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 dawn, there's a border of lavender against the soft rose sky.

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 for trumpet and a few for cello. Piano…

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 could be a busker I would. This is an assemblage of a bunch of Irish tunes, with almost no editing, just paying one after another, all under 90 seonds (except the very last one would is 120 seconds I think).

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 that that seems to be true.

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 shows them all in an order that works if all are done in a set.

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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 one. Couldn't resist throwing this video together.

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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 which I’ve explored over the decades. It’s a peculiar feeling to know that this other world exists.

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.

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 lockdown. Instead, we had videos of Rev. Wells preaching and lots of music tracks created by me! I wouldn't go back to those days, of course, but it was, beyond all doubt, one of the very post productive times in my life as a musician. From what I've read, productive in earlier pandemics, historically, skyrockets.

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 like. I think it's done. I turned 80 this year. At 80, not having achieved great fame and fortune as a classical composer, and probably never will, I (cringe) continue to write and make these videos.

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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 piano but with the participation of two string instruments (a high and a low) and a treble woodwind which were written in such a way that they could be performed live by separate instrumentalists or covered by a second keyboardist performing on two, stacked synthesizers.

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 actually like all my orchestrated folk tune arrangements but there's no sheet music market for that.

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 kid, I thought Albert Schweitzer's J.S.Bach tempos were woefully far too slow. Now, at 80, I understand: as the future gets shorter and shorter, one wishes to savor each note.#piano#pianomusic

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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