Duggan Theme

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GARETH FARR
Duggan Theme
Flute & Marimba

Gareth Farr
Duggan Theme
Flute and Marimba
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Duggan Theme (PE094) for Flute and Marimba by Gareth Farr
(1997)
© Promethean Editions Limited 1997
First edition © 2011 Promethean Editions Limited (201508)
Series Editor: Ross Hendy
Editors: Alison Grant, Jared Commerer
ISBN: 978-1-877564-03-1 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-77660-094-6 (ebook)
ISMN: 979-0-67452-133-8
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Gareth Farr (1968)
Gareth Farr was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He began his studies in composition and
percussion performance at the University of Auckland. The experience of hearing a visiting
gamelan orchestra prompted his return to Wellington to attend Victoria University, where the
characteristic rhythms and textures of the Indonesian gamelan rapidly became hallmarks of
his own composition. Farr continued with postgraduate study in composition and percussion
at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where his teachers included Samuel Adler
and Christopher Rouse.
The inclusion of his works in four events at the 1996 New Zealand International Festival of
the Arts inaugurated his career as a dedicated freelance composer. Since then, Farr’s music
has been heard at, or especially commissioned for, high-profile events including the 50th
anniversary of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ( From the Depths Sound the Great Sea
Gongs), the opening of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa ( Te Papa), and the
2000 Olympic Games in Sydney ( Hikoi, a concerto for percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the
NZSO). In 2003, a commission by the Auckland Festival resulted in Stone and Ice, composed
for the combined forces of the NZSO and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. In 2006
Farr was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for his services to music and
entertainment. In the same year, the Royal New Zealand Ballet toured the country with their
brand new work The Wedding, featuring a score by Gareth Farr. At ninety minutes, it was
among the ballet company’s most ambitious projects, and combined Farr’s talents with those
of prominent New Zealand novelist and librettist Witi Ihimaera.
Farr’s music was integral to Maui – One Man Against the Gods, a stage show four years in the
making. First premiered in 2003, it featured aerial theatre, Maori kapa haka, contemporary
dance and song, with Farr’s stirring music, and toured a number of centres in New Zealand.
In more recent years, Farr has developed a fruitful collaboration with director and librettist
Paul Jenden, producing four comedy musicals. In 2007 Farr was appointed as Composer-
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in-Residence for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. The residency culminated in 2008
with the premiere of Ex Stasis, a symphonic song cycle for four soloists. In 2008, Farr also
celebrated the world premiere of his work Terra Incognita, for bass solo, choir and orchestra,
performed by Paul Whelan and the Orpheus Choir with the New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra. Farr’s artistic excellence was acknowledged when he received the Arts Foundation
of New Zealand’s Arts Laureate Award 2010, which aims to celebrate significant artistic
achievement as well as nurture future creative endeavours.
In March of 2014 Farr’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra received its world premiere from
soloist Tony Lee and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pietari Inkenen.
Its UK premiere followed one year later, with Lee backed by the BBC Philharmonic, with
conductor Tecwyn Evans. The BBC Philharmonic included Farr’s work alongside Douglas
Lilburn’s Symphony No.2 as a programme to mark the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC
troops’ battle at Gallipoli during World War I. The concerto received critical acclaim,
described by the Dominion Post’s John Button as containing “marvellously free piano
writing surrounded by orchestral sounds that conjure up memories of Prokofiev ballets,
Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges and even the Bartok First Piano Concerto…the ear was tickled
bar after bar. I have no doubt that this marvellously inventive piano concerto is bound to
develop an international life all its own.”
Farr’s music is particularly influenced by his extensive study of percussion, both Western
and non-Western. Rhythmic elements of his compositions can be linked to the complex and
exciting rhythms of Rarotongan log drum ensembles, Balinese gamelan and other percussion
music of the Pacific Rim.
Latest information about the composer may be found at www.garethfarr.com.
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Duggan Theme (1997)
Farr’s Duggan Theme was written for the television police-drama series Duggan, in which
Detective Inspector John Duggan (played by John Bach) solved grisly murder cases, set
against the scenic backdrop of New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds. Farr composed music for
the two pilot episodes in 1997 and 1998, and the 11 one-hour episodes made subsequently.
A simple and effective duo for flute and marimba that is suitable for beginning chamber
music students, Duggan Theme follows a simple ternary form, beginning and ending in
the Aeolian (or natural minor) mode, and shifting through a variety of major keys in the B
section. Farr has used the sonically satisfying combination of flute and marimba in the past,
particularly in Kembang Suling (PE001), one of the composer’s best known works. Duggan
Theme also exists in an arrangement for solo marimba (as the second movement in Farr’s
Three Etudes [PE092]), and as a duet for vibraphone and marimba.
This arrangement of Duggan Theme received its premiere concert performance from Kirstin
Eade (flute) and Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Wellington,
New Zealand, in September of 2004.
Performance notes
When a five-octave marimba is available the cue-sized notes in mm.23–24 may be performed
either as an alternative, or in conjunction with the full size notes..
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