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Then I Understood
for choir and orchestra
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About
This song cycle for choir and orchestra was commissioned by the Orpheus Choir of Wellington and contains eight settings of texts by child poet, Laura Ranger.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the Orpheus Choir of Wellington with funding from Creative New Zealand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of UNICEF
Contents note
Contains following poems:
1. Sands
2. Otaki Poem
3. Pee and me
4. Spring Tide
5. Spring
6. Windrest
7. What I would take out of the world
8. Two Word Poem
Text note
Text by Laura Ranger
Performance history
27 Jul 1996: Performed by Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Wellington Sinfonia (now Vector Wellington Orchestra) conducted by Philip Walsh at Wellington Town Hall
Recorded in the Assembly of God Church and St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, New Plymouth by the New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir, conducted by Elise Bradley, between April 1-4 2002