Garry Laycock: Australian musician 1944-1988
Original compositions and arrangements
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
All works now in the State Library of NSW, except
for Two Tangos (1986).
[1960s]. Courtesy / words from a poem by
Hilaire Belloc; music by Leon Gibbons. For Margaret Lloyd. Voices and piano.
[1960s]. Macbeth. For Ed Temby. Strange
tidings – The theme from Macbeth – Witches music – Sound and alarum –[Title
forgotten?] – With evil intent. String quartet; 2 clarinets and viola; 3
trumpets and horn; 3 trumpets and 2 horns; 2 clarinets; 3 trumpets and horn.
[1960s]. Ronny’s songs / words by Ron
Hunter; music by Leon Gibbons. Contents: To be sung at tea – Boys who part –
Der Arme Ronny – The old refrain – Demande et response – Pause.
[1968 Aug]. Intermezzo. For Margot [Kelly]
Bentley. Clarinet and piano.
[1968 Oct]. Processional. Dedicated to Mary
Feneley and Manuel Lopez. 2 clarinets and bassoon.
[1971 Nov]. The Burbank-Tilssen fanfare/
For Marie Callan and Hans Tiller. Organ.
[1972 Jul]. Fanfare on a French folk song.
For Max Coombs. 3 trumpets and piano. Arrangements by Chris Perrin for 3
trumpets or brass ensemble published as Fanfare on a French traditional air
by Kookaburra Music
http://www.kookaburramusic.com/ in 2009.
[1972 Aug]. The House of Mars: fanfare. For
Paul Bentley. 3 trumpets.
[1972 Sep]. Circular Quay and Dog turds
on the footpath: two songs / words by Don Laycock; music by Leon Gibbons.
Baritone and piano.
[1978 May]. Cancion. Piano.
[1978 May]. Cubana. For Gordon Watson.
Piano.
[1978 Jun]. Brasileira. Clarinet, violin,
viola, cello
[1978 Nov]. The birds / words by Hilaire
Belloc; music by Leon Gibbons. For Mary Lithgow. Voices and piano.
[1979?]. Noel / words by Hilaire Belloc;
music by Leon Gibbons. For Robert Rosen. 2 sopranos and piano.
[1986]. Two tangos. [performed at Sydney
Conservatorium 22 June 1986]. Location of music unknown.
[1987 Jul]. A fairly grand tarantella from a
night or two at the opera / by Giacomo Giuseppe Gaetana Gibbon [aka Leon
Gibbons]. Piano duet. [Bound with My song goes round the world]
CANDENZA
[1985 Nov]. Mozart, W. A. Piano concerto no
21 in C major, K467.
ARRANGEMENTS
Most arrangements were completed for the
Australian Opera annual benefit concerts.
[Undated]. Advance Australia Fair. String
Quartet.
[Undated]. The hat’s on the side of my head.
3
flutes, alto.
[1973 Apr]. Where have all the flowers gone?
For Petersham Girls’ High School choir. Female voices.
[1987 Aug]. Song medley. Contents: Shuffle
off the Buffalo – San Francisco – Crying for the Carolines – Broadway Melody.
Voices [SSATTB]
[1979 Oct]. I must have that man. Oboe, cor
anglais, viola, cello.
[1979 Oct]. You’re getting to be a habit with
me / by Harry Warren. For Wendy Jonas. Piano duet.
[1979 Nov]. She moved through the fair:
Irish traditional. Flute and harp.
[1979 Dec]. The Lily of Laguna. For the
Sydney Clarinet Quartet.
[1979 Dec]. Mean to me / by Turk and Ahlert.
Oboe, cor anglais, viola and cello.
[1979 Dec]. Santa has an accident: a
symphonic poem by Peter Ilyitch Woolfenden; arranged by Leon Gibbons. Violin,
2 violas, horn.
[1980?]. National anthem of the Kingdom of
Tonga. Orchestral score.
[1980 May]. Two foxtrots / by Irving
Berlin. Viola and double bass.
[1980 Jun]. Lazybones / by Hoagy
Carmichael. 2 oboes and cor anglais.
[1980 Jul]. The eyes of the world are on you.
Piano duet.
[1983 Aug]. Duet of the black Wedgwood teapot
and the china teacup / by Maurice Ravel. Arranged for piano, four hands
from Ravel’s opera L’enfant et les sortileges
[1983 Sep]. Tiptoe through the tulips / by
Joe Burke. For the Sydney Clarinet Quartet.
[1984 Dec]. Auld lang syne. Small
orchestra.
[1985 Jun]. Song without words, no 28 / by
Felix Mendelssohn. Oboe, horn and piano.
[1985 Jun]. Song without words, no 42 / by
Felix Mendelssohn. Oboe, horn and piano.
[1985 Jul]. The procession of the nobles
form the opera Mlada. By N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Piano, 4 hands.
[1986 Aug]. Triumphal procession from The
golden cockerel by N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Piano, 4 hands.
[1986 Dec]. Whispering. Unaccompanied
voices [TTB]
[1987]. By the sleepy lagoon / composed in
1930 by Eric Coates; words added in 1942 by Jack Lawrence; camped up in 1987
by Leon Gibbons. Flute, 2 ladies, baritone.
[1987 Feb]. Deep purple / by Peter de Rose;
arr by Leon Gibbons. Voices [TTBB]
[1987 Feb]. You will remember Vienna / by
Schoenberger. Bound with the Theme for the NSW Department of Housing
[commissioned for television commercial].
[1987 Mar]. Body and soul. Voices [TTBB]
[1987 Sep?]. Beyond the blue horizon. For
World Discovery Show, act 2. Australian Opera. Voices.
[1987?]. Day and night /Eleni Eifterias.
Arrangement for voice and piano. [Commissioned].
ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
Folder of additional
arrangements for Australian Opera benefit concerts, including Broadway Melody,
By a Sleepy Lagoon, Crying for the Carolines, The Dicky Bird Hop, The Flies
Crawled Up the Window, German rounds, Gounod Faust Ballet music, Home Sweet
Home, It’s a Song From a Show, Is He an Aussie Is he Lizzie, Me and My Shadow,
Mi-a-ou, The Music Goes Round and Round, Oh Sydney I Love You, Piccolo Pete,
Portsmouth, Robinson Crusoe, Sam the Old Accordion Man, San Francisco, Shuffle
off to Buffalo, There Ought to Be a Moonlight Saving Time [8 Aug 1986],
Ukulele Lady, You Will Remember Vienna.
BALLET CLASS MUSIC
Ballet class books. 13
volumes compiled by Garry Laycock when employed as rehearsal pianist with the
Australian Ballet.
Biography
Performances
