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A celebration of light across space and centuries. We begin close to home, with dappled suns on soft ferns in Leonie Holmes’ through coiled stillness, and ‘golden sea-snakes’ of Wellington city meeting ‘sleepy kisses of the moon’ in Takerei Komene’s Te Māhina and He Kihi o te Rā (The Moon and Kiss of the Sun).

Diverse settings of familiar texts explore light as a timeless muse, including settings of O Nata Lux, Lux Aeterna, and Lux Fulgebit Hodie.

The music reaches the majestic in William Walton’s Cantico del Sole - an untamed invocation to Brother Sun and Sister Death, celebrating the splendours of life-giving light. We round the programme out with works by Eric Whitacre, Thomas Tallis, David Hamilton, and Ross Harris.

There will be a pre-concert talk in the hall at 3:30pm.

Directed by Michael Stewart

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