Waving
The past week has been a little less silly than some, but still busy. The West Gallery course at Benslow last weekend was great fun, but hard work: we really could have done with another four or six...
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Another short piece, really just an SATB setting (with some light divisi) of one verse of a hymn, Jerusalem the Golden (not to be confused with Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, which is also beautiful). But...
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Round Me Falls the Night
I’ve long enjoyed William Romanis’s hymn text, “Round Me Falls the Night” — so I decided to set it as an anthem. Originally I used TTBB voicing, but on balance, I like the SATB version better. I think...
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Double Chant in E minor
I’ve just spent a week singing Evensong in Lincoln Cathedral, with the guest choir for the week: the Cathedral Singers of Ontario. We had a lovely welcome from the cathedral and indeed the city of...
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Winter Stars
It’s not winter yet! But here’s a winter poem, by Sara Teasdale, which I’ve set to music: I went out at night alone; The young blood flowing beyond the sea Seemed to have drenched my spirit’s wings— I...
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I would not paint — a picture —
I was delighted to be asked to write a piece for the Chapel Choir of King’s College, Aberdeen, for them to sing on St Cecilia’s Day this year. I chose this text by Emily Dickinson at the suggestion of...
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There Is No Rose
Here is my setting of an anonymous text from around 1420: It was wonderful to compose this for the Cathedral Singers of Ontario, who I’ve sung with for many years on their visits to the UK, and to sing...
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Ave Maria
It was Refreshment Sunday today, and we had at least one of my favourite Marian hymns. Here’s my setting of the Ave Maria, then, played by robots:...
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Faithful Cross
Here’s another movement from my Stations of the Cross — not really suitable for today’s feast of Ascension, but I didn’t want to wait until Holy Cross Day to post it. Eventually I’ll do a Latin...
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Ave Verum Corpus
Here is my setting of the Ave Verum Corpus: http://artsyhonker.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ave-Verum-Corpus.mp3 Ave Verum Corpus PDF file Ave, verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine: vere passum,...
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