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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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• David Hamilton: A Song of Ruth - hardcopy score 

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• The Big Sing National Finale 2008 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2000  Year: 2000 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol. 4  Year: 2013 

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This short anthem takes its text from the Old Testament book of Ruth. It is a statement of devotion and loyalty, and I have used the lines “Your people shall be my people and your God my God” as a refrain. To the biblical text I have added a concluding “Amen”.

The original version (for SAB voices) was written for, and is dedicated to, Bruce Baker – a friend and musical colleague.

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• Baker: Awake; facsimile 

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• Hope is our Song; computer-set   Year: 2009 

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• Hope is Our Song  Year: 2011 

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While overseas in 1989 I came upon the book by Erik Routley A Panorama of Christian Hymnody – a sourcebook of hymns and other sacred texts. These four carols draw their texts from that book: the first two by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), the third by Eustace Condor (1820-1892), and the fourth by James Lowell (1819-1891). The fact that the poets are contemporaries is quite coincidental – these are texts which appealed and which appear to form a satisfactory cycle (although individual pieces may be performed separately).

Love Came Down at Christmas is a popular and widely set Christmas text, and originally appeared in Time Flies: A Reading Diary, while The Shepherds had an Angel comes from Rossetti’s Poetical Works. Both texts were originally intended as hymns for children. The Childhood of Christ was also a children’s hymn and is drawn from the Congregational Church Hymnal of 1867, whereas the Epiphany Carol appeared in the 1865 publication Songs of the Sanctuary.

Over a number of years I have written short Christmas pieces for groups directed by John Rosser – the Summer Singers, Quintessence, the Star Quartet and his fine chamber choir Viva Voce. These four pieces are dedicated to John and Kathryn Rosser as an appreciation for their interest in my music and willingness to perform (and record) it.

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• Dienes: Gloria; facsimile 

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This piece originally appeared for unaccompanied SATB voices in the composer’s Four Carols (1991). In a subsequent reworking it was used as the opening movement of the cycle To the Christ Child (1991) written for the Epsom Girls’ Grammar School music tour to the United States.

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Composed in 1991 for the Christ’s College Chapel Choir, this work has been performed many times by the choir and, coincidentally, was toured by and broadcast on Concert FM by the choir of Christ’s College, Oxford (UK) when they visited New Zealand in the mid 1990s. It captures the true flavour of Christmas and has an ethereal quality, incorporating elements of plainchant in the final section. The score was revised in 2004 but only in terms of editorial and technical additions.

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• Canterbury Christmas 2  Year: 2003 

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