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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

• Young, A.: Be Still; computer-set 

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This wonderful recital piece for 12 part (SSSAAATTTBBB) choir has been performed all over the world and is one of the composer’s best-known works.

It was written in 1974 as part of a set entitled O Magnum Mysterium and first perfromed by the Dorian Choir under Peter Godfrey at the 1975 Three Choirs Festival in England. Since then it has been recorded by choirs in New Zealand and the United States.

The piece is essentially simple in its form using delayed overlaying if the voice parts to startling effect. The overshadowing of Mary by the Holy Spirit, the gestation in the womb and the birth of Jesus can be clearly heard in the parameters of the work.

• Griffiths, D.: Beata Virgo; computer-set 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 2  Year: 1972 

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

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• The Moon is Silently Singing  Year: 1994 

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• Becker: Cancer Two - "T'amo mia vita"; facsimile 

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• Becker: Cancer Two - "T'amo mia vita"; facsimile 

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Concerto sul ‘la’ was commissioned by Bel Canto, with funds from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand) and the NZ Composers’ Foundation, and first performed by them in 1988 at a concert in Wellington’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, conducted by Guy Jansen.

The piece is conceived as an exuberant fanfare for voices, using as ‘text’ only the syllable ‘la’, something that has featured in many vocal compositions and exercises over the centuries, though perhaps never so whole-heartedly as here!

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This is a very attractive and moderately easy Christmas carol arranged for SATB choir.

• Griffiths, D.: Dormi Jesu; computer-set 

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• Choral Works (NZ Composer Edition) 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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• Tower Voices New Zealand: A Voices Christmas  Year: 2004 

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• Marshall: Faleula E!; computer set 

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• Marshall: Songs of Samoa; computer-set 

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• 1993/94 New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir  Year: 1994 

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• Russell: God's Grandeur; computer set 

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• Farquhar: I Sing of a Maiden; facsimile 

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• Second Treasury of Christmas Music; computer-set 

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• Ritchie J.: Lord when the sense of thy sweet grace; computer-set 

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• John Ritchie: Lord, When The Sense of Thy Sweet Grace; video 

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• Southern Youth Choir in Concert 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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• A Sound Came from Heaven  Year: 2007 

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• The Jubilate Singers: Southern Landscapes  Year: 2011 

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• Dellow: O Sing Unto the Lord A New Song (Psalm 98); facsimile 

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• Dellow: O sing unto the Lord a new song (Psalm 98); facsimile 

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