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Hone Tuwhare’s poem “The Old Place” conjures up a picture of an old run down house that no-body comes to visit. “No one cares to look upon the drunken fence posts and the gate white with moss. No-one except the wind saw the old place make her final curtsy to the earth and sky.” Hone Tuwhare’s words are very evocative and it was not hard to write music that emphasized the picture of people leaving their run-down farms and moving to the cities, in the hope of a better life.

• Hulford: The Old Place; facsimile 

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• Hulford: The Old Place; facsimile 

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• Powell: The Pink Panther's Picnic; facsimile 

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• Jenny McLeod: The Poet - downloadable PDF 

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• Jenny McLeod: The Poet: A Song Cycle - hardcopy score  Year: 2012 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 12 - Jenny McLeod: Vocal & Choral Works  Year: 2011 

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The Reluctant Pitman is the fourth piece of the set of five songs which was commissioned in 2009 by the Alnwick Community Development Trust as part of their Hotspur Festival, celebrating 900 years of the Percy family in Northumberland. The songs were inspired by the history and beauty of Northumberland and also by the quirky and insightful writings in his 1835 book “Rambles in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders” of William Andrew Chatto, whose words have been moulded into the lyrics of the songs by the composer.

Chatto is fond of recounting tales, which in turn were told to him on his travels, in the dialect of the original storyteller, and this is reflected in the songs particularly the second, in which various fishing tales from the Coquet are chronicled, and the fourth in which the traveller ventures rather anxiously down a coal mine. The first song gathers together an assortment of Hotspur (a particularly feisty medieval member of the family) war cries from various sources into a fighting collage, the third explores in advisory tone the various difficulties a traveller may encounter hereabouts, and the fifth is an intoxicated drinking song in which all participants indulge in a bit of irregular staggering about and generally become more merry as time wears on.

• Camm: The Reluctant Pitman; computer-set 

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• Camm: Hotspur Festival Songs; computer-set 

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• Camm: Hotspur Festival Songs; computer-set 

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• Camm: The Reluctant Pitman; computer-set 

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• Camm: Hotspur Festival Songs; computer-set 

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• Hamilton: The Sea Child; computer set 

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

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• New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir - On Tour 2008 

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• Music for Vienna: Bel Canto Choir 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol 1 

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The Three Pictures were commissioned by the Wairarapa Singers (conducted by Ian Hodge) and premiered in 2000 in a version for organ, string quartet, flute and trumpet. They were subsequently performed by Cantoris and the Wellington Chamber Orchestra in a revised, orchestral version.

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• Farr: Tirohia Atu Nei; computer set 

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• Farr: Tirohia Atu Nei; computer-set  Year: 2002 

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This setting of Antonio Machado’s poem is intended as a study in atmospheric textures. Little of the music is loud or dramatic, and much of the writing consists of repetitive patterns sung by the singers independently of each other. Machado, a Spanish poet of the early twentieth century, describes the simple image of a beach at night in summer, with a voice singing in the distance. Over the scene hangs the moon. The setting does not present the entire text, but uses only fragments of the poem. From the text the words “la luna” (the moon) are heard most often. A solo voice from within the choir sets the scene with the words “A summer’s night on the beach of Sanlucar…”.

Throughout the work a singing bowl sounds in the background, beginning and ending with the single struck note. At times the bowl disappears into the texture and at times it is clearly audible – steady and unvarying.

Una Noche de Verano was written for conductor Rowan Johnston and his choir Choralation (students of Westlake Girls’ and Westlake Boys’ High Schools, Auckland).

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• Hamilton: Una Noche de Verano; computer-set  Year: 2010 

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

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Fiona Farrell, born and raised in Oamaru, is a best-selling author of short fiction, plays, novels and poetry. The poem Ursula at Parakakariki is taken from her second book of poetry The Inhabited Initial (Auckland University Press 1999). Parakakariki is the name of an old Maori pa site on the Banks Peninsula, and occupies a clifftop spectacularly high above the ocean. The poem was written at the time of her daughter Ursula leaving home.

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• Carol Shortis: Ursula at Parakakariki; audio 

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• Jagger: Virgin Birth; facsimile 

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