A New Zealand Christmas carol for kids, mostly in unison or echoing separate parts. The carol emphasises the continuity of family life through the ages.
Fanfare for Orchestra was commissioned as part of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence programme to open a special concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. This short work for large orchestra follows an A-B-A structure with the archetypal brass fanfare is framed by the “bustling crowd” analogy of the other orchestral sections with much jazz-like syncopation.
This duet was commissioned by Janet McCallister and Peter McClymont for their Wedding Day, 21 January 1995 and is based on a poem I Name this Place by Lauris Edmond (from Scenes from a Small City).
This mystical poem by the Persian 13th Century poet, Rumi, makes links between music, love and people’s ability to reflect spiritual principles. The setting requires a very competent choir with awareness of mood changes between the statements ‘we are the flute’. The placement of the small number of sopranos at a distance will enhance the ethereal effects.