Concert day yesterday! I wrote the music for Tell O Shepherds a few years back, inspired by carol singing basically. I wanted something that just felt like one of the traditional carols, four-part, with a nice sop descant in the last verse. There’s a little bit of a nod to ‘Infant Holy Infant Lowly’ with the rising sequence, and think the words might even be related/from the same source originally.
You can get the sheet music for Tell O Shepherds here.
The Orange County Women’s Chorus got in touch about a performance of two of my Four Hildegard Texts, one of which you can now watch / listen to below:
This was performed as part of their concert program, The Sisterhood of Cecilia, which began with music by Hildegard herself.
Thank you! A beautiful performance.
Two new songs for the Catherine Winkworth Songbook:
And two new recordings of ones from before:
Lyrics and chords:
Continue readingLive piano/oboe version of a track from the Infinity Crystal soundtrack.
A mashup of the song ‘Show Yourself’ (Kristen Anderson Lopez / Robert Lopez) from Frozen 2, and Christina Perri’s ‘A Thousand Years’ (Christina Perri / David Hodges)
I play some of my mini pianowrimo piano pieces while bird(s) sing loudly outside.
I’ve also started a gumroad with pdf sheet musics of these pieces on to start with.
based on “Midnight Rendezvous”, a track which only appears in the Remake version of Final Fantasy VII — playing it through though, it does combine very well with other themes, so maybe even that’s where the idea came from…?
Sheet music: download
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We had a brilliant concert last week. This is my arrangement/direction of The Huron Carol — it was in the second half of a concert with a lot of small children soo it’s also got a fair amount of background noise especially at the start, but I hope you enjoy anyway:)
This arrangement is one that’s available to buy on SMP press…
sketch of another hymn and Catherine Winkworth translation, again recorded live with slightly over-loud piano, but you get the idea!
In heavy bonds I languished long,
Thou com’st to set me free;
The scorn of every mocking tongue –
Thou com’st to honour me.