Karlheinz Company – Turtle Time
Callum Blackmore and Alex Taylor during the performance of Jack Body's Turtle Time. Photo: University of Auckland/Eve de Castro-Robinson, used with permission
A concert of tributes to departed giants.
First and foremost in this concert from May 2016, the Karlheinz Company honours composer Jack Body, who died a year earlier – coincidentally and tragically just hours before a Karlheinz Company concert in May 2015.
The ensemble performs Body’s 1968 seminal score Turtle Time along with two international works from that same year by György Ligeti and Steve Reich.
Tributes are also paid to recently departed musicians Pierre Boulez and David Bowie.
The Karlheinz Company is the University of Auckland School of Music's contemporary music ensemble, directed by Eve de Castro-Robinson. This concert was recorded in the School's Music Theatre.
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Eve de Castro-Robinson - Cries of Auckland
10:40 PM.Eve de Castro-Robinson writes of her work for vocal sextet and string quartet: "Cries of Auckland is based on calls and chants from the concrete and steel canyon of Auckland's Queen St. Beginning with… Read more Audio
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Clovis McEvoy - Change Blindness
10:35 PM.Tenor sax player Matt Ball performs Clovis McEvoy's short tribute to David Bowie. Read more Audio
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John Grant - Queen of Denmark
10:30 PM.Alex Taylor (sometimes known as Bellfrog) performs the title song from American songwriter John Grant's debut album. Read more Audio
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Steve Reich - Pendulum Music
10:25 PM.One of Steve Reich's early experiments in "process music". Four microphones are hung on their cables above four loudspeakers to which they are connected. When the microphones are directly above the… Read more Audio
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Anthony Young - Leave Your Light On
10:20 PM.A tribute from Auckland composer Anthony Young to David Bowie. The title is taken from Bowie's song Moonage Daydream. Performed by Stephen De Pledge. Read more Audio
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Alex Taylor - vis-à-vis
10:15 PM.Auckland composer Alex Taylor's tribute to Pierre Boulez, whose music he describes as "some of the most sensual and fluid in the repertoire". Performed by Stephen De Pledge. Read more Audio
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Pierre Boulez - Notations 1-5
10:10 PM.In tribute to Pierre Boulez who died in January 2016, pianist Stephen De Pledge plays the first five of the composer's Notations, written when he was a student with Olivier Messiaen. Read more Audio
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Jack Body - Turtle Time
10:05 PM.Jack Body's classic score from 1968, with text by NZ poet Russell Haley, performed by Callum Blackmore (speaker), Jonathan Dunlop (harpsichord), Rachel Song (piano), Cynthia Hsu (harp), Amy Hsu… Read more Audio
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György Ligeti - Continuum
10:00 PM.Jonathan Dunlop plays György Ligeti's Continuum for solo harpsichord, a piece which turns the discrete, sharp plucks of the instrument into a continuous blur of sound. Read more Audio
