TUNES From 2019-2020
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Written for a friend called Lynne celebrating two glorious leafy weeks we had on the Canal du Midi in 2018. (A gongoozler is a very obscure UK word meaning someone who gazes for a very long time at a canal!)
To celebrate a 2-week barge trip on the Canal du Midi 2018. Briar is my wife.
Friend and pilot on a memorable barge trip on the Canal du Midi, south of France. For his 70th Birthday
A 4/4 march for a celebrated Gaelic poet and innovative Scottish educator
The Irvings (men of the West) came from Ireland and were briefly in what is now the town of Irvine, but their major activities and seat were eventually further East, near Bonshaw, and little memorial remains in the town except their name.
A lament in memory of our nephew - who died tragically
Ruthwell Cross - between Bonshaw and Dumfries - is one of the best-preserved Anglo-Saxon crosses in the UK, probably dating from about 800 AD.
A housewarming tune for a friend moving to Waiwhetu
A tribute to Vanessa who left no stone unturned in trying to locate her missing brother.
The name of a village near Irving territory. The shortest place name in mainland Scotland! Obviously the piece is short!
Professor of Engineering at Hacettepe University, Turkey. Celebrating a 20-year scientific collaboration
All our tunes are child’s scribble compared with the ultimate transcendent Tune
Celebrating a missed visit to Halifax, Canada, 2019, derailed by Covid lockdowns!!
A tune composed for the residents of our long street during one of NZ's 2020 Covid lockdowns. The tune was a hit on the capital city FaceBook group with over 400 likes in 24 hours.
