Community Music Events
Do you know anyone who doesn’t sing on Monday night?
Vocal Technique to Free Your Voice 4.30.12
Offered by Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
Join Anna Dembska to learn how to access your body, breath, imagination, emotions, and awareness to create beautiful and creative music with your voice. As we explore techniques of relaxation, breath, resonance, improvisation, and singing together, you’ll discover ways to strengthen and expand your vocal power, range, flexibility, and pleasure. The class is designed for people who “can’t sing” or just want to explore their voices, as well as more experienced singers looking for effective methods to incorporate into their practice and performance.
Registration $15.
6:00-8:30 p.m. on Mon 4/30
Camden Hills Regional High School
Rm 214
May 25-26, 2012
Friday, 7:00 pm– Saturday, 8:00 pm
For all who live singing! Julia Tompson returns again this year to lead us in sacred chanting as taught by her teacher Iégor Reznikoff and to:
- find simple but profound ways of opening to the sacred dimension of sound and chant.
- investigate the deep effects of chanting on our bodies, souls and spirits.
- begin by learning how to “feel” sounds in our bodies. Sacred chants, when practised out of this deep anchoring awareness, start to reveal to us their healing and awakening power.
- discover how to recognize these inner energies and work with them, and how particular chants naturally give rise to particular physical, psychological and spiritual states of being.
- work with sacred words, sounds and simple chants from the Jewish, Christian and Hindu traditions. The chanting of these sacred words has the capacity to lead us directly into the reality which they express. They become “sound icons”, gateways to divine Presence. The deep awareness of sound takes us beyond itself into the deep silence that, paradoxically, contains all sound.
- find ourselves beyond both sound and silence, resting in pure awareness.
Our presenter, Julia Tompson, is a classically trained singer and pianist. She has loved sacred music since childhood, and benefitted from the rigorous training of church and cathedral choirs in her native England. She discovered for herself the power of sacred chanting through the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, in India and Europe. She wanted to find a way of integrating these practices into the Christian tradition, and then discovered that in fact they have always been there. We have simply forgotten how to use them, because the extraordinary developments in music in the western world over the past 1000 years have – unintentionally – suppressed the older understandings of how sacred music works to produce spiritual transformation.
Working with her teacher, Iégor Reznikoff, an expert in early Christian chant and its parallels in other sacred traditions, she has rediscovered the integrating and awakening power of the sounds and sacred words of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
Cost 125.00 includes tuition, Friday night double room and full board
(Guests are welcome to come for additional nights for 85.00 night)
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Sheepscot Valley Chorus will feature the 19th century Italian composer Luigi Cherbini’s Requiem in C Minor with Orchestra.
The concert dates are:
March 31, Saturday at 7 p.m.
April 1, Sunday at 3 pm
Second Congregational Church, Route One, Newcastle.
Cherbini was born in Florence, 1760, and died in Paris in 1842. He was not held in high regard by Napoleon. The same year that Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo (1815) Cherbini was writing his requiem that premiered 21 January 1816 at a commemoration service for Louis XVI of France. Cherubini’s “setting of the requiem was considered by Beethoven to be superior to Mozart’s.”
During the spring concert the SVC recognizes a student from the three local high schools who have shown an interest in pursuing music as part of their daily lives. Abigail Foster of Wiscasset High School, Tim Gormley of Lincoln Academy and Kahla Vise of Boothbay Harbor High School. The students are given a $250.00 Music Award to do with as they please. Each student will perform individually during the concert.
Richard Proulx’s, Entrance Into Jerusalem, with Chorus, instrumentalist and Audience, will perform together in a gala performance of life and community. Proulx died in 2010 and was considered “the most important composers of liturgical music in the twentieth century.”
Henry Purcell’s (1659-1695) Rejoice in the Lord Alway will be presented with Chorus, Organ, Timpani, and Trumpet. L. van Beethoven’s Hallelujah will draw the chorus and audience into a grand, optimistic sense of history.
Instrumentalist:
Violin I: Dino Liva, Violin II: Carol Preston
Viola: Kirsten Monke, Cello: Richard Francis
Double Bass: Chuck McGregor, Timpani: Timm Gormley
Organ: Sean Fleming.
Tickets: Advance purchase: $10. At the door without reservation: $12. Tickets can be purchased early from chorus members or at Maine Coast Book Store, Damariscotta, Sherman’s Bookstore in Boothbay, Treats in Wiscasset, or from chorus members.
The chorus is directed by Linda Blanchard and accompanied by Sean Fleming.
Sean Fleming will give a recital on the Bedient pipe organ at the Episcopal Church of St. John Baptist, 200 Main Street, Thomaston on Sunday, March 11 at 4:00 pm.
Works by Buxtehude, Walther, Bach, Mendelssohn, Darke, Jordan, and Paine will be featured.
Suggested donation: $12 (all proceeds support St. John’s Outreach Program)
Reception to follow in McCabe Hall.
Snow Date: Sat., March 17 at 4:00 pm.
Info: 354-8734 or www.stjohnthomaston.org