I don’t tune them. However, I can take anything apart…
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Kevin Cummines performs his arrangment of Kathleen Thomerson’s 1966 song “I Want To Walk As a Child of the Light,” at The United Methodist Church of Cape May, Cape May, NJ, February 2024
“Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates” Organ Prelude, Kevin Cummines, December 2023
“We Three Kings,” from the Grace United Methodist Church “Lessons & Carols,” December 2023, featuring Diane Fox, Soprano. Wyckoff, NJ.
Fast-forward to 2:30 for the adventurous parts.
My mother's ancestors came from Coventry. In the early 16th century, they started singing this song every summer as part of an annual Feast Day play honoring the murder of boys by Herrod during the earliest years of Christ's life.
As a child, I was taught this song was how our ancestors coped with the Black Plague, and other deaths of children. Five hundred years ago, my people sang this song as they pondered the loss of their own children.
The words are my ancestors', as is the original tune. The setting and performance are my own, a song of my people, to speak for the children dying today.
Music and Lyrics by Mark A. Miller, performed by Kevin Cummines, 2024.
Special thanks to Mark A. Miller for permission to post my rendition of this vital song. You can find the music to this and other songs by Miller here.
“Meta,” music and lyrics by Kevin Cummines, performed by New York-based Choral Chameleon, Vince Peterson, Director.
“Machinatery” by Kevin Cummines, performed by the Con Vivo String Quartet.
Pianist and Yamaha Artist James Adler plays Cummines’ original work, Toccata, live on Nov. 14th, 2021.
