After not composing any solo classical guitar pieces since 1976, this album includes my classical guitar compositions from 1995 to 2003. The album consists of ten tracks in four compositions.
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Arizona Desert Crescent Moon Celebration (2000)
On Christmas Eve night, coming home from a midnight service, I was struck by the light of the crescent moon against a clear black sky. The feeling stuck and was soon expressed in this composition
Of St. Brendan the Navigator
Irish monastic saint (c. 484 – c. 577)
I – Decision to Adventure
“Shall I abandon, O King of Mysteries, the soft comfort of home, turn my back on my native land and my face towards the sea?” (from Brendan’s Prayer on the Mountain)
II – Voyage
“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, then over us would have gone the raging waters.” (from Psalm 124)
III – Homecoming
“When the soul separates from the perverse body, and goes in bursts of light up from out of its human frame.” (Amy Carmichael)
New Life (1995)
I returned to solo classical guitar composition with this piece. But I put it aside for quite a few years, and discovered it was three pieces when I returned to it
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Two
Three
Nei Passi di San Francesco (2001)
Much of this was composed on a trip to the province of Umbria, Italy, April-May, 2001.
This meditative piece was mostly composed after climbing a long hill above the Italian town of Poggio Bustone to a cave where St. Francis had lived for a time. I sat in the sun outside the cave with a piece of manuscript paper and contemplated the peacefulness of this sacred place.
II – Fonte Columbo
Inspired by another peaceful place where St. Francis lived at one time.
III – La Verna
Inspired by the place where St. Francis lived later in his life, where he received the stigmata, the wounds of Christ.