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- Duration:
- 12' 00"
- Instrumentation:
- twelve solo strings: 4 violins I, 3 violins II, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass
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 | Score (543k) | Page 1 | © Waiteata Music Press |
 | Recording (465k) | 0:00 - 1:00 | |
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- This work has a score and 3 recordings
Programme Note
Te Puoho, friend and ally of Te Rauparaha, invited the Rangitane chief Mahuri and his people to a feast at Kukutauaki in return for previous kindnesses. Kukutauaki stood in the middle of an area hostile to the Rangitane people. On his way to the feast Mahuri was warned of the danger of entering territory controlled by the powerful and dangerous Te Rauparaha whereupon he replied: “It is the boast of Te Puoho that he will not have his forehead smeared with blood.” After the feast at which a new kind of food, the pumpkin, was introduced, the guests were invited back to Maimea, at the mouth of the Waikanae River, and massacred – most likely at the prompting of Te Rauparaha. This work was composed in 1987, commissioned and first performed by the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Jennings. It has been reviewed as, “sheer instrumental drama launched on a sea of seething, trilling strings.”
- Commissioned:
- Commissioned by the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra
- Difficulty:
- Advanced
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Performance History
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01 May 1989 |
Performed by the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anthony Jennings |
| NZSO Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 08 Feb 2008 |
Performed by Ensemble Ruspoli in Arnhem, Netherlands |
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| 09 Dec 2008 |
Performed by the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anthony Jennings, broadcast on the radio programme Light on New Zealand Composers produced by Eva Light |
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| NZSO Chamber Orchestra | ||
| 14 Sep 2010 |
Performed by Hot Young Strings dir. Donald Armstrong for Chamber Music Hutt Valley |
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