This is a story of discovery. It describes how a Welsh choir perfected its music making by deepening the relationships between the members and healing any personal antagonism amongst them. In particular it follows the fortunes of the choir’s conductor as, through parallel experiences leading the choir in various competitions and helping injured and dying miners in a horrifying mining disaster, he ‘finds his soul’ and deepens his understanding of the music his choir is able to make. It uses Henry Vaughan’s Seventeenth Century poem ‘My Soul’ as the basis of the journeys of discovery made by the conductor, his choir and their local mining community.
Circa l’autore
Alun Jones was born in the heart of the Rhondda mining valleys in South Wales. His father was a miner. He has a Ph.D in chemistry, is a Master of Theology and has been a conductor and organist since his teens. He has led many choirs in both concerts and competitions and has a particular interest in Music Therapy. When a boy, a number of his close relatives suffered serious injuries working down coal-mines. Hence his interest in mining tragedies. He has been married to his wife, Marg, for sixty years, their son is a doctor and their daughter a mathematics consultant, and they have six wonderful grandchildren. Now in his eighties, he still plays golf regularly. This is his first novel.
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