Focusing on the text that speaks of “what I am” rather than “what I am not ” this beautiful ballad is an inspiration. A lush and supportive Piano accompaniment enhances Vocal lines that soar.

The Twenty-Eight Times is a Vocal piece composed by British composer and conductor James Whitbourn. The Twenty-Eight Times was commissioned by the United WestminsterSchools and Grey Coat Hospital Foundation to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and performed in Westminster Abbey on 25 October 2013 by the choir of Queen Anne’s school Caversham. This ancient Hebrew text from Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) was a favourite of President Kennedy and formed partof the Eulogy delivered at his funeral service on 25 November 1963. He was assassinated on 22 November1963.

Imogen Holst’s Two Seasonal Part-songs are based on two tremendous poems and both wonderfully evoke imagery of Autumn and Winter or Christmas time. Both pieces have been set for upper voices the first for SSA the second SSSAA.