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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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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
Three songs from An die Musik
Text: Thomas Shapcott
Songs drawn from An die Musik
Text: Folk poetry from Malaysia, Finland and the Pueblo people of the South-West United States of America
SSSAATTBB
1. Puer nobis nascitur
2. Personent hodie
3. Puer natus in Bethlehem
4. Gaudete!
First performance by Melbourne Cappella conducted by Nicholas Cowell, Rippon Lea, Melbourne, 17 August 2014
Arrangement of the song by Stephen C. Foster
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
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
Text: Mediaeval English Christmas carols
Commissioned by Wollongong University Singers with funds provided by the Music Board of the Australia Council
First performance by the University Singers. conducted by David Vance, Performance Space, University of Wollongong, NSW, 6 December 1989