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• Farquhar: Bells in their Seasons; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Bells in their Seasons; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Bells in their Seasons; facsimile 

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This cycle of pieces was written for South Auckland Choral Society’s end of year concert which I was invited to conduct in 2007. The original request was for a concert of New Zealand music, but beyond a number of short Christmas pieces there is little in the way to extended seasonal music by New Zealand composers. I offered to write something new for the concert, to complement Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.

Having already written a Christmas cycle for a similar choir the same year, I was keen to move away from texts about the trappings of the Christmas story. I finally found a number of texts about children and their relationship to Christmas. Surrounding these texts are some more traditionally focussed texts. Inevitably it was hard to avoid poetry with images of snow, bells and stars.

The first poem is a traditional Afro-American spiritual text and sets the scene by telling of Mary and her baby. In order to give the men of the choir something worthwhile to do in the rehearsal (white the women worked on the Britten), I decided to feature them in several pieces. The second text, “Children’s Song of the Nativity”, is really a series of questions such as a young child might ask: “What will we see? Can we go in?” The third text, for unaccompanied men’s voices, is the despairing pleas of a young man who desperately wants to be something significant in the nativity play this year. The fourth text sets Eleanor Farjeon’s “Advice to a Child” – some suggestions as to ways in which Christmas might be prepared for.

• Hamilton: Christmas Crackers; computer-set 

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• Dellow: The Liturgy of the Eucharist; facsimile 

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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).

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• Hamilton: Epitaph to Mrs Freland; computer set 

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• Hamilton: From Age to Age Endure; computer set 

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• Hamilton: From Age to Age Endure; computer set 

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• Hamilton: Jerry Jones; computer set 

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• Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs  Year: 1990 

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• The Big Sing Finale 1999  Year: 1999 

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• McLeod: He Iwi Kotahi Tatou (We Are One People); facsimile 

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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.

• Whitehead: Low Tide Aramoana; computer set 

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• Whitehead: Low Tide Aramoana; facsimile 

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• Tremain: Mass for mixed voices and organ; facsimile 

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This setting of the Kyrie from the Latin Mass is the first movement of ‘Missa semplice’. Having had for some time an intention to compose a Mass setting of modest proportions, in 2006 I wrote the work incorporating some other texts in English. The work was originally scored for three-part mixed voices (SAB). This re-working of ‘Kyrie’ for treble voices was made for Rangitoto College’s choir ‘Perfect Fourths’ at the request of conductor Bianca Abelskamp.

• Hamilton: Missa semplice; computer-set 

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• David Hamilton - Music for Mixed Voice Choirs Vol. 1 

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• David Hamilton: Missa semplice (2006)  Year: 2007 

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Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe’s journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery of various landmarks around Whanganui-a-Tara / the Wellington region.

While this work maintains a strong Maori theme, with karanga, haka and waiata, as well it weaves in other Pacific and European elements.

For school choir, instrumentalists, dancers and kapa haka, this work was composed with the financial assistance of a composition grant from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, was first performed by 140 students from South Wellington Intermediate School in July 1992 for Artsplash, the Wellington Young People’s Festival.

• Fisher: Nga Tapuwae o Kupe; facsimile 

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• Helen Fisher: Works 1  Year: 1992 

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• Marshall: O Fragile Human; computer-set 

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