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AND SOON IT WILL BE DAWN

for Brass and Percussion Ensemble

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Brass and Percussion of the NZSO

Marc Taddei conductor

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Recorded as part of the 2018 SOUNZ NZ Composer Sessions

in partnership with NZSO, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ.

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Audio recorded by RNZ Concert. Resound is funded by NZ On Air.

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philip looks back on our earliest composers

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Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman

Audio via Radio New Zealand

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When immigrants arrived in New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century, they brought with them some enthusiastic composers - or perhaps more accurately, musicians who composed on the side.

Their success rate was a bit hit or miss, according to composer and musicologist Philip Norman, who's about to deliver a talk about our early composers.  Certainly "God Defend New Zealand", "Waiata Poi", "Pokarekareana" and "Now is the Hour" were undoubtedly hits, but were they technically New Zealand hits?

 

From 30 October 2022  

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Fanfare for dame silvia Cartwright

for Brass Ensemble

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Brass of the NZSO

Marc Taddei conductor

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Recorded as part of the 2018 SOUNZ NZ Composer Sessions

in partnership with NZSO, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ.

 

Audio recorded by RNZ Concert. Resound is funded by NZ On Air.

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The magpie House

A new podcast by SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music

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Episode One: Landfall in Unknown Seas

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Just off a bustling Wellington city thoroughfare, is a quaint little lane called Ascot Street. Number 22 is a tar black weatherboard modernist house, with stark white framing. Out the back there’s an overgrown jungle of a garden, where NZ’s ‘father of classical music composition’ Douglas Lilburn liked to spend time growing vegetables and listening to the Tui.

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Philip discusses Douglas Lilburn's music with host Kirsten Johnstone. 

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Listen to the full series here

 

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When Gravity Fails

for Viola and Orchestra

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Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola

Hamish McKeich conductor

NZSO

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Recorded as part of the 2017 SOUNZ NZ Composer Sessions

in partnership with NZSO, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ.

 

Audio recorded by RNZ Concert. Resound is funded by NZ On Air.

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Philip Norman Presents:

Inspirations & Opportunities

 

Opening address of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand Conference, Wellington, 15 January 2015.

 

Production of this film was made possible by NZ On Air funding of the Resound project at SOUNZ.

 

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PLumsong

for SATB choir

 

New Zealand Secondary Schools' Choir

Elise Bradley conductor

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From their album 'Pastimes with Plums an Pizzazz' 

 

Words by AK Grant. 

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Murphy's Law

Sonata for Soprano Saxophone & Piano

 

Romp Duo:

Barry Cockroft saxophone

Adam Pinto piano

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From their album 'Crazy Logic'

 

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Philip Norman Inducts Douglas Lilburn into the NZ music hall of fame

 

Philip inducts Lilburn into the NZ Music Hall of Fame at the 2014 APRA Silver Scrolls awards.

 

Philip says "I'm delighted that a Classical composer has now been admitted [into the Hall of Fame] and hope it's part of a growing recognition that music is music -- irrespective of style, instrumentation or groove."

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Philip Norman's History of kiwi composers begins with the dawn chorus 

 

Philip discusses the influence of birdsong on NZ music with Charlie Gates from Stuff. 

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From 20 June, 2017

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Lilburn at 100

 

Philip discusses Douglas Lilburn's music with Eva Radich from RNZ Concert Upbeat in anticipation of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra's Lilburn Centenary Concert.

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From 15 October, 2015

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Peter Pan ballet Captivates Perth Audiences

 

West Australian Ballet

Russell Kerr choreographer

WAB Artistic Staff re-staging

Kristian Fredrikson AO set and costumes

Jon Buswell lighting

Myron Romanul conductor

West Australian Philharmonic Orchestra

 

Back by popular demand, Peter Pan returns to Perth after a sell-out season of 21 performances back in 2013. 

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Photography: Sergey Pevnev

 

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NZSO Storytime:
A lion in the meadow

for narrator and chamber orchestra

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Anna Coddington narrator

The NZSO

Miguel Harth-Bedoya conductor

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Story by Margaret Mahy

Produced by Innit Creative

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An imaginary menagerie

for children's choir

 

The massed choir of the Christchurch Schools' Music Festival 2018

Joshua McGirr conductor

Elizabeth Muschamp accompanist

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Words by Margaret Mahy.

 

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Baby boomer interviews

Philip is interviewed by fellow baby boomer, Donald Maurice


The Baby Boomer Composer interview series is produced in partnership with the New Zealand School of Music.  

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Audio recorded by Graham Kennedy. Film funded by NZ On Air.

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john ritchie remembered

 

RNZ Concert's Upbeat programme speaks with Anthony Ritchie and Philip about John Ritchie's life and work, marking 100 years since the composer's birth. 

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From 29 September, 2021

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