Listen and Love
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Collaborations: Chris Barton
In the early 1990s I was performing solo very rarely, but doing lots of freelance and studio work. Several of my collaborations during that time were with popular local children’s music groups: performing, arranging and recording with Gemini, a beloved…
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Collaborations: Ann Doyle
Ann Doyle and I met through Will Spencer of Solid Sound studio in Ann Arbor in 2000. David and I had just moved from the house we’d renovated in northwest Ann Arbor out to a new place near Zeeb road.…
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Warning: Really Old Guy About To Release Album!
Warning! Really old guy about to release album! You know the way you warn your loved ones when your 90-yr-old parent or 16-yr-old kid take to the roads? I’m not quite 90 yet, but it has been some 40 years…
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Bluer Than It’s Been for 50 Years
This year my first solo album, Bluer Than It’s Ever Been turns 50. It was during my first year at University of Michigan School of Music (now School of Music, Theatre and Dance) that Michael Glenn Kuzma heard me sing…
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A Letter Unsent
I’ve been putting off this post, mainly because I didn’t want to think about Lonnie Hull DuPont being gone. She sang with me on this song, and I’ll be forever thankful I asked her… I met Lonnie at a pastor’s…
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New Site Sighting
Like everything in life these days, seems like the word of the day is “simplify.” So when my website started breaking down every other day and needing upgrading and editing and HTML-ing and CSS-ing and Javascript-ing, I finally decided it…
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Retirement Career—or Calling?
I retired in February 2018, and had begun using the term retirement career (which I heard somewhere last year) instead of retirement when telling others about my plans—mostly because I didn’t want to convey the impression that I don’t expect…
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A Big Hawaiian Adventure
Back in 2015 we began a big adventure and started blogging about it, so we could more easily share photos and experiences—both ups and downs—with family, friends, and anyone else who might be interested. In case you’re not a Facebook…
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A Musical Prayer for You
As some of you know, I’ve been working on a contemporary musical setting of the Holy Eucharist mass (that’s “communion worship service,” for my Baptist friends), dedicated to our little St. Barnabas congregation in Chelsea, MI—and our patron saint, of…
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How Does an INFJ Prepare for a Concert?
Since people at St. B are starting to make fun of me, I thought it was time to address this head on. The stories are beginning to get around of how I send David out of the house so I…
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Concert at St. Barnabas on August 18
Yes, folks. You heard me correctly. I’m doing one of those very rare local concerts. So what’s the occasion? It’s the last in St. Barnabas’ “Music and Meaning” summer concert series. I’ll do an evening of contemporary Christian music on…
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According to Your Word
I’m singing “According to Your Word” tonight at St. Barnabas’ Lessons and Carols service. We’re doing six of the traditional nine lessons in our service, and the third in our line-up is Gabriel’s message to Mary from God, and her…