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Chris Cree Brown  

In Sympathy

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1981
music-theatre-sculpture for solo trumpet

• Instrumentation
  3 trumpets and duck callers (one performer)
• Programme Note

  The film, In Sympathy, is based on a piece especially written for Mary Robbie, and was made to be a document of the inter-media work. The film presents Mary playing three trumpets in an unconventional fashion together with two duck-callers. The work sets out a soundscape of aural gestures, that enable the image and sounds to adopt a persona, and with which (whom) the performer interacts.

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  • Chris Cree Brown: In Sympathy; video 

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John Elmsly  

Lysistrata

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1981
incidental music

• Instrumentation
  two track analogue, University of Otago

Chris Cree Brown  

Music for Limbs

 Year: 1981
electroacoustic music for dance

Kit Powell  

Nothing but Switzerland and Lemonade

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1981
for soprano and wind trio

• Instrumentation
  flute, alto flute/C flute, clarinet in B flat/bass clarinet
• Availability

  • Powell: Nothing but Switzerland and Lemonade; facsimile 

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    $25.00
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Gillian Whitehead  

Requiem

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1981
for mezzo soprano and organ

• Programme Note

  Undoubtedly, this is one of Whitehead’s more unusual collaborations. The work, intended for five dancers and organ, with soprano added at the composer’s request, was to have been performed in five cathedrals around Britain during the summer of 1982. Due to the cancellation of the dance component however, the work received performance in only one of the cathedrals – Carlisle – but was later presented with a solo dancer, Bronwyn Judge, at the 1987 Sonic Circus in Wellington. The singer on that occasion was Glenys Taylor and the organist Douglas Mews. The composer initially delayed beginning work on the piece, since her sister was expecting a baby, and a Requiem did not seem an appropriate preoccupation. The successful birth was however followed by two close-family deaths and it was these which provided the composer with the emotional impetus to proceed with the composition. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

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  • Whitehead: Requiem; facsimile 

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  • Whitehead: Requiem; computer-set  Year: 2001 

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  • Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 3 - Composer Portrait: Gillian Whitehead  Year: 2000 

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    $15.00
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Tony Ryan  

Vivat! Vivat Regina!

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1981
for large chamber ensemble

• Instrumentation
  flute, oboe, clarinet (2); horn (2), trumpet (2), trombone, tuba; percussion (2), piano; violin (2), viola
• Programme Note

  This music was written as incidental music to Robert Bolt’s play of the same name.

Chris Cree Brown  

We need the System

 Year: 1981
music theatre work for four percussionists