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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.

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• Hamilton: A Blessing for this Day; computer-set  Year: 2009 

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

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• Crehan: Adam Lay Ybounden; computer-set 

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This choral work was written for Porirua City Choir in 2001 on the occasion of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The choir performed the work at St Andrews on the Terrace and at Te Papa in a program of works by New Zealand composers in December 2001.

A voice heralds the approach of Christmas. The Christmas star appears and nature responds to the Good News conveyed by the Spirit and angel choirs. Christ comes again to a troubled world, and sorrowfully passes by.

• Bray: Anno Domini; computer set 

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• Taylor: antiphony; computer-set 

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A fun, little Italian-style piece for violin and piano.

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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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This cadenza represents part of an attempt to reestablish some of the bravura tradition of the late Baroque, so easily passed over in modern interpretations of the period’s music. A case in point is the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto, which supplies a simple cadence as a stepping-stone between its two movements. On nearly every recording of this piece, one will hear the reverential yet unimaginative error of playing the score exactly as written, with two blunt chords executed with the utmost seriousness, then leading directly on into the next movement. Yet what is called for in style of the period (if not the score itself) is an extended improvisation by the continuo player, more than the few feeble arpeggios that are often heard.

Goss’s cadenza melds some of the muscular, intellectual style of J.S. Bach with other influences from the period, including Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, and a touch of Couperin, blended together with a sensibility and flair borrowed from the approach of Bach’s son Karl Phillip Emmanuel. The overall effect is to evoke the younger Bach in a mischievous mood, alternately eliciting groans and intrigued sighs from an attentive father as the themes of the concerto are whimsically run through a series of transformational episodes. These are in essence private jokes, referring to some of the works like the Well-Tempered Clavier upon which the Bach boys cut their virtuosic teeth.

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• Thomas Goss: Cadenza to the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto of J.S. Bach 

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• Crehan: Celebrate (Shout With Joy!); computer-set 

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One evening driving south along the Kapiti coast I was captivated by the sun setting into the sea which turned an oily steel blue while an early moon appeared above me. The gradual fading of light created sharp shadows in the hills while at the same time the western sky turned salmon and was ornamented with a few wispy clouds. The gum trees at Mackay’s crossing were lit up like flames. I wrote the words as I drove… The piece is an art song for SATB quartet or chamber choir.

• Russell: Coastal Sunset; computer set 

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This piece takes a text which John Dowland wrote and set to music, and offers a different setting, in a style contemporary with the original one.

• Maclean: Come Heavy Sleepe; facsimile 

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