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In the deepness of the night before Christmas, children dream of exciting and wondrous things: so do adults, but they are also fraught with arrangements and planning for the big day. a call for simplicity and remembering the loving and gifting nature of Christmas. This piece is performed “in the round” i.e. the adult choir encircles the audience and the children stand up the central aisle. The adult choir gradually moves around the audience and sings at times in smaller groupings. The audience does not know where the sound will come from next. The children need to be able to hold 3 simple parts. Finger cymbals are used to indicate stars and nocturnal animals create an interesting opening. It is depicts a New Zealand Christmas experience.

• Russell: A Wellington Christmas or Christmas Eve Reflections; computer set 

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This suite of four short pieces is aimed at the younger pianist, of Grade 3 – 4 level. Sunrise, children playing, a runner and a carnival have become the subjects for imaginative musical interpretation.

• Ritchie A.: Caroline Bay Suite; computer-set  Year: 2003 

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• Ker: Close-up of a Daisy; facsimile 

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• Dorothy Ker: snake, echo & beetles 

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• New Zealand Choral Music Vol. 1  Year: 1994 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2002  Year: 2002 

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Henna appears in two collections of carols. In a 2008 revision it is No. 5 from the Five Carols for 3 and 4 Parts. The original version of the carol appears in my earlier collection Sun Festival Carols.

• McLeod: Five Carols for 3 and 4 Parts; computer-set 

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• McLeod: Henna; computer-set 

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Henna appears in two collections of carols. In a 2008 revision it is No. 5 from the Five Carol for 3 and 4 Parts. The original version of the carol appears in my earlier collection Sun Festival Carols.

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• McLeod: Five Carols for 3 and 4 Parts; computer-set 

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• McLeod: Henna; computer-set 

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• Wanganui Schola Sacra Choir: Pohutukawa Carols  Year: 2002 

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The name hihi (“stitchbird”) has an onomatopoeiac quality which suggests the insistent call of this bird which is urgent, penetrating and strong. Hearing the striking call of the “hihi” on Tiritiri Matangi in the Hauraki Gulf inspired this piece.

• Bowater: Hihi; computer set 

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• NZ Premieres 2008 Vol. 1 

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• Love's Nature  Year: 2011 

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• Buchanan: More Witchy-Poo Songs; computer set 

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• Buchanan: More Witchy-poo Songs; facsimile 

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Rain is an iconic poem by Hone Tuwhare, describing beautifully a feature of the weather but also subtly ruminating on death. The setting is quiet and lyrical, with an optional part for a rainmaker (to be played by the singer). This setting for baritone and piano was written for Matt Landreth, and recorded by him. The recording and score were auctioned to raise funds for the Otago Hospice appeal in May 2008. The song was subsequently scored for orchestra and recorded by Matt Landreth and the Auckland Philharmonia.

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Rain is an iconic poem by Hone Tuwhare, describing beautifully a feature of the weather but also subtly ruminating on death. The setting is quiet and lyrical, with an optional part for a rainmaker (to be played by the singer). This setting for baritone and piano was written for Matt Landreth, and recorded by him. The recording and score were auctioned to raise funds for the Otago Hospice appeal in May 2008. The song was subsequently scored for orchestra and recorded by Matt Landreth and the Auckland Philharmonia.

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This work is an exploration of the possibilities of the string orchestra as a body of sound, the orchestra at times acting like one giant super-instrument composed of intricately superimposed layers. Old textures are continually swallowed up, recycled and transformed, playing out a finely balanced tension between static and active, supple and brittle, strong and fragile. From a fluid, tangled haze, individual voices periodically emerge to assert some kind of nostalgic lyricism, but each time they are ultimately subsumed, swallowed up in an eerie, ambivalent mass of sound. Stylistically the music is varied and eclectic, weaving together the intricate, spidery lines of Ligeti, the delicate chordal sonorities of Messiaen, the caustic anger of Shostakovich and even the brooding menace of Anthony Watson.

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• Taylor: silk / gravel; computer-set 

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• Taylor: silk / gravel; computer-set 

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• Alex Taylor: silk / gravel; audio 

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