The True Samaritan, (1958)

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I think I showed this to Alan Bellhouse, who conducted the Sydney Madrigal choir with which I sang for a while because I didn't know where else to go. The fordigraphed score would have deterred anyone. The work lay dormant during the 'avant-garde' sixties, but came to mind again in 1976, when I was conducting the Choir of Newcastle Conservatorium for a while, and it seemed worth reviving, as well as revising slightly. I was always looking for unfamiliar poetry to set, and found the two shorter poems in a book of rare verse in the City of Sydney Library, a haunt of Richard Meale's and mine, with an interesting collection of scores as well as poetry and books on religion. It was in the Queen Victoria Building, where a memorable stale smell wafted up from the Wine Cellars in the basement.

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