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SANTA FE WOMEN'S SACRED WORLD MUSIC CHOIR
Directed by Madi Sato
World Music and Jazz
vocalist and songwriter Madi Sato is offering a new Women's Sacred
World Music Choir to Santa Fe! In
an ongoing series of six-week class sessions, learn sacred and
traditional repertoire from around the world including ancient
Baltic polyphonic chants, Afro-Brazilian invocations, Japanese
Nihon Minyo, Celtic sean-nos, American gospel hymns, and medieval
and modern liturgical music. Experience the powerful art of group
devotional singing with world harmonies and beats.
The intention is to direct this
choir in a different way from the standard and usual western choir
method. We will work with a contemplative basis and invite all
voices to participate in the devotional art of the voice, as well
as, creating spontaneous group compositions.
We will have road maps for each chant
and learn and practice the harmonics of nature, which are found
in the music of rain to the symphony of the wind. We will also
employ simple laws of harmony utilized by contemplative chanting
traditions from the Gregorian chant tradition, as well as, mantra
tradition from Tibet and improvisational vocal techniques that
induce state of meditation and liberation. We will work with silence,
intention, tone, breath and community as a basis for creating
music. Voices will be free to sing in many registers rather than
limiting the voice to one range for an entire composition. Instead
of working with set and complex choral arrangements we will utilize
sacred text, mantra and seed syllables as the foundation or point
of entry into a choral piece.
We will prepare ourselves for offering a performance after the
12 weeks. But rather than a traditional choir recital these concerts
will invite full audience participation into the mystic and contemplative
art of devotional singing and the yoga of the choir.
Thursdays 5:00 - 6:30
pm beginning February 25, 2010
1st 6-week session: Thursdays, Feb. 25, March 4, 11, 18, 25, April
1
2nd 6 - week session: Thursdays, April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13
$200
for six-week session (sliding scale available) 25 singer limit.
Call 660-2526 to register.
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