The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Robert Pecksmith (organ) David Crown (conductor) Coventry Cathedral, 1 February 2014 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillemusicsociety.com

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown (conductor) St. John's Episcopal Church, Northampton, Massachusetts (USA) 5 July 2014 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillechoir.com

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown St Giles' Church, Oxford 29 November 2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillemusicsociety.com

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Robert Pecksmith (organ) David Crown (conductor) St. John's Episcopal Church, Northampton, Massachusetts (USA) 5 July 2014 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillech...  moreThe Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Robert Pecksmith (organ) David Crown (conductor) St. John's Episcopal Church, Northampton, Massachusetts (USA) 5 July 2014 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillechoir.com Organist's Website: http://www.robert-smith.org.uk  

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Douglas Knight (piano) David Crown (conductor) United Reformed Church, Clitheroe 30 June 2012 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillemusicsociety.com

ENTERING THE SHELL Love is alive, and someone borne along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage. Bandits ambush others on the road. They get wealth, but they stay in one place. Lovers keep moving, never the sam...  moreENTERING THE SHELL Love is alive, and someone borne along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage. Bandits ambush others on the road. They get wealth, but they stay in one place. Lovers keep moving, never the same, not for a second! What makes others grieve, they enjoy! When they look angry, don't believe their faces. It's spring lightning, a joke before the rain. They chew thorns thoughtfully along with pasture grass. Gazelle and lioness, having dinner. Love is invisible except here, in us. Sometimes I praise love; sometimes love praises me. Love, a little shell somewhere on the ocean floor, opens its mouth. You and I and we, those imaginary beings, enter that shell as a single sip of seawater. 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...    less

This beautiful arrangement by Jonathan Rathbone of the two Lennon/McCartney songs Blackbird and I Will is performed here by individuals from Hi Lo Singers at home during lockdown 2020. For more information about Hi Lo Singers, please visit http://www.h...  moreThis beautiful arrangement by Jonathan Rathbone of the two Lennon/McCartney songs Blackbird and I Will is performed here by individuals from Hi Lo Singers at home during lockdown 2020. For more information about Hi Lo Singers, please visit http://www.hiloSingers.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/Hi-Lo-Singers-102333494825384 https://www.instagram.com/hiloSingers https://www.twitter.com/hiloSingers  

"For the Beauty of the Earth" by John Rutter. Text by Folliott S. Pierpoint. Recorded live on Friday, March 15, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church, Pompano Beach, Florida. Performed by the Saint Mary's College Women's Choir and the combined ensembles o...  more"For the Beauty of the Earth" by John Rutter. Text by Folliott S. Pierpoint. Recorded live on Friday, March 15, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church, Pompano Beach, Florida. Performed by the Saint Mary's College Women's Choir and the combined ensembles of The Girl Choir of South Florida. Conductor: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd. http://www.saintmarys.edu/music-womens-choir  

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown Winchester Cathedral, 18 May 2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillemusicsociety.com