Music and Livelihood
I am not going to be able to work as a performer for the rest of my life. There are a number of reasons for this, and none of them are up for discussion in this post, but my current strategy is not...
View ArticleCheerful voices: As pants the hart
This anonymous piece is one of my favourite settings of Psalm 42. I know it from playing and singing with London Gallery Quire, though I’ve recorded one more verse than we usually sing in order to...
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Gaudete
First a little music — the second track from my album, Cheerful voices, available at Bandcamp. As I’ve written there: This carol is from the Piae Cantiones, a cllection of Scandinavian sacred music...
View ArticleCheerful Voices: There was an old woman who had a little pig
Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose My grandfather used to sing this to me. He sang a sort of postlude, too, to a different tune which I have now forgotten. I don’t know why pig mortality was something my...
View ArticleCheerful Voices: The Song of the Vineyard
Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose My truelove had a vineyard upon a hill so high, He dug the ground and planted the best that you can buy, He hollowed out a winepress and built a wall and tower; At...
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