Friday, March 10, 2006
Port of Many Ships
[March 10, 2006] Songs happen. There I was, just sitting peacefully munching my dinner and reading a little John Masefield, and the page starts to hum. And then the hum gets rough and fades in and
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Welcome Linnea
Composed for the nameday of my newest goddaughter, Linnea Elliott Dickson, born October 15, 2005. Her other godmother made Linnea a glorious quilt of rainbow squares in the Fibonacci series, quilted
Thursday, May 1, 2003
In Lilac Time
A tune made for one section of Alfred Noyes' splendid poem The Barrel-Organ, composed for Boston's annual Lilac Sunday morris tour at the Arnold Arboretum.
Text ©1091 Alfred Noyes. Tune ©2003 Lynn
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
The Lusty Horn
JAQUES: Which is he that killed the deer?
FIRST LORD: Sir, it was I.
JAQUES: Let's present him to the duke like a Roman conqueror. And it would do well to set the deer's horns upon his head for a