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This celebratory work for choir and orchestra consisting of three Christmas ‘scenes’ brings together arrangements of 15th, 16th and 17th century carols with some of the well-known traditional carols. The audience can be invited to join in with a carols in each section including O Little Town of Bethlehem, The First Nowell and O Come All Ye Faithful.

• Farquhar: A Christmas with Carols; facsimile 

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This short anthem takes its text from the Old Testament book of Ruth. It is a statement of devotion and loyalty, and I have used the lines “Your people shall be my people and your God my God” as a refrain. To the biblical text I have added a concluding “Amen”.

The original version (for SAB voices) was written for, and is dedicated to, Bruce Baker – a friend and musical colleague.

David Hamilton

• Hamilton: A Song of Ruth; computer set 

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• Griffiths, V.: An Ode to Thanksgiving; computer-set 

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Jack Prelutsky is a prolific and widely anthologised American poet, whose poetry is mostly written for children. My introduction to his poetry was through the book The Dragons are Singing Tonight, and in 1996 I set a selection of those poems for choir and brass band. Subsequently I have set many of his poems, including a second cycle Monday’s Troll. In 2005 I wrote Awful Ogre’s Awful Day as an offering to Napier Civic Choir on the occasion of the choir’s 40th anniversary. The choir had performed The Dragons are Singing Tonight previously, and I had intended this new work to be also performed with brass band. A performance never took place, and for several years the score remained just as a vocal score. When I was invited to conduct Napier Civic Choir in 2010 I decided it was time the work saw the light of day, although it would need to be scored for chamber orchestra to match the forces available in the concert (the major work being Haydn’s Nelson Mass).

Almost all the poems are written from the title character’s point of view and in the first person, and I have had to divide the poems between choir and solo baritone who represents Awful Orgre.

The cycle Awful Ogre’s Awful Day is, as the title suggests, a cycle of text which takes us through the title character’s day: he rises and then grooms himself employing some rather unpleasant sounding cosmetics! Awful Ogre fancies himself to be musical (and later a dancer) and boasts of his abilities on bass, xylophone, bongo drums, and as a singer. In the fourth movement he also boasts of how awful lhe is: “…the awfulest of all.”

David Hamilton

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• Hamilton: Awful Ogre's Awful Day; computer-set  Year: 2010 

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Commissioned by the Schola Cantorum of Dunedin to celebrate its 125th Jubilee in 1988, this work for for soprano soloist, mixed choir and orchestra sets the first part of S. Francesco d’Assisi’s Canticle of Brother Sun.

The Canticle is an expression of the medieval belief in the beauty, goodness and intelligibility of the created world. It is also an expression of Francis’s own idea of all creation living in a spirit of fraternity and community. This vision of the total reconciliation of humanity with the universe is symbolized in a number of ways. One such is the ordering of the elements in pairs, which combine the masculine and feminine: sun-moon, wind-water, fire-earth.

In this setting, the soprano soloist represents the feminine principle, and the choir the masculine. A version of the work has been arranged for a smaller orchestra, with organ replacing the strings. The work has been described by one critic as “one of the most exciting and satisfying works for choir and orchestra by a New Zealander”, and by another as a work which “will undoubtedly continue to be performed regularly on account of its accessibility and performability”.

• Speirs: Cantico del Sole; facsimile 

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• Speirs: Cantico del Sole; facsimile 

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• Cantico del Sole 

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• Ritchie A.: Dogwobble and other songs; facsimile 

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• Ritchie A.: Dogwobble and other songs; facsimile 

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• Marshall: Excelsior; computer-set 

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• Green: Festive Fanfare; facsimile 

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• Green: Festive Fanfare; facsimile 

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Part of Missa Simplex in D major by Vernon Griffiths.

• Griffiths, V.: Gloria; facsimile 

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• Griffiths, V.: Gloria in Excelsis Deo; facsimile 

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• Griffiths, V.: Gloria; facsimile 

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• Ritchie J. : Kyrie and Gloria; facsimile  Year: 1967 

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