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March 2014

An Easter present for your choir

In case you have not visited the compositions page of this site recently, please do. You may know already that now and then I post a PDF of a composition (usually for choir) and if you click on it you can download it. My most recent “free gift” is an Easter anthem for SATB choir, organ and brass quintet with obligato timpani. The text is a hymn for Easter day, written originally in Greek by John of Damascus sometime in the eighth century, and translated by a Victorian clergyman John Mason Neale, whose portrait I include at the top of… Read More »An Easter present for your choir

Springtime’s weird sisters

Nights grow shorter. Birds return. The long, mourning Winter softens into tender Spring. Earth sweeps through her epic costume changes, and the actors come and go from the stage of our little life. Nature, in her gaudy battle garb, conspires with dreadful Disease and fickle Fate to grasp home her own before timid Time can parry. The scene is ruined. The gig is up. We watchers mourn for lost Love, lost Hope, lost Life. We mourn for the Act that could have been. Gentle reader, the play is true and hard. You too must take a role; you must lose… Read More »Springtime’s weird sisters