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Denise Hulford  

Christmas Bells

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1995
for choir, tenor saxophone and piano

  • Programme Note

    The 100 Voice Chorale based on the North Shore of Auckland commissioned Denise Hulford to write a Christmas Carol for the Choir. After spending some time searching for a poem with a happy tone to it, and not being able to find anything suitable, Denise commissioned Jenny Pattrick to write a poem. The poem that Jenny provided was exciting, accessible and quite humorous. The final work was a fun and Christmas focused composition which was most successful, and approximately the length of a short Cantata. The work has been performed a number of times, and has always been well received.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Five Songs of Love and the Land

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1991
for soprano (or mezzo), clarinet and SATB choir

Clare Maclean  

Love was his meaning

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1992
for SSAATTBB choir

Ray Twomey  

Missa Novi Saeculi (Opus 12)

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1998
a Mass for a New Millennium

  • Instrumentation
    for choir (SATB) a cappella
  • Programme Note

    This Mass was composed as a tribute to the millennium. The form of the Mass has had a profound influence on the development of western music. Subtly buried in its constructions are reflections of the sounds of every century of the past millennium, from the plainsong monody and early organum of one thousand years ago, through the sounds of the ‘ars antiqua’, the evolution of the music of the renaissance, the baroque, the classical and the romantic periods, to the sounds of the 20th century (including a tone row, blues, percussive rhythms and so forth). The plaintive, yearning harmonies of the opening Kyrie, contrasts with the joyful sounds of the Gloria and Sanctus. The Credo is a coat of many colours and the final Agnus Dei, composed in the Ionian mode, contains no accidentals – it answers Shoenberg’s observation that “there is still plenty of good music to be written in the key of C”.

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David Hamilton  

Paraha

Duration: 19' 00" Year: 1990
for solo alto, SSAATB choir and chamber ensemble

Michael Vinten  

Three Pictures

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1999, r. 2000
for SATB choir, organ, string quartet, flute and trumpet

  • Programme Note

    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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Michael Vinten  

Three Pictures

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1999, r. 2000
revised for SATB choir and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    1122; 2100; percussion; SATB choir; strings
  • Programme Note

    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. This version was subsequently performed by Cantoris and the Wellington Chamber Orchestra.

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