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Passing Notes 2014-07

Byartsyhonker July 11, 2014 0 Comments

I am delighted to announce the publication of the second edition of my monthly newsletter, Passing Notes. You can read it online or subscribe to future editions. The content is eclectic: news about what I have been up to, what I'm going to be up to next, things I like and so on. This edition contains details of first non-music "day job" I've had in about a decade, various musical goings-on, and...

Postcard 3

Byartsyhonker July 9, 2014 0 Comments

Over at Patreon I have a few different “rewards” for different levels of funding. The idea is to thank my patrons for their support, while also doing things that are musically useful or relevant. If you want to learn more about Patreon I've given a brief explanation. For pledges of $3/work or more, if patrons disclose their postal address, I send a hand-drawn postcard with a short, unique...

I walked in darkness: recording with video

Byartsyhonker July 3, 2014 2 Comments

I'm very pleased to be able to offer this video: Enjoy! If you'd like to sing this in your choir, the sheet music is available online for free. You have to print it yourself though! If you want to hear more, as soon as my pledges on Patreon reach $70 per new work, I'm going to commission a recording of Christ has no body now on earth but ours.

I Am

Byartsyhonker June 29, 2014 0 Comments

I wrote this, like "The Message of the Wind", for the Nicola Dando Choral Composition Prize. The judges didn't choose it but I still like it. The poem, written by John Clare, seems to have a few different versions of the fifth line in the first stanza. I set the one that I was given for the competition: "Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost", which rhymes with the final line of the poem;...

Mystery Plays E11

Byartsyhonker June 9, 2014 0 Comments

On Sunday, 22nd June at 3pm St Andrew's Leytonstone is hosting Mystery Plays. The modern script is firmly in the tradition of the ancient plays: it doesn't just recount the Bible stories but offers some interpretation as well. There will be drama, poetry, dance, music and even video, by a mixture of professional and amateur actors from the local and wider community, including people of many...

O come hither

Byartsyhonker June 5, 2014 1 Comment

One of the pleasures of singing and playing in the London Gallery Quire is being allowed to spring my music on them from time to time. A greater joy is the privilege of performing, from time to time, the work of our musical director, Dr Francis Roads. I like his work enough that I asked him to write a piece for my wedding; he did, and "Set me as a seal" was just the right thing for the context,...

Postcard 2

Byartsyhonker June 1, 2014 0 Comments

Over at Patreon I have a few different “rewards” for different levels of funding. The idea is to thank my patrons for their support, while also doing things that are musically useful or relevant. For pledges of $3/work or more, if patrons disclose their postal address, I send a hand-drawn postcard with a short, unique melody by me on it. Here's the second one. You could call it a Purple...

Up-Hill — recording

Byartsyhonker May 27, 2014 0 Comments

The recital at St Andrew's last weekend went well, but noise and so on meant the live recording didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. So, I've done a home recording of Up-Hill, to give a better idea of what it sounds like. I think it actually sounds better with Joanna singing than with the "just me" version but unfortunately, she is not here, so you just get two of me instead! – Does the road...

Benedictus

Byartsyhonker May 24, 2014 0 Comments

Some of my favourite words in the New Testament are from the Benedictus: said or sung at Morning Prayer in the Anglican tradition, this canticle is the song of Zechariah at the birth of his son, John the Baptist. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel : for he hath visited, and redeemed his people; And hath raised up a mighty salvation for us : in the house of his servant David; As he spoke by the...