Frond, for orchestra

• Main Author: Holmes, LJ
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Atoll/Move Records 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; Laird; New Zealand; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10746

Frond, for orchestra, has been recorded for inclusion on a CD of orchestral works by New Zealand and Australian composers entitled “Passing: Fresh orchestral sounds from 9 Australasian Composers”, released on the Move Record label, Australia, Executive Producer Martin Wright, Move Records, Producer Wayne Laird, Atoll Records. (Track 6 Atoll/Move Records MD3327). Frond is a 10 minute orchestral work written as part of my DMus Portfolio of Compositions. In addition to the CD recording, performances have taken place in NZSO Reading workshops, Wellington Town Hall, 2004 and 2006, the University of Auckland Graduation Concert in 2004, and in concert at the Asia Pacific Festival and Conference, Michael Fowler Centre, NZSO, 2007. “Passing” has been reviewed by William Dart in the NZ Herald 10th April 2010, Clive O’Connell in the Sydney Morning Herald 29 May 2010, and Jack Body for Move Records Website - http://www.move.com.au/disc.cfm/3327. The Passing CD was featured on Concert FM Pressing On program on 2 and 7 May 2010 and Soundlounge 4 May 2010. Sophisticated responses to environment we heard in Chris Cree Brown's Antarctic-inspired Icescape, and in Leonie Holmes' Frond, whose curving shape suggested the Maori koru motive. (Jack Body). A sample of trans-Tasman compositional/intellectual similarities and differences, this disc is both informative and remarkably entertaining: a true cross-section of voices with an often surprising congruence of emotional content.” (Clive O’Connell) There is space for contemplation in Leonie Holmes’ Frond, catching childhood forest fantasies in exquisite chamber music filigree” (William Dart). Composition for orchestra