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Review: The Glory of Carmina

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Attended the glorious San Jose Ballet and Symphony Silicon Valley performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana last night. I’ve been stuck on this piece of music for years and have performed it as an alto chorus member a number of times. It’s both sweet and bombastic  - the initial movement, "O Fortuna" has been used as a stage-setter in many heroic movie battle scenes.

As you can see from the promo photo at left, the stage was initially set with a giant Wheel of Fortune-cum-altar. No, you who are thinking television game shows, it’s the Wheel from traditional hermetic magic and tarot. With a pentagram in the center. Scattered in the audience, assorted gaggles of  Wiccans and hermetics burst into tears of rapture as the curtain went up. My partner turned to me and said "I’d go back to being pagan if I could get twenty guys to reliably show up and dance like that at rituals…and the set designer as well…."

While parts of the performance dragged, and local dance critic Rachel Howard of the San Francisco chronicle was ever-so (yawn) bored, the majority of the audience remained fascinated to the denouement and gave the cast a resounding standing ovation. 

The opening ballet, Summerscape, while well danced and whimsical, felt like a "cartoon before the feature" in contrast to what followed. Nice and well choreographed, it didn’t merit the endless rounds of standing ovation applause Carmina garnered for its sheer overwhelming technical artistry. Veteran Dennis Nahat ably choreographed both ballets, and the 130 voice chorus with its three featured vocalists, cloaked as monks (oh, the bass soloist! perfection!) contributed equally to Carmina’s soaring spectacle.

Was I alone in observing the deliberate mispronounciation of the lyrics in Carmina? I learned the lyrics while singing with a Cambridge, England church chorus. Our director and music teachers were German and Italian respectively, the languages of the Carmina. (well Latin, but Giovanni was well versed in his high church speak). I’ve never heard the C’s and G’s pronounced in quite the same way as the singers in SJB’s version - it almost seemed like a foreign language.

The fellow next to me had also sung in Carmina and, looking at me perplexed during the interval, said: "Was I hearing aright, or are they misprounouncing the thing?" Check out any CD of Carmina for compares.

I wonder - artistic choice or something else??  Comment, Herr Director?

If you haven’t been to SJB’s Carmina, you’ve already missed it, but do go and see Nahat’s venerable Nutcracker, opening December 9th. Well worth it for an evening’s dress-up and good funtime. Don’t forget dinner after the show at the inimitable Il Fornaio down the street. Best and thickest cappucino’s in San Jo. Tell Edgar and David that I sent you.  ;-)

Join Me At The Shelter Networks Benefit

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Women With Strings Attached
My friend Mira Wooten (one of my awesome "Women of Everyday Bliss" interviewees) with her band, "Women with Strings Attached"  returns for the third time, to the Little Fox Theater in Redwood City, CA, on Sunday, November 18 at 7:00 pm.  This show will be a fundraiser for Shelter Networks, with 50% of the proceeds going to the charity.
 
http://www.shelternetwork.org

Shelter Network is committed to providing housing and support services that create opportunities for homeless families and individuals on the San Francisco Peninsula to re-establish self-sufficiency and to return to permanent homes of their own.

Please get your tickets in advance as this show will sell out.  $14 in advance, $16 at the door.

http://www.foxdream.com

If you cannot make the event and would like to make a contribution, you can do so at

http://www.shelternetwork.org/donate.html

See you there!

Wiping the tears away…a Paul Potts Update

Monday, June 18th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

My eyes were streaming with joy as I watched this latest video - Paul Potts, underdog from Wales WON the Britain Has Talent show and in fulfillment of a lifelong dream, will be going to sing for the Queen. If you haven’t yet read about this humble man’s amazing story you can do so, and watch Paul’s audition tape at my blog entry here.

And in further testament to the power of a vision coupled with perseverance through obstacles into Bliss, enjoy - with tissues by your side - Paul’s winning announcement and encore performance:

For Love of Kim: Derek Trucks v1.0

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 by Maryam Webster

I have a friend whom I dearly love - Kim George, author of Coaching Into Greatness and Director of the AQ Institute. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out in Kim’s home for a week, and being her guest at a concert by acknowledged "young guitar god", Derek Trucks.

Kim wanted to introduce me to Derek’s work because he is, quite honestly, probably the greatest guitarist now living. Or at least one of the mega-greats. You look at what he does with his fingers and listen to the virtuosity, and  your mouth simply falls to the ground. It’s the kind of good that spins your heart, stomach and head all in different directions and leaves you wanting much, much more. Emotions you didn’t know you had bloom suddenly and make you ache, but in a good way. You don’t want the set to end. But I digress…

Some might know Derek as an Eric Clapton protege, or from his work with the Allman Brothers. But on May 17th in Torrington, Connecticut at the palatial Warner Theater, it was solely the Derek Trucks Band, resplendent in its own celebratory glory. 

We got there from deep in the wilderness of Massachussets through the backwoods express route into what seemed like nowhere. Thanks, Google Maps. After miles of beautiful trees, lakes, herds of man-sized mosquitoes, cud-munching Guernseys and a medieval fortress dam or two (one wondered if we hadn’t taken a turn into the Twilight Zone) we arrived in Torrington and had the time of our lives.

Kim has been a fan for ages, and I was a virgin conquest, brought to be sacrificed upon the altar of good music. My heart thumped, thighs quivered and as many before me, I became thoroughly infected with the DTB virus. We all had the DTB’s pretty bad, to be honest. But if you haven’t seen and heard Mr. Trucks and his quirky, amazing fellow musicians, you are missing one heck of a treat. They not only roll out good rock, soul, jazz, r&b and blues, but the personalities of each musician are as engaging as their repertoire. Holy hit parade Batman, but the dude can rock SOLID! If you’re into fancy fretwork, Derek Trucks is your man.

I snuck in my Casio Exilim and managed a few short  and shaky vidcaps between security-guard strafings, the light flashing from an adjacent teenager playing games on his cellphone, and bobbing and weaving of the extra-large-headed fellow right in front of my lens. There was by way of compensation, a nice fellow sitting next to me named John, who interestingly is moving to nearby Walnut Creek within the month. (Dude! Meet you at the Fillmore!)  He and Kim exchanged emails and furtive plans to move items of fandom across state lines…which I am assured is all quite legal…. 

Not my best, but here for Kim and the rest of the excessively *rabid* Derek Trucks fans, (and they’re all rabid) is this five minute-sumpin’ Video.  Be mindful of your speakers, download at will, and Enjoy…


Download File

 

Extra Christmas Cheer: The Chronic (what?!) cles of Narnia

Sunday, December 25th, 2005 by Maryam Webster

This is nothing whatsoever to do with The Chronicles of Narnia (personal opinion: the books are better than the movie - though doggone, Tilda Swinton in her battle chariot was casting genius!). If however you enjoy rap music, this filk will make you howl. Just because I enjoy the odd bit of petty evil, here for you on Christmas Day is a funny guaranteed to make you laugh if you:

  • Are a cupcake addict
  • Enjoy Saturday Night Live
  • Have no idea about The Chronicles of Narnia
  • Enjoy Mr. Pibb & Red Vines (crazy delicious!)
  • Need to get away from your relatives for five minutes and come back with a suspicious smile on your face

Enjoy, and Merry Christmas!

Announcing My New Demo CD:
“Quantum Flow Bioenergetics: Be Your Own Healer”

Friday, May 14th, 2004 by Maryam Webster

This is the CD that captivated the recent ACEP Convention crowd, fifty copies of which magically disappeared less than ten minutes after being put out - with orders for more! I decided to make the files available to everyone at my website. This is a completely FREE, Open Source 46-minute gift to the growing Energy Therapy community and those interested in taking charge of their own mental, spiritual, emotional and physical health. You’re encouraged to make copies and pass them on to your family, friends and colleagues. This is healing information that everyone on this planet has a birthright to. The files included are MPEG files which explain this topic and are very large. You are welcome to either

(a) click to listen online - or -
(b) download them to your own computer and burn your own CD copies

Click here to begin downloading. I’ve magically encoded good vibes into each link so when you download, you and your computer both get a warm fuzzy - pass it on! Just playing these files will relax and begin to seriously destress your life. Get them now.

Creative and Coachly Too

Thursday, February 26th, 2004 by Maryam Webster

I’m so blessed with wonderful people in my life and have another wonderful person to share. Dr. Rachel Root is my coach and an amazing one she is. She has studied creativity coaching with Eric Maisel, author of numerous works including The Creativity Book: A Year’s Worth of Inspiration and Guidance and other books on how to unleash your creativity. Rachel is helping me write a book and crank out CDs which is appropriate as she is Director of Music at Trinity Lutheran Church in Tacoma, WA and assistant director of the Sacred Music Chorale. Rachel is warm, witty and fascinating to listen to. She talks just enough in our sessions and not too much, cuts to the chase and makes a lot of sense. She lets me ramble when I need to, rail against the injustices of equipment malfunction and personal oddity and I truly feel loved and accepted through it all. If you’re looking for a great coach to help spark and hold your creativity, get in touch with Rachel, she’s a corker! Click to email her here.


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