Video Information

• Choir: Auckland Youth Choir
• Piece: He Tamaiti ō te Ao Tukupū
• Composer:  Takerei Komene
• Conductor:  David Squire
• Voices:  SATB + organ
• Genres: Classical
• Takerei Komene’s 'He Tamaiti ō te Ao Tukupū' is a celebration of birth, rejoicing in its chaos and the process of creation. This new commission revolves around the creation of a person with endless potential. The text centres on a well-know whakatauki or ...  moreTakerei Komene’s 'He Tamaiti ō te Ao Tukupū' is a celebration of birth, rejoicing in its chaos and the process of creation. This new commission revolves around the creation of a person with endless potential. The text centres on a well-know whakatauki or proverb:
  Whāia te iti kahurangi, ki te tuohu koe, me he maunga teitei
  [Seek that which you treasure most – if you must bow your head, let it be to the loftiest of mountains]
  
  A mihi pepeha, hailing the fabrics of space and the throes of the heart, is joined by the organ – a giant celestial factory, chaotic and cacophonous, with great starry arms placing pieces into unique moulds forming the fragments of the final section of the work – a mighty invocation of the whakatauki.  less