As Long as Time: for SATB a cappella, Opus 47

Anthony Ritchie; Cilla McQueen; Rachel McAlpine; Sam Hunt

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As Long as Time: for SATB a cappella, Opus 47

Anthony Ritchie, Cilla McQueen, Rachel McAlpine and Sam Hunt

2008

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/47603

Abstract

New Zealand music

Composition

Anthony Ritchie

Choir

This work was commissioned by The Southern Consort of Voices in 1991, with funding from Creative NZ. It sets three NZ poems to music, with a fourth song being wordless: 'Timepiece' enters the mind of a woman struggling to break free of suburban neurosis and the tyranny of time, where her life seems to be standing still. Poem by Cilla McQueen. 'Before the Fall' alludes to lost childhood innocence. Poem by Rachel McAlpine. 'I lie, I watch the ceiling' is a wordless meditation. 'We could just disappear' depicts the future as an endless tunnel of the mind. Poem by Sam Hunt. In 2001 Auckland choir Viva Voce recorded this work on their CD entitled 'Snapshots - A Cappella Choral Favourites' under conductor John Rosser. It was performed in the annual IAMIC Conference at the Welsh Music Centre in 2008.

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Record Identifier: 9926763844301891
Title: As Long as Time
Subtitle: for SATB a cappella, Opus 47
Creators: Anthony Ritchie
Cilla McQueen
Rachel McAlpine
Sam Hunt
Academic Unit: Music
Date published ; e-published: 2008
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Resource Type ; Subtype: Musical composition