Resignation

I’m in the process of doing the necessary work to distribute three new digital albums to the various streaming services. Part of that is visiting the four previous albums of mine that are already distributed to see if they’re so awful I should just pay to have them deleted from…

Sweet Rivers (solo piano)

Hal Leonard, the world's largest sheet music publisher, runs a site called ArrangeMe which gives composers & arrangers a vehicle to self publish their arrangements of pop tunes--Hal Leonard owns the rights to a vast number of pops songs all of which are available to…

look up

My dear friend, William Lindsay, who died November of '24 after a long, progressive battle with dementia and Parkinson's, used to tell me whenever I was in the clutches of melancholy, "look up." He mean it literally as well as figuratively. It worked every time, and still does. Somehow…

Hosanna (for pipe organ)

The problem for most working pipe organists is that most interesting organ repertoire is too hard to work up new pieces on a weekly basis and usually too long for a service. In short, the interesting literature is suitable for recital but not church service use. Add to…

Lavender Skies

Each geography has its own sky. Florida's skies are unique and amazing. There are many roadside artist paintings for tourists with purple skies. There's a reason for that. The purple you often see at dusk is real. People want to take a little of that home with them. Sometimes, at…

Christmas arrangements available

Here are my Christmas arrangements. Notice that all of them have a link where you can listen to the arrangement and some have videos of my playing them so you know they can be performed by a mere mortal. Most of the pieces are for solo piano but a fair number are…

Hilton, play us some tunes…something Irish

I'm kind of feeling my way right now. All I know is I feel the urger to make music as folks might have done it in my grandparents' day, as a informal playing of music on the home piano and while folks sst around and kind of humed along. Or...maybe if i…

Nebula Waltz (solo piano)

Newest piece. Not a perfect performance, but the best of 6+ takes. As a video, that's as good as I'm going to get it. But, I like this piece and I wanted it as a video. People don't seem to like recorded music as much as they do videos. I don't quite understand, I accept…

4 Sets of Trumpet Descants on Familiar Christmas Carols

Sheet music should be online at sheetmusicdirect and sheetmsicplus by 10/6/25. These four sets can be played, a different descant for every verse, or the performer is welcome to pick and chose which to do and for which verses. This recordings…

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Baron Harkonnen, “Dune,” 1984

He’s looking more like this every week! 😳

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

Midnight Peal

My old faithful music notation software will no longer work on new OS so having to convert, literally, hundreds of pieces to the new software. I don't dare listen to any of them or I'll never get done (there's hours and hours of my music). But, I made the mistake of listening to this…

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The Geography of Dreams (complete in 6 movements)

Composed: 2014-2015These are all real dreams that have stuck with me over the years and that take place in a world that reoccurs very often in my dreams, ever since I was a kid. This dream world has a complete geography that is quite consistent and…

Have This Love (SATB recording)

This was recorded by the Bayshore Baptist Choir, Tampa, FL, Dr. John Richmond, conducting, back in 1993. I composed it around that time, maybe a year or two earlier. It's one of my choir's favorites to sing. It's so simple, it practically sings itself.

Come, O Spirit, with Your Sound (for organ without pedals)

I was stumbling through my files looking for a prelude for this coming Sunday's service (it's Pentecost Sunday), and I found this that I'd arranged during the early days of the pandemic. We weren't having services in person because of the…

Trying YT Shorts…not sure what I think

Cervantes – Andante & Allegretto (for solo piano)

This is a two movement piece. Both movements, Andante & Allegretto, are in this video. I've been working on this piece for a veeeeerrry long time (couple decades). There's pieces like that that seem to take forever to fully materialize as you'd…

BUT...I don't want to be an owner again either, not with insurance rates, hurricane damange repairs, and property taxes the way they are in Florida. I think the answer at my age, is to get my non-furniture stuff down to whatever fits in my van in case something happens like this wonderful poem.

Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale It’s hard not to cheer for the brother  that claims he bought weed

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Hopefully, my apartment isn't up for sale, but I've been there once before when the home we were renting was basically sold out from under us.

Solicitude

This is another of my arrangements of a tune from Southern Harmony, and Musical Companioncompiled by William Walker and published in 1835. It's a compendium of marvelous, mostly anonymous hymn tunes from American folk musicians. My original settings of these arrangements featured solo…

Resignation (original arrangement)

Yesterday was Maundy Thursday and at the evening's tenebrae service, I play this tune. I never posted a video of the original orchestrated version, but I did post a video of the piano solo I made of the same tune (see I really like this orchestrated version. I…

As a Doe Longs (solo piano)

This is one of my transcriptions of one of my own choral pieces. You can hear the original choral version at Interesting how one's feelings about what's the "right" tempo change over the years. You'll notice I currently like a MUCH more leisurely tempo. When I was a…

Follow Me! (solo piano)

This is another of my transcriptions for solo piano of a choral piece of mine, Follow Me!. You can listen to the original choral piece at .

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First Light this morning

I take my morning walks at First Light which is when, if you were at sea, you'd first be able to distinguish where the horizon was; it's when the center of the sun is 12° below the horizon. It's my favorite time of day because the birds are just beginning to wake up and they welcome the sun.