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Gillian Whitehead

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Gillian Whitehead is a prominent New Zealand composer, born in 1941 in Hamilton. She studied under Peter Maxwell Davies and has subsequently produced a variety of music from solo to orchestral works. Particularly notable are her opera Outrageous Fortune and her collaborations with taonga puoro virtuoso Richard Nunns.

Top songs

  1. Torua
  2. Whitehead: Torua
  3. Puhake ki te rangi
  4. Lullaby for Matthew
  5. Alice: Arrival in New Zealand
  6. Taurangi
  7. Tōrua
  8. Hineputehue
  9. Arapātiki
  10. Karakia
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  1. No Stars, Not Even Clouds
  2. Three Improvisations for Solo Oboe
  3. Hinetekakara
  4. Clouds over Mata-Au
  5. Toccata
  6. Tūmanako: Journey Through an Unknown Landscape
  7. Arapatiki
  8. Tom's Serenade for Ann Morris
  9. Aftermath
  10. Hine-Raukatauri
  11. Shadows Cross the Water
  12. Moonstone - Mvt 1
  13. Waka, Kowhai & Tui
  14. Hineraukatauri
  15. The Storm
  16. Camelot: No. 1, Two Gulls
  17. Waka, Kowhai and Tui
  18. Waka's Love for Kowhai
  19. Moonstone - Mvt 2
  20. Moonstone - Mvt 3
  21. Moonstone - Mvt 4
  22. Resurgences
  23. La Cadenza Sia Corta
  24. Awa Herea (Braided Waters)
  25. The Journey of Matuku Moana
  26. Hine Raukatauri
  27. Taiohi taiao
  28. Alice: The death of Alice's husband
  29. Karohirohi
  30. Toccata for Harp
  31. Ngā hā o neherā: IV. He purakau
  32. Outlines Through Rising Mist
  33. Ngā hā o neherā: III. Mokoia
  34. Missa Brevis
  35. The Improbable Ordered Dance
  36. Because of the Child
  37. Piano Trio, Pt. 1
  38. Piano Trio, Pt. 2
  39. Alice: On board the S.S. Fifeshire
  40. Alice: Father and Daughter exchange letters
  41. Alice: Alice discovers she is pregnant
  42. Alice: The death of Alice's father
  43. Alice: Alice's return to the farm at Makarora
  44. Alice: Looking forward to a new life
  45. 3 Windows in the Weather: No. 2, Wet Jacket Arm
  46. 3 Windows in the Weather: No. 3, A Shift in the Wind
  47. Ngā hā o neherā: I. Ngā hā o neherā
  48. Ngā hā o neherā: II. Puna wera
  49. Hine te kakara (Version for Voice, Taonga pūoro & Mixed Chamber Ensemble)
  50. Camelot: No. 2, River
  51. Camelot: No. 3, Absent Birds
  52. Camelot: No. 4, River
  53. Camelot: No. 5, Two Ducks
  54. 3 Windows in the Weather: No. 1, Richard Henry in Fiordland
  55. Ngā hā o neherā: V. Ōhinemutu
  56. Nga Iwi E
  57. Manutaki
  58. Hineaukatauri
  59. Poroporoaki
  60. Alice (excerpt)
  61. Scene 8 In the street
  62. "He said 'a child is a gift from God'"
  63. Prologue
  64. "The nights are so long without you"
  65. "I wonder if she'd like to swap?"
  66. Scene 3 The goldfields, Central Otago
  67. "Young love first love"
  68. "I'm here today, tomorrow I'll be gone"
  69. cello solo
  70. Transition "Outrageous Fortune"
  71. "The Dunstan won't fail"
  72. "Her heart is beating"
  73. "One brother out of five"
  74. Scene 2 The wharves, Dunedin
  75. Scene 6 At the diggings
  76. Scene 13 By the river
  77. Scene 12 In the hotel
  78. Scene 14 In the pub, early morning
  79. Scene 7 At the Hotel
  80. Scene 11 Outside the hotel
  81. Scene 15 In the street
  82. "E tuakana"
  83. Scene 4 Outside a goldfields hotel
  84. "He was coming here"
  85. Scene 1 Otakou, by the water
  86. "Rona, Rona"
  87. "I left a girl in Dublin town"
  88. Scene 9 At the hotel
  89. (finale)
  90. Scene 5 Inside the hotel

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