A demo recording of a hymn commissioned for a pastor's retirement celebration.

You Have Made Known demo

Lyrics:

1. Oh, enter, Lord, Your temple,
And be my spirit's Guest,
You gave to me, the earth-born,
A second birth more blest.
And, oh, how oft Your voice
Has shed its sweetness o'er me
And opened heaven before me
And bid my heart rejoice!

2. You are, O Holy Spirit,
The true anointing Oil,
Through which are consecrated
Soul, body, rest, and toil
To Christ, whose guardian wings,
O'er all the world appointed,
Protect His own anointed,
His prophets, priests, and kings.

3. Oh, Holy Spirit, teaching
The soul to pray aright;
Your songs have sweetest music,
Your prayers have wondrous might.
Unheard they cannot fall,
They pierce the highest heaven
Till He His help has given
Who surely helps us all.

4. Oh, lead us, Holy Spirit,
According to your mind.
And when this life is over,
And all must be resigned,
Lord grant us, then, to die
With calm and fearless spirit 
And after death inherit
Eternal life on high.

TEXT: PAUL GERHARDT, TR. CATHERINE WINKWORTH, ADAPT. J . RICHARD FREESE

MUSIC: J . RICHARD FREESE

Oh Enter Lord choir

The soundtrack to a five part documentary, chronicling the history of a campus ministry

Documentary Part 5

Documentary Part 4

Documentary Part 3

Documentary Part 2

Documentary Part 1

A short fanfare performed by the Truman State University Wind Symphony

Concert 4-21-2011

Fanfare: Chariots of the Sun for concert band

commissioned by Redeemer Ev. Lutheran Church, Rice Lake, WI and dedicated to Pastor Jeffrey Seelow in celebration of his 40 years of ministry

lyrics:
The Gospel shows the Father's grace,
Who sent His Son to save our race,
Proclaims how Jesus lived and died
That we might thus be justified.

The pow'r of God is the Gospel.
Of this pow'r, I'm not ashamed,
For Christ has won our salvation.
We have vict'ry o'er the grave.

It sets the Lamb before our eyes, 
Who made th'atoning sacrifice
And calls the souls with guilt oppressed
To come and find eternal rest.

It brings the Savior's righteousness
Our souls to robe in royal dress;
From all our guilt it brings release
And gives the troubled conscience peace.

May we in faith this truth confess
And praise the Lord our Righteousness!

Text: Matthias Loy, alt; J. Richard Freese; Romans 1:16, adapt
Music: J. Richard Freese

for more of Rich's choral music, go to https://soundcloud.com/rich-freese/sets/choral-music

The Power of God Is the Gospel for SATB choir and piano

for violin, cello, and piano.
Dualities (2013) is built around the idea of contrasts: the fast, lively primary theme and the slow, static secondary theme; the violin and cello playing against and with the piano; repeated musical ideas and changed/developed musical ideas.

Dualities for piano trio

Arcana

More info of the ensemble at canticumnovumwels.org

Breath of the Almighty was commissioned by Mr. Jonathan Laabs and the Canticum Novum chamber choir, in celebration of the choir's tenth anniversary in 2015; the work is dedicated to them. 

This work was intended to be performed alongside Johann Sebastian Bach's motet for double-chorus Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (The Spirit gives aid to our weakness), BWV 226. As such, I used certain aspects of the Bach as a model: 1) two SATB choirs, alternating between singing independently and in unison; 2) text taken from the Bible about the Holy Spirit; and 3) a structure with three main sections, the third of which sets a hymn for Pentecost Sunday.

Texts from Job 33:4, 32:8, 12:10, Numbers 16:22, Ezekiel 36:26; Paul Gerhardt, translated Catherine Winkworth; adapted Rich Freese

Breath Of The Almighty for SSAATTBB choir

lyrics by Art Paul Schlosser, music by J. Richard Freese

Almost Home

I became active in late high school when I began to teaching myself how to play the electric guitar and went on to study music theory and composition in college.
My professional activities have focused on education, church music, and composition. I've taught students of all ages and interests in one-on-one music lessons (guitar, bass, piano, theory), classrooms and workshops, and online courses. My original compositions (choral, instrumental, electronic) have been performed throughout the United States in settings including art exhibition openings, theatre productions, worship services, music festivals, and concert halls.
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Rich Freese

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