New Publications

I have a new setting of  Ave Maria (in Latin) for SATB (with some div in the sopranos and altos) and cello. The choir music is chant-like (very multi-metered) in a homophonic texture and the cello part requires a very good player. I wrote it in memory of a choir member who passed away last year with […]

A simple setting of A. E. Housman’s well-known poem for SATB, but really in three parts  since T & S are in octaves, in the style of some early American hymn tunes. Easy.   All my works are written into Sibelius, and available directly from me in PDF or actual printed format, with each transaction […]

I recently finished a new setting of “Lux Aeterna” for SATB divisi. voices to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. If you would be interested in acquiring a copy, you can email me at .   Thanks.

By James Johnson ASCAP 1551618.   This is one of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) most remarkable and famous poems,  a sonnet written in the  “sprung rhythm” that he devised. The poem is subtitled “To Christ our Lord,” and is characteristic of the ecstatic passion evident in so many poems by Hopkins, an English convert to […]

By James Johnson ASCAP 1551618. I finally completed this work, having begun imagining it many years ago. I believe it is the first musical setting of this darkly humorous poem from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.  Briefly, Alice encounters a pair of chubby twins named Tweedledum and Tweedledee who recite the poem to […]

Music by British Composer PHILIP STOPFORD is now available at http://www.musicroom.com This is GREAT NEWS for UK customers who can purchase the HAL LEONARD publications directly in the UK.    Philip has sold over 100,000 copies of his music in the USA, and of particular interested at this time of year would be his Christmas […]