Pruden: Collected Edition, Vol.1


Book Description

Larry Pruden (1925-1982) is one of a handful of New Zealand composers who studied under Benjamin Frankel at London’s Guildhall School of Music. Pruden’s significant contribution to the establishment of a genuine New Zealand vernacular lives on in the works for which he is best known. The early piano works appended to this volume reveal the scope of Pruden’s musical influences, ranging from Ivanovic to Rachmaninoff and Verdi.




Pruden: Collected Edition, Vol.6A


Book Description

Larry Pruden (1925-1982) is one of a handful of New Zealand composers who studied under Benjamin Frankel at London’s Guildhall School of Music. Pruden’s significant contribution to the establishment of a genuine New Zealand vernacular lives on in the works for which he is best known. This sixth volume contains Pruden’s quintessential works Overture: The Antipodes (1950), Harbour Nocturne (1956) and Lambton Quay: March (1959), each of which reveals the voice of a composer celebrating the direct and open experience of life.




Pruden: Collected Edition, Vol.5


Book Description

Larry Pruden (1925-1982) is one of a handful of New Zealand composers who studied under Benjamin Frankel at London’s Guildhall School of Music. Pruden’s significant contribution to the establishment of a genuine New Zealand vernacular lives on in the works for which he is best known. This volume contains Pruden’s four works written for the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra, which played a major role in the concert life of post-war New Zealand (1947-73) and introduced Pruden to the New Zealand public.




Pruden: Collected Edition, Vol.7


Book Description

Larry Pruden (1925-1982) is one of a handful of New Zealand composers who studied under Benjamin Frankel at London’s Guildhall School of Music. Pruden’s significant contribution to the establishment of a genuine New Zealand vernacular lives on in the works for which he is best known. This volume reveals Pruden’s skills as an orchestrator and arranger with appealing wit.




Pruden: Collected Edition, Vol.6B


Book Description

Larry Pruden (1925-1982) is one of a handful of New Zealand composers who studied under Benjamin Frankel at London’s Guildhall School of Music. Pruden’s significant contribution to the establishment of a genuine New Zealand vernacular lives on in the works for which he is best known. The three works gathered in this collection show Pruden embracing a distinct regionalist style with his response to the beauty and grandeur of the physical landscape.




Pruden: Collected Edition, Vol.8


Book Description

Featured in this volume are the popular brass band works Lambton Quay (1957) and Haast Highway (1975), along with Festival Salute (1958) for wind orchestra. All three works turn their attention to a particular pocket of 20th century New Zealand – the bustling inner city of Wellington, the alpine pass to Westland in the South Island, and the Taranaki region where Pruden grew up.




Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1


Book Description

By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.