Festival Grand Finale

Our esteemed Festival Artists come together again for the final Festival performance - sharing some of their personal favourites with the audience.

Ending as we started, with a blast of celebratory sound and colour, All musicians involved in the festival come together to perform a work specifically written for the festival by the talented Kiwi composer Lucy Mulgan.

Colour in Twilight is a celebration of autumn in Central Otago- written especially for this festival and our April performance to mirror the surroundings.

The piece opens with a bang and a wallop! A triumphant statement of autumn, our here and now with the refrain “colour so bright, as if in twilight”. Sliding (literally) into a brief recapturing of the heat – a wordless summer samba – fun and funky rhythms accompanied by claps and scat sounds in the choir. From here it slides back to the present – exploring the autumnal colour and mood that accompanies it. Rich, warm, lush lines move and morph through all the instruments and voices. This builds into the climax – the centre of the piece, where everyone improvises within their own cell – whero, karaka or kōwhai. Finally, a verse of autumn and then into the coda – looking ahead with a winter waltz – a rising melody in the lower instruments accompanied by thin, icy textures. The tune and wordless choir echo a summer samba.

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