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To the Horizon: Images of New Zealand

for SATB choir

Year:  1990   ·  Duration:  30m
Instrumentation:  several songs have divisions and/or solo passages

Year:  1990
Duration:  30m
Instrumentation  several songs have division...

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Sample: Page 1 of eight of the songs from 'To the Horizon'

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About

To The Horizon: Images Of New Zealand was composed in 1990 to celebrate New Zealand's Sesquicentennial. It was commissioned by Dr Karen Grylls and the Auckland Dorian Choir who first performed it in June 1990. Composition took place in Western Samoa and New Zealand, with the final revision in New York in 1997.

The cycle consists of texts by eight New Zealand poets, each one suggesting a different aspect of 'horizon': the physical horizon, where sea or plains or mountains meet the sky; or a range of metaphorical horizons, a glimpse into the past, into the future, or to the limits of our experience or comprehension.

To The Horizon has been performed on many occasions, either as single songs or as a cycle, and frequently broadcast.


Commissioned note

Commissioned and first performed by the Auckland Dorian Choir in 1990 to celebrate New Zealand's Sesquicentennial year. 'Home Thoughts', 'On the Swag', and 'Horizon II' were commissioned by the Ashburton Chorale and subsequently incorporated.


Contents note

  1. Horizon I (Sea and Sky)
  2. Walking on My Feet
  3. Home Thoughts
  4. Not by Wind Ravaged
  5. Wild Honey
  6. The Magpies
  7. To a Friend
  8. Song at Summer's End
  9. Elegy in a City Railyard
  10. On the Swag
  11. To L.H.B.
  12. Horizon II (Sea and Sky II)

Text note

  1. Ian Wedde
  2. ARD Fairburn
  3. Denis Glover
  4. Hone Tuwhare
  5. Alistair Campbell
  6. Denis Glover
  7. ARD Fairburn
  8. ARD Fairburn
  9. MK Joseph
  10. RAK Mason
  11. Katherine Mansfield
  12. Ian Wedde

Performance history

26 Apr 2008: Performed by Schola Sacra conducted by Roy Tankersley, at Christ Church, Wanganui

19 Nov 2011: Voices of Aotearoa - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir (Wellington)

20 Nov 2011: Voices of Aotearoa - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir (Napier)

21 Nov 2011: Voices of Aotearoa - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir (Auckland)

23 Nov 2011: Voices of Aotearoa - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir (Chch)

24 Nov 2011: Voices of Aotearoa - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir (Dunedin)

Performed by the Graduate Choir conducted by Terence Maskell, September 2007

Performed by the Graduate Choir conducted by Terence Maskell, September 2007

Performed by Viva Voce in 2007

Performed by Voices New Zealand

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