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Claire Cowan  

'Whetu-Rere' - The Sea Lion and the Comet

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 2007
for voice and mixed chamber sextet with taonga puoro

• Instrumentation
  for bass clarinet, synthesizer, strings, piano, percussion, taonga puoro (including bone flute, wooden flute, gourds, river stones, whirler, sticks) and voice
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David Griffiths  

3 Franks

Duration: 55' 00" Year: 2005
three short operas based on Franks Sargeson Stories

• Instrumentation
  soloists, SATB chorus, flute, clarinet in B flat, 2 violins, 2 cellos
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Jenny McLeod  

A baby lying

Duration: 01' 30" Year: 2008
for SA choir and piano

• Programme Note

  A baby lying is No. 4 of the ‘Five Carols for 3 and 4 Parts’, which were written so as to be performable in more than one choral combination, for example, for women’s voices only with an optional part for men. Along with No. 3, Deep in the forest, those two carols are the darker pair of the set. However the numbering is no indication of performance order, where the five carols are being sung together as a group. In this case the following order is suggested: Nos. 2, 3, 5, 4, 1.

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Jenny McLeod  

A baby lying

Duration: 01' 30" Year: 2008
for SA choir and piano with optional men's part

• Programme Note

  A baby lying is No. 4 of The ‘Five Carols for 3 and 4 Parts’, which were written so as to be performable in more than one choral combination, for example, for women’s voices only with an optional part for men. Along with No. 3 Deep in the forest, those two carols are the darker pair of the set. However the numbering is no indication of performance order, where the five carols are being sung together as a group. In this case the following order is suggested: Nos. 2, 3, 5, 4, 1.

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  • McLeod: Five Carols for 3 and 4 Parts; computer-set 

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  • McLeod: A baby lying; computer-set 

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John Drummond  

A Beleaguered City

 Year: 2002
an opera in six scenes to a libretto by Jeremy Commons

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Alan Cruise-Johnston  

A Blessing

 Year: 2005
for SATB choir and solo voice

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David Hamilton  

A Christmas Fanfare

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2006
for 2 treble-voice choirs, SATB choir, brass trio and orchestra

• Instrumentation
  brass trio (tpt, hn, tbn); 2222;2220;timp;glock;perc;strings
• Programme Note

  This short work was written at the request of Rachel Young, conductor of Auckland Youth Choir. The choir’s 2006 Christmas concert was to also involve the Auckland Girls Choir, Auckland Boys Choir, and Aotea Youth Symphony Orchestra. A work which could open the concert, involve all performers, and make use of the performance space was needed. And it had to be easy to learn and quick to put together!

  After considering various texts I approached noted New Zealand hymn writer Marnie Barrel to ask if she had anything suitable as a text. She very kindly wrote the text that I used for the work. Each choir has an energetic presentation of a verse which describes some of the features and feelings of Christmas. This is followed by an Alleluia. Towards the end of the work, the Alleluia becomes the basis of a canon for all the choirs along with the orchestra.

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  • Hamilton: A Christmas Fanfare; computer-set 

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Philip Norman  

A Factory Opera

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2002
a chamber opera for 6 principals, SATB chorus and 2 pianos

Philip Norman  

A Man Who is Fifty

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2001
for TTBB choir and piano

David Hamilton  

A New Zealand Aviary

 Year: 2001
for 2-part treble choir (optional), SATB choir and chamber ensemble

• Instrumentation
  chamber ensemble: fl.,cl.,perc.,vln.,vc.
• Programme Note

  This short cycle of five pieces presents setting of poems about five birds familiar to New Zealanders: ruru (the morepork), the seagull, the moa, the kingfisher and the kiwi. The poems are by Marion Rego, James K. Baxter, Jon Gadsby, Eileen Duggan, and Peter Hawes. The texts are mostly lighter in tone although the first and fourth present a little more of the serious side of the daily battle for survival in the wild. At the very end of the final piece, the spotlight is turned on the audience! The music also aims to be immediately appealing and enjoyable, both to perform and to listen to. The first, third and fifth settings are for mixed-voice choir, while the second and fourth are set for treble voices. Both these pieces originated in works written for my choirs at Epsom Girls Grammar School. ‘A New Zealand Aviary’ was commissioned by the Waikato branch of the NZ Choral Federation for a combined choirs sing in May 2001. The first performance featured choirs from the Waikato region conducted by the composer.

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