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Dorothy Buchanan  

Carnival of New Zealand Creatures

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1999
for narrator, singer, flute, clarinet, cello, guitar, percussion

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Dorothy Ker  

Close-up of a Daisy

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1992, r. 1994
six pieces for SSAA a cappella choir

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  • New Zealand Choral Music Vol. 1  Year: 1994 

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  • The Big Sing Finale 2002  Year: 2002 

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Anthony Ritchie  

Columba Song

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1989
for two part choir and piano

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Ian Sinclair  

Concert Overture - "Land of the Kea"

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1993
one movement work for symphony orchestra drawing influences from the South Island

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  2222; 3231; timp. perc., harp, strings
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  • A Musical Six - Instrumental and orchestral works 

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Anthony Young  

Concertino for Orchestra

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2005, r. 2010

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  22*22; 4331; timp., perc. (2 or 3), hp; strings
• Programme Note

  This piece is affectionately known as ‘Bugs’ or ‘the Bug piece’ to me, and that is what it is about: the wonderful creepy crawlies native to New Zealand. Motivation for writing this piece came from two sources. As part of my residency with the Auckland Philharmonia in 2004, I was required to write a piece for a concert specifically at children and families. Naturally, it needed simple structures, lots of energy and a bit of fun.

  The second motivation with regard to a specific programme was a love for all native New Zealand fauna, and not just beautiful birds. So much music has been written with bird song or in celebration of New Zealand’s landscape. But nothing to my knowledge had been written about the humble creatures which often inspire revulsion rather than awe. Despite their not so cuddly appearance, native insects and invertebrates are just as fascinating and unique to these islands of ours as any other endemic wildlife.

  The first movement is Giant Weta. Often the most notorious for exciting disgust, these magnificent insects are quite amazing, but all to often fall prey to introduced mammals.

  The second movement is titled Giant Snails. Native giant snails are enormous, and often live in kauri trees, or feed on giant earthworms on the forest floor.

  The Nelson Cave Spider is a extremely unique creature. Like so many other creatures and plant life of New Zealand, it is a relic of ancient times and preserved by New Zealand’s isolation.

  Finally, perhaps the most unusual of all is the Peripatus, sometimes known as the velvet worm, a blue centipede-like creature that crawls through undergrowth in search of prey.

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  • Two works by Anthony Young 

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John Charles  

Four New Zealand Songs

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1990
for voice and piano

• Instrumentation
  for voice and piano
• Programme Note

  These four songs were published in 1965 by the Auckland Workers’ Educational Association in a collection titled New Zealand Folksongs, editor Neil Colquhuon. The authors of words and tunes are unknown.

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David Hamilton  

Kaimanawa wild horses

 Year: 2009
for piano

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  This work is a from a set of Four Outdoors Pieces which can be played as single works or as a set. When played together the order should be: Spring Breezes, Clouds over Aoraki, Waikato fog and Kaimanawa wild horses.

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  • Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists  Year: 2010 

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  • Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists CD 1 

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Hirini Melbourne  

Putorino a Raukatauri (The case moth)

Duration: 01' 00"
For solo voice and putorino (or woodwind melody instrument)

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  Taonga Puoro: putorino
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  • Forest and Ocean: Bird Songs by Hirini Melbourne 

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Leonie Holmes  

River Stories

 Year: 1997
for orchestra with narration

Leonie Holmes  

Silver Whispers

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 2004
for SATB choir, flute, 2 pianists and 3 percussionists

• Instrumentation
  Flute doubles alto flute; piano doubles celeste. Percussion includes: two glockenspiels, xylophone, maracas, bongos, guiro, vibraphone, large gong (or tam tam), rainstick, sandpaper block, suspended cymbal, 3 temple blocks, woodblock, bass drum,
• Programme Note

  This group of pieces for choir and instrumental ensemble grew out of a short choral fanfare entitled Silver Whisper’, commissioned by Auckland Choral in 2000. The original fanfare is now the last piece in a suite of five movements.

  The texts are based around the celebration of life in its many manifestations, exploring aspects of spring and the wonders of nature, ranging from the scuttle of insects to the unearthly song of whales, and concluding with a song of praise to the Creator. A small ensemble of flute, three percussionists, and two pianos (one doubling celesta) gives a flexible group with which to provide atmospheric and varied shades of accompaniment to the singers.

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