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Jenny McLeod  

He Honore, He Kororia (Honour and Glory to God)

Duration: 01' 30" Year: 1996
for orchestra with electric guitar, bass guitar, and SATB choir

Jack Body  

Invocation

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1998
for SATB choirs; Cook Island choir, bells, shofar, organ, tape and orchestra

Philip Norman  

O Holy Night

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1993
arrangement of carol by Adolphe Adam for solo soprano, choir and orchestra

David Griffiths  

Psalm of Trust

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1990
for SATB choir and orchestra

Philip Norman  

Shipwreck

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1990, r. 2006
for SATB choir and orchestra

  • Programme Note

    Rough, unpredictable weather and a lengthy, often treacherous coastline meant many ship were wrecked in the early days of New Zealand’s history. Fortunately, such disasters are considerably less frequent today.

    One point of the coastline that claimed more than its share of ships was the Timaru roadstead. From November 1865 until 1890, when an ambitious harbour works scheme was completed, the port was the graveyard for 28 ships.

    Shipwreck recalls the disaster in setting a portion of a poem printed in the Timaru Herald on 23 May, 1882. The poem details the events and pays tribute to the bravery of all the sailors cnocerned. Shipwreck opens with a setting of a folk ballad, ‘John Smith A. B.’ (printed in The Bulletin Sydney 1904), which describes the loss of a life at sea and illustrates how such tragedy was accepted by the early sailors as part of the hazards of their occupation.

    Shipwreck was composed in May to July 1990, revised in May 1997 for the City of Dunedin Choir (musical director Judy Bellingham), orchestrated in May to June 2006 for the Canterbury Philharmonia (musical director Mark Hodgkinson) with funding from The Canterbury Community Trust.

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Douglas Mews  

The Cloud on the Mountain

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1990
oratorio of St Anthony of Desert

Helen Caskie  

Three Psalms

 Year: 1992
for SATB choir and orchestra

Philip Norman  

Wenceslas

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1992
a Christmas cantata for unison treble choir and orchestra