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Ashley Heenan  

A Maori Suite

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1966
for soprano, mezzo, choir and orchestra

Douglas Mews  

A New Zealand Christmas (The imprint of His little feet)

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

Rosemary Russell  

A Wellington Christmas or Christmas Eve Reflections

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2000
for three part treble choir with SATB choir and finger cymbals

  • Programme Note

    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.

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Jillian Bray  

Anno Domini

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2001
for a cappella SSATB choir

  • Programme Note

    This choral work was written for Porirua City Choir in 2001 on the occasion of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The choir performed the work at St Andrews on the Terrace and at Te Papa in a program of works by New Zealand composers in December 2001.

    A voice heralds the approach of Christmas. The Christmas star appears and nature responds to the Good News conveyed by the Spirit and angel choirs. Christ comes again to a troubled world, and sorrowfully passes by.

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Jenny McLeod  

Azure

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1983
for SATB choir and piano

Cheryl Camm  

Banana Boy

 Year: 1998
for SATB choir, vocal percussion, piano

Christopher Jarman  

Bellbird from a Forest Tree

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1956
carol for SATB, either a cappella or with piano

David Hamilton  

Blessing of the Trinity

Duration: 02' 45" Year: 2008
anthem for SAB choir and piano (or organ)

  • Programme Note

    This short blessing was written for the 50th anniversary of Trinity at Waiake Methodist Church in Auckland. The text is by British clergyman David Adam who for many years was vicar of Holy Island, Lindisfarne. He is now retired but still lives on Lindisfarne. He has published several collections of art, reflections, prayers, and meditations based on the Celtic tradition.

    The text asks for the blessing of the Trinity over all facets of life – work, people, thoughts, in fact all who we each come into contact with each day.

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Philip Norman  

Carol of the (New Zealand) Birds

 Year: 1992, r. 2009
for a capella SATB choir

Philip Norman  

Carol of the (New Zealand) Birds

 Year: 1992
for treble voices with piano accompaniment