Welcome to Anthem 22 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . I hope you will notice a marked difference in the sound of the anthem this week. A strange confluence occured when I went looking for choir plugins that incorporated actual w...
May 30, 2024•9 min•Ep. 22
Welcome to Anthem 21 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . It's Pentecost this week so I looked for an ancient Pentecost prayer. A 1st Century one by Æthelwold is probably out of copyright so that fitted the bill. Here are the words:...
May 23, 2024•9 min•Ep. 21
Welcome to Anthem 20 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . This time, I went back to one of the psalms set for this week - Psalm xciii (93). I altered the order of some parts and combined a couple of lines to make the setting easier....
May 15, 2024•12 min
Welcome to Anthem 19 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . It's Ascension Day this week. At Holy Trinity Church, the choir used to ascend the very dusty, cobwebby spiral staircase in the far South West corner after the Ascension morn...
May 09, 2024•7 min•Ep. 19
Welcome to Anthem 18 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . This anthem is based on another Psalm set for the week - this time Psalm cxlvii (147). I used some verses in full and others I missed parts out in order to create a useable s...
May 02, 2024•6 min•Ep. 18
Welcome to Anthem 17 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . Everything has been much more positive this week. I have had a go at composing another 'Shakespeare Anthem', in the general tradition of fast, joyful pieces. Strangely, I can...
Apr 24, 2024•9 min•Ep. 17
Welcome to Anthem 16 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . It was a difficult week. There was a lot going on at work and as a result I was very tired which, as previously noted, makes composing rather difficult. Despite this, I did m...
Apr 17, 2024•12 min
Welcome to Anthem 15 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . This week I returned to the Church of England Lectionary and one of the psalms set for this week - xxvi or 26, depending on your preference. Here are the lyrics: Words for An...
Apr 10, 2024•7 min•Ep. 15
Welcome to Anthem 14 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . This time, I continued with another Easter anthem with text from another anonymous Easter prayer : Words for Anthem 14: May the glad dawn Of Easter morn Bring joy to thee. Ma...
Apr 03, 2024•6 min•Ep. 14
Welcome to Anthem 13 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . I've had enough of Lent. Well, in terms of writing anthems, at least. This week I had a go at an Easter anthem and next week I may do the same. My usual web search for lyrics...
Mar 27, 2024•7 min•Ep. 13
Welcome to Anthem 12 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . Another mixed week ended rather well. As soon as I spotted that one of the psalms set for this week was cxxx (130) I knew I had to set it. The biggest reason for this was tha...
Mar 21, 2024•11 min•Ep. 12
Welcome to Anthem 11 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . This week's composition seemed to go a lot more smoothly than usual. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. As it was Mothering Sunday this week, I hunted for a prayer...
Mar 13, 2024•14 min•Ep. 11
Welcome to Anthem 10 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . Finally into double figures! It feels like a bit of a milestone to have completed the tenth anthem of 2024. It wasn't all plain sailing this week, however. I managed to find ...
Mar 05, 2024•14 min•Ep. 10
Welcome to Anthem 9 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or instagram @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . It’s exciting to have almost made it to double figures! Perhaps unwisely, I was determined this week to stick to my guns and finish something I started. I almost abandoned this ...
Feb 27, 2024•7 min•Ep. 9
Welcome to Anthem 8 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or instagram @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . I’m delighted to say that I managed (despite a few technical difficulties) to speak to Cheryl Fraces-Hoad this week for my first Anthem 52 interview. As you’ll hear in a few min...
Feb 22, 2024•31 min•Ep. 8
Welcome to Anthem 7 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . If you are listening to this episode as soon as it’s released in February 2024, I am in Devon with (part of) my family. I did manage to complete Anthem 7 before I went though,...
Feb 13, 2024•8 min•Ep. 7
Welcome to Anthem 6 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . It's been another tricky week - at least in terms of composition. It's also been my birthday which went rather better. I've bought myself a pipe organ virtual instrument that ...
Feb 06, 2024•7 min•Ep. 6
Welcome to Anthem 5 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or instagram @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . Before I talk about this week’s composition, I thought I might give a few recommendations of folk on social media who I have enjoyed following this week. Perhaps you’d like to f...
Jan 31, 2024•9 min•Ep. 5
Welcome to Anthem 4 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . This has been an unusual week in a number of ways. Firstly, I wrote two new anthems and I explain that in the episode. I have also been unwell and off work with a nasty cold b...
Jan 23, 2024•9 min•Ep. 4
Welcome to Anthem 3 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . This week’s anthem has been much easier to write - that doesn’t mean it’s any more successful of course - you’ll have to see what you think. Here are the words I ended up setting: O give thanks unto the L...
Jan 16, 2024•7 min•Ep. 3
Welcome to Anthem 2 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I assumed (there’s my first mistake) that as it was Epiphany this week, the story of the three wise men visiting the stable would be an easy catalyst for a carol, in the same vein as the multiple Advent and Christmas carols I had produced before the turn of the year. I was wrong. I now realise, looking back over the week, that I was completely exhausted from the return to work and all the other things going on. ...
Jan 10, 2024•11 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to Anthem 1 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 and send me a message to show@anthem52.com . Happy New Year to you and yours. These episodes will undoubtedly change and develop significantly during 2024 and I’m not sure exactly what the best way to structure them is but let me know if you have an...
Jan 03, 2024•11 min•Ep. 1
During 2024, I am attempting to write a new choir anthem every week. Follow my progress as I discover what it takes to produce new music to a deadline – will the quality improve? Who can say? Look out for new episodes – and anthems – every week and give me your feedback on what I manage to produce. Most importantly – “Will I make it to Anthem 52?” In this trailer episode, I explain what this podcast is going to be about and invite you to join me on the journey to Anthem 52, at the end of 2024....
Dec 16, 2023•14 min
