Salvete!🙏 I published this book to enable conductors and singers to easily use historical pronunciations in performance. It is now available as a paperback in English and an e-book in English, Spanish, and French. Enjoy! Please feel free to contact me if you need help putting it together for a specific piece. English espanol francais […]
New Publications
Meet the Composer in his Railway Room!
Tim Knight is a Yorkshire Composer who started composing at the age of 8 and bashing around on trains not long after! He has forged a varied and successful career as a musician, conductor, author, teacher and mentor and has enjoyed sales of his music worldwide. Paraclete Press, who publish several of Tim’s pieces, asked […]
Bereavement support song
Dear Colleagues, I recently lost my mother and have been attending attending virtual bereavement support meetings offered by Hospice. At the end of the sessions, they usually read a poem or a prayer. One was entitled “Do Not Hurry as You Walk With Grief”. It really struck me personally and so I set it to […]
“Will there really be a ‘Morning’?” for baritone solo and an unsynchronized SAB choir is available for free download
“Will there really be a ‘Morning’?” for baritone solo and an unsynchronized SAB choir is available for free download. Emily Dickinson’s poem on searching for hope is set with approximate and unsynchronized note values. It is published on-line and you can review it at… http://www.graymichael.com See you on the flip side. Michael A. Gray
Terre-Neuve – by Marie Claire Saindon, Cypress Choral Music Publishing
Enjoy Marie-Claire Saindon’s “Terre-Neuve”; a wonderful love-letter to the powerful geology and ancient mysteries found on the east coast of Canada. Enjoy! https://cypresschoral.com/composers/marie-claire-saindon/terre-neuve/
Avshalomov – Gemeinsam (Together), a new piece for these fraught times
Dear colleagues, for months I have been holding back from sending out bulletins about my latest choral pieces, out of sensitivity to the current pressures on conductors and educators everywhere and recent deeply distressing events. But today I decided I have waited long enough, so I share this new piece with you, in hopes that […]