Description
SONG SYNOPSIS
- A VOICE CRIES OUT (6:37): My favorite Advent song. It’s driving, passionate, and lyrical.
- LULLABY OF BIRDLAND (6:06): Not a Christmas song, but it’s very sonorous and sweet, especially for a jazz song. I like it a lot; that justified the inclusion.
- LET THE KING OF GLORY COME (3:55): Another great Advent song, upbeat, as excited as it is expectant.
- ROSE OF WINTER (1:40): One of my compositions, based on the hymn Lo, A Rose E’re Blooming. It went with a poem I wrote for a writing contest (see below synopsis).
- (WALKING IN A) WINTER WONDERLAND (4:52): Cheerful and lilting; I tried to emulate a walk through winter snow.
- CUIUS PUER EST (6:38): A medley between What Child is This and Child of the Poor, a hymn designed to be sung with the former.
- ETUDE 2 (CHEER) (1:26): My first composition to get any significant public performance. The subtitle says it all: clean and simple cheer.
- OVER THE RAINBOW (4:51): I like this song, and it serves as a gateway to jazz. I had heard it on the Bocelli A Family Christmas album, so I thought I could do the same.
BONUS TRACKS
- NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP (4:57): Like a little whimsy with your Christmas? I love playing this song, cleverly disguised, in public venues.
- A VOICE CRIES OUT (ALT TAKE) (6:02): Another version of A Voice Cries Out, which I liked too much to get rid of.
LYRICS TO “ROSE OF WINTER”
Verse 1
Lo, in winter blooming,
A brilliant rose has come.
From a cave-side it blooms
As stars upon it glow.
Bridge
They will come,
Pick that flower bright,
Cast petals to wind,
Annihilate its light;
Cast it on the breeze
Till from garden cave it grows.
Verse 2
Lo, in cave-side blooming,
Showing what will come.
Still, it blooms in splendor,
As stars light God’s new home.
Ending (hymn only)
(Amen. Alleluia.)
