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Not a normal night at the symphony

Pagan Prayer performed by Kokoro Dance & Vancouver Symphony players Roundhouse Theatre, Vancouver

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ARETH FARR continues to be one of New Zealand’s most diverse compos-

ers, having completed a characteristically wide variety of national and international projects in 2008-09. Chief amongst Photo: Chris Randle

these was his violin solo Wakatipu, commissioned as the set work for semifinalists in the prestigious 2009 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, held in Queenstown and Auckland, New Zealand, in June. Farr attended the eightand vibraphone) and Spook (marimba).

een performances of the work, and was

collaborative composition and perform-

present when competition finalist Yoo

ance project for Susan Lei’ataua’s theatre

A variety of prominent performers

Jin Jang was awarded the prize for best

work Breaking the Surface at Skirball

continue to promote Farr’s music in New

performance of the work.

Theatre, New York City on 16 April 2009.

Zealand and worldwide. In November

At the other end of the spectrum,

The latter was presented by the Asian/

2008, renowned pianist Henry Wong Doe

music for stage and screen formed a

Pacific/American Institute of New York

gave the North American premiere per-

large part of Farr’s work over the past

University.

formance of The Horizon from Owhiro

year; his music for Kia Ora Khalid, a chil-

Farr’s works have received a wide lis-

Bay at Carnegie Hall, New York. The work

dren’s opera, received praise throughout

tening over the past year. In November

was originally commissioned as part of

its New Zealand tour in March and April

2008, he was the featured composer on

a cycle of short piano works by New

2009. Other stage works included music

KUSC Classical, Los Angeles. Well-known

Zealand composers and premiered by

for the plays Heat, and Blood Wedding.

host Jim Svejda presented a five hour

pianist Stephen De Pledge in February

Farr’s 1992 work Pagan Prayer was

programme on the composer’s life and

2008. In February, Farr’s He Poroporoaki,

integrated into a production featuring

work, introducing Farr to a huge new

for the New Zealand String Quartet and

live orchestral music with innovative

audience. The programme included works

Richard Nunns, received its New Zealand

dance during Vancouver’s International

from Farr’s September 2008 album release

premiere. In May, percussionists Jeremy

Dance Festival in March 2009. Kokoro

Tangaroa (MMT2058), featuring percus-

Fitzsimons and Pedro Carneiro took Farr’s

Dance collaborated with the Vancouver

sionist Jeremy Fitzsimons.

Dialogue to Portugal, where it was per-

Symphony Orchestra to present the work

Tangaroa spent eleven consecutive

alongside music by Scott Good and Arvo

weeks in the Radio New Zealand Classical

Pärt. Globe and Mail reviewer Elissa Poole

Chart after its release in September 2008.

commented on the “apocalyptic intensity”

Works on the album include the title

of Farr’s work, concluding that the col-

piece, Tangaroa, (marimba solo), the

laboration was “not a normal night at the

well-known and much-played Kembang

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

symphony”.

Suling (marimba and flute), Tuatara (per-

Farr: Triple Concerto

cussion and piano), Dialogue (marimba

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade

Most recently, Farr participated in a

formed at the Lisbon Festival of Music.

REPERTOIRE RECOMMENDATION Vector Wellington Orchestra, 12 July 2008

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Composer news

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ollaboration has been a key feature

Psathas’ works continue to excite

year. New Zealand contemporary music

of John Psathas’ recent work. In July

audiences around the world, with many

ensemble Stroma picked up the pro-

2008, Psathas arranged the music of New

performers introducing his music to

gramme and presented it in the 2006

Zealand psychedelic rock band Little

new audiences. The New Zealand String

New Zealand International Festival of the

Bushman for their performance with the

Quartet took Kartsigar on their 2008

Arts, with the original soloists. Zeibekiko

Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra. The

European tour, and Giunter Percussion

received immense praise, The Guardian

performance was one of a series of well-

and the Lithuanian State Symphony

(UK) describing it as “an intoxicating col-

received concerts the APO has presented

Orchestra gave the European perform-

laboration … [that] balanced nostalgia

in recent seasons featuring prominent

ance of the intense and exciting 2002 work

with celebration”. The NBE will premiere

New Zealand bands of various types. In

Psyzygysm. New Zealand percussionist

Zeibekiko II in 2010. Zeibekiko II will

October 2009, the New Zealand Orchestra

Jeremy Fitzsimons, an experienced per-

encompass 2500 years of Greek music,

will present another programme featur-

former of Psathas, joined forces with the

from the Byzantine era to contemporary

ing the combined talents of Psathas and

renowned percussionist Pedro Carneiro

Greek sounds. The programme will once

the band.

to present Ukiyo in Portugal in May 2009.

again feature and draw on the talent of

Following on from the success of the

Carneiro also played One Study One

Manos Achalinotopoulos (clarino trum-

APO performance, Psathas was once again

Summary at the Percussive Arts Society

pet) and percussionist Vanelis Karypis.

engaged by the APO to work with Serj

International Conference in Austin, Texas

Among the most prominent perform-

Tankian, solo artist and unconventional

in November 2008. Other North American

ers of Psathas’ music is the Takács Quartet,

frontman of System of a Down. The per-

performances have included the Flexible

who will tour Psathas 2008 commission A

formance on 16 March 2009, featured

Music Ensemble’s performance of Mal

Cool Wind to a number of US centres in

works from Tankian’s multifaceted solo

Occhio in New York City in March this year.

March-April 2009, including the New York

album Elect the Dead, scored by Tankian

The Boston Crusaders recently performed

premiere at Carnegie Hall. Quartet mem-

and arranged by Psathas. Describing

an arrangement of Psathas’ Maenads, the

ber András Fejér said of the work during

the process of collaboration at the time,

final movement of his double concerto

its premiere tour of New Zealand “it’s very

Psathas said ‘the arrangements and

View from Olympus, as part of their Drum

convincing… It certainly feels as though

orchestrations keep getting bigger and

Corps International World Championship

it is looking back to the great tradition

bigger. We’re scoring for a big orchestra,

show “The Core of Temptation”.

of string quartet music. It’s deeply felt,

and the APO certainly have their work

Psathas’ rich Greek musical heritage

cut out for them. Serj is totally clear

will once again be front and centre in

about how he wants this to sound, and I

Zeibekiko II, an update to his major 2004

A number of commissions and oppor-

love that he’s been pushing me to come

work (conceived as an entire programme)

tunities will demand the composer’s

up with ways to create an energy that is

for the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble

attention in late 2009 and 2010. Psathas

different from, but as powerful as, the

and Greek traditional instrument solo-

received the top bid in a SOUNZ Centre

performances on the Elect the Dead CD.’

ists. The wind ensemble toured Holland

for New Zealand Music fundraising auc-

The concert was filmed for eventual DVD

with Zeibekiko in 2004 and it featured

tion to commission five prominent NZ

release.

in the Bath Festival (UK) later the same

composers, and will compose a work for

Jeremy Fitzsimons

a thoroughly thought through composition.”

the commissioner’s choice of performer in the coming months. He is currently completing work on a new marimba concerto, the result of a collaboration between Pedro Carneiro and a consortium of New Zealand’s four major regional orchestras.

The new work will be performed around the country.

REPERTOIRE RECOMMENDATION NZSO, Olympic Cultural Festival, Beijing 27 August 2008 PSATHAS: Olympiad XXVIII

Photo: Michael Norris

ELGAR: Cello Concerto Sibelius: Symphony No.2

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HRISTOS HATZIS’ In the Fire of

Angele Dubeau & La Pietà

Conflict has been wowing audienc-

es in many forms since its premiere

by Denise Djokic and Scott Ryan (with dance by Peggy Baker), on 5 August 2008 during the Toronto Summer Music Festival. The work, in two continuous movements, was originally scored for cello

and

percussion,

accompanied

by a digital audio part sourced from American rapper Steve Henry (a.k.a.

Bugsy H., of Christian rap group Poetik Disciples). In March 2009 the work was performed in Brooklyn, New York, by Seth Woods and Bill Solomon. It has also been reworked as a marimba solo, and performed by Beverley Johnston at the

US cities in late September and October

Kevin Lau. The arrangement is the result

Nebojsa Zivkovic International Summer

2009.

of a commission from a World Association

Music Academy, in Germany (she also

In October, Hatzis Redemption: Book 1

for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles

performed Hatzis’ Fertility Rites), and

receives its world premiere in Ohio from

consortium, and will be first performed

as a percussion quartet performed by

the Grammy Award winning Pacifica

by Rod Squance with the University of

TorQ Percussion Ensemble, in Toronto,

Quartet with CityMusic Cleveland. The

Calgary Wind Ensemble early next year.

Canada. Hatzis said of the collaboration

work, 35 minutes in itself, is part of an

With such a wealth of performances,

with Henry; I have always been fascinated

ambitious set of works. The Redemption

of which these are only a small selec-

by the prosodic rhythmic discourse of hip-

cycle, featuring five standalone works for

tion, it is no surprise that Hatzis was

hop music, but certainly not by its implicit

a variety of instrumental combinations,

the recipient of the 2008 Jan Matejcek

endorsement of misogyny and violence that

is based on the theme of human redemp-

Concert Music Award. The prize, part of

one so often encounters in hip-hop lyrics.

tion as expounded by turn-of-the-century

Canada’s Juno Awards, is awarded to the

Poetik Disciples used the same musical tech-

American seer Edgar Cayce. Redemption:

most performed and broadcast Canadian

niques to essentially create devotional songs

Book 5 is Hatzis’ well-received 2004 work

composer, a testament to the breadth of

and that was very inspirational to me.

Sepulchre of Life, for soprano, Middle-

Hatzis’ appeal.

Following the successful commission

Eastern singer, SATB choir and symphony

of Tongues of Fire for Beverley Johnston

orchestra. The complete set is expected to

and Dame Evelyn Glennie in 2007, Hatzis

encompass eight movements and some

REPERTOIRE RECOMMENDATION Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, 6 December 2008

has again composed a major work for

two hours of music. Redemption: Books

Copland: Three Latin-American Sketches

Glennie, commissioned by the Canadian

2-4 are yet to be written.

Hatzis: Rebirth

Broadcasting Corporation. Mirage?, for

Hatzis older works continue to receive

solo percussion and chamber orchestra,

wide acclaim, with many receiving repeat

will be premiered in Winnipeg, Canada,

performances by prominent ensembles.

on 9 September 2009 by Glennie and

Vancouver Cantata Singers with Anne-

the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and

Julie Caron performed the 2000 work

toured around Canada over the next three

Everlasting Light last October, while

weeks.

Hatzis’ 2004 horn concerto Winter Solstice

Hatzis has another major work being

was performed by the Camerata Orchestra

premiered in the same week – Arabesque,

of Athens with Constantinos Siskos

for solo violin, piano and string orches-

(horn) and conductor Alexander Myrat

tra receives its first performance; Angèle

in January this year. The oboe concerto

Dubeau will perform with La Pièta in

Telluric Dances will receive its French

Mont-Tremblant, Canada. The work, which

premiere from Gilles Loulier (oboe) and

Hatzis calls ‘autobiographical’, draws on a

Orchestre National de Montpellier in

variety of musical genres in the course

November 2009. Hatzis’ percussion con-

of its four movements. The work will be

certo Tongues of Fire has recently been

performed in a number of Canadian and

reworked for wind band by composer

Bernstein: Halil-Nocturne for Flute & Orchestra Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Composer briefs

P

romethean Editions’ published composers continue to

Los Angeles and New York welcomed the music of Matthew Hindson with the Adelaide Symphony’s tour and performance

receive acclaim for their work.

Mike Nock, whose works feature in Firestarters 3, was

of Kalkadunga, a concerto for didjeridu co-composed with

inducted into the Australian Jazz Hall of Fame at a ceremony

virtuoso William Barton in January this year. As Composer-in-

in Melbourne in 2009. Nock’s twenty-minute four-hand piano

Residence with the Queensland Orchestra, Hindson was fea-

work, Southern Suite, was premiered in May by New Zealand

tured for a Composer Portrait concert on 31 August last month,

pianists Michael Houstoun and Diedre Irons. In June, Nock’s

including performances of his orchestral works Rave-Elation,

Fictional Realities was performed by the Apollo Trio, and broad-

Balkan Connection, two movements from A Symphony of Modern

cast live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporations, and pian-

Objects and a new version of Didjeribluegrass. On 23 September,

ist Simon Tedeschi recorded two of Mike’s piano pieces for an

Hindson’s major new work Symphony No. 2: E=mc2 is to be pre-

upcoming ABC classics album.

miered by the Birmingham Royal Ballet in Birmingham, UK.

Helen Fisher’s choral and flute work Pounamu, first per-

James Ledger continues to enjoy symphonic premieres as

formed in 1990, continues to draw performers and audiences

Composer-in-Residence with the West Australian Symphony

and students. A popular item in Promethean Editions’ Education

Orchestra. In May they presented the world premiere of Arcs

series, the work was performed in July and August by the

and Planes. This month they are to present the world pre-

Auckland Choral Society, with conductor and flautist, Uwe

miere of Chronicles. In 2008, Ledger was awarded the Churchill

Grodd. Promethean Editions looks forward to adding three new

Fellowship for a research trip to Estonia, examining current

composers to the catalogue when Firestarters 4 is released early

compositional practice.

2010.

The Westminster Philharmonia in London showcased com-

Australian composer Katy Abbott has

poser Anthony Ritchie with the performance of Symphony No.

recently returned to Melbourne from Dubai,

1 ‘Boum’ in March this year. As Composer-in-Residence with

where she has been living. Since her return,

the Manukau Symphony Orchestra, Ritchie’s Piano Concerto

the composer has had her first sympho-

No.3 was premiered with soloist Emma Sayers in June. Another

ny, Souls of Fire, broadcast in Australia and

notable performance this year was Widow’s Songs for choir, pre-

Canada. Abbott has also been Composer-in-

sented at the Asia Composers League in Korea.

Residence at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania in 2009.

This month, four works by Paul Stanhope feature at the internationally renowned Vale of Glamorgan Festival in (Old

New Zealand-based Gao Ping will contribute a piano work,

South) Wales: The Arch Window, Mularra, Yamihndi and the

in addition to a busy year of composing, teaching and perform-

Takemitsu prize-winning work Fantasia on a Theme of Vaughan

ing. In June, he played a recital with cellist Edith Salzmann at

Williams to be performed by the BBC National Orchestra of

Beijing’s Capital Normal University. NZTrio premiered the com-

Wales.

poser’s new work Su Xie Si Ti (Four Sketches), in early July. A piano quintet, mei, lan, zhu, ju, was also performed in August by pianist John Chen, with the Singaporean T’ang Quartet.

Chris Gendall is a young New Zealand composer

currently

undertaking

the

D.M.A. programme at Cornell University, New York. Gendall won the prestigious

Performer spotlight

D

AME EVELYN GLENNIE has been a long-time supporter of Promethean Editions’ composers. As the first

person to successfully create and sustain a full-time career

SOUNZ Contemporary Award in 2008, one

as a solo percussionist, Glennie was an early promoter of

of the youngest composers to do so. In

the composers’ extensive list of percussion works. As well

2009, Gendall was one of five composers

as introducing works such as Psathas’ Drum Dances and

selected for a commission auction to raise

Matre’s Dance to her regular repertoire, she has premiered

funds for SOUNZ Centre for NZ Music.

works for solo percussion and orchestra, such as Farr’s Hikoi

Stuart Greenbaum celebrated a recent success by winning

(New Zealand Symphony Orchestra), Psathas’ View from

the Australian Music Centre/APRA ‘Orchestral Work of the

Olympus (Hallé Orchestra) and Percussion Concerto. Most

Year Award’ 2008 for his work 90 Minutes Circling the Earth. In

recently, she performed Christos Hatzis’ Tongues of Fire with

October 2009, he will be Composer-in-Residence for the Port

Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony

Fairy Spring Music Festival, which will include performances

Orchestra. In September 2009, Glennie will add another

of his works: Falling By Degrees, Evocation, Coventry Cathedral,

major work from a Promethean composer to her repertoire

800 million heartbeats and Nelson Interludes. Greenbaum is also

when she premieres Hatzis’ new concerto for percussion and

the recipient of the 2009 Trans-Tasman composer residency, in

orchestra, Mirage? with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in

which he will travel to Auckland, NZ to work with NZTrio in

Winnipeg, Canada.

September.

Glennie writes, “Over the years it has been a terrific

Publication news Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Music

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AVING COMPLETED the first five volumes of the his-

established Waiteata Music Press

torically important Larry Pruden Collected Edition,

in 1967, and in 1984 founded the

Promethean Editions is beginning work on the publication

Lilburn Trust, which continues to

of another important collection, the complete piano works of

support and promote New Zealand

Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001). Lilburn occupies a pre-eminent

Music.

position in New Zealand music, with a legacy extending well

The collection will draw on

beyond his compositional output. As a composer, a teacher,

the expertise of Series Editor

and later as an encouraging background presence, he presided

Robert Hoskins, who contribut-

in innumerable ways over the artistic growth of this country.

ed in the same capacity to the

His music, from the early works redolent of the influence of

Pruden Collected Edition. Hoskins

Sibelius and Vaughan Williams, to the electroacoustic pieces of his later years, makes up a

will be joined by DOUGLAS LILBURN Piano Music 1

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corpus of works that has been instrumental in

Rod Biss. As well as

establishing a genuinely vernacular voice in New

being a composer himself, Biss has extensive expe-

Zealand classical music.

rience in the publishing industry, having worked

The youngest of seven children, Douglas Lilburn spent his early years on Drysdale, the family sheep station in the central North Island.

for Schott London and later Production Director of VOLUME 5 Works for String Orchestra

Faber Music, and one of the co-founders of Price Milburn Music Ltd. Biss is well-known in New

After winning a prize offered by Percy Grainger for

Zealand as a discerning reviewer and music jour-

a new New Zealand orchestral piece, he enrolled

nalist for many of the country’s most prominent

in 1937 at the Royal College of Music in London,

magazines and newspapers. Biss and Hoskins work

where his teachers included R.O. Morris and

alongside an editorial panel yet to be confirmed.

Vaughan Williams. On his return to New Zealand

The complete works will encompass some 26

he taught composition at the Cambridge Summer Music Schools,

individual standalone works and suites (the Occasional Pieces

and in 1947 joined the staff of the newly-established music fac-

for Piano suite alone includes some twenty short works), over

ulty at Victoria University of Wellington. Here, until his retire-

three volumes of music. The first two volumes will be released in

ment in 1981, he established a centre for composition, bringing

late 2009, with the remaining four volumes expected by the end

to his own music and to his students the fruits of his investiga-

of 2010. The series will also comprise of a best of collection and

tions into international trends in contemporary composition. He

a special version with edited selections for young players.

experience for me to collaborate with composers from New

their styles or voices which is why they seem to strike at the

Zealand. They all have their own distinctive voices and

heart of all people.”

approaches, all extremely exciting and all deserve worldwide recognition. Thanks to the internet and the dedicated support from Promethean Editions people from all over the world are able to tap into the exciting talent that NZ is producing including other non national composers that are supported through Promethean.

“The percussion concerti I have been involved with by John Psathas, Gareth Farr and Christos Hatzis have all been extremely worthwhile additions to the percussion repertoire. other percussionists, orchestras, conductors and audiences has been extensive which is why we return to these composers asking them to write more and more for our medium!

“I have really adored how Christos, John and Gareth have totally embraced and understood the participation of the audience – they have understood the need to deliver something memorable, exciting, intriguing, thought-provoking. Their music has no boundaries and one cannot easily categorize

Photo: James Wilson © Evelyn Glennie

The impact these pieces have had on not only myself but many

Recent Editions Promethean Edition Series

IN THE FIRE OF CONFLICT – SOLO PERCUSSION WITH DIGITAL AUDIO (PE108)

Massey Edition

Gareth Farr

In the Fire of Conflict is named after the theme for the 2008 Toronto Summer Music Festival for which it was written. Set in two continuous movements, ‘Rescue Me’ & ‘I Call Your Name,’ the live percussion part is performed with the rap music in the digital audio part, sourced from American rapper Steve Henry a.k.a. ‘Bugsy H.’, of the Christian rap group Poetik Disciples. The live percussion weaves constantly around the rap lyrics, often drawing melodic contours from the prosodic contours of the spoken text.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

THREE ETUDES – solo marimba (PE092) Three Etudes was written while Farr was performing regularly as a marimba soloist. ‘From Duggan’ was created from the title theme music for the New Zealand Television series Duggan for which Farr composed the soundtrack for two pilot episodes and the eleven one-hour episodes made subsequently. Duggan was a police-drama series in which Detective Inspector John Duggan (played by John Bach) was given grisly murder cases to solve set against the scenic backdrop of New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds. The second and third etudes were written for fellow percussionists Jeremy Fitzsimons and Suzanne Warner respectively. Three Etudes showcases the many potential rhythmic and sonic possibilities of the marimba by exploiting virtuosic playing techniques (such as the double lateral stroke) and contrasting moods with seamless chordotonal melodies.

THE HORIZON FROM OWHIRO BAY – SOLO PIANO (PE091) The Horizon from Owhiro Bay was commissioned by the James Wallace Arts Trust for pianist Stephen De Pledge, as part of his programme of works

by New Zealand composers, collectively titled ‘Landscape Preludes,’ first performed and presented this programme the New Zealand International Arts Festival on 28 February 2008. Farr writes: ‘This prelude is a musical representation of the view I see at twilight from my studio on the South Coast of Wellington - the moody dark green depths of Cook Strait, the inky blue sky, and the endless unbroken horizon dividing the two. Fishing boats sit on the horizon all lit up, looking like little gleaming gemstones in the darkness. The occasional gust of wind stirs up wild eddies on the surface of the water, and the odd rogue wave hurls itself onto the rocks and up into the air in a spectacular explosion of sea spray.’

CHRISTOS HATZIS OLD PHOTOGRAPHS – PIANO TRIO (PE104) Old Photographs is a stand-alone movement for piano trio from the multimedia music theatre work Constantinople. Within the context of the larger work, it provides an antidote to the heartrending intensity of several of the other movements. Unlike the rest of Constantinople, Old Photographs is totally based on western musical idioms and opens with an introspective theme for solo piano which is stylistically akin to the music of Robert Schumann.

As the work progresses the violin and cello enter and the music slowly drifts away from the classical/ romantic mould of the opening towards early 20thcentury popular idioms reminiscent of the music of Astor Piazzolla.

John Psathas FRAGMENT (ARR. FITZSIMONS) – VIBRAPHONE & MARIMBA (PE089)

Edited by Nathaniel Lew

MASSEY UNIVERSITY MUSIC EDITION

Dialogue was commissioned for Jeremy Fitzsimons to perform on a recording devoted to marimba music by Gareth Farr. It is set in three movements: Introduction, Kotekan, Moto Perpetuo. This work explores the sonic interplay of the two instruments, from blending together as one sound to contrasting textures. ‘Introduction’ is a development of a chord progression; ‘Kotekan’ includes Balinese interlocking techniques (kotekan); and ‘Moto Perpetuo’ surges forward with the two instruments interweaving in counterpoint, parallel motion and in canon.

SCENES FROM BUNYAN’S PILGRIM’S PROGRESS (PME14) Published for the first Scenes Adapted from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress time, Scenes Adapted

By Evelyn U. Ouless from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Music composed and selected by Ralph Vaughan Williams Progress contains the complete script and extant musical numbers from the 1907 and 1908 productions in London.

This publication is edited and considered for modern readers and performers. The script is restored and clarified, and includes detailed music cues. The score draws on several primary sources, and existing gaps are filled with additional music selections and fabrications in the Appendix. In the preface, Nathaniel Lew explains the sources and editorial decisions leading to this publication, all of which makes for both a scholarly and practical work.

Edited by Nathaniel G. Lew

The Massey University Music Edition is published by Promethean Editions Limited

This short work is an adaptation of a piano duet originally written to commemorate the retirement occasion of the composer’s first piano teacher, Peter Williams. At the time of its composition, Psathas was engaged in writing his double concerto for percussion, piano and orchestra, View From Olympus, and in mood and musical material, Fragment is related to the second movement of that work. This version for marimba and vibraphone was arranged by percussionist Jeremy Fitzsimons.

ONE STUDY ONE SUMMARY – Marimba, Junk Percussion and Digital Audio (PE087) One Study One Summary is a work for solo percussionist and digital audio, having been written for Pedro Carneiro, takes advantage of the performer’s collection of ‘junk percussion.’

As the title suggests, it is cast in two movements, and while the work exhibits the ‘busy’ motoric textures for which Psathas is well-known, reflective, atmospheric textures predominate throughout.

This edition features two options for performance: one version with the junk percussion in the Digital Audio part (enabling performers to perform without live junk percussion), and another version without for performers to utilise their own battery of junk percussion. One Study One Summary was commissioned by Pedro Carneiro with funding support from Creative New Zealand.

SLEEPER – SOLO PIANO (PE090) Sleeper was commissioned by the James Wallace Arts Trust for pianist Stephen De Pledge, as part of his programme of works by New Zealand composers, collectively titled ‘Landscape Preludes.’

De Pledge first performed and presented this programme at the New Zealand International Arts Festival on 28 February 2008. The composer writes: Sleeper – noun, person who is asleep, a train carrying sleeping cars, a railroad tie. Sleeper is dedicated to the memory of young Fergus Schulz, an intrepid traveler, still traveling…

John Ritchie PAPANUI ROAD – Orchestra (PME11) Rich with kaleidoscopic images, Papanui Road gives a vivid ‘snapshot’ of bustling central ChristJohn Ritchie PAPANUI ROAD church during the 1950s Orchestra – one that encompasses not only the cityscape but much of the composer’s own experience and spirit. The composer writes: ‘Having lived near Papanui Road for most of my life – having cycled, driven and walked on it, having shopped, eaten and prayed in or on it, I feel at home there. As young people say, it has ‘vibes’ for me. It certainly has memories... This concert overture tries to hint at the bustle, the vitality and the peace of Papanui Road; an impression rather than a picture... For all its pictorialism this concert overture is a serious, even a solemn and nostalgic work. Its aim is to evoke memories and the atmosphere of an important, busy thoroughfare in the composer’s home town.’

MASSEY UNIVERSITY MUSIC EDITION

DIALOGUE – Vibraphone and Marimba (PE083)

The Massey University Music Edition is published by Promethean Editions Limited

Premieres and selected performances 23 July 2008 AUCKLAND TOWN HALL, AUCKLAND, NZ John Psathas – A Cool Wind Takács Quartet

5 August 2008 TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC, WALTER HALL, TORONTO, CANADA Christos Hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict Denise Djokic (cello) Ryan Scott (perc)

25 August 2008 ZIVKOVIC INTERNATIONAL SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY, NEUWIED-ENGERS, GERMANY Christos Hatzis – Fertility Rites Christos Hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict Beverley Johnston (percussion)

28 September 2008 AUCKLAND TOWN HALL, AUCKLAND, NZ John Psathas – Four Ancient Greek Songs John Psathas – Abhisheka: String Orchestra Auckland Chamber Orchestra Peter Scholes (conductor)

17 October 2008 RYERSON UNITED CHURCH, VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA Christos Hatzis – Everlasting Light Vancouver Cantata Singers Anne-Julie Caron (marimba) Eric Hannan (conductor)

5 November 2008 DEVENTER, NETHERLANDS John Psathas – Kartsigar New Zealand String Quartet

8 November 2008 PASIC, Austin Convention Center, Austin TX, USA John Psathas – One Study One Summary Pedro Carneiro (marimba)

17 November 2008 WEILL RECITAL HALL, CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK, NY, USA Gareth Farr – The Horizon from Owhiro Bay Henry Wong Doe (piano)

5 December 2008 CENTRE IN THE SQUARE, KITCHENER, ON, CANADA Christos Hatzis – Rebirth Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Stephen Dann (viola) Joana Carneiro (conductor)

8 January 2009 WALTER HALL, TORONTO, ON, CANADA Christos Hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict: Percussion Quartet TorQ Percussion Ensemble

20 January 2009 ATHENS CONCERT HALL, ATHENS, GREECE Christos Hatzis – Winter Solstice Camerata Orchestra of Athens Constantinos Siskos (horn) Alexander Myrat (conductor)

24 January 2009 VILNIUS CONGRESS HALL, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA John Psathas – Psyzygysm Giunter Percussion

6 February 2009 ADAM CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL, ST. JOHN’S METHODIST CHURCH, NELSON, NZ Gareth Farr & Richard Nunns – He Poroporoaki New Zealand String Quartet Richard Nunns (taonga puoro)

14 –21 March 2009 CAPITAL E NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, THE OPERA HOUSE, WELLINGTON, NZ Gareth Farr – Kia Ora Khalid Dave Armstrong (writer) Sara Brodie (director)

16 March 2009 AUCKLAND FESTIVAL, BAPTIST TABERNACLE, AUCKLAND, NZ Gareth Farr – Kembang Suling Bridget Douglas (flute) Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba)

20 March 2009 ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE, YALETOWN, VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA Gareth Farr – Pagan Prayer Kokoro Dance Evan Mitchell (conductor) Vivian Houle (soprano)

26 March 2009 MUNICIPAL THEATRE, NAPIER, NZ John Psathas – Olympiad XXVIII New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Pietari Inkenen (conductor)

27 March 2009 TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE, NEW YORK, NY, USA John Psathas – Mal Occhio Flexible Music

3 April 2009 CITY RECITAL HALL ANGEL PLACE, SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA John Psathas – Stream 3 Modern Music Ensemble Daryl Pratt (director)

28 April 2009 SICHUAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, CHENGDU SICHUAN, CHINA John Psathas – Helix NZTrio

30 May 2009 BANG, CRASH, SPLASH, PERCUSSION MARATHON, PORTUGAL Gareth Farr – Dialogue Gareth Farr – Tangaroa John Psathas – Ukiyo Pedro Carneiro (percussion) Jeremy Fitzsimons (percussion)

30 June 2009 ZELTSMAN MARIMBA FESTIVAL 2009, HARPER HALL, APPLETON, WI, USA Christos Hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict: Solo Percussion Beverley Johnston (percussion)

30 July 2009 GUITING FESTIVAL 2009, GUITING POWER VILLAGE HALL, GUITING POWER, UK John Psathas – One Study One Summary Simone Rebello (percussion)

31 July 2009 WALTER HALL, TORONTO, ON, CANADA Christos Hatzis – String Quartet No. 2, The Gathering Penderecki String Quartet

8 August 2009 CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL IN THE SQUARE, CHRISTCHURCH, NZ Gareth Farr – Illumina The Jubilate Singers Grant Hutchinson (director) Helen Charlton (soprano)

6 September 2009 LA FETE DE LA MUSIQUE AT TREMBLANT, DOWNTOWN MONT-TREMBLANT, QUEBEC, CANADA Christos Hatzis – Arabesque Angèle Dubeau (violin) La Pièta

9 September 2009 WESTMINSTER CHURCH, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA Christos Hatzis – Mirage?

Manitoba Chamber Orchestra Dame Evelyn Glennie (percussion) Anne Manson (conductor)

14 October 2009 HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM, YOUNGSTOWN, OH, USA Christos Hatzis – Redemption: Book 1 Pacifica Quartet CityMusic Cleveland David Allan Miller (conductor)

31 October 2009 ELDER HALL, ADELAIDE, SA, AUSTRALIA John Psathas – Olympiad XXVIII Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra Keith Crellin (conductor)

27 & 29 November 2009 OPERA BERLIOZ, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE Christos Hatzis – Telluric Dances Gilles Loulier (oboe soloist) Orchestre National de Montpellier Lawrence Foster (conductor)

Photographs, clockwise (overleaf): Christos Hatzis dawns his new ‘Aussie’ hat • Martyn Wood from Kia Ora Khalid, Gareth Farr’s new children’s opera, March 2009 • Serj Tankian with John Psathas, March 2009 (Photo: Carla Psathas) • Promethean Editions feature in Victorious, Spring 2009, Alumni magazine for Victoria University of Wellington, NZ • Percussionists Lenny Sakofsky, Thomas Guldborg, Larry Reese, Pedro Carneiro, Jeremy Fitzsimons

29 July 2009 SONNTAGSKONZERTE IM SPIEGELSAAL, BERLIN, GERMANY Christos Hatzis – Old Photographs Jung Trio

& Lance Philip after performance of Psyzygysm by John Psathas, Wellington, NZ, June 2008. (Photo: Michael Norris) • Pianist & composer Mike Nock enters Australian Jazz Hall of Fame, Melbourne, Australia, April 2009 (Photo: Timothy Bateson)

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