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David Hamilton  

A Blessing for this Day

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2009
for two-part treble voices and piano

David Hamilton  

A Child Lay in a Little Crib

Duration: 02' 05" Year: 2012
for solo soprano, SSA choir and piano

  • Programme Note

    This piece was originally the fifth movement of a short Christmas cycle (“Angels and Shepherds and Wise Men All”) was written in 2012 for the end of year concert by South Auckland Choral Society to be conducted by the composer. The concert included my school choir, St Mary’s Schola, and I was keen to write something that the combined forces (including the soloists) in the concert could sing together.

    The cycle doesn’t try to encapsulate the entire Christmas story, but focusses on those characters on the edge of the story – the angels, the shepherds and the wise man. In this piece, the characters who gathered around the infant Jesus are focussed on: the animals, the angels and the shepherds.

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Douglas Mews  

A Sound Came from Heaven

Duration: 03' 15"
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Jonathan Crehan  

Adam Lay Ybounden

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2008
arrangement of the traditional carol for SSAA choir

Ronald Dellow  

All who Love and Serve your City

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1989
for unison choir and organ (or piano)

John Rimmer  

Alleluia

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1987
for SA choir

Ronald Dellow  

Alleluia, raise the anthem

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1994
for chorus, brass and organ

Katherine Dienes  

Ave Verum Corpus

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1990
motet for SATB (divisi) choir

Helen Caskie  

Before the Paling of the Stars

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
for SSAB choir and organ

David Hamilton  

Blessing

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2008
for SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    When Auckland Choral was asked to sing at the funeral of a highly regarded and long-standing member of the choir, I offered to compose something special for the service. It needed to be a piece that could be quickly learnt. Blessing was the result. The text is by Wellington-based poet Anne Powell who is a member of the Catholic order of the Cenacle Sisters.

    Blessing is a short poem of healing for those “…who walk the earth”, and draws on images of the natural world – the light, the sea, and the wind. The piece is dedicated to the memory of Peter Gibbons, who particularly enjoyed the outdoors.

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