New Zealand Youth Choir Concert

The internationally acclaimed choir will perform works by New Zealand and international composers ranging from Schumann to Tippett to David Hamilton and local Hawke’s Bay composer Stephen Lange.

The choir will be conducted by newly appointed Music Director, David Squire. Vocal Consultant Morag Atchison.

Programme will be announced from the following repertoire: Andrew Baldwin (NZ) • Magnificat Lajos Bárdos • Libera me Andrew Carter arr. (George Shearing) • Lullaby of Birdland Helen Caskie (NZ) • Ten cent mixture Stephen Chatman • She’s Like the Swallow Jakobus Gallus (Jacob Handl) • Musica Musarum David Hamilton (NZ) • Didn’t it rain Herbert Howells • Take him, earth, for cherishing Stephen Lange (NZ) • He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
Douglas Mews (NZ) • Two New Zealand Folk Songs of the Sea Joaquin Pildain • Mi mano amor Robert Schumann • Vier doppelchörige Gesänge Michael Tippett • Five Negro Spirituals from ‘Child of Our Time’