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VICTORIA KELLY: Goodnight Kiwi
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VICTORIA KELLY: Goodnight Kiwi
Victoria Kelly’s ‘Goodnight Kiwi’ was penned in 2004 as part of pianist Stephen De Pledge’s excellent Landscape Preludes series. The work takes as a starting point the iconic nightly television shut-down sequence known to generations of New Zealanders and connects this with the composer’s long farewell to her mother. Victoria writes,
“As I was composing this piece in 2004, my mother was approaching the end of a long illness and she and I were going through a process of looking through photographs, telling the stories that accompanied them and wondering what lay ahead. It made me remember long summers, lawn-mowers, barbeques, pohutukawa trees at the beach and a time in life that wasn't weighed down with responsibilities or fears for the future. This piece is an emotional landscape that tries to evoke that feeling of nostalgia, presenting childhood memories into which the future begins to creep.
I imagined my mother was setting off on the same journey as the kiwi... wandering through the building, shutting down the power and then climbing up to sleep in the sky. I wrote this piece for her.”
‘Goodnight Kiwi’ is performed in this SOUNZ Film by AWE Emerging Artist Madeleine Xiao (piano).
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air
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Victoria Kelly’s ‘Goodnight Kiwi’ was penned in 2004 as part of pianist Stephen De Pledge’s excellent Landscape Preludes series. The work takes as a starting point the iconic nightly television shut-down sequence known to generations of New Zealanders and connects this with the composer’s long farewell to her mother. Victoria writes,
“As I was composing this piece in 2004, my mother was approaching the end of a long illness and she and I were going through a process of looking through photographs, telling the stories that accompanied them and wondering what lay ahead. It made me remember long summers, lawn-mowers, barbeques, pohutukawa trees at the beach and a time in life that wasn't weighed down with responsibilities or fears for the future. This piece is an emotional landscape that tries to evoke that feeling of nostalgia, presenting childhood memories into which the future begins to creep.
I imagined my mother was setting off on the same journey as the kiwi... wandering through the building, shutting down the power and then climbing up to sleep in the sky. I wrote this piece for her.”
‘Goodnight Kiwi’ is performed in this SOUNZ Film by AWE Emerging Artist Madeleine Xiao (piano).
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air
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Explore our extensive catalogue of scores, CDs, books and resource library at
Connect with #SOUNZ on
#nzmusic #classicalmusic