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John Milne
Composer
/ Villa Park, Illinois
Member since July 2019
e-mail: johnmilne@sprynet.com
Born in the US to British immigrant parents, John grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived in Chicago for the past 25 years. After a long career writing, arranging and singing pop (The Toons, two-time Gold Cabaret Award winners and early MTV act), alt-country (Long Gone Lonesome Boys with over one million I-Tunes and Spotify downloads) and a cappella (with three-time Harmony Sweepstakes winners Chicago Voice Exchange), he has turned to composing more serious choral music in recent years, becoming a published composer and winning numerous national and international composition contests
My Style
Neo-classical, 80% Bach, 10% jazz, 10% Swedish folk music
Featured Compositions
Listen to works by John Milne
The Virgin's Lullaby Lament
a cappella (SSAA)
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ViewA setting of the saddest carol lyric I've ever heard, a good change of pace in a Christmas concert
When All the World's Asleep
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of an wonderful Irish Christmas poem. This is available from Pavane/Hal Leonard/J W Pepper
Do You Know the Song that the Angels Sang?
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA nice "gloria" for Christmas. This is available from Pavane/Hal Leonard/J W Pepper
Soft and Safe to Thee
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a poem read at funerals
Bird Song
SATB with soprano solo
Listen Stop ViewAn animal rights anthem (no, it's beautiful, really!)
Per Crucem ad Lucem
SSATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of the Latin phrase meaning "Through the Cross to the Light" as a five part fugue
Soldier Boy
SATB with tenor solo
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a heart-breaking WWI poem called "Suicide in the Trenches"
The Falcon (Corpus Christi Carol)
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a mystic medieval poem about an astral trip!
The Winter It is Past
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a lovely Robert Burns poem
Everyone Suddenly Burst Out Singing
SSATB
Listen Stop View A setting of a Siegfried Sassoon poem inspired by Christmas Eve 1918, when German and English troops heard one another singing carols a declared an improtu truce, came together and sang together to celebrate Christmas.
Come, Little Leaves
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a lovely George Cooper poem, perfect for non-religious funerals or fall concerts
The Jesus Prayer
SSATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of the Jesus Prayer, which is very important in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, together a quote that often appears on the tombs of Templar Knights in Malta. A hymn of deep repentance and hope.
Melchior's Carol
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA carol about the Wise Man who brought myrrh, with a "Gloria in Excelsis" chorus.
Still Falls the Rain
SSATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of an Edith Sitwell poem, written during the Blitz of London in 1940, one of the most powerful affirmations of faith in the face of human evil ever written.
The Golden Sea
a cappella
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a lovely transcendentalist poem by Samuel Longfellow about the sky, the sea, sunset, the soul, the oneness of it all!
Respirare
SATB choir, cello and tubular bells
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a portion of the Epistles of Petrus Blesensis, a 12th century monk and scholar. The text is in Latin.
English translation: I am a mortal man, sold into sinful bondage; I am trapped deep in the mire, and even in the glorious freedom of the children of God, I can't breathe. Help me, help me Lord...
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a Yeats poem. I came across it at the height of Covid, and it seemed so apt - it's about taking sorrow and turning it into something useful and beautiful. Available from Pavane, Hal Leonard or J. W. Pepper.
It Was a Lover and His Lass
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of the famous Shakespeare song. This will be available on Pavane, Hal Leonard and J. W. Pepper next spring.
Home, They Brought Her Warrior Dead
SATB
Listen Stop ViewA setting of a lovely Tennyson poem