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ACD107

Puhake ki te rangi

Performers:


New Zealand String Quartet



Composers:


Gillian Whitehead



Music for European and Māori traditional instruments. “In 1989, I heard for the first time, in a presentation given by Richard Nunns, the sounds of the taonga puoro (singing treasures), which spoke to me very strongly of the spirituality of my Māori heritage. I began working with these instruments several years later, and I have found myself drawn to explore in my own language the world of sound that might have surrounded pre-European Māori. Though the function of the instruments was of course very different in that world, I have tried to use them in a way that does relate to their traditional use.”