On This Day | Taken from the Catholic "Liturgy of the Hours" (Sunday vespers of weeks 1 & 3 in ordinary time). A friend of mine wrote the music. I just arranged and recorded it. This is one of my earliest attempts at layered recorded using the simple software and inputs on my computer. |
Jesus Prayer | The Jesus Prayer is an ancient prayer used mostly in the Eastern Orthodox Church. This is a very simply setting - guitar and my vocals overdubbed numerous times. |
I Can See | I wrote this song many years ago and decided to try arranging it and recording it. I solicited the help of an excellent musician, my brother, John, to help with some of the arranging. The song itself is, basically, a testimony of what Jesus has done in my life. |
Humility | This is one of those tunes that just came to me one day as I was playing my guitar. It went together very quickly. This is an instrumental piece - two guitars, both me. |
Meditation | This is another one that came quickly and another instrumental piece. I started it on guitar but moved to piano and two flutes. This is the first one in which all the instrumentation and performance is done with Finale. |
Now Fades All Earthly Splendor | This, too, is taken from the Catholic "Liturgy of the Hours" (Tuesday vespers of week 3 in ordinary time). I love the text. I intentionally wrote this in a hymn style for congregational singing. The instrumentation is all from a Yamaha PSR-295 with Finale software. I'd like to do more instruments and some vocal harmonies some time in the future. |
Lord Jesus Christ, Abide With Us | Yet another one from LotH. (This recording seems a bit "dark." The piano is done completely in Finale and should probably be done differently.) |
All About You | This is a completely original piece i wrote early in 2009 to go along with a sermon theme essentially asking, "What are you all about?" Since i first wrote the piece i changed the ending a bit and the arrangement, as it is here, is incomplete. I decided to go ahead and make it available anyway and, at some point in the future, finish the arrangement. |