An interview with the Rebecca Fox following the premiere of Tūranganui.
Otago Daily Times — published in September 2018
Rebecca Fos asked me about the challenges of writing a piece to commemorate Captain James Cook’s arrival in New Zealand.
Interview with, and an article by, Charlotte Wilson for SOUNZ.
SOUNZ — published in 2016
SOUNZ asked Charlotte Wilson to do a round-up of my activities as I turned 75 and ask me how I felt about it all.
Article about New Zealand composition by Andrew Caldwell
New Zealand Geographic Issue 083 — published in January-February 2007
Andrew Caldwell wrote this major article as part of a project undertaken in collaboration with SOUNZ to disseminate New Zealand music more widely. The article was accompanied by a free double CD of New Zealand music which included my work, Hineraukatauri.
The article begins with his impressions of a concert that took place during the New Zealand New Music Festival organised by Lyell Cresswell in Edinburgh in 2001 where my work Resurgences was played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
New Zealand Geographic have published the article on their website.
The sound barrier — New Zealand Geographic
Paper by Graham Hair
Southern Voices — published in 2004
Dramatic narrative and musical narrativity in Gillian Whitehead’s ‘Hotspur’ is published in Loose canons: papers from the National Festival of Women’s Music held in Canberra in 2001 and edited by Linda Kouvaras, Ruth Lee Martin and Graham Hair.
Loose Canons is out of print but may be borrowed from the Australian Music Centre.
Read a pdf online of Graham Hair’s article.
Dramatic narrative and musical narrativity in Gillian Whitehead’s ‘Hotspur’ — Glasgow University
Articles about my opera, Outrageous Fortune by Jenny McLeod and Suzanne Court
Music in New Zealand No. 34 Summer 1998-1999 — published 1998
William Dart, editor of Music in New Zealand, asked Suzanne Court, then a lecturer at Otago University, and fellow composer Jenny McLeod to reflect on the production which took place in September 1998. The articles are titled: The Operatic Weave I and The Operatic Weave II.
The magazine is now out of print but can be borrowed from SOUNZ, or may be found in larger libraries.
Music in New Zealand No. 34 — SOUNZ
Article by Elizabeth Kerr
Contemporary Music Review Volume 11, No 1, pages 325-332 — published in 1994
The full title of this article is: Women composers in New Zealand in the 19th and 20th centuries — An ancient culture and a “young country”?
The first page of the article is available online. To read the whole article you need to buy access from the publishers.
Women composers in New Zealand in the 19th and 20th centuries — Taylor Francis Online