that John McAlpine and I gave a recital in New Zealand House. During the heatwave of 1976 I visited Koeln to rehearse with
John - he still lives there, teaching the piano, and performing large quantities of 20th and 21st century music, by composers
such as John Cage, Kevin Volans and John White.
There were no personal computers and sophisticated publishing software in those days of course,
and I spent hours applying Letraset to prepare the ticket and posters for printing.
Somebody recorded the concert onto 6-inch reel-to-reel tape. It languished in a box for the
next 25 years until I unearthed it when a friend was transferring old tapes to CD.
Click the poster to hear the opening few bars of the sonata (1950)
by Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), one of New Zealand's foremost and most respected composers. It's a 2.35MB mp3 file.
Better is to right-click, which presents you with different options.
You could open the sound file in a different tab and look at a few
photos of New Zealand
that I took in February 2006 and November 2007.
