Work
Taurangi
for flute and piano
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About
I began writing this piece in the shadow of both the East Timor crisis and the death of my good friend and sometime mentor of many years, the musicologist and historian John Mansfield Thomson. These events modified both the original formal ideas and the detail of the piece. William's 'A Dictionary of the Maori Language' gives four meanings for taurangi: "unsettled", "changing or changeable"; "incomplete, unsatisfied, unfulfilled"; "to grieve for"; and "wanderer". Taurangi was commissioned by the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, during which it received its first performance by Bridget Douglas and Rachel Thompson, in March, 2000.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts 2000
Dedication note
Dedicated to the memory of John Mansfield Thomson
Contents note
Single movement
Text note
William's: A dictionary of the Maori Language
Performance history
27 Mar 2000: Performed by Bridget Douglas (flute) and Rachel Thomson (piano)
14 Mar 2002: Performed by Bridget Douglas and Rachel Thomson at Ilott Theatre, in Wellington
30 Jun 2006: Performed by Kristina Hesse (flute) and Barbara Hodapp (piano) in the Grosser Saal of the Musikhochschule Lübeck, Germany
19 Jun 2007: Encompass: Tuhonohono
21 Jun 2007: Encomapss: Tuhonohono
22 Jun 2007: Performed by Ingrid Culliford (flute) and Emma Sayers (piano) at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa, Wellington on 21 June 2007. This concert
20 Apr 2008: ICWM Festival, Beijing
09 Oct 2008: Luca Manghi at St Pauls
12 Oct 2008: Performed by Bridget Douglas (flute) and Rachel Thomson (piano) and broadcast on Flotation Device on KBCS 91.3 FM in USA.
30 Jun 2009: Contemporary Visions 26
07 Aug 2009: Ensemble Selisih: Auckland
12 Aug 2009: Ensemble Selisih: NZSM
21 Jul 2011: NZSM hosts Douglas and Thomson
Performed by Ingrid Culliford (flute) and Dan Poynton (piano)
Performed by Bridget Douglas (flute) and Rachel Thomson (piano) at Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town Hall in 2004
Performed by Tuhonohono: Emma Sayers (piano) and Ingrid Culliford (flute)