The first performance of Paul Ayres’s “Anti-Suffragist Reasons” is now on youtube: It’s scored for unaccompanied SSA voices, and sets the sarcastic (and highly amusing!) words below: *** I. Our Own Twelve Anti-Suffragist Reasons 1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote. 2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to […]
New Recordings
Score Video: “A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER” (TTBB)
Just in time for the winter solstice, I have posted another choral score video. A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER is my TTBB setting for unaccompanied men’s chorus of the poem by American poet Sarah Orne Jewett, with a recording by Matthew Curtis of Choral Tracks. Sheet music for A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER is available […]
City of Angels Master Chorale Present’s Eric Whitacre’s “Glow”
Leg Lamp Productions is proud to announce, despite of everything that 2020 could throw at, the release of a lovely new film from the City of Angels Master Chorale of Eric Whitacre’s “Glow”. Presented in 4K resolution, this new film merges the lush harmonies of Whitacre’s arrangement, and the expert conducting of Richard Medrano’s chorale, […]
“The Wayfaring Stranger” for Solo Male Voice and TTBB Choir (or Solo Female Voice and SSAA Choir)
This past summer I watched the film “1917”, during which a British soldier sings the American gospel song “The Wayfaring Stranger” to his fellow soldiers before heading into a battle. Then a few nights later, I had a dream where I was singing the song in a choir, creating this rhythmic, hocketed and hummed accompaniment, […]
Global Choir Spreads (Virtual) Joy to the World
90’s pop band October Project launches virtual global choir project in an effort to soothe COVID anxiety and seed joy worldwide. Inspired by the joyful noise of people cheering in cities around the world each evening to thank and support healthcare workers earlier this year, and moved by the subsequent explosions of grief and turmoil […]
new CD of Paul Ayres music from Selwyn College Cambridge
A new CD — Sacred Ayres — has just been released, featuring 22 choral pieces (track listing below) by Paul Ayres, performed by the chapel choir of Selwyn College Cambridge. A “video highlights” compilation is online here: https://youtu.be/yi9JAd8N8x8 And the disc can be ordered here: https://www.paulayres.co.uk/cd/sacredayres I hope this may be of interest to the […]