Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Sweet honey in the rock - Ella's Song
Back in 1985, I was one of a small number of women funded and sponsored by the Australian Government to attend the World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. It was/is a major event in my life. I hadn't heard of Sweet Honey in the Rock. However, one of our number knew about them and knew they were appearing in concert and where. I fell in love with them.
Some years later, I was living in Sydney and Sweet Honey was performing there and I was able to see and hear them once again. The technological wonders of this modern age mean that I can continue to keep up with them .... if you can call "keeping up" getting past my old favourites. I hope you can enjoy them too --- and keep on coming back.
Friday, 18 August 2017
André Rieu - I Will Follow Him
From the musical Jesus Christ Superstar
Official Lyrics:
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep me away
I must follow him
Ever since he touched my hand I knew
That near him I always must be
And nothing can keep him from me
He is my destiny
I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, forever, and ever
And side by side together, I'll be with my true love
And share a thousand sunsets together beside him
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love
I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, forever, and ever
And side by side together, I'll be with my true love
And share a thousand sunsets together beside him
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love
Official Lyrics:
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep me away
I must follow him
Ever since he touched my hand I knew
That near him I always must be
And nothing can keep him from me
He is my destiny
I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, forever, and ever
And side by side together, I'll be with my true love
And share a thousand sunsets together beside him
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love
I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, forever, and ever
And side by side together, I'll be with my true love
And share a thousand sunsets together beside him
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love
Friday, 11 August 2017
Music for a Warming World - an event of Melbourne's Greenfaith-ARRCC
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Dear friends,
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
Part time - Office days are Wednesday and Friday.
Check out the event below for one of our fellow CCs Greenfaith
"Music for a Warming World", taking place on 13 August 2017 in Melbourne.
Thanks Jonathan and Andrea
for sharing this with us and for inviting us along.
Do get a long and check it out,
and please share with your networks!
(Please email me if you have events you'd like to share with the URI network).
Kind wishes
Nivy
Nivy Balachandran
Regional Coordinator, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
Part time - Office days are Wednesday and Friday.
Phone: +61 433 238 406 | Skype: nivy.bala | www.uri.org
Saturday, 19 December 2015
Carol of the Birds - a Catalonia carol
Lyrics
The Carol of the Birds (traditional)
When rose the eastern star
The birds came from afar
In that night full of glory
In one melodious voice
They sweetly did rejoice
And sang the wondrous story
Sang, praising God on high
Enthroned above the sky
And His fair mother, Mary
The eagle left his lair
Came winging through the air
His message loud arising
And to his joyous cry
The sparrow made reply
His answer sweetly voicing
"Overcome are death and strife
This night is born new life,"
The robin sang rejoicing
When rose the eastern star
The birds came from afar
Saturday, 1 August 2015
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Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Anti-semitism on the rise in Europe?
A scene from The Death of Klinghoffer …
The New York Met has cancelled its global telecast of the opera.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton
The New York Met this week cancelled its planned global telecast of John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer, the opera that portrays the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1985. While emphasising that the work itself is not antisemitic, the Met's general manager, Peter Gelb, said that he recognised concerns among Jews "at this time of rising antisemitism, particularly in Europe". Regardless of one's view of either the opera or the Met's decision, Gelb is unfortunately spot on about Europe.
A survey of global attitudes towards Jews conducted by the Anti-Defamation League recently found that 24% of people in western Europe (37% in France, 29% in Spain, 27% in Germany, 69% in Greece) and 34% in eastern Europe (41% in Hungary, 45% in Poland, 38% in Ukraine) harboured antisemitic views. By this it meant they agreed with six or more classical stereotypes about Jews from a list of 11 including "Jews have too much control over the US government", "Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars", and "People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave".
To read more, please go here.
Please note:
Links have been inserted by the Beside The Creek editor.
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
The Light has come - Candlemas - Nunc Dimittis - Arvo Part
Below is the beautiful music of the great Arvo Part celebrating the presentation of Jesus in The Temple. The words of the prayer 'Nunc dimittis' are uttered each day in The Prayer of The Church otherwise known as The Liturgy of The Hours.
Picture above is from here
Now, Master, you let your servant go in peace.
You have fulfilled your promise.
My own eyes have seen your salvation,
which you have prepared in the sight of all peoples.
A light to bring the Gentiles from darkness;
the glory of your people Israel.
The Song of Simeon
The Gospel of Luke : Chapter 2 Verses 29-32
Over at Interrupting the Silence, Father Mike Marsh has included in his post for this feast,
Arvo Part's wonderful Nunc Dimittis performed by The Tallis Scholars.
Friday, 31 January 2014
'We are not afraid': the Holy Spirit and the Life of Pete Seeger
For those of us of a certain age and advocacy, Pete Seeger and his music has loomed large in our life. Every movement needs its music and Peter Seeger was a dominating figure linking the music before our time such as that of Woody Guthrie to what came after such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. His and theirs was music of moral standing: for justice, against war, involving community, searching for equality. Thank you, Susan, for giving such a contributing life a theology.
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The post below was written for HuffPost Religion.
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The post below was written for HuffPost Religion.
'We Are Not Afraid':
The Holy Spirit
and the Life of Pete Seeger
Posted: 01/28/2014 9:28 am
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One of the reasons I believe a better world is possible is because I can hear the voice of Pete Seeger in my head, singing We Shall Overcome. "We are not afraid," sang Seeger, and credited the young leaders of the Civil Rights movement for teaching that. "Perfect love casts out fear," scripture teaches (1 John 4:18).
One of the greatest obstacles to people coming together, despite their differences, to make a better world, is fear.
Pete Seeger, 94, folk singer and peace and justice advocate has died, but the spirit of what his life and his music meant lives on. Americans have been less afraid of each other, and of speaking the truth to power, because he lived and sang and marched.
One of the possible translations of the Greek word for Holy Spirit is "advocate." When we advocate for God's reign of justice and peace, and join together in that effort, it is my personal experience that the presence of the Spirit can be felt.
Pete Seeger helped teach that to my generation, and generations that followed, because he taught us to sing while we resisted war and advocated for racial and gender justice. He taught us in our schools and on our campuses because he had been blacklisted for refusing to yield to the fear-mongering House Un-American Activities committee. His promising television career was curtailed by the blacklisting.
The story of how Seeger finally got to sing on television again is itself a story of struggle against censorship, as his return to television via the Smothers Brothers program involved advocacy by the two young "comedians." "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" a song clearly about the Vietnam war and President Lyndon Johnson (though it does not name either one) finally was heard by millions of Americans. But that didn't end the war by itself. Seeger observes, "Did the song do any good? No one can prove a damned thing. It took tens of millions of people speaking out, before the Vietnam War was over. A defeat for the Pentagon, but a victory for the American people."
The documentary on Seeger's career, The Power of Song, provides a fully rounded portrait of the singer, including the so-called "lost years" when, because of the blacklisting, Seeger sang to school children and to those of us on college campuses lucky enough to hear him. The songs which Seeger wrote (like "Turn, Turn, Turn...to Everything there is a Season" and "Where are All the Flowers Gone") or made famous (like "We Shall Overcome") are the voice of resistance to war and advocacy for peace.
Is that not the mystery of how goodness is made, little by little, and person by person? In 2011 Seeger walked with an Occupy Wall Street protest, and later told the Associate Press, "Be wary of great leaders... Hope that there are many, many small leaders."
Instead, what we need is many, many Americans coming together and not being afraid of each other. That is the way forward, and Pete Seeger not only taught that, he modeled it in his life and commitments to the very end.
Rest in peace, good and faithful servant. I am grateful beyond words for your life and work.
Follow Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite on Twitter:www.twitter.com/sbthistle
Monday, 6 January 2014
Thursday, 2 January 2014
2014 Sufi International Festival, India
For some, this will be a "wish I could be there moment"
International Sufi Rang Festival
- 06 Jan 2014 { 08:00-09:00 }
- Description : Chishty Foundation's event International Sufi Rang Festival is based on the blessed vision ,principle and message of "Love towards all, Malice towards none" for the whole of Humanity which is the blessed message of Hz.Khawaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishty (r.a) popularly known as Khawaja Gharib Nawaz (r.a). It’s a universal message for the whole of humanity that we may love and respect the best of creations i.e. Human beings, among all the creations of the One Almighty Creator Allah (swt). The Interfaith message for Indian Sub-Continent and its people living in harmony from last 800 years and continue to do so. Our aim in creating this event is to realizes a blessed vision and to create a platform for people from around the world and walks of lives who believe in blessed message i.e. to love and serve the Humanity ( Khidmat e Khalq ) and to spread the message with all its essence among the people of our beautiful planet Earth . In today’s troubled times we believes that the message the great Sufi’s n Saints is the not just a way but it is the ONLY way for the solutions of the World problems and a perfect road map towards the Path of Love ,Peace n Brotherhood among the whole Humanity . As part of the larger picture through the blessed platform of Chishty Foundation ,we intend to promote the blessed Sufi teachings of Khawaja Gharib Nawaz , Sufi Art of Calligraphy , Sufi Poetry culture , Sufi music and concepts of Spirituality and Music and a strong connection between a Higher state of awearness of the Divine presence through Sama and Qawalli – The Chishty Sufi’s food for the Soul . This concept is yet to have a full vision and realization for the essence of complete Sufi understanding and teachings. The 5th International Sufi Rang Festival 2013 is our fifth edition towards realizing the blessed vision of blessed Chishty Sufi lineage . - ma Salama Ishq Bashad wa Baraka Bashad !- Alhamdulilah , this is our humble journey …………. May Allah (swt) accept this humble efforts and services of Chishty Khadims. Syed Salman Chishty Gaddi Nashin – Dargah Ajmer Sharif Khadim e Khawaja Gharib Nawaz (RA) Director Chishty Foundation Reg.No.2008000197 Chishty Mnazil, Jhalra Street, Dargah Sharif, Ajmer 305001 Rajasthan - India Cell # +91 9829174973 salmanchishty@hotmail.com www.chishtyfoundation.org
- Location : Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti Shrine, Diggi Bazaar, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
- Ajmer, Rajasthan ,
INDIA - Events Type: Community Service,Entertainment & Arts,Lecture/Seminar,Meeting,Workshop,
- Name: Syed Salman Chishty - Director - Chishty Foundation
- Email: salmanchishty@hotmail.com
- Phone: +919829174973
- Website: www.chishtyfoundation.org
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