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- Duration:
- 08' 00"
- Instrumentation:
- for solo clarinet, percussion, harp, and strings. Percussion 1 (glockenspiel, maraca), Percussion 2 (suspended cymbal, 3 toms)
- Contents:
- a four movement suite elaborated from incidental music to Peter Vere-Jone's production of Bruce Mason's "The End of the Golden Weather"
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- This work has a score and 2 recordings
Programme Note
Bruce Mason’s one-man play The End of the Golden Weather is the story of a 1930s summer spent by the sea, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. It is one of the most popular and enduring works of New Zealand theatre, conveying as it does something of the nostalgia shared by most New Zealand for childhood holidays spent at the beach. Bruce Mason performed the work nearly a thousand times over tow decades from 1959, in towns and cities throughout the country, but it was not until 2000 that the play was professionally revived in a performance by Peter Vere-Jones. Gareth Farr wrote incidental music for the production, and later expanded this materials into a four-movement suite for clarinet and string with harp and percussion. The title, Te Parenga, is Mason’s name for the fictionalised Auckland beachfront suburb of Takapuna where the play is set.
- Difficulty:
- Advanced
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