Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Jacob Barrett's 2024/25 SOUNZ Community Commission saw the composer working with Manawa Ora | Wellington Regional Hospital Orchestra and Choir to create a suite of Orchestral Lullabies for Matariki. Jacob worked with students from Newtown School to source texts for nine lullabies, each one representing a star from Matariki. For 'Tupuārangi', students Kaharoa and Te Aroha provided the text.
Tupuārangi is the fourth star of Matariki, and is associated with birds, the sky, and the harvesting of fruits and berries. Listen out for bird-song calls in the flutes and bush sounds in the percussion over the sustained, comforting bed of the rest of the orchestra.
Manawa Ora is conducted by Gary Wilby. Audio recorded by Phil Brownlee. Film funded by NZ On Air.
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Jacob Barrett's 2024/25 SOUNZ Community Commission saw the composer working with Manawa Ora | Wellington Regional Hospital Orchestra and Choir to create a suite of Orchestral Lullabies for Matariki. Jacob worked with students from Newtown School to source texts for nine lullabies, each one representing a star from Matariki. For 'Tupuārangi', students Kaharoa and Te Aroha provided the text.
Tupuārangi is the fourth star of Matariki, and is associated with birds, the sky, and the harvesting of fruits and berries. Listen out for bird-song calls in the flutes and bush sounds in the percussion over the sustained, comforting bed of the rest of the orchestra.
Manawa Ora is conducted by Gary Wilby. Audio recorded by Phil Brownlee. Film funded by NZ On Air.
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Further information about the composer biographies associated with these films can be discovered at sounz.org.nz
Facebook: @SOUNZnz
Instagram: @sounz_nz
TikTok: @sounz_nz
#nzmusic
