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Ronald Dellow  

Fanfare and Finale

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
fanfare and finale for massed choirs and narrator

Dorothy Buchanan  

Five Songs of Love and the Land

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1991
for soprano (or mezzo), clarinet and SATB choir

David Hamilton  

From Age to Age Endure

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1988
for solo soprano, SATB choir and chamber ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    ensemble - flute, clarinet, trumpet, double bass and piano
  • Programme Note

    Although the title comes from the hymn All People That On Earth Do Dwell, this work is more concerned with the pleasures and pitfalls of aging, than with piety. The texts are from a collection of writings (both poetry and prose) associated with each age from birth to 99 years old. The selection I made was purely of those items which appealed to me personally – some are humorous, others more serious, some cynical whereas others contain wisdom.

    From Age to Age Endure was commissioned by Auckland Youth Choir, and is affectionately dedicated to them and their conductor at the time, Brigid McLafferty. I was asked to write a work with jazz influences, and although not a great jazz fancier, I hope I have created a work which is fun to sing and enjoyable to listen to. The work is scored for solo soprano, SATB choir and small ensemble (or piano duet).

    David Hamilton

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Robbie Ellis  

Ha!

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2011
for solo viola and shouty chorus

Robbie Ellis  

Ha!

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2011
for solo violin and shouty chorus

Gillian Whitehead  

Low Tide Aramoana

Duration: 23' 00" Year: 1982
for mezzo, SATB large choir and brass

  • Instrumentation
    3 trumpets 2 trombones, timpani
  • Programme Note

    Low Tide – Aramoana is a setting of a poem by Cilla McQueen, and is used with her kind permission. The piece, written for large choir and a small brass ensemble, is an evocation of an estuary at the turn of the tide. Although the poem itself describes Aramoana at the mouth of Otago harbour (significant at the time because of the threat of the aluminium smelter that, because of the strength of local protest, was in fact not built), for the composer it was the estuary where the Ruakaka river meets the sea south of Whangarei that was significant.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Magnificat

Duration: 37' 00" Year: 1981
for mezzo, choir, flute and brass ensemble

Cheryl Camm  

Percy, Percy!

 Year: 2009
for double choir, oboe, piano and bass drum

  • Programme Note

    Percy, Percy! is the first piece of the set of five songs which was commissioned in 2009 by the Alnwick Community Development Trust as part of their Hotspur Festival, celebrating 900 years of the Percy family in Northumberland. The songs were inspired by the history and beauty of Northumberland and also by the quirky and insightful writings in his 1835 book “Rambles in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders” of William Andrew Chatto, whose words have been moulded into the lyrics of the songs by the composer.

    Chatto is fond of recounting tales, which in turn were told to him on his travels, in the dialect of the original storyteller, and this is reflected in the songs particularly the second, in which various fishing tales from the Coquet are chronicled, and the fourth in which the traveller ventures rather anxiously down a coal mine. The first song gathers together an assortment of Hotspur (a particularly feisty medieval member of the family) war cries from various sources into a fighting collage, the third explores in advisory tone the various difficulties a traveller may encounter hereabouts, and the fifth is an intoxicated drinking song in which all participants indulge in a bit of irregular staggering about and generally become more merry as time wears on.

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Helen Fisher  

Pounamu

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1997
for solo flute, SSAATB choir

Helen Caskie  

Remembered Music

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1995
for SATB choir and flute