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Matthew Davidson  

#5

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1991
analogue tape piece

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Robbie Ellis  

#llamadrama

Duration: 12' 30" Year: 2010
for solo piano

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  • Programme Note

    Starting in a field close to Melbourne’s Western Ring Road, a llama lives a placid and slightly bored existence. Absent-mindedly picking at a chain-link fence, a gap appears: the animal can fit itself through and escape its confines. After a few cautious steps, it lurches forward and runs in sudden jerks. Making its way down a grassy hillside, it reaches the freeway crash barrier. Occupants of moving vehicles begin to notice the animal: “there’s a llama!” After a few tries, it successfully vaults the crash barrier and makes it onto the road itself. Vehicles whizz by and drivers honk their horns, but the llama is enjoying its freedom too much to be affected by them. Reports begin to reach news services: we hear a radio news theme and the growing noise of the Twitterverse.

    The din of chatter around Melbourne becomes overwhelming and little more than indistinguishable noise, so the llama retreats into its head and to its elated thoughts: “I’m free! I’m my own animal! This is my dream, I’m no longer bound by a chain-link fence! It’s a whole new world! There’s a smile on my face for the whole…”

    SQUEAL!! Its reverie is interrupted by an SUV with an absent-minded yet aggressive driver: the vehicle has to brake extremely suddenly to avoid hitting the llama, and misses it only by inches. Police have arrived on the scene and have begun to divert traffic. The llama becomes outnumbered to a greater and greater degree: there’s one last chance for escape, one tricky path to freedom, one last high-stakes roll of the “OOH TASTY TASTY LLAMA TREAT ON THE GRASSY BANK!! I LIKE TASTY LL… oh damn.”

    Thirty minutes later, in the same field close to the Western Ring Road, the llama is once again bored. Picking at the chain-link fence, there’s no chance of escape. The fence has been repaired, the gap closed, the llama’s life restored to its former boredom.

    More details here: http://www.robbie.co.nz/2012/12/09/llamadrama/

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Daniel Stabler  

'faccee'

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 2002
four movement work for english horn and string quintet

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  • Instrumentation
    cor anglais, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
  • Programme Note

    ‘faccee’ is composed as a set of loosely related, programmatic movements which portray different moods through the day. ‘faccee’ is intended as a lighter work of chamber music with elements of mystery, humor, charm and satire.

    ‘Dawn’ begins the work slowly, with the darkness and solitude of morning blossoming full fruit into daylight, then relaxing into the day. Movement two, ‘Boogie’, quickens the pace and is akin to experiences while walking the streets of the city. The further one travels, the more activity one encounters until reaching the heart of the city, where a rousing canon surrounds you with people and congested traffic. Then, suddenly, you arrive at your destination and with one last exclamation are in the door.

    ‘Daydream’ is a brief visit into the realm of nostalgia and sentiment, with a pleasant, recurring melody in the english horn and violin. What better for a finale than an old-fashioned ‘galop’ ? This ‘galop’ is, rather, a musical pun on the Viennese version. The ‘Galop’ gives way to the ‘Trio Satirico’ which pokes fun at traditional trios with a duple/triple reconfiguration of 9/8; making for a gawky feel. Then on to the ‘Finale’ where themes from earlier in the day are revisited in a whirlwind finish.

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Martin Setchell  

'Jubilate' Responses

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1986
setting of parts of the NZ Prayer Book Eucharist for SSAATTBB choir

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Judith Whitaker  

'On a Drawing of His Mother' by Toss Woollaston

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1992
for string orchestra

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Douglas Lilburn  

'Six Short Pieces'

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1962
for piano

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Gillian Bibby  

11 Characters in Search of a Composer

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1987
for orchestra or military band

  • Instrumentation
    2 piccolo,2 flutes, ob, 6 cl,2 alto sax, 1 tenor sax,1 baritone sax, bsn, 4 hn, 6 cornets, 2 trp, 2 trm, euph, E flat bass, B flat bass, tba, cb, perc (timp, bass dr, s-dr, 2 tomtom, tubular bells, vibra phone, xylophone, tamtam, sus cymbal, castanets, ratchet.
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Larry Pruden  

1218

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1977
an unsolemn overture for orchestra after Tchaikovsky - a tapestry of English tunes

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Anthony Young  

13 - Theme and Variations

 Year: 2012
for organ and orchestra

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    3[1.2.p/afl]3[1.2.ca]3[1.2/Ebcl.3/bcl]3[1.2.cbsn]; 4331; timp.; 3 perc.; organ; harp; strings
  • Programme Note

    13 was inspired by the Renaissance art I saw while studying and travelling in Italy in 2009 – 10. I was taken with the bold depictions of martyrs with the attributes of their lives and deaths.

    13 is a set of 13 variations on a theme first presented by the organ. Each variation is based on one of the thirteen present at the Last Supper. The details of their lives are often sketchy, and sometimes sit somewhere between fact and legend. The order is as follows:

    Theme
    Var. I
    St Simon Zealotes – Revolutionary; went to Armenia and Persia; sawn in half.
    Var. II
    St Thomas - Doubted Christ’s wounds; went to India; pierced with lance.
    Var. III
    St Philip – Sober-minded; went to Greece and Phrygia; crucified upside-down.
    Var. IV
    St Bartholomew - Honest; went to Armenia; flayed alive.
    Var. V
    St Jude Thaddeus – Farmer; went to Syria and Armenia; clubbed to death.
    Var. VI
    Judas Escariot – The betrayer; eternally punished; hung himself.
    Var. VII
    St James the Great – Fiery temper; ‘Son of Thunder’; Judaea; beheaded.
    Var. VIII
    St James the Less – Brother of Christ; Jerusalem and went to Egypt; thrown off temple.
    Var. IX
    St Matthew – Tax collector; accompanied by an angel; Ethiopia and Persia; martyr.
    Var. X
    St Andrew - The first-called; went to Ukraine and Black Sea; crucified on saltire.
    Var. XI
    St John – Author of Revelations; ‘Son of Thunder’; went to Asia Minor; died of old-age.
    Var. XII
    St Peter – Holder of the keys to the Gates of Heaven; went to Rome; crucified upside-down.
    Var. XIII
    Apotheosis

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Michael Norris  

14 Islands

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2005
for flute/bass flute, percussion, and prepared harp

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