Music

David Simmonds - Hafren (A Rhapsody For Strings) - Premiere

My setting of the text by Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650).
This excellent recording is by Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir - Virtual Voices made in 2023

Drop, Drop, Slow Tears (SATB)  (rec RMCC)

I Love To Hear The Evening Crows Go By

And I Can Sing (The Gift to Sing)
Music by Christopher Alexander
Words by James Weldon Johnson
performed by the First Readings Project
conducted by J. David Moore

Christopher Alexander – And I Can Sing (The Gift to Sing)

Behind the mask

Brewer's Dance

A few poems with sage advice along with a variety of music for reflection:

Peacock Feather performed by Lucy Cooper on guitar

Poem by Margaret Sangster

Elegy composed and performed by Stas Venglevski on accordion

Poem by Wordsworth

Passacaille written by Karen Beaumont and performed at St Hedwig's 

Poem by Emily Dickinson

Irreversible Heart Movement 2 by Carson Cooman

Proverbs on Wisdom

Memoriam for Lynn by Margaret Simmonds

Thank you to the composers who shared their work with this program.


Links:

https://youtube.com/@margaretsimmondswoodley3423?si=HQbBMdVr0olqrX_a

https://carsoncooman.com/

https://youtube.com/@karenbeaumont1689?si=six5dTbmrzEsM60m


4/30/25 OWL, Karen Beaumont Presents: Wisdom Poems (with music)

G&S - The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - NEW VOICES!

The LSU Glee Club, Trey Davis, conductor, premieres a new TTB version of Kurt Knecht's Drop, drop, slow tears

Drop, drop, slow tears TTB LSU Glee Club, Trey Dravis, conductor

Elgar, arr. Lemare/Hope: Triumphal March from 'Caractacus', recorded on the Father Willis/Harrison organ of Winchester Cathedral, 28/06/2013.

Elgar, arr. Lemare/Hope: Triumphal March from 'Caractacus' (Winchester Cathedral, June 2013)

My original compositions are my copyright. Scores available on request by messaging me here, or available on Sheet Music Plus or Musica Neo (some items free) websites. Liturgical works (x2) are published by Paraclete Press.

Drop, Drop, Slow Tears (SATB) (rec RMCC)

Margaret Simmonds (Woodley)