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This work was commissioned by choral director Stuart Weightman for performance at Saint Kentigern School in Auckland. The brief was to write a work that could be performed by the school’s choir, but which also included a section for the parent’s choral group attached to the school. Also, ideally the work would include something for both groups to sing together. Finally, it should be possible for either of the separate choir sections to stand alone as independent pieces.

The suggested texts were a blessing from a bookmark given to all the boys at the school, and a blessing often used in chapel services. To the first text I added a couple of lines which closely matched the final section of the second text.

The work begins with a blessing in unison and then 2 parts for treble voices. This is followed by a blessing for SAB choir, and then finally the two earlier sections are performed simultaneously.

• Hamilton: A Blessing for Saint Kentigern; computer-set  Year: 2008 

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This short blessing was written for my choir St Mary’s Schola at St Mary’s College. It was composed for use in a performance at mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Auckland.

The text is based on traditional Irish blessing, with a version of the concluding blessing often used in many services added at the end.

David Hamilton

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• Carol our Christmas - a book of New Zealand carols 

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• Carol our Christmas - carols from New Zealand  Year: 1996 

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• Alleluia Aotearoa - hymns and songs for all churches  Year: 1993 

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• Carol our Christmas - carols from New Zealand  Year: 1996 

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Much of my work is a marriage (or balancing act) between the Western art music tradition and my own position in time and place. Along with many forms, I have had a love for sacred choral music from Mediaeval times through to the present, but in not being a Christian, I have felt a reluctance to set text in which I don’t fully believe.

In reading the work of spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle, I have discovered a new connection with biblical texts. Tolle quotes the line “Be still, and know that I am God” in his book A New Earth, as an example of a universal truth that is at the heart of all religions and belief systems. In this text “God” may be seen as the Christian God, an omnipresent spiritual dimension or the universe personified. This line, and the rest of the text, is from Psalm 46. In setting this text I have found an opening into the world of sacred choral music that aligns with my own beliefs.

Anthony Young

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• Hamilton: Christmas Bells; computer-set 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol 1 

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• Hamilton: Dear Santa (How's It Looking?); computer-set 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol. 3  Year: 2011 

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• Hamilton: Got a home in that Rock; computer set 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol 1 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2005  Year: 2005 

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