Andrew Ford

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Choral

Music for mixed choir and male choir, with and without instruments in response to words by Les Murray, David Malouf and Gwen Harwood, C.P. Cavafy, Sappho and St John of the Cross.

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A Singing Quilt (2008)

20 minutes
for recorded voices, SATB choir and percussion

SATB choir, percussion ensemble and recorded voices

Commissioned by Wingecarribee Shire Council with financial assistance from the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government initiative supporting the arts in regional and remote Australia

First performance by Combined Choirs of the Southern Highlands (drawn from the Berrima Singers, Highlandaires, Serendipity, Singing for Leisure, SHACappella, Southern Highlands Sing Australia, Southern Highlands Voices in Harmony, WENCHes), ANU DRUMatiX, conducted by Andrew Ford

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Elegy in a Country Graveyard (2007)

25 minutes
for recorded voices and environmental sounds, SATB choir and ensemble

This is a version of the radiophonic piece, suitable for live performance.

'Chimney-sweepers' (Fear now more...) from Elegy in a Country Graveyard is available separately for SATB choir and voice and piano.

Commissioned by ABC Radio, funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

First performance by the Berry Court House Choir and the Southern Highlands Concert Band, Daryl Pratt (percussion), conducted by the composer, Kangaroo Valley Hall, Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, 22 April 2007

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Chimney-sweepers (2006)

4 minutes
for SATB choir

A version of this work is available for voice and piano. See also videos and resources about the radiophonic work Elegy in a Country Graveyard.

Text: from Act IV of Shakespeare's Cymbeline

First performance by the Gotlands Körförbunds Kör conducted by Ingvar Stagling, St Mary's Cathedral, Visby, Sweden, 27 September 2009

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An die Musik (2005)

20 minutes
for unaccompanied chamber choir

Text: Poems by David Malouf, Thomas Shapcott and Gwen Harwood, together with folk poetry/songs from Malaysia, the Pueblo people of the south-west United States and the Finnish Kanteletar.

Chamber choir SSSSAATTBB (can be sung be 10 solo voices)

Commissioned by the Adelaide Chamber Singers with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Adelaide Chamber Singers conducted by Carl Crossin, St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, 10 December 2005

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Piae cantiones (2003)

9 minutes
for unaccompanied male voice choir

1. Puer nobis nascitur
2. Personent hodie
3. Puer natus in Bethlehem
4. Gaudete!

First performance by Melbourne Cappella conducted by Nicholas Cowall, Rippon Lea, Melbourne, 17 August 2014

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In somnia (1992)

20 minutes
for tenor soloist, chorus and large ensemble

Text: Christina Rossetti, Thomas Campion, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, St John of the Cross, A.D. Hope and Sappho

flute (= piccolo), alto flute (= bass flute), oboe (= cor anglais), soprano sax, bass clarinet, bassoon (= contrabassoon), 3 horns, trumpet (= flugelhorn), tuba, percussion (one player), piano, harp, 4 violas and double bass

Commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs with financial assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Gerald English (tenor), Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, Sydney Alpha Ensemble conducted by Antony Walker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 25 September 1994

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The Laughter of Mermaids (1991)

13 minutes
for vocal ensemble

Text: Maria Blakey

six solo voices: SSATBarB

Commissioned by the Song Company with financial assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by the Song Company conducted by Roland Peelman, Hope theatre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 16 March 1992

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