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Anthony Young  

Be Still

Duration: 03' 30" Year: 2009
for SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    Much of my work is a marriage (or balancing act) between the Western art music tradition and my own position in time and place. Along with many forms, I have had a love for sacred choral music from Mediaeval times through to the present, but in not being a Christian, I have felt a reluctance to set text in which I don’t fully believe.

    In reading the work of spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle, I have discovered a new connection with biblical texts. Tolle quotes the line “Be still, and know that I am God” in his book A New Earth, as an example of a universal truth that is at the heart of all religions and belief systems. In this text “God” may be seen as the Christian God, an omnipresent spiritual dimension or the universe personified. This line, and the rest of the text, is from Psalm 46. In setting this text I have found an opening into the world of sacred choral music that aligns with my own beliefs.

    Anthony Young

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Juliet Palmer  

Dopey

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2010
for SSA choir and piano

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    A setting of a poem by Canadian poet Dennis Lee. “Dopey” comes from the 2007 poetry collection “Yesno”, evoking – in the author’s words – “a world in which the demolition derby and the possibility of living more constructively in the natural order are both real. And at once. So, not just no; not just yes; but yesno.”

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Jenny McLeod  

He Honore, He Kororia (Honour and Glory to God)

Duration: 01' 30" Year: 1996
for orchestra with electric guitar, bass guitar, and SATB choir

Dorothy Buchanan  

Hine e hine

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1982
for SATB choir (with soloist), piano, and school orchestra

Jenny McLeod  

Hymn for the Lady

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1986
for choir and small choir, flute, piano and 6-8 percussion

Andrew Perkins  

Love is Come Again

 Year: 2007
for unison choir and orchestra with pipe organ

Cheryl Camm  

Magical Glass

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2011, r. 2012
for SSAA or TTBB choir

  • Instrumentation
    also more difficult versions for SATB or ATBB available here
  • Programme Note

    This is a modern folk song about the history of glass-making in Sunderland. It is part of a collection of songs about the River Wear, “Winter Wear”. It can be performed as a Christmas song, or at other times of year. It is not especially religious.

    Glass-making has always played an important role in the cultural and industrial history and soul of Sunderland and the River Wear: Benedict Biscop’s unique use of French glass-makers to fill in the windows of his monastery church, St. Peter’s in the 9th century; the industrial melting pot of the 19th century where the abundant supply of coal from the Durham coalfield, ferried down the River Wear fuelled several industries, most notably steel-making, shipbuilding and glass making; the European monopoly of Joblings Glassworks making heatproof oven-ware out of Pyrex in the mid- 20th century; and the National Glass Centre of today in which students at the University and glass artists from around the country craft enchanting art works. The first people to see each of these phenomena must have been transfixed by the novelty they were witnessing. This song portrays the response to each of these first encounters with the magical glass.

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Cheryl Camm  

Magical Glass

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2011, r. 2012
for SATB choir or ATBB choir

  • Instrumentation
    also simpler versions for SSAA or TTBB available here
  • Programme Note

    This is a modern folk song about the history of glass-making in Sunderland. It is part of a collection of songs about the River Wear, “Winter Wear”. It can be performed as a Christmas song, or at other times of year. It is not especially religious.

    Glass-making has always played an important role in the cultural and industrial history and soul of Sunderland and the River Wear: Benedict Biscop’s unique use of French glass-makers to fill in the windows of his monastery church, St. Peter’s in the 9th century; the industrial melting pot of the 19th century where the abundant supply of coal from the Durham coalfield, ferried down the River Wear fuelled several industries, most notably steel-making, shipbuilding and glass making; the European monopoly of Joblings Glassworks making heatproof oven-ware out of Pyrex in the mid- 20th century; and the National Glass Centre of today in which students at the University and glass artists from around the country craft enchanting art works. The first people to see each of these phenomena must have been transfixed by the novelty they were witnessing. This song portrays the response to each of these first encounters with the magical glass.

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Kit Powell  

Pied Beauty

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1983
for SATB choir and instrumental ensemble

Richard Oswin  

Sanctus (SATB version)

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2002, r. 2003
for SATB choir and piano