Eight days of silence
Imagine how it is for God to have this kind of time with you.
4 Hands, 4 Feet
This was the first in a series of 4 Hands, 4 Feet concerts I had the pleasure of performing with my All Saints colleagues over the years. Each was great fun to plan, prepare and perform, and the audiences loved all of them!
First Lenten Evensong with extended musical works
In the 1980s and early 1990s there was more liturgical flexibility in terms of incorporating a short "major work" into the morning liturgies. What evolved in the late 1990s was adding these works into evensongs — particularly the Evensong for the 4th Sunday of Advent with Canterbury Choir. In 2000, I tried this for the first time at our Lenten Evensong. It gave Coventry Choir and extra musical challenge in the period between Christmas and Easter and greatly enriched our Lenten experience.
Sabbatical 1998 Photos
Oregon Bach Festival, Paris, South Africa
From Dallas to Capetown: Sabbatical 1998 Reflections
On sabbatical, James Walker visits Dallas, Chicago, New York City, Boston, London, Paris, Taize, Cape Town and Johannesburg. And is selected to spend June and July with Helmuth Rilling in a Conducting Masterclass at Oregon Bach Festival.
Canterbury and Foothill Master Chorale join forces
After Coventry Choir's Seattle tour, I went on my sabbatical. Tim Howard was conducting the Foothill Master Chorale at the time, and we determined that it would be an interesting project to combine Canterbury Choir with FMC for this spring concert.