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David Hamilton  

A Bright Light Still Shines

 Year: 2011
for SATB choir and piano

David Hamilton  

Angele Dei

Duration: 05' 15" Year: 2011
for SSAATTBB choir

  • Programme Note

    St Michael’s Church in Remuera (Auckland ) is one of the finest acoustics in the city for choral music. When I heard Viva Voce was presenting a concert of “heavenly music” there as the choir’s final concert for 2011, I offered to write a new piece. My earliest regularly performed work,“Lux Aeterna was already scheduled for the programme, so I felt this would make a nice comparison of works written 32 years apart. Conductor John Rosser readily agreed to the idea.

    Angele Dei is a text traditionally attributed to St Anselm (c.1033-1109) although it is now believed to have been added to his works after his death probably in the 11th or 12th centuries. It is a brief prayer to a guardian angel – one who is charged with protecting against the assaults of demons, that might lead one into sin.

    The piece is full of warm rich choral textures, beginning with the women’s voices descending in a scale-like passage which repeats several times against simple tonal chords in the men’s voices. The build to the climax uses textures reminiscent of Renaissance composers, featuring a string of suspensions in the harmony. The work ends quietly with an Amen section and final statement of the title.

    David Hamilton

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David Hamilton  

Christmas Here and There

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2011
for SATB choir and brass band

  • Programme Note

    This short cycle examines the differences between northern and southern hemisphere experiences of Christmas. These differences are encapsulated in Margaret Mahy’s early poem Christmas in New Zealand which contrasts the colours of a summertime Christmas with the images of snow and robins on Christmas cards. The second piece sets a Christina Rossetti poem which suggests that Christ’s birth was early in the day watched only by the angels and the animals. The third piece sets a traditional text which describes the typical landscapes of a northern hemisphere Christmas – the bare tress and the animals foraging for food. The fourth movement is a piece for band alone, which picks up on elements of the opening movement as well as varied treatment of fragments from the well-known carol “Good King Wenceslas”. The final piece sets a widely anthologized poem of unknown authorship. It humorously returns us to a summertime Christmas where there‘s no snow, and where Santa might end up with a suntan in the “Pacific summertime” Christmas.

    Christmas Here and There was commissioned by South Auckland Choral Society for the choir’s end of year concert 2011.

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Simon Eastwood  

Confiteor Tibi

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2011
for a capella choir

Patrick Shepherd  

Elegy for a Fallen City

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2011
for unison voices with piano accompaniment

David Hamilton  

Escape at Bedtime

Duration: 02' 50" Year: 2011
for SA choir and piano

  • Programme Note

    Although Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry is not as well known as it once was, his collection A Child’s Garden of Verses still stands as one of the most important early collections of poetry for young people. This fantastical poem tells of a child’s impressions of nighttime and the “thousands of millions of stars” which appear to be chasing him or her. Even when packed off to bed, the sight of the stars remains in the child’s mind’s eye. Several star constellations are named in the poem.

    Escape at Bedtime was commissioned by Sydney Grammar School for the school’s music tour to New Zealand in 2011.

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Stephen Lange  

Gloria Deo!

Duration: 02' 30" Year: 2011
for unaccompanied SATB choir

Anthony Ritchie  

God Defend New Zealand

 Year: 2011
arrangement for SATB choir of the original version by John Joseph Woods

Robbie Ellis  

Ha!

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2011
for solo viola and shouty chorus

Robbie Ellis  

Ha!

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2011
for solo violin and shouty chorus