This Is The Life- Kurt Weill/Justin Hopkins/BBC Concert Orchestra/Keith Lockhart, conductor

A cover of the classic song by Nick Drake

Day Is Done

A cover of the classic by Thelonious Monk

Round Midnight

Original song based on Langston Hughes poem 'Dreamkeeper'

Bring me all your dreams you dreamer

Original song based on the poem 'Sleep' by Ursula Williams - wife of Vaughan Williams

Sleep

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘What Sweeter Music’ is a fresh Christmas cantata that is 50 minutes in performance from the prelude, a variation on O come Emmanuel, to the last piece, called “Unto Us”. It is in the style of lessons and carols, with new music as well as traditional carols, and includes the congregation in both the readings and songs. ‘What Sweeter Music’ is stylistically varied enough to showcase singers of different styles and abilities. For example “O Come Quickly” is the cry of the mothers after the slaughter of the innocents, and is best interpreted by a classically trained voice, while “Lullaby” would work well with a good chorister. Listen liberally and share freely

Unto Us

Tim Amukele, is a songwriter, pianist, and doctor