Making Joyful Music

06/09/2024

Ascension Bell Choir on "Bring Him Home" during the church service today with me on flute. (music starts at 18:15)

February 11, 2024 Traditional Service

05/23/2024

Here's my latest creation - Chance Encounters - a conversation between c flute, alto flute, and bass flute. Enjoy!

Chance Encounters is a conversation between the alto, bass, and C flutes. By trading back and forth in 5/4 instead of a more traditional time signature, the ...

03/28/2024

03/28/2024

Does your flute choir go from piccolo to contrabass? Here's a lovely arrangement of Haydn's "Hungarian Rondo". Enjoy hearing Central Florida Sunshine Flutes perform it at their concert earlier this month.

Making Joyful Music with Blanche Marie Lewis

03/18/2024

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This has been quite the project. It started a month ago because I offer a workshop called "Prayer in Motion" which includes the use of a labyrinth. I have offered this workshop at a retreat center...

11/25/2023

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Making Joyful Music with Blanche Marie Lewis

11/22/2022

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11/28/2021

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06/05/2021

Some thoughts about 'normal' and if it's what we should be reaching for in the coming days.

I have never been fond of the term 'normal'. The definition states that 'normal' is an adjective that means 'conforming to a standard, usual, typical, or expected'. Maybe my distaste for this word...

01/28/2021

Up for a little challenge? How about this Clapping Quartet in 7/8? An original composition by Mark R Lewis. (sheet music available on our website)

Clapping Quartet is my first entirely original piece. This unique quartet is intended for four performers clapping their hands. The 7/8 time signature means ...

01/15/2021

We're enjoying all this music from one of our favorite arrangers - Mark Lewis. This arrangement is available on our website.

In the 1910s, Gustav Holst composed the seven movement orchestral suite The Planets. The whole work is very well known but the chorale from the "Jupiter" mov...