The Great Deep

The Great Deep, eight songs on life’s final journey, for tenor (high voice) and ten-string guitar (also available for piano), was inspired by the book "Old Age" by Helen M. Luke. It is a beautiful meditation on the subject thru the eyes of an aging female scholar as she talks of Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding. The songs are: 1. The glory that we knew Walter James Turner 2. For whom the bell tolls John Donne 3. Vital spark of heavenly flame Alexander Pope 4. Music, when soft voices die Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley 6. When I am dead, my dearest Christina Georgina Rossetti 7. Our revels now are ended William Shakespeare 8. Rain, rain, and sun! Alfred, Lord Tennyson