MEDIA
More music available on Philip's Soundcloud
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AND SOON IT WILL BE DAWN
for Brass and Percussion Ensemble
Brass and Percussion of the NZSO
Marc Taddei conductor
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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philip looks back on our earliest composers
Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman
Audio via Radio New Zealand
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
Brass of the NZSO
Marc Taddei conductor
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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A new podcast by SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music
Episode One: Landfall in Unknown Seas
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.
Philip discusses Douglas Lilburn's music with host Kirsten Johnstone.
Listen to the full series here.
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When Gravity Fails
for Viola and Orchestra
Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola
Hamish McKeich conductor
NZSO
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
From their album 'Pastimes with Plums an Pizzazz'
Words by AK Grant.
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Murphy's Law
Sonata for Soprano Saxophone & Piano
Barry Cockroft saxophone
Adam Pinto piano
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."
//News feature
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.
From 20 June, 2017
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Philip discusses Douglas Lilburn's music with Eva Radich from RNZ Concert Upbeat in anticipation of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra's Lilburn Centenary Concert.
From 15 October, 2015
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Photography: Sergey Pevnev
Photography: Sergey Pevnev
Photography: Sergey Pevnev
Photography: Sergey Pevnev
Peter Pan ballet Captivates Perth Audiences
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.
Photography: Sergey Pevnev
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NZSO Storytime:
A lion in the meadow
for narrator and chamber orchestra
Anna Coddington narrator
The NZSO
Miguel Harth-Bedoya conductor
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
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.
Audio recorded by Graham Kennedy. Film funded by NZ On Air.
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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.
From 29 September, 2021