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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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Ashley Heenan  

A Maori Suite

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1966
for soprano, mezzo, choir and orchestra

David Hamilton  

A Song of Ruth

 Year: 1991
for SSA choir and organ

Douglas Mews  

A Sound Came from Heaven

Duration: 03' 15"
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Clare Maclean  

A West Irish Ballad

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1988
for unaccompanied choir

David Hamilton  

Ave Maris Stella

Duration: 04' 40" Year: 2012
for SSA choir with singing bowl

  • Programme Note

    Ave Maris Stella (“Hail, star of the sea”) is a plainsong Vespers hymn to Mary. It was especially popular in the Middle Ages. The creation of the original hymn has been attributed to several people, including Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century), Saint Venantius Fortunatus (6th century) and Hermannus Contractus (11th century). The text is found in a 9th century manuscript in the Abbey of Saint Gall (St. Gallen in present-day Switzerland).

    The piece uses little material other than the original chant melody. It is presented against a single sustained pitch from the singing bowl which sounds throughout. The work uses a mix of fully notated and semi-improvised music to create an atmospheric response to the text. Only the first and last verses of the text are used, with the choir only ever singing the first verse, and two solo voices singing the final verse.

    “Ave Maris Stella” was written for St Mary’s Schola (St Mary’s College, Auckland).

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Katherine Dienes  

Ave Verum Corpus

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

David Hamilton  

Benue Lullaby

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1998
a modern African lullaby for SSA choir, piano and bongos

John Wells  

Blow me eyes

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1971
for SSAATTBB choir