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Carol Shortis  

An Tuiream Bais

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2009
a Gaelic death dirge for a cappella SSAATTBB choir

  • Programme Note

    The Carmina Gadelica, known in Gaelic as Ortha nan Gaidheal, is a six-volume collection of orally-transmitted prayers, poems, blessings and other material, collected by the folklorist Alexander Carmichael in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the second half of the nineteenth century. Carmichael subsequently translated this material, and edited the first two volumes. The death dirge An Tuiream Bais was published in the third volume, edited by Alexander’s grandson, James Carmichael Watson. I have set the first, fourth, fifth and sixth verses in the original Gaelic language.

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David N. Childs  

Ave Verum Corpus

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2002
for SATB

Anthony Young  

Be Still

Duration: 03' 30" Year: 2009
for SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    Much of my work is a marriage (or balancing act) between the Western art music tradition and my own position in time and place. Along with many forms, I have had a love for sacred choral music from Mediaeval times through to the present, but in not being a Christian, I have felt a reluctance to set text in which I don’t fully believe.

    In reading the work of spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle, I have discovered a new connection with biblical texts. Tolle quotes the line “Be still, and know that I am God” in his book A New Earth, as an example of a universal truth that is at the heart of all religions and belief systems. In this text “God” may be seen as the Christian God, an omnipresent spiritual dimension or the universe personified. This line, and the rest of the text, is from Psalm 46. In setting this text I have found an opening into the world of sacred choral music that aligns with my own beliefs.

    Anthony Young

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Daniel Stabler  

Ccycclohhopps

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
a single movement work for orchestra

Ross Harris  

Cento

 Year: 2005
for full orchestra

Thomas Goss  

Eagle's Children

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2000
music for a choreographic poem by Anandha Ray and Charles Anderson

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    for singers and chamber orchestra - flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 5 percussionists, acoustic guitar, double bass; Native American singers
  • Programme Note

    Original programme note from the premiere:

    For co-choreographer Anandha Ray, this dance is a very personal introspection. Ms. Ray dedicates this dance to Dan Meeks, the seventh son of a seventh son, medicine man for his tribe, her late great-grandfather. Though her family’s American Indian heritage was kept secret to avoid the severe prejudices of the South, Ms. Ray was privileged to learn from him a few of the traditions for planting and using sacred tobacco as a healing tool. The dance was inspired in honor of this ancestry. Anandha Ray and Charles Anderson, with widely varying backgrounds and styles of dance, collaborated with Thomas Goss in each section of the choreographic process to co-create the sections and movements of the dance and music. Loran Watkins’ costume design augments the abstract representation of Ray’s memories of her American Indian culture intertwined with her family’s need to hide this heritage. The lyrics in Goss’s score were adapted and translated by Native American healer Fred Jack Miles Manitoumahwhingon from a traditional Chippewa Indian prayer for times of journey, whether physical or spiritual.

Maurice Faulknor  

Easter Morn

 Year: 2004
for organ

Rosemary Russell  

God's Grandeur

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2003
for SATB choir

Andrew Baldwin  

Haec Dies

Duration: 02' 30" Year: 2007
for SSATTBB choir

  • Programme Note

    Haec Dies is a short introit written in 2007 for the Choir during my time as Composer-in-Residence, and is dedicated with thanks to the Companions of Wellington Cathedral who funded the residency. This is a joyful piece set to the following latin words:


    Haec dies quam fecit Dominus: Exultamus et laetemur in ea. Alleluia.


    (This is the day that the Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad in it. Alleluia.)


    Psalm 117 v 24

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David Hamilton  

Holy Night

Duration: 04' 15" Year: 2000
for 8 part treble choir with electronic sounds