Category: Creation
God, un-composed Composer, Thou
* I wrote this for Music Sunday 2015
Come, make way for the music that sires the stars
This song was adapted for Andrew Douglas-Forbes and Konstantin Lapshin from a hymn I was invited to write on the theme ‘Make Way’. Only after the hymn was sung at the service in Winchester Cathedral for which it was composed Read More …
Daw llafn o haul (A blade of your spring sunlight)
** In 2012 these words, by Siân Rhiannon, were set for the class in the National Eisteddfod in which a new hymn was to be composed. The lyric, roughly translated alongside the Welsh original, is a sunny affirmation of God’s love continually poured forth Read More …
Called to worship by Your Spirit
* In October 2011, as part of a national celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a bi-lingual interdenominational festival Cenwch Clod Ddyffryn Tywi Valley Sing Praise was held at Capel Salem in Llandeilo Fawr. Giving expression to some of Read More …
Kinder sind eine Gabe (Round)
** This four-part round is a simple thanksgiving for the gift of children. Kinder sind eine Gabe des Herrn (Round).midi
Rejoice, O land
** This 2006 anthem, written for the Matins Choir at St Teilo’s Church, Llandeilo Fawr, was grown from a Round composed in 1979. Rejoice, O land (SATB + organ).midi
There is a love more perfect
* When the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland planned to hold a festival in St Martin’s Dorking (where I was a chorister), I wrote these words to be sung to ABINGER, by local resident Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), hoping that Read More …
Source of love, our life for sharing
* This hymn is a simple grace before eating together.