Ignite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran… In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a packed out mass full of joy and pray...  moreIgnite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran… In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a packed out mass full of joy and prayer, families and young couples, singles and religious, was now a quieter mass with no choir and I saddened by this. I offered my services as a singer and musician to come and provide music for the 5:30 mass and within a few short weeks I returned to the place I consider my spiritual home. I had not purposely set out to start a choir but people began to approach me with a desire to sing and it was a need within the community I was not going to Ignore. On the 12th Dec 2008 The Jes Gospel Choir was birthed with 5 singers and me & it was a wonderful experience and we received a very warm welcome. Within a year the choir grew to over 15 members and some musicians. The wonderful thing about this choir is that it is a choir that breathes. People hav...    less

Scenic Folklore Competition Winner during the World Choir Games - Cincinnati 2012. For info on pieces, contact music@kearsney.com Like our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/KearsneyCollegeChoir

Audio downloadable at https://davidwarinsolomons.bandcamp.com/track/music-all-powerful Part song (glee) by Thomas Forbes Walmisley (father of Thomas Attwood Walmisley) poem by Henry Kirke White

The Lover (Before my gaze she stands) for 3 altos and guitar This is the setting of a poem by my father inspired by L'Amoureuse by Paul Eluard as a hypnotic canon trio of altos over a guitar ostinato (the guitar part is played in an electronic form he...  moreThe Lover (Before my gaze she stands) for 3 altos and guitar This is the setting of a poem by my father inspired by L'Amoureuse by Paul Eluard as a hypnotic canon trio of altos over a guitar ostinato (the guitar part is played in an electronic form here), in Dorian mode. The music is the same as the piece "My love is far from here", but with the original words by my father  

Raising voices, raising spirits Ignite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran... In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a p...  moreRaising voices, raising spirits Ignite Gospel Choir was founded by Keara Sheeran... In Oct of 2008 I returned to the Jes church, the place I had grown up with my father running the folk mass choir. He had retired 12 years previously. What was once a packed out mass full of joy and prayer, families and young couples, singles and religious, was now a quieter mass with no choir and I saddened by this. I offered my services as a singer and musician to come and provide music for the 5:30 mass and within a few short weeks I returned to the place I consider my spiritual home. I had not purposely set out to start a choir but people began to approach me with a desire to sing and it was a need within the community I was not going to Ignore. On the 12th Dec 2008 The Jes Gospel Choir was birthed with 5 singers and me & it was a wonderful experience and we received a very warm welcome. Within a year the choir grew to over 15 members and some musicians. The wonderful thing about this choir is that it is a choir th...    less

Praise to Thee, Lord Jesus, who in bitter pain, On the cross did suffer, and for our sake wast slain. Thou reign'st with God the Father in Eternity, Lead us, erring sinners, unto heav'n and Thee. Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison. (Lord...  morePraise to Thee, Lord Jesus, who in bitter pain, On the cross did suffer, and for our sake wast slain. Thou reign'st with God the Father in Eternity, Lead us, erring sinners, unto heav'n and Thee. Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison. (Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy). (Original words: Ehre sei dir, Christe der du littest Not) Sung at Canterbury Cathedral during our Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in 1986, under Martin How. I (David W Solomons) was one of the altos. John Huntley - a fellow alto - recorded this performance.  less

Rosthern Junior College Chorale and Canadian Mennonite University Chamber Choir in performance in April, 2009. This is a fabulous arrangment by Tony Funk of Stuart Townend's beautiful piece.

Description of our dear old park (in Loughborough) on a hot day, with a light swing. The poem is by my father Stanley N Solomons Music by David Warin Solomons Performed by The Composers Choir under Daniel Shaw

http://www.facebook.com/stellenbosch.acapella Music by: Antoni Schonken The Stellenbosch based acapella group, Acastella, performing Pater Noster (Our Father) Performed at KOMPOS, Endler Hall, Stellenbosch, South Africa acastella.stellies@gmail.com

E per finire.... Padre Nostro (Our Father) in lingua Swahili. Canto imparato grazie al Coro Col di Lana di Vittorio Veneto. Eseguito nella Chiesa di Meschio (Vittorio Veneto) il 19.5.2012 dal Coro parrocchiale di Anzano (Cappella Maggiore, Treviso)