suite was composed in 1988 while Anthony Ritchie was Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago. The manager of Olveston House in Dunedin, Mr Dennis Moore, asked Anthony to play a programme of music in Olveston, on the 1904 grand piano. In response to a joking suggestion for a piece about the house, Anthony set about composing the Olveston Suite in quick time.

    The pieces reflect qualities of the house; ‘Great Hall’ is expansive and majestic, ‘Kitchen and Scullery’ is busy and bubbling, while ‘Dining room’ suggests an old English style. The fourth piece, ‘Writing Room, Edwardian Bedroom’ is dedicated to Dorothy Theomin, the daughter of the original owners of Olveston and the last member of the family to live in the house. ‘Billiard Room, Persian Room’ is fast and jovial with an exotic middle section. The Suite is rounded off by a repetition of ‘Great Hall’, as the listener exits Olveston.

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Chris Cree Brown  

Pinball

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1982
music theatre for solo voice

Helen Fisher  

Pounamu

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1997
for SSAATB choir, alto soloist and koauau

  • Programme Note

    Inspired by sparkling waters of Tasman Bay Nelson, this choral work (SSAATB) was originally composed with flute accompaniment, which has been substituted in performances by the Shakuhachi (traditional Japanese flute) and also the Koauau (traditional Maori flute). There are recordings of Pounamu with each of these flutes. The piece’s choral texture uses Maori vowel sounds and a text which is a whakatauki (proverb) from the Waikato region.

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