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Rooftops - a song for two unaccompanied altos
video: Rooftops - a song for two unaccompanied altos

Rooftops - for two unaccompanied altos Words and music composed and performed by David W Solomons composed as I walked one day from Denning Point in the East End to sing at a service at St Michael's Cornhill around 1986 (the streets were actually empty...  more

Salve Regina for SATB a cappella (Basden)
video: Salve Regina for SATB a cappella (Basden)

Free sheet music. Please get in touch! • facebook: david [dot] basden.9 • New email: deebee123 [at] bigpond.com A new setting – straightforward, text-driven, no extremes of range – no divisi, but has drone sections where staggered breathing would nor...  more

A Clear Midnight, by Ezra Donner
video: A Clear Midnight, by Ezra Donner

Delicate, hushed, and suspenseful, this perfectly captures the expansive and meditative feeling of Whitman’s poignant poetry. This is great for any sized choir, though the long lines, slow pace, and lush harmonies will lend itself particularly well to lar...  more

Sestina   King Arthur in preparation
video: Sestina King Arthur in preparation

A film giving some background for a forthcoming production of Purcell's King Arthur in Belfast and Derry

Pater Noster for SATB a cappella (Basden)
video: Pater Noster for SATB a cappella (Basden)

I recently completed this short setting of the Pater Noster. It should be fairly straightforward for most choirs – no divisi, no extremes of range. One feature is that the tenor part only goes up to D – this will enable "spare" basses to help out if neces...  more

David Rain: "Psalm 23" (Sung by Matthew Curtis)
video: David Rain: "Psalm 23" (Sung by Matthew Curtis)

Psalm 23 is dedicated to my aunt Patricia Shaw of Vancouver, as this is her favourite Psalm. Two points of note: First, the composition grew out of the feeling that all 4 voices should start on the same note, grow outwards and then come back to that...  more

The Centipede and the Frog for 8 part choir
video: The Centipede and the Frog for 8 part choir

This is based on the anonymous English poem (with added 2nd verse by David Dunning) about a centipede who loses her concentration: Verse 1 A Centipede was happy quite Until a frog in fun said "Pray tell which leg comes after which?" (with a left r...  more

He never failed me yet, Robert Ray. Coro Juvenil David Goldsmith, Tenerife
video: He never failed me yet, Robert Ray. Coro Juvenil David Goldsmith, Tenerife

Coro Juvenil David Goldsmith Light Music Band Jeremías Martín, director Banda y arreglos José Híjar Polo, director Solistas: Marta Bello Jesús Mesa Natalia Rodríguez Concierto homenaje a los 60´ 3 de julio de 1998 Auditorio Teobaldo Power ...  more

David Rain: "Stella" (sung by Matthew Curtis)
video: David Rain: "Stella" (sung by Matthew Curtis)

"Stella" is dedicated to my friend Kristina, who introduced me to this remarkable French poem by Victor Hugo written while in exile on the Isle of Jersey. It is a complex layered poem exploring a multitude of interactions with the morning star - in na...  more

Li-ron choir - Dona Nobis Pacem
video: Li-ron choir - Dona Nobis Pacem

music: David Haladjian