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Recorded 19/07/89 in Christchurch. Harmonic Chorale, Musical Director - Richard Oswin. Soloist soprano, Carol Soudy; Michael Lawrence accompanist. "From Age to Age Endure" (1988), New Zealand Composer, David Hamilton. The individual movements are: (birth) from "Childhood and Interuption" by Stevie Smith; (age 10) "A Cautionary Tale" from "The
Temperance Orator and Reader" (19th Century); (age 22) "A Cynical Little Poem" by Hugh Kingsmill; (age 35) "A Study of the Possibilities Life Offers at this Age"; (age 40) "Odgen Nash Wondering about his Mental Faculties "Lines on Facing Forty" '1961; (age 49) A study in contrasts: Seventeen and forty-nine "My Rival" by Rudyard Kipling (1885); (age 64)
What else? - with apologies to Lennon and McCartney!; (age 70) Three Score and Ten...(Psalm 90); (age 82 "The Silent Voices", Tennyson (written 1892, just before his death); (age 90) "Kitchen Door Blues", Tennessee Williams, (1946) and (age 99) "Epitaph to Mrs. Fredland, in Edwelton churchyard, Nottinghamshire, 1741.