Contemporary British composer and conductor James Whitbourn an award-winning creator of Choral music film and television scores and works for the concert hall scored this simple profound poem for Djembe drum treble Voices Organ and speaker. The African drum lifts A Prayer of Desmond Tutu from a chordal evocative prayer setting and places it in history. Archbishop of South Africa Desmond Tutu was in office at the end of apartheid and the releaseof Nelson Mandela from prison. His leadership to truth and reconciliation in South Africa has been instrumental in that country’s development since 1994. He is the winner of the Nobel Prize. This poem is characteristic ofhis optimism and faith.

The Twenty-Eight Times is a Vocal piece composed by British composer and conductor James Whitbourn. The Twenty-Eight Times was commissioned by the United WestminsterSchools and Grey Coat Hospital Foundation to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and performed in Westminster Abbey on 25 October 2013 by the choir of Queen Anne’s school Caversham. This ancient Hebrew text from Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) was a favourite of President Kennedy and formed partof the Eulogy delivered at his funeral service on 25 November 1963. He was assassinated on 22 November1963.