Radio Plays

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NB: Unless otherwise stated, the organisation that makes the recording owns the broadcast rights.
Superceded or revised editions of scores are not to be sold or given out without the express permission of the composer.

Split Seconds

1977

A music play for radio (40') 

First Broadcast: ABC National, February 22, 1978 

Commissioned by the ABC 

The play was awarded Honourable Mention by the Italia Prize jury

Tri an Emu

1986

A recorded improvisation for alemba and mixed percussion (3'30'') 

First Broadcast: ABC FM on the Surface Tension Programme, December 7, 1986 

Commissioned by the ABC

Currawong: a symphony of bird sounds

1988

(23')

First Broadcast: ABC FM, 1988 

Commissioned by West German Radio

Meditations and Distractions on the Theme of the Singing Nun

1990

Radio Play (Hörspiel) (50’)

First Broadcast: February 19,1990 on ABC FM ABC 

Commissioned by the ABC

Entry in 1990 Italia Prize, Documentary Division The play was awarded Honourable Mention by the Italia Prize jury

I walked into my Mother

1998

A radio play based on a text from the Bringing Them Home publication brought out by the Commission of Inquiry into the ‘Stolen Generation’ (15’)

The text is by Confidential Informant 139 Victoria, Australia
Composed and directed by Moya Henderson 

Recording    
Voices: Kevin Smith, Pamela Young
Piano: Stephanie McCallum 
Violin: Kirsten Williams
Cello: Susan Blake
Sound engineer: Phillip Ulman
Producer: Andrew McLennan

Work commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 
Music used in the play is a reworking of Cross Hatching 
The play was awarded Honourable Mention by the Italia Prize jury