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Helen Caskie

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1998
a song for SATB choir for weddings or family occasions

Programme Note

Written for a Registered Music Teachers’ Conference in 1999, this SATB setting of a text from an American Indian source is suitable to be sung at weddings, family occasions, or farewells.
Availability
- Caskie: A blessing; computer-set
  
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- Caskie: A blessing; computer-set
  
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Duration: 31' 00" Year: 1994, r. 1996
for SATB choir and narrator and orchestra

Instrumentation
1100;0000; perc: tubular bells; strings. Narrator may be a separate speaker or from the choir. Bells may be able to be played by choir member as required only in final movement.
Programme Note

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.
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- Farquhar: A Christmas with Carols; facsimile
  
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- Farquhar: A Christmas with Carols; facsimile
  
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Duration: 31' 00" Year: 1994
for SATB choir and narrator with organ

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1993
for a cappella SATB choir with soloists

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1991
for solo soprano, SATB choir and organ

Programme Note

This work is a setting of a text by Rev. Len Horwood (d.1990), minister of Mt Albert Methodist Church (Auckland) in the 1960’s, and was written at the request of Mervyn Rosser – choirmaster of Mt Albert Methodist Church. This particular hymn of praise to God draws its inspiration from aspects of the New Zealand landscape – especially the plants and trees. References are made to the kauri, the rata, and the kowhai, as well as the lakes, mountains and valleys.
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- Hamilton: A New Zealand Doxology; computer-set
  
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Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1991
for SAB choir and organ

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1991
for SSA choir with oboe and strings

Programme Note

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
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- Hamilton: A Song of Ruth; computer set
  
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