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Graham Parsons  

Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for small to medium sized SATB choir with optional accompaniment

Graham Parsons  

Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for for small to medium sized SAB choir with optional accompaniment

Graham Parsons  

Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for small to medium sized SSA choir with optional accompaniment

David Hamilton  

Come sleep. Oh sleep.

Duration: 04' 40" Year: 2012
for SSAA choir and piano

  • Programme Note

    This sonnet, by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), is part of a long sequence of poems titled “Astrophel and Stella”, which tracks the development of a love affair between the narrator (Astrophel) and the virtuous, intelligent, idealized Stella. Stella had a real-life counterpart who Sidney loved, yet eventually saw marry another man.

    The thirty-ninth sonnet is “Come sleep. Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace” in which the narrator personifies Sleep. He prays that Sleep will come and release him from his current state of misery – only through sleep will he be able to be free from the war raging between his head and his heart, between reason and love. All he seeks is “…smooth pillows, a sweetest bed, a chamber deaf of noise and blind of light”. He rationalizes that he can entice Sleep by promising that the image of Stella will appear in his dreams, and Sleep will be able to watch. This would be the greatest tribute he could pay. The narrator prefers Stella to appear in his dreams, because he then need not face the reality that she is not his own.

    “Come sleep. Oh sleep” was commissioned by Euphony (Kristin School, Auckland) and conductor David Squire.

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Natalie Hunt  

Compass

Duration: 04' 30" Year: 2011
for full orchestra

Juliet Palmer  

Dopey

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2010
for SSA choir and piano

  • Programme Note

    A setting of a poem by Canadian poet Dennis Lee. “Dopey” comes from the 2007 poetry collection “Yesno”, evoking – in the author’s words – “a world in which the demolition derby and the possibility of living more constructively in the natural order are both real. And at once. So, not just no; not just yes; but yesno.”

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Samuel Holloway  

Dualities 2

Duration: 01' 30" Year: 2012
for solo violin

Carol Shortis  

Dulcie's Song

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2010
for SATB choir and piano

David Hamilton  

Ecce beatam lucem

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2012
for SSAATTBB unaccompanied choir

  • Programme Note

    The text of this work comes from the 40-part motet of the same name by Alessandro Striggio (c1540-1592). His work was the likely inspiration for the better-known 40-part motet of Thomas Tallis “Spem in alium”. It is believed that Striggio wrote the text himself. Striggio wrote both sacred and secular music, and all his surviving music is vocal (although often with instrumental doublings clearly indicated).

    “Ecce beatam lucem” is a hymn of praise to the sun and more generally to all of creation, and by analogy to the power of God shown through his creation.

    This piece was written for Choralation (Westlake Girls’ and Westlake Boys’ High Schools) and conductor Rowan Johnston who had requested a ‘fireworks’ piece – something short, bold and dramatic.

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Patrick Shepherd  

Elegy for a Fallen City

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