At Last – The King’s Singers

by | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

Guy has been sending arrangements to the King’s Singers for years, but to no avail. Close harmony arranging is a speciality, and apart from writing for his own groups, Four Men in Accord and Odd One Out, he has written many numbers for the Lay Clerks if Southwell Minster to sing at concerts and entertainments. His music has been sung by Cantabile – the London Quartet for many years, and has been taken on more recently by Voces8. Both groups have recorded and broadcast his music. But until now the King’s singers have always eluded him. However they have recently taken his arrangement of the traditional Italian Lullaby, ‘Dormi, Dormi’ into their repertoire and are including it on a forthcoming recording.

Song Cycle – The Ways of Love

by | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

A long cherished project has come to fruition. This was originally planned as a choral work, but it became evident that it would work much better as a song cycle. Guy has set eleven songs, all about love, and all about female poets, for Mezzo and piano. Up and coming mezzo Emily Hodkinson has a greed to give the premiere when Covid restrictions allow. The poems are two each by Christina Rossetti, Wendy Cope, Emily Dickinson, U A Fanthorpe and E Nesbit, framing a central poem by Elizabeth I.

Another (double) Trombone Arrangement

by | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

Following the success of his work for the English Trombone Consort and Virgo Music, Guy was asked to arrange Canhalibamo Rag by trombonist and bandleader Arthur Pryor (1889 – 1942) for both trombone quartet, and trombone with piano.

New Commission – Carols for Alresford

by | Jun 8, 2020 | Uncategorized

Guy has been commissioned by Alresford Community Choir, conductor, Keith Clark, to write a linked pair of carols. These will be called ‘Two Gallery Carols’ and are settings of traditional carol texts both discovered in a Dorset church gallery book by Revd LJT Darwall. They are ‘The Yeoman’s Carol’ and ‘A Gallery Carol’ and may be performed separately or as a pair.