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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
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
SATB
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ViewA setting of a beautiful Tennyson poem
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
SATB
Listen Stop ViewComposed at the height of the Covid pandemic, this is a setting of a Yeats poem about one of the best purposes of art: to transmute sorrow into something useful and beautiful.
The Virgin's Lullaby Lament
a cappella (SSAA)
Listen Stop 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.
In Dead of Night, When All Is Still
SATB
Listen Stop ViewLovely Christmas carol
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.