* This hymn, a meditation on Jesus’ double parable of the Wedding Feast, challenges the convention that the human freedom to choose is the highest value. All people, everywhere, are called to behave well in all circumstances; none is free to Read More …
*** An achingly beautiful melody, hauntingly harmonised, to express an attempted response to Jesus’ comment on the seventh Commandment. COMMENTARY This hymn responds to what may be presumed to be one of Christianity’s most deeply felt conversation-killers: You have heard Read More …
* I was called at short notice to conduct a wedding in a neighbouring parish. At the rehearsal I learned that the couple had chosen JERUSALEM as one of their hymns. But they didn’t look like a couple who would sing that Read More …
This song was a wedding present for Adrian and Susan Snell. Written in F sharp major, here it is transposed up for a high voice. You are there,midi
*** Written for a colleague’s wedding in 1975, this was originally sung by a choir of (mostly young) women; hence the otherwise unthinkably high G flat in the last line Image and Likeness of God.midi A vocally more accessible setting of this Read More …