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Voice and instrument

These pieces set to music poems by Anne Carson, Elizabeth Smart, Christina Rossetti and Shakespeare, together with words from the Book of Proverbs and the Girls’ Own Annual of 1919

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

Three Shakespeare Songs (2006-09)

9 mins
for soprano and piano

1. Orpheus with his Lute (Henry VIII)
2. Chimney-sweepers (Cymbeline)
3. Winter Song (Love's Labours Lost) 

Text: William Shakespeare

Nos 1 and 3 commissioned by the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. No 2 commissioned by the Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival (Arts in the Valley) with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

First performance by Margaret Schindler and Kevin Power Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Ballroom, Jupiter's Casino, Townsville, Queensland, 7 August 2009.

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Chimney-sweepers (2006)

4 mins
for soprano and piano

Also available as part of Three Shakespeare Songs and as a SATB choir version.

Text: from Act IV of Shakespeare's Cymbeline

Commissioned by the Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival (Arts in the Valley) with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

First performance by Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Andrea Katz (piano), Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 21 April 2007.

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The Birthday of My Life (from Learning to Howl) (2001)

3 minutes
for high voice and harp

Text: Christina Rossetti

First performance by Jane Edwards (soprano), Marshall McGuire (harp), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 18 March 2005

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A Walk to the Japanese Garden (2001)

4 minutes
for soprano and vibraphone

A song from Learning to Howl

Text: poem by Ian Munro

First performance by Justine Anderson (soprano) and Peter Neville (vibraphone), Toorak Uniting Church, Melbourne, 25 September 2005

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Three Songs for the Lady Pan (2001)

5 minutes
for soprano and soprano saxophone

From Learning to Howl

Text: Wang Wei (English translation by G.W. Robertson)

First performance by Belinda Montgomery (soprano) and Margery Smith (soprano saxophone), Government House, Sydney, 3 November 2004

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And now (1998)

2 minutes
for high voice and piano

Text: Cathryn Strickland

First performance by Merlyn Quaife (soprano) and Stephen Delaney (piano), Neuer Konzertsaal, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 12 January 2007

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Dancing with Smoke (1995)

10 minutes
for high voice and harp

1. Moment (Christopher Reid)
2. With (Martin Turner)
3. Choosing a Name (Anne Ridler)
4. In Modern Dress (Craig Raine)
5. Hold On (Thomas Shapcott)
6. Dutch Uncle (Christopher Reid)

Commissioned by Gerald English for his 70th birthday concert

First performance by Gerald English (tenor) and Marshall McGuire (harp), Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, 5 November 1995

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A Salt Girl (1994)

5 minutes
for high voice and piano

Text:

poems by Onakatomi no Yoshinobu, Oshikochi no Mitsune, the Emperor Koko and Akahito (translated by Kenneth Rexroth)

First performance by Gerald English (tenor) and Helen O'Brien (piano), Piper's Brook Vineyard, Piper's Brook, Tasmania, February 1994

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Epithalamium (1991)

3 minutes
for tenor, violin and bell

This is the original version of Epithalamium. There is also an arrangement for voice, flute and cello, and an extended version for mezzo-soprano and string quartet.

Text:

William Shakespeare, Act IV of The Tempest

First performance by Gerald English (tenor), Alice Evans (violin), Michael Askill (tubular bell), Huntington Estate Winery, Mudgee, NSW, 30 November 1991

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A Terrible Whiteness (1984)

8 minutes
for mezzo-soprano and piano

Text:

poems by Elizabeth Smart

Commissioned by Elizabeth Campbell with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Elisabeth Campbell (mezzo-soprano) and Anthony Fogg (piano), National Library of Australia, Canberra, 16 November 1986

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