Since my short attention span has made me put aside some of the large collections I have yet to finish, I have been working on Australian composers.
Michael Mangan does not need any publicity for his music, as he well known and respected for his work. He writes for schools and parishes and I did get a request a while back to look at his music more closely. Despite playing guitar he has some songs in CWBII that I will likely get to, but I’ll do his collection Setting Hearts on Fire to start with.
It is available to purchase, as I did, at Litmus. He has put the lyrics to all his songs up on his website.
I’ve done the near title track “Hearts on Fire” here. I only know one other of the songs so I’ll work through the rest of them over the next few weeks.