“Mick McGuire” Performed by Gents in Remarkable Hats
In 2010, Alliance Music Publications published my arrangement (for TTBB choir + piano) of the Irish folk song “Mick McGuire.” It’s a comical number about a hapless bloke who woos a girl but, astonishingly enough, doesn’t get on quite as well with her mother. Since then, it seems to have achieved a wee bit of [...]
This is a choral arrangement I did for our church a while back. We performed it again this year in our Christmas program, and Jenna recorded this video. Like most live recordings it has a bit of background noise, but I suppose of all the pieces I’ve written, this one goes best with various interjections from [...]
What is “New Creation”? New Creation: Hymns of Wonder, Love, and Praise is a CD of worship songs composed by Eric Pazdziora (piano, vocals) and performed by Carrie Pazdziora (guitar, vocals), Øystein Torp (violin), and Petras (percussion). With a diverse blend of piano-centered musical stylings, it explores biblical, devotional, and liturgical themes of repentance, forgiveness, grace, and new beginnings in Christ. Theologically rich hymn texts are set to [...]
Sorry if my website has looked a bit janky for any of you over the past little while. I’ve been doing some slight updating and tweaking and redesigning, mostly to bring the music a bit more to the forefront. (More posts in that respect to follow.) I think it’s how I want it for the [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been posting here less than usual because I’ve been devoting more energy to musical pursuits. Several of them are coming up this month, and here are the details: 1. New Creation: Special offer! In case you didn’t see my earlier post, I’m currently offering my CD of hymns [...]
So here’s the idea. It’s coming up on my birthday. A rather biggish one, which I won’t necessarily admit to, but it rhymes with “wordy.” It’s also coming up on the first anniversary of the release of my CD New Creation, the one with all the new settings of hymns on it. (You can, and [...]
I expect most of my readers are already somewhat familiar with Hillary McFarland's beautiful book and website Quivering Daughters, to which I've been honored to contribute as a writer. It addresses the spiritual and emotional abuses of women and children in the "Biblical Patriarchy" movement, though even people with no experience in that particular movement [...]
If you like my music, Or Carrie's music, Or Jenna's music, Then you'll really like this: www.thornfieldmusic.com It's the brand-new website for Thornfield, which is the brand-new name of our collective band. It fits precisely in the "acoustic singer-songwriter folk jazz classical blues" genre. I play the part of a keyboardist / vocalist / multi-instrumentalist, [...]
What is “New Creation”? New Creation: Hymns of Wonder, Love, and Praise is a CD of worship songs composed by Eric Pazdziora (piano, vocals) and performed by Carrie Pazdziora (guitar, vocals), Øystein Torp (violin), and Petras (percussion). With a diverse blend of piano-centered musical stylings, it explores biblical, devotional, and liturgical themes of repentance, forgiveness, grace, and new beginnings in Christ. Theologically rich hymn texts are set to [...]
Given that I work in publishing, I probably have more literary friends than the average bear. Still, I can't think of the last time that I had no fewer than three of them release new books in the same week, and in three totally different genres to boot (a novel, a memoir, and an academic [...]
"Mick McGuire" is finally here!
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