"Golden Summer" - an Australian Christmas Carol by Elizabeth Sheppard.
This Australian carol has words that fit an Australian high summer Christmas. It's a Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the English carol "In the Bleak Midwinter" (c1850) by Christina Rosetti. The metre matches Rosetti's carol, but the melody and text are different. In Australian Christmas liturgies the verses of "In the Bleak Midwinter" are sung in alternation with "Golden Summer", to bridge the seasonal cultural gap.
Available for download at http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/95950.html
As One Voice / APMN Australian Composers
Links to the websites of some popular composers of Australian Church music, including Amanda McKenna, Kevin Bates, Andrew Chinn (Butterfly Music), Bernard Kirkpatrick (In Voce Editions), Monica Brown (Emmaus Productions), Paul Mason (Liturgicalsong), Br. Michael Herry sm (Marist Music), Anne Maree Higgins (Mass for Living), John Burland, Michael Mangan (LitMus), Erica Marshall and Br. James Maher msc (MSC Music), are found on the Australian Pastoral Musicians Network site at
http://www.apmn.org.au/Links.html
Australian Church Music Composer Fr. Christopher Willcock
Fr. Willcock's Church music is available at the OCP (Oregon Catholic Press) website
http://www.ocp.org/search?query=willcock&page_type=product
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