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Daniel Roure . Paris By Jazz

I Will Wait For You (From The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg)

Hyun Mi Kim, Cesar Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major 1st Mov, Allegro Ben Moderato.mp3

Strike up the Band

Are You Having Any Fun?

Polonaise in B Flat Major, B. 3 (Sheba Blake Edition)

Johnny Hartman -- It Was Almost Like A Song

The Choir of Saint James' is made up of amateur and professional adult musicians from the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Under the direction of Organist and Choirmaster James Buonemani since January of 1995, it is the first American Choir to have sung in performance with the Choir of Westminster Abbey's choir-in-residence during the months of August 1999, 2006, and 2010.  Inviting the choir to return in the future, the Abbey Precentor, Deiniol Morgan, wrote "the quality of singing was exceptionally high and our worship was much enriched by your contribution." The Choir is honored to hold a standing invitation to return to the Abbey by James O'Donnell, the Abbey's current Organist and Master of the Choir.

As the core musical organization of Saint James' Church, the choir has played host to many of the world's finest choirs during their international tours, including The Sixteen, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, the American Boychoir, the Gloriae Dei Cantores, the Choir of Westminster Abbey, the Choir of Canterbury Cathedral and the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

The Choir of Saint James' performed music for the official Los Angeles Memorial to Princess Diana in 1997. In addition to weekly services and monthly evensongs, the Choir of Saint James' presents concerts featuring many of the great choral masterpieces with full orchestra. Past seasons have included the Requiems of Maurice Duruflé, Gabriel Fauré, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozard, Giuseppe Verdi, the Lord Nelson Mass by Haydn, the Funeral Ikos and Song for Athene by John Tavener, the Cantata Misericordium by Benjamin Britten, the Lux Aeterna of Los Angeles composer Morten Lauridsen as well as the world premiere of O Beauty Ever Ancient Ever New by director James Buonemani, commissioned for the Centennial of Organists. Many of the choir's live performances can be heard by visiting SaintJamesLA.org and clicking on "Listen to the Music" under the Great Music tab.

Thomas Tallis - Spem In Alium Numquam Habui

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To Have and To Hold is not a biography, a lecture, or a historical reconstruction. It is an imagined world — one you step into to feel your way around an idea rather than to learn it.

The album takes place loosely in early-20th-century Cambridge, at the moment when Western thought was beginning to strain under its own certainty. Science had proved astonishingly powerful at breaking reality into parts, explaining mechanisms, and producing results — yet at the same time it was encountering problems it could no longer fully contain. Probability was replacing certainty. Events mattered as much as objects. Meaning no longer sat still.

Out of this tension emerged process philosophy: the idea that reality is not made of finished things, but of ongoing happenings — that love, time, marriage, and even truth itself are not states you reach, but activities you keep participating in.

The album imagines this moment through a human lens. A mathematician trying to complete a system of logic. A thinker insisting that nothing important is ever truly finished. Proofs accumulating. Years passing. A marriage understood first as a statement, then slowly revealed as a practice. Love appearing not as romance in the foreground, but as something quietly unfolding elsewhere — happening whether it is attended to or not.

Rather than explaining these ideas directly, the songs allow you to inhabit them. You hear bells ring. You feel evenings close in. You sense the weight of unfinished work and the relief of letting something continue without control. The philosophy is not taught; it is lived.

This is a soft documentary in sound — an audio quantum leap into a world. Its purpose is not accuracy, quotation, or instruction, but immersion. By the time the album ends, you may not be able to define process philosophy in a sentence — but you may feel why it arose, what problem it was answering, and why it still matters.

To Have and To Hold is an exploration of commitment not as possession, but as attention.
Of marriage not as a conclusion, but as renewal.
Of understanding not as something you arrive at — but something that keeps happening.

If you listen closely, nothing here ever quite resolves.
But something continues.

What Continues

Luke Faulkner - Day Dreaming

Enregistrement du 16 décembre 2011 aux Dominicains de Guebwiller

Le Cantique de Jean Racine de Gabriel Fauré

I Will Wait For You (From The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg)

Slava Tolstoy / International String Trio

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