About Me
Composer of lyrical music for voices and for instruments, especially classical guitar, alto (countertenor) and of course choir.
I retired early from my job as a translator 5 years ago in order to concentrate on getting my music heard. Most of my works can be seen (as scores) and heard (as mp3s) through my website.
Composer and countertenor David Warin Solomons has sung many of his own choral works and the choral works of other composers by multitracking the parts on computer. He decided to call this one-man choir the dwsChorale. The range is bottom bass D to top a... moreComposer and countertenor David Warin Solomons has sung many of his own choral works and the choral works of other composers by multitracking the parts on computer. He decided to call this one-man choir the dwsChorale. The range is bottom bass D to top alto e.
Most recordings were done between 2005 and 2009. Only time will tell whether the dwsChorale will be revived, but David keeps composing anyway, so who knows....
This setting of the Communion Service uses mainly the Mixolydian and Dorian modes (with short excursions into Lydian and Aeolian and occasionally jazzy modes).
It is performed by the composer - multitracking.
These arrangements of the song skip from 5 to 12 in order to avoid tiring the audience!
This version in B is performed here by David W Solomons
multitracking as the dwsChorale
This arrangement for 6 part choir of the old Devon bell ringing song was composed and performed by David W Solomons - with various voices representing the bells as the song progresses
Performance with words for singing along: Based on The Expotition to the North Pole (Winnie the Pooh).
Narrator, various spoken and singing voices and instruments
ATBarB version
(SATB version is also available)
Parody of the old Christmas Carol "Past three o'clock"; words and music by David W Solomons, performed by the dwsChorale.
Improvisation for meditation on Gu-Cheng
or "Cheng" or "guzhen" 古筝 (Chinese zither)
small bells (Xing or Peng Ling 碰铃- also known as touch bells)
and bass and alto voices
Performed by David W Solomons
This was written as an ironic parody response to that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer song we sing every year!
(Rudolphus Rubrinasus syndrome!)
(Note: the score has a slightly more ornamented piano part than this performance)
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