*** The background to this hymn is in the story of the rejection by Sarah and Abraham, after the birth of their son, Isaac, of both Hagar, Sarah’s slave and Abraham’s concubine, and Ishmael, Hagar’s son by Abraham. COMMENTARY In the same way as Read More …
* I’ve tried in this piece (which, I admit, strains the definition of a ‘hymn’) to compress both the story of Laban’s deceiving Jacob (himself a peerless deceiver) and a Christian understanding of that story. (Jesus emerged, generations later, from the less than edifying behaviours Read More …
*** Written to celebrate the birthday of St Mary, the mother of Jesus the Lord. A choir-piece. Gentle, reflective, but the music and lyrics are quietly forthright. No one remembers (midi)