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TVNZ’s arts programme visits the 6th annual Young Composers Workshop held at the Nelson School of Music (May, 1987). It allows 20 promising young composers to hear their music performed and to compare notes with their peers — an opportunity that wasn’t available two decades earlier for budding composers like workshop organiser Ross Harris. Solo instrumental works, ensemble pieces and electronic music are featured — with inspiration found in everything from poems by James K Baxter and Sylvia Plath to slipping and falling while walking down a hill.

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 Howard Taylor
 Denis Harvey
 Nigel Gordon-Crosbie

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 Irene Gardiner

Irene Gardiner

Hi Phoebe - NZ On Screen hasn't edited the programme at all. It's presented here as it came to us from the TVNZ Archive. But it is possible the Kaleidoscope piece was edited down from the original live performance. Is that what you are meaning?

 Phoebe Gray

Phoebe Gray

This was edited. I am certain that it featured one of the songs that I wrote as well as more discussion.

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I completed a Bachelor of Music at Canterbury without hearing any of my music played at all and that made me feel very insecure about being a composer. I really didn’t really know whether I could even consider myself to be one.