For a Friend

If ever peace with angel wing
	Visit our cold and cloudy clime,

Or stoops her radiant lines to wing
	Upon the stormy shores of time.

Surely her light and jentle feet,
	A timid dove, delights to roam.

When hearts with hearts in union meet
	Among the quickening scenes of home.

If ever love the first, the best,
	The sweetest dream for mortals given.

One little spot of earth has dressed
	With dews and rays and flowers of Heaven.

It is that spot of verdant green
	Where virtue and her hand-maids come.

So deck with simple charms the scene,
	And bless the holy haunts of home.


N. O. J. J. A. H. A. L. E. H. C. A. T .             
        Goshen, PA


1889 "For a Friend" by N. O. J. J. A. H. A. L. E. H. C. A. T.

Varsha Saxena - second generation East Indian American, currently lives in Palo Alto, California. In Hindi, her given name, Varsha, means "tiny raindrops," not unlike how her piano playing is sometimes described. Moreover, she freely draws on her family's traditional cultural background in her piano creations.

Varsha has played piano since the age of ten, when she says she was inspired to take up studies by a captivating televised performance of the legendary Horowitz.

Since then her studies have taken her through various periods in classical western literature and on to contemporary piano stylists, like George Winston.

This, her debut recording, she dedicates to her family and friends.


Welcome to my Creative Cloud where you can move through music, stories, and poetry.

Sacred, spiritual, and special tracks.
Recordings, riffs, and restoration works.
Preserving, producing, performing, and permanent proliferations.

Commissioned and collaborative soundscapes and scores supporting performative artifacts with emblematic soundscapes from historic to contemporary. Collaborations are mainly produced and performed with Mark Cameron  Head. (Thus, why the reposts from ETC-TET.)

Little by little, our vast archives are catalogued for permanent preservation so this living library of radiophonic soundscapes, stories, and music will be available for future generations.

As a composer of sacred and liturgical music, two recorded albums (Wool on The Lamb and On Your Behalf) along with various published hymns and songs are part of my repertoire. Compositions in abundance under the auspices of these distinguished publishers:  Alliance Publications, Inc.,* Cooperative Ministries, Inc., 21st Century Music Journal, and Resource Publications, Inc.

Orchestral score, King of Hearts, was selected for a future feature film entitled ICON. A hymn version of the same song is published in Czech and Spanish. Alliance Publications, Inc.* published the Czech and English version with an octavo, and Cooperative Ministries, Inc. published the English and Spanish version with a complete score matching the On Your Behalf album.

As Founder of the Foundation for Sacred Music Composers, you may find our fb page to read about this ongoing endeavor.

Some of my students from my Interval Music and Drama School can also be heard on this page.

You are now and always invited to experience our compilation of offerings.

Peace and all good,
Anne Delaney, OFS

* As of July 1, 2016, Alliance Publications, Inc. is now owned by National Music Publishers, a subsidiary of The Fred Bock Music Companies.

EARPHEMERA PODCAST: performative artifacts with emblematic soundscapes. Supporting the podcast one wheelchair trip at a time.