This is my favorite song to sing in this cycle:)

Reminds me of Walton's "Songs of Love" for voice and Guitar.

Very beautiful. Congratulations on a wonderful score and piece.

Never-before-broadcast memories from JFK's confidantes recorded just after the assassination. Hosted by legendary journalist Robert MacNeil.

We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories from the Kennedy Archives

JFK: Return Him Safely to Earth

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk-amherst-speech/

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JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963)

"Why", P.I. Tchaikovsky's romance
Valeriya Zelenskaya, Soprano


"Why", P.I. Tchaikovsky's romance

I recorded this on my own and then got insecure about  a cappella intro so redid for my album with other musicians. But now I like this version better

Dead Meat Demo

Mixed sextet, written for the Composers Studio 2017 at RCM
Performed by:
Alex Roberts, Clarinet in B flat
Juan Antonio Garcia Illanas, Tenor Saxophone
Rory Cartmell, Trombone
Marie Schreer, Violin
Jenny Ames, Viola
Colin Alexander, Cello

Night Train To I Don't Know

Performed by the RCM wind ensemble, led by Simon Channing, on 15.2.2018

Kuje

Commissioned by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in celebration of Point Pelee National Park's 100th anniversary.  The work is a musical description of the seasons in the park.  Pelee (Part 1) contains the first 2 sections of the orchestral work ("Snow & Ice", and "The Birds")

Pelee (Part 1): "Snow and Ice" & "The Birds"

Commissioned by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in celebration of Point Pelee National Park's 100th anniversary. The work is a musical description of the seasons in the park. Pelee (Part 2) contains the last 2 sections of the orchestral work ("Heat and Fog" and "Butterflies")

Pelee (Part 2): "Heat and Fog" & "Butterflies"

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Hui Jin (tenor), Brno Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mikel Toms.

Music by Andrew Webb-Mitchell
Words by Joanna Boulter

“In Songs of Awe and Wonder, Andrew Webb-Mitchell has created a stunning set of symphonic songs on a grand scale. The music is full of passion and heroism, with glorious harmony and beautiful textures. The orchestration is beautifully detailed and the vocal writing creates a soaring line that carries the listener right through the vast canvas of the cycle. The work is dedicated to Mahler but, although the scale of the work is comparable to a Mahlerian song cycle, the music is in no way derivative and Andrew Webb-Mitchell has his own unique style and sound-world.”

Tasmin Little, violinist

The Ascent of Gailly examines the inspiration which compels human fortitude to great feats of endurance, and is based on the story of Etienne Gailly, the Belgian marathon runner who only just failed to win the marathon in the 1948 London Olympics.

Gailly had never run a marathon before, but traded the lead with more established names throughout the first 26 miles. Despite underestimating the dehydrating effect of the severe and unusual heat and humidity, he beat back challenges on two occasions and for some time it looked as if a big surprise was in the making. He entered the stadium first, shortly ahead of Argentina's Delfo Cabrera and Britain's Thomas Richards. Gailly had barely a lap of the track to complete, but the crowd could see his legs wobbling and his path wavering to and fro. Groans rang out around the stadium as he dried up to a walk and was overtaken by Cabrera and Richards. In a shocking reminiscence of Pietro Dorado collapsing within view of the tape 40 years earlier (the last time the Games had been held in London), Gailly fell to his knees on the home straight. But, to a standing ovation, he straightened up and staggered over the finishing line for a bronze.


Heat oppresses me, weighs me down,
and it shimmers till my vision is blurring,
dimming my aim and my goal.

Can I hold on to my lead, this precarious lead,
or must others outstrip me, leave me with everything ruined?

My body gives way; I stumble, am falling,
am passed, and passed again.
How can I keep on in vain?
For my vanishing hopes are melting away to nothing.

Yet something unexpected captures the emotion of the crowd,
willing me on to the finish, forcing me back to my feet.
willing me on to the finish, forcing me back to my feet.

For resolution will brace my strength for the final lap of all,
to set me on the chill summits of endeavour
with their thin and icy air,
to conquer the gleaming peaks of destiny.

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The Ascent of Gailly - Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms

Classical Composer and Director of the British Schools Foundation Choral Programme in China.

The Ascent of Gailly - Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms

Andrew Webb-Mitchell

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