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David Griffiths  

A Child is Born

 Year: 1982
for a cappella SAB choir

Dorothy Buchanan  

A Festive Song - Burnside High School

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

Ronald Dellow  

But They That Wait Upon The Lord

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1982
For treble voices and organ

Dorothy Buchanan  

Christmas Music

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1981
for wind quintet and string quintet, piano and guitar

  • Instrumentation
    flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola cello, double bass

Kit Powell  

Christophorus

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1981, r. 1982
Christmas cantata for baritone, children's chorus, wind orchestra and percussion

  • Instrumentation
    Solo baritone, childrens' chorus Orchestra: 2222; 2220; timp., perc.(2), pno, organ; no strings. Uses slide projections
  • Programme Note

    The first version was written in 1981 collectively with Andre Fischer, a pupil at the Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland in Bülach. It is a setting of words from an advent calendar by Max Bolliger. It is scored for baritone soloist (Christophorus), children’s chorus and wind orchestra, with percussion. The work was performed twice in December 1981.

    Christophorus tells the story of St. Christopher, a very strong man, who is searching for an ogre who rules the world. Each year, instead of finding the ogre, he finds a child in distress. In the eighth year, still searching, he meets Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. During the night, when Jesus is born, the child speaks to him and says he has met the ogre seven times already. Christophorus now knows what the ogre is, but is much less sure of his ability to conquer lt.

    The characters of and the children whom he meets are dressed in costume, but do not act. The Cantata is, however, illustrated by a series of slides which are shown during the whole performance.

    In 1982 in Christchurch I revised Christophorus and translated the text into English. It was performed for a season before Christmas of that year, with James Dames singing the part of Christophorus. This revised version has double wind, piano, organ and three percussionists, plus the children’s chorus. A recording was made.

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John Ritchie  

He is so Sweet and Small

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1988
carol for unison voices and organ

Jenny McLeod  

Henna

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2008
for SAA (T) choir and piano with optional bass part

Jenny McLeod  

Henna

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2008
for SATB choir and piano

Alison Carey  

Hosanna to the Living Lord

 Year: 1981
a hymn for two part treble voices and keyboard accompaniment

Jenny McLeod  

Indigo I

Duration: 04' 30" Year: 1983
for SATB choir and piano