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An educator, musician, music composer and arranger, and broadcaster.

Tchaikovsky: Tragic Gay Composer

Tchaikovsky: Tragic Gay Composer  Until recently, Russian musicologists have long denied that composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky(1840-1893) was a gay man. He had a string of relationships with men, back from his student days up until his death. Tchaikovsky had a distinct taste for younger men, and his lovers included poets, musicians, servants and other members of… Continue reading Tchaikovsky: Tragic Gay Composer

We Shall Overcome: Choral Arrangement

-An arrangement of the traditional protest song often attributed, wrongly, to Pete Seeger. Download Words and Notation, (SATB)  Here! Practice Tracks to Download: Soprano/Melody, -With Chords Soprano Sung   Alto Alto Sung   Tenor Tenor 1: Sung, (Final note resolves upward) Tenor 2: Sung, (Final note resolves down)   Bass Bass: Sung Full SATB Arrangement,… Continue reading We Shall Overcome: Choral Arrangement

Nonsense Song

Here are links to sheet music lyrics, with chords, and practice tracks for my Nonsense Song. Click here for the latest version of the sheet music. Click here for lyrics for the Seat of Whitlam event. Practice Suggestion: Practice your part, singing all the choruses of the song, with the practice track for your part.… Continue reading Nonsense Song

16 Tons

  A song by Merle Travis, arranged for 4 voices and guitar by Doug McPherson.  Scroll down to the link below, for the sheet music, in PDF format, or the images below that. The melody, on the top line could be sung by sopranos or tenors. The top line, the alto line and the bass line,… Continue reading 16 Tons

Ode To Joy: Choral Arrangement

“Ode to Joy” was a poem written by  German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller, best know for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final movement of his Ninth Symphony. The words in the version available below, arranged by Lachlan McGowan in 2005, with some adaptations by Douglas McPherson, uses very different words, origin unknown, from the original. These words,… Continue reading Ode To Joy: Choral Arrangement

A Statement of Belief

Belatedly, On Easter: “If ……  Easter does not move us to empathy with refugees, concern for the large and growing gap between rich and poor, and global warming, among other Common Good issues, then I suspect that our perception of God is too small.” Rev. Dr Brian Brown, Moderater of the NSW Uniting Church.

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Alberta Hunter: Historical Footage of A Black Lesbian in her Prime, from 1935

Doing some research for the queer radio show Pink Nation, that I’ve been asked to host on http://www.voxfm.org.au/ tomorrow, Monday, 5:00 PM, I came across this gem! Perhaps I should more politically correctly describe Alberta as African American, except that she spent substantial periods of her life in Europe, having first gone to Paris with her lover… Continue reading Alberta Hunter: Historical Footage of A Black Lesbian in her Prime, from 1935