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Edwin Carr  

A Blake Cantata

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1951
for 2-part childrens' choir and two pianos

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    Also can be accompanied by small orchestra: 2110;2000;hp;strs
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David Hamilton  

A Christmas Fanfare

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2006
for 2 treble-voice choirs, SATB choir, brass trio and orchestra

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    brass trio (tpt, hn, tbn); 2222;2220;timp;glock;perc;strings
  • Programme Note

    This short work was written at the request of Rachel Young, conductor of Auckland Youth Choir. The choir’s 2006 Christmas concert was to also involve the Auckland Girls Choir, Auckland Boys Choir, and Aotea Youth Symphony Orchestra. A work which could open the concert, involve all performers, and make use of the performance space was needed. And it had to be easy to learn and quick to put together!

    After considering various texts I approached noted New Zealand hymn writer Marnie Barrel to ask if she had anything suitable as a text. She very kindly wrote the text that I used for the work. Each choir has an energetic presentation of a verse which describes some of the features and feelings of Christmas. This is followed by an Alleluia. Towards the end of the work, the Alleluia becomes the basis of a canon for all the choirs along with the orchestra.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

A Festive Song - Burnside High School

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1985
for voice, processional choir, answering choir, and school orchestra

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David Hamilton  

A New Commandment

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for unaccompanied mixed voice choir with soprano and baritone soloists

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David Hamilton  

A New Zealand Doxology

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1991
for solo soprano, SATB choir and organ

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    This work is a setting of a text by Rev. Len Horwood (d.1990), minister of Mt Albert Methodist Church (Auckland) in the 1960’s, and was written at the request of Mervyn Rosser – choirmaster of Mt Albert Methodist Church. This particular hymn of praise to God draws its inspiration from aspects of the New Zealand landscape – especially the plants and trees. References are made to the kauri, the rata, and the kowhai, as well as the lakes, mountains and valleys.

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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

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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.

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Geoffrey Hinds  

After Midnight

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1997, r. 1998
for SATB choir and organ

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Bryony Jagger  

Agnus Dei

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1977
for 2 choirs and 2 sopranos

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David Hamilton  

All this singing, one song

Duration: 05' 30" Year: 2012
for SATB choir

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    A piece which celebrates an anniversary provides a composer with particular challenges in the choice of a text. It should not be so tied to the group or the event that no-one else will want to use the music, yet it needs to acknowledge and celebrate the group’s achievement.

    “All This Singing, One Song” was written for GALS (Gay and Lesbian Singers of Auckland) for the choir’s 20th anniversary in 2012. The text comes from the 13th century Persian poet and philosopher Rumi, and consists of several short pieces of his writing on the subject of singing. Most of these encourage the listener to join in with the singing. The music is mostly rhythmic and energetic, with a strong climax at the end where the choir sings the words “Sing loud!”.

    Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi or Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was a 13th-century Persian philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and Sufi mystic. Also known as Mevlana (Our Guide), Jalaluddin Rumi, but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi.

    “All This Singing, One Song” was commissioned by GALS (music director: Stephen Bowness), and first performed by the choir on 27 October 2012.

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Mark Smythe  

Alleluia

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2007
for SSATB unaccompanied

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