Strength and Tenderness

<p>Strength and Tenderness Doug Constable's first collection consisting of a hundred hymns and some poems was warmly received. This further collection ranges more widely and contains four sections: recent poems (a sequence of twenty-seven sonnets responding to George Herbert's Prayer plus other pieces inserted throughout the book) thirty-two hymns eight songs for voice and keyboard seven choral works and two short pieces for piano. All the music - for hymns songs and choral settings - range in style from simple and easily-learned to pieces for which some musical background would be helpful.</p><p>Doug is an Anglican priest living in south-west Wales. While still at school he was a church organist and choir director and and played piano in dance bands. As a minister he served in housing estates university chaplaincy holiday conference-retreat chaplaincy and inner-city parishes in Bristol North Devon Derby and Southampton.</p><p>Married with three children and three adult grandchildren he is a progressive traditionalist and radical ecumenist resolutely opposed to all forms of violence.</p><p></p>