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Special Arrangement of "Servant Song"

​This arrangement was commissioned by Immanuel UCC in Shillington, PA to commemorate 50 years of service by J. Richard Smoker. The piece is for treble voices, guitar, piano, choir and organ. The entire service is wonderful, but the piece starts at 1:27.52!
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Easter 2021!  I was still working during Covid times! This is a brass arrangement I wrote, recorded and edited with my fellow brass players at Trinity Lutheran Church in Reading, PA.

Written in 2017! Premiered in 2017 and recorded at Trinity in 2018!

About "Bound by Love"

This piece was written to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. It was performed by singers from both Protestant and Catholic churches in the Reading area in the fall of 2017 at St. Ignatius, Reading, PA.
​It is accompanied by pipe organ, djembe and bells (Glockenspiel or Crotales can be used).

"Bound by Love" Performance

Here is a sample of the full score for "Bound by Love"

bound_by_love_full_score_sample.pdf
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Here is a sample of the choral reduction for "Bound by Love"

bound_by_love_choral_sample.pdf
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The Greatest of These Is Love

A piece for SATB Chorus and piano. The well-known text is from Corinthians I: Faith, hope and love abide, but the greatest of these is love.

Free Copy of the Piece!

I am interested in having this piece performed as often as possible. You have my permission to download the piece, make copies as needed and perform it with your choir, chorus, chamber group, etc.
greatest_is_love_shorter.pdf
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Performance at Trinity

As High As the Sky

"He knows what we are made of; He remembers that we are dust."
Poignant words from Psalm 103 that go along with "Praise the Lord, My soul!" This is mostly a 3-part piece for SAB with occasional men's splitting.

Short sample of the Score

as_high_as_the_sky_sam.pdf
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Performance at Trinity
The two pieces below were premiered by Vox Philia from Reading, Pennsylvania. This is an accomplished amateur chorus under the direction of Dr. David McConnell.

Let the Stable Still Astonish

A Christmas/Holiday piece for SATB and piano with a text by Leslie Leyland Fields about the astonishing nature of the stable. The poetry makes a connection between our dark hearts and the crumbling stable only to concede that the "God of Heaven and Earth" was born here in this place on purpose.

Short Sample of the Score

"Let the Stable" sample

Performance by Vox Philia
Time, Real and Imaginary
A secular a cappella piece for SATB with a text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The text is an intriguing image of a brother and sister who are chasing each other. One of them is blind and has no idea where the other is in the race. Both of them represent time in it's different forms: real time and imagined time! The multiple meters and rhythms from each voice part capture the conflict between the two.

Short Sample of the Score

time_real_and_imag_sample.pdf
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Performance by Vox Philia

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