Canzona

Canzona Back Issues

The following back issues of Canzona may be purchased from CANZ for $30 each (or $22 for members). If you would like to order a back issue, or if you wish to contribute to Canzona in some way, please email the editor at: <canzona@canz.net.nz>

All Canzonas include:

Editorial • President's Report • 5 Regional Reports • Crossword • Fees guidelines • CD Reviews • List of Members' Premieres

Canzona 2002 contents

• Pressing Needs
  Gillian Whitehead examines the history and work of the recipient of the 2002 KBB Citation for Services to NZ Music: Waiteata Press

• Finding your way out
  Michael Norris on Penny Axtens, winner of the Music 2000 Prize and 2002 CANZ Trust Fund Award

• Eddie’s Wall
  Ian Dando reports on the showing of John Cousins’s masterpiece

• Selling Ourselves
  John Psathas interviews International Festival of the Arts director Carla van Zon about the role of New Zealand music in the festival

• Gay Sensibility in the Music of Douglas Lilburn
  Jack Body’s essay on whether Lilburn’s homosexuality manifested itself in his music

• Finding Common Ground
  Jack Body interviews Balinese composer, performer and resident artist at Victoria University of Wellington, I Wayan Gde Yudane

• Changing Verlaines
  Anthony Ritchie interviews Dunedin Sound icon, Graeme Downes

• Half-Heard Sounds in the Summer Air
  A summary of Douglas Lilburn’s contribution to New Zealand musique concrète

• Nelson Composers Workshop 2002—A Report
  Alan Wells reports on the annual gathering of composers

• The New Zealand Writers & Composers Magazine: No. 1
  Unearthed in a Dunedin op-shop: a priceless gem

Canzona 2001 contents

• The breath of life
  Allan Thomas interviews Richard Nunns, recipient of the KBB CANZ Citation for Services to Music for 2001

• A window on the world of Rachel Clement
  Glenda Keam fills us in on Rachel Clement, the recipient of the CANZ Trust Fund Award for 2001

• Out of thin air
  Building an Aeolian Harp for display in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens is a labour of love for Chris Cree Brown

• The unusual suspects
  Alan Wells reports on the 2001 Nelson Composers Workshop

• Of sound minds
  The 2001 artists-in-residence at Victoria University School of Music uncover the inner life of sounds

• Photo essay
  A collection of images recalling the life of Douglas Lilburn

• Of time and fire
  An appreciation of Neville Hall’s work commended at the 2001 International Rostrum of Composers

• Music & evolution
  Kerry Stevens interviews Edwin Carr on the occasion of his 75th birthday

• In the deep south
  Alison Isadora on her year spent in Dunedin

• The strange case of Antiorp
  Michael Norris is contacted by an infamous, but mysterious entity who turns out to be better-known to him than originally thought

• For a good cause
  Leonie Holmes interviews Alan Kemp of KBB Music

• Music for quiet spaces
  Dorothy Ker on an environment-specific project in the U.K.

• New Zealand Music Week 2001
  Peter Mechen reviews a series of concerts featuring New Zealand music that occurred in Wellington during May 2001

Canzona 2000 contents

• Eve de Castro-Robinson & Dorothea Franchi
  Glowing tributes by Gareth Farr and William Dart

• A year down south
  Mozart Fellow Ross Carey recalls his year in Dunedin

• The young and the restless
  Alan Wells on new sounds and new voices from the Nelson Composers Workshop

• Auf wiedersehen, Pärt!
  John Young on New Zealand music in the International Computer Music Conference in Berlin

• Symphony and sashimi
  John Elmsly & Michael Norris report on the Asian Composers League conference in Yokohama

• Ligeti Junction
  Chris Watson on Stroma, the new kid on the contemporary music block

• Trial by fire
  Penny Axtens on winning the Music 2000 Prize

• A life in music
  Anthony Ritchie's tribute to Jack Speirs, composer, teacher, conductor, performer, musician

• Sax and violins
  Ross Hendy on John Psathas's new saxophone concerto featuring jazz god Michael Brecker

• Sunda and lightning
  Jack Body on Agus Supriawan

• Breaking the sound barriers
  Rachel Clement reports on Sonic Broom: New Zealander composers coming together for their own talkfest

• SOUNZ Contemporary Award

• Send in the clowns
  David Sanders writes about Amalgam

• A wonderful life
  Roger Wilson's obituary for Dorothy Freed

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Canzona

Canzona is a glossy retrospective yearbook, covering events of previous years. Canzona is usually published 6–12 months after the year in question. All CANZ members receive Canzona as part of their subscription.

Canzonetta

Canzonetta is a bi-monthly newsletter sent to all members as part of their subscription. It includes news, events, features and a list of opportunities for composers (competitions, calls for scores, etc)

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