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This work was commissioned by The Southern Consort of Voices in 1991, with funding from Creative NZ. It sets three NZ poems to music, with a fourth song being wordless: Timepiece to a poem by Cilla McQueen; Before the Fall to a poem by Rachel McAlpine; I lie, I watch the ceiling (wordless); and We could just disappear to a poem by Sam Hunt.

In 2001 Auckland choir Viva Voce recorded this work on their CD entitled Snapshots – A Cappella Choral Favourites. Conductor John Rosser writes of the work – “Anthony has a wonderful knack of writing for voice. Timepiece portrays a woman struggling to break free of suburban neurosis and the tyranny of time. Before the Fall alludes to lost childhood innocence, and We Could just Disappear depicts the future as an endless tunnel of the mind.”

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• Change Change Change... IAMIC Concert 2008 

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• Music by Anthony Ritchie 

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• Snapshots: A cappella choral favourites  Year: 2001 

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A “deconstruction/recomposition” of a fifteenth century carol for 3 soloists and choir on the martyrdom of St Stephen. This dramatic work has become a standard text for study in schools through New Zealand. It has been recorded by the New Zealand National Youth Choir.

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• Jack Body: Carol to St Stephen  

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• Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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• New Zealand National Youth Choir: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa  Year: 1992 

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• McLeod: Childhood; computer-set 

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• McLeod: Childhood; facsimile  Year: 1988 

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• Jenny McLeod: Childhood 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 4  Year: 1985 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir  Year: 1985 

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• NZ National Youth Choir on Tour North America  Year: 1994 

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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• Mews: Ghosts, Fire, Water; computer-set 

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• Choral Works (NZ Composer Edition) 

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• NZ Flora Series Volume 3  Year: 1972 

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• New Zealand National Youth Choir: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa  Year: 1992 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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• Palmer: Helen; computer-set 

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Poem by Bub Bridger for mixed choir with optional trebles and piano (4 hands) Bub Bridger started writing poetry after visiting the river which Douglas Bridge spans in Northern Ireland. Johnny Come Dancing was one of her first poems and tells the story of a man’s magic encounter with fairies and his subsequent emigration to New Zealand. Johnny in the poem was, in fact, Bub Bridger’s father, and she assures me the story is true. The combination of magic and music in the poem appealed to me greatly, and made me want to set it for this commission. The song uses Irish dance rhythms to underpin the largely modal vocal lines. The third verse adopts a different style, however, with reference to the old-style ‘glees’(male part-singing). In the end, the dance rhythms return to drive the music to a climactic ending. Commissioned by The New Zealand Choral Federation (Otago Branch) for performance at its annual conference in Dunedin, July 1998

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• Southern Youth Choir in Concert 

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A ‘cantata’ for a cappella SATB choir in two parts: part 1 uses a cynical anonymous text; part 2 is a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew – ’Consider the lilies….". Real Gods was composed in Western Samoa and New Zealand and revised in the United States. It won one of two major awards in the Third International Composition Contest in Slovenia in 1997 adn was premiered in May 1998 at the University of Ljubljana.

This work contrasts music of great intensity and passion with lyrical and reflective passages.

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• Buchanan: Songs of Birth and Daughters; facsimile 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2004  Year: 2004 

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Te Heuheu Herea, a high chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa in the Taupo district, died in 1820 and was mourned by his son in this song of lament (waiata tangi). The text was collected by Sir Apirana Ngata in his book ‘Nga Moteatea’ of 1959. It is written in a dialect differing in several aspects from present day Maori. There is no record of the original chant; however this setting utilises some of the devices and conventions from that tradition.

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• Marshall: Tangi and Real Gods 

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• Marshall: Tangi  Year: 1999 

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• Mews: The May Magnificat; computer-set 

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• Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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