The music of Joseph James is the fruit of a long-standing collaboration between the composers:
- Francis James Brown and
- Stanley Joseph SeegerBoth are composers in their own right, having first met in Florence in the early 1950s while studying with Luigi Dallapiccola. Their recorded works include the film score for
Priest of Love, a film biography of D.H.Lawrence directed by Christopher Miles,
Sketches from The Scarlet Letter, an opera based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Concerto for 3 Bouzoukis and orchestra and
Requiem after J.S.Bach, a moving and imaginative interpretation of Bach's music used for a setting of the Latin requiem mass.