2003

for SSA choir, 2 violins, percussion and strings

By:

• David Hamilton

Samples

	Score (67k)	Pages 1-4 and 29-32 of 'Whisper to Me'	© David Hamilton
	Recording (468k)	Auckland Choral cond. Peter Watts with Piper's Sinfonia. Soloists: Morag Atchison and Kate Spence. 6 November 2005	© David Hamilton
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Availability

• This work has 3 scores and 2 recordings

Programme Note

This short work sets a text by New Zealand author and poet Patricia Grace. It comes from the anthology “A Book of Pacific Lullabies” which also provided the texts for my choral cycle Whisper You All The Way Home. Whisper to me is a short lullaby with a verse in English followed by a verse in Maori. The English verse is set in a conventionally melodic style, while the Maori verse is set in a style suggesting the melodic and rhythmic forms of traditional waiata. Against this second verse a solo cello plays the original melody. The work ends by dissipating into sounds suggesting night. The text for “Whisper to me” is used by kind permission of the author Patricia Grace.


Whisper to me was commissioned by St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland in 2003. It was subsequently incorporated into the major choral work Missa Pacifica (2004).

Text Note:

Text by Patricia Grace

Commissioned:

Commissioned by St Cuthbert's College, Auckland

Performance History

	06 Nov 2005	Performed by Auckland Choral with Piper’s Sinfonia. Soloists: Morag Atchison and Kate Spence, conducted by Peter Watts. Available on ‘Missa Pacifica’ CD
		Auckland Choral
	05 Jul 2008	Performed by Auckland Choral Society conducted by David Hamilton at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell, Auckland
		Auckland Choral