Recorded on September 16, 2011 using a Flip Video camera.

A Simple Communion Service for choir, organ and congregation written for a local church. The photographs were taken by Keith Brownlow, fellow student at Sale University of the 3rd Age, with thanks.

Scores in various keys are available at the link below "He makes men pure from their sins..." A Simple duet for two equal voices with guitar chords, suitable for evangelical meetings. Taking words from St Paul's letter to the Hebrews. The recording (in...  moreScores in various keys are available at the link below "He makes men pure from their sins..." A Simple duet for two equal voices with guitar chords, suitable for evangelical meetings. Taking words from St Paul's letter to the Hebrews. The recording (in D) was performed by the composer (in those far off religious days!).  

Unknown composer. If anybody knows who it is, please let me know! Part of the Orthodox Catholic Church service sung at the Great Entrance during the Liturgy of the Holy Pre-sanctified Gifts, which is served on Wednesdays and Fridays during Great Lent. ...  moreUnknown composer. If anybody knows who it is, please let me know! Part of the Orthodox Catholic Church service sung at the Great Entrance during the Liturgy of the Holy Pre-sanctified Gifts, which is served on Wednesdays and Fridays during Great Lent. The first two verses are sung very slowly, then there is a silence during which the preist carries the pre-sanctified Gifts through the holy doors. All the people prostrate in silence and then the last verse plus three alleluyas is sung. "Now the powers of heaven invisibly worship with us For behold, the King of glory doth enter. Behold the mystical sacrifice is escorted in. Let us with faith and longing draw near and become partakers of life everlasting. Alleluya." This is from The OK Chorale's second public concert in March 2013 at St. Mary's Church, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK.  less

The Graduate Choir NZ with Nicholas Sutctliffe (piano) perform "Te Aroha" by Te Puoho Katene (NZ, 1927-2010) on TVNZ's Praise Be. --- English translation: These precious Gifts have been given to us Faith, hope and love. You ask: "What is the grea...  moreThe Graduate Choir NZ with Nicholas Sutctliffe (piano) perform "Te Aroha" by Te Puoho Katene (NZ, 1927-2010) on TVNZ's Praise Be. --- English translation: These precious Gifts have been given to us Faith, hope and love. You ask: "What is the greatest of these?" Listen carefully to me - that you will always remember: It is love, it is love, it is love. --- The Graduate Choir NZ Director of Music: Terence Maskell http://www.graduatechoir.co.nz http://www.facebook.com/TheGraduateChoirNZ http://www.twitter.com/GraduateChoirNZ --- Praise Be - http://tvnz.co.nz/praise-be --- Recorded 31 August 2011 at Pitt St Methodist Church, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.methodistcentral.org.nz ---  less

SINGING When the soul first put on the body's shirt, the ocean lifted up all its Gifts. When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. ...  moreSINGING When the soul first put on the body's shirt, the ocean lifted up all its Gifts. When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. Performed by the Millennium Consort, Martin Neary, conductor, and the Pomona College Choir, Donna Di Grazia, director. Water Ruminations is a setting of six poems by the thirteenth-century poet Rumi, in English translations from the Persian by Coleman Barks, for double choir and organ. The poetry sings of literal and spiritual connections between water and sky, a drop of water and human life, flowing water and love, drinking water and its container, the giddiness of spring and rolling seas, and the ocean's Gifts and singing. Its images, from 800 years ago, speak to us with both vivid immediacy and transcendence. The idea for the piece originated with the Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative, which proposed funding activities that would involve students in a...    less

This Simple, but wonderfully emotive piece, was our free gift to those on our mailing list at the beginning of 2021, and we are delighted to have a recording now of 'Prayer of St Teresa of Avila' by the Masterworks Chorale on their recent tour to East A...

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that “music is math.” Whether in relation to something Simple (counting), or something more esoteric (highly-developed, academic analyses of harmony and structure), or whether it is a misg...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] If you’re like me, you’re always tempted to add harmonies to the Simplest of melodies, whether it’s singing along with others or arranging a...

Of course, this very blog is a great tool and certainly, sharing other blogs has been an amazing learning curve for me. Many blog platforms such as Blogger are free and quite Simple to use & set up.   1. TIME - You could of course spend y...