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Don McGlashan - Other Music, Theatre

XIV Commonwealth Games, Auckland, 1990

Don McGlashan - Assistant Musical Director of the Games' opening ceremony.  Wrote brass band piece.

Mary Jane O'Reilly - choreographer.

Expo '92

Seville, Spain. Overall theme - discovery.

Album:- Voyages, featuring Kiri Te Kanawa, Howard Morrison, Expo Maori Entertainers; Kiwi Pacific Records International, 1992, CD SLC-223 Track 2 Voyages (Don McGlashan - Wayne Laird) Score for 'Theatre 2':- "The music represents the past 'voyages' of Polynesians and Europeans to New Zealand, and the present 'voyage' of identity as a multicultural Pacific nation.  The Maori texts are traditional canoeing chants, adapted by Temuera Morrison.  The English and Spanish words are from 'Landfall In Unknown Seas', written in 1942 by New Zealand's foremost poet, Allen Curnow, and used by kind permission of the author." Soprano - Kiri Te Kanawa Orchestra - The New Zealand Symphony Conductor - James Furst Choirmaster - Anthony Jennings Haka grouplead by Temuera Morrison Jig group - "Twisty Willow" Tracks 1 to 5, 11, 12 - Producers:l Wayne Laird and Don McGlashan

Don McGlashan biography (Mana Music) says that he composed a piece performed at the New Zealand pavilion at the 1993 Expo in Seville, played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Kiri Te Kanawa.

(archived) Review of NZSO concert, Expo 92, Seville gives a detailed account of the NZSO's experiences in Seville.

Selfish Giant, The, 2002

Warwick Broadhead has adapted The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde so he can give performances in homes using DVD and LCD TV.

• "...music score courtesy of Don McGlashan and Jonathan Besser, while Helen Medlyn, Michael Hurst, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Georgia Duder and Fritha Walker provide guest voice appearances."
  • Up close and personal (25th February, 2002 New Zealand Herald)

• "A CD of the work is being produced by Wayne Laird for sale at the conclusion of each performance."
  • Press Release - (The Selfish Giant - Warwick Broadhead)

This Is It, 1999

Musical director of "This Is It", the millennium celebration in Auckland's Domain. Worked with Douglas Wright.

"This Is It The Millennium Show" (Theme) aka "This Is It" (Theme) (McGlashan/Sullivan) (APRA)

Directors: Mike Mizrahi and Marie Adams.

"Fireworks illuminated Auckland Harbor, as the [Auckland] Philharmonia performed works commissioned for the occasion by New Zealand composers Gareth Farr and Don McGlashan." (archived) (Grant Cooper conducts... (archived) (Syracuse Symphony Orchestra))

This Is It preview
This Is It (Synthetic) - stills from the show.

Under 17 Soccer World Cup Championship, 1999, New Zealand

Musical Director and composer of official song.

FIFA U-17 World Championship - New Zealand 1999, Nov. 10-27 (FIFA)
1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship (Wikipedia)

World's Wife, The, 2002

Play based on poems by Carol Ann Duffy, in New Zealand (the play has already been performed in the UK, the book was published in 1999).

Music composed by Don McGlashan; arranged by Don McGlashan and David Long.
Directed by Miranda Harcourt.

Kiwis sparkle but 'Leah' maddening (16th March, 2002 New Zealand Herald)

"The World's Wife, Fiona Samuel's clever adaptation of Carol Ann Duffy's collection of poetry, was also superb. With spartan props, Samuel, Rachel House and Elizabeth McRae delivered a hilarious - but sometimes menacing or sad - rapid-fire sequence of vignettes based entirely on the viewpoint of women such as Medusa, Mrs Darwin, Queen Kong and Myra Hindley.

Not only were the three actors in sparkling form, the live soundtrack performed at the side of Te Papa's Soundings Theatre stage by Don McGlashan and David Long was extraordinarily diverse without being intrusive."

The World's Wife (The Court Theatre), Christchurch.

Theatre

Watershed Theatre, Auckland 1990

Co-founders:- Topp Twins; Michael Hurst; Jennifer Ward-Lealand; Don McGlashan; Harry Sinclair; Inside Out Theatre Company.

In its early years Don was involved in its development.

The lease expired in 1995 and was not renewed.

Play 2, Maidment, Studio Theatre, October, 2002

Performed by 2econd Unit, Auckland Theatre Company. A night in the clubs in Auckland. Don McGlashan played a choirmaster.

Cruising for an audience for Play 2 (7th October, 2002 New Zealand Herald)

The Front Lawn Shows

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Last updated 9th March, 2008.