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Manukau Songs

for orchestra, choir, children’s choir and soloists

  ·  Duration:  45m 51s
Instrumentation:  orchestra, mixed choir, counter-tenor, bass

Duration:  45m 51s
Instrumentation  orchestra, mixed choir, cou...

David Hamilton
Composer

Composer:   David Hamilton

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David Hamilton’s ‘Manukau Songs: A Choral Symphony’ is a major work for orchestra, choir, children’s choir and soloists, it celebrates the natural beauty of the wider Manukau area with uplifting settings of words by Yvonne Amery and Te Paea Tīaho (Ngāti Mahuta).


Commissioned note

Commission by the Manukau Symphony Orchestra

Performance history

13 Aug 2023: Performed by the Manukau Symphony Orchestra, conductor Uwe Grodd, with Stephen Diaz (counter-tenor), James Ioelu (bass), Auckland Choral and Puhinui School Choir at Due Drop Events Centre, Manukau, 13 August 2023.

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