This piece was written in August 2000. It is a motet on some of the words of Psalm 55 (as translated by Levi in the Penguin book of psalms).

Who will give me wings of a dove?
I will fly away,
I will find a place in the wild country

Put your trust in God
And He will care for you.


If you have an mp3 player, or a plug-in that plays such things, or you have Quicktime 4 (or better), you can hear the Christ Church Choir perform this piece by clicking on the wing:

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The next piece was written in April 2002. It is based on the poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins.

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.


If you have an mp3 player, or a plug-in that plays such things, or you have Quicktime 4 (or better), you can hear the Christ Church Choir perform this piece by clicking on Hopkins:

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