017: A Christmas Episode - Timothy Cummings

<p>Tim Cummings is a composer, arranger, and performer of music.  He's written many excellent bagpipe tunes and arranged many more.  In this episode we talk about a few of the holiday tunes that he's arranged in his collection, "On This Day Earth Shall Ring," (link below,) as well as musical modalities, alternative tunings, and many more things!</p> <p>As a special treat: Tim shares several recordings of his performances of the tunes in-question with other excellent musicians, (additional links below).</p> <p>Tune in to this episode to hear Tim say, "...I can always pick the people who've been at least bored during a sermon..."</p> <p>---</p> <p>For this episode, as for the past few, we've been talking about Christmas / Holiday tunes playable on pipes - their origins, fun facts, etc.  We have been be leaning heavily on arrangements by Timothy Cummings, which are available as <a href='https://birchenmusic.com/product-category/individual-tunes/adventchristmas/'>single-sheet downloads</a> and in a <a href='https://birchenmusic.com/product/on-this-day-earth-shall-ring-printed-collection/'>beautifully printed collection</a> at <a href='https://birchenmusic.com/'>birchenmusic.com</a></p> <p>.</p> <p>Some featured tunes from this episode, as performed by Timothy Cummings and friends:</p> <p>A solis ortus cardine: <a href='https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=74'>https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=74</a></p> <p>The Christ-Child's Lullaby: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKduwz8JoXk&feature=youtu.be&t=1364'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKduwz8JoXk&feature=youtu.be&t=1364</a></p> <p>Comfort, comfort, ye my people: <a href='https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=1922'>https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=1922</a></p> <p>.</p> <p>Some other favorites of mine that Tim has done:</p> <p>5/4 Waltzes with Jeremiah McLane <a href='https://soundcloud.com/birchen-music/jeremiah-mclane-timothy-cummings-54-waltzes-from-the-wind-among-the-reeds'>https://soundcloud.com/birchen-music/jeremiah-mclane-timothy-cummings-54-waltzes-from-the-w