Work
Rain Songs
for two SATB choirs
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About
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the National Youth Choir with funding assistance from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand) and the NZ Composers' Foundation (APRA)
Contents note
- The Songs
- The cloud-flower lullaby
- Song of the blue-corn dance
- Song of the sky-loom
Text note
Texts from the Pueblo Indians of North America from Penguin Book of Oral Poetry, edited by Ruth Finnegan
Performance history
13 Mar 2004: Performed by Tower New Zealand Youth Choir at St Mary of the Angels, Wellington