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A carefree flight through the feelings and moods of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem for SA choir. It is part of the song cycle My Bed is a Boat.

• Camm: My Bed is a Boat (album); computer-set 

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• Camm: The Swing; computer-set 

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These short pieces were prompted by requests from a couple of community choirs for easy SSA Christmas pieces for a competition. Realising that I had few suitable pieces, and that in fact there was little such music by NZ composers, I wrote this cycle. I tried to avoid texts with overtly northern hemisphere references such as snow and holly, although the second piece alludes to the food associated with English Christmases. The first piece sets a text by Elizabeth Fleming which tells of that first Christmas and some of the sights and sounds around it. The second text, by Elizabeth Gould, details the making of Christmas mincemeat. The final text, by Jane Yolen, tells of the trek of the wise men, but from the viewpoint of the camels. Musically the works are in simple tonal style, often suggesting folk music.

• Hamilton: Three Christmas Miniatures; computer set 

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Originally sketched in 1988, these pieces were finally completed in December 1990. They were written out of a desire to compose something fairly traditional for SSAA voices, having written “Darkness” in 1987 which exploited a wide range of ‘extended’ vocal techniques. The two main pieces are surrounded by a plainsong-like chant using words from chapter 21 of the book of Revelation where John is shown a vision of the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven. The first piece sets words from chapter 60 of Isaiah, while the second sets verse from Revelation 21. Both texts express the idea that the holy city will need neither sun nor moon, but will be lit by the glory of God. The music is essentially tonal and rhythmically straight-forward although somewhat flexible in nature. Some minor corrections and modifications were made in 2007 when the pieces were typeset, following interest from a conductor in performing them.

• Hamilton: Two Visions of the Holy City; computer-set 

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For four part unaccompanied women’s choir, this is a Christmas carol based on a traditional French melody. It has been broadcast in the BBC’s Let the Peoples Sing; recorded on LP (now unavailable) by Kiwi Pacific and published by Blandford Press in its “Second Treasury of Christmas Music” (also now unavailable).

• Freed: Whence comes this rush of wings afar?; computer set 

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• Second Treasury of Christmas Music; computer-set 

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A dramatic, yet lyrical setting of all verses of the nursery rhyme for SSAA choir.

• Camm: Who Killed Cock Robin?; computer set 

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Commissioned for Euphony, a girls choir from Kristin School, for their 2010 repertoire. As soon as I found this text I knew that’s what the piece would be about.

Bub Bridger – Wild Daisies

If you love me
Bring me flowers
Wild daisies
Clutched in your fist
Like a torch
No orchids or roses
Or carnations
No florist’s bow
Just daisies
Steal them
Risk your life for them
Up the sharp hills
In the teeth of the wind
If you love me
Bring me daisies
That I will cram
In a bright vase
And marvel at

Ryan Youens

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