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2008-06-10 04:41:00 by Rho in Rho-Xs
...Monastic life, in which singing the 'Divine Service' nine times a day at the proper hours was upheld according to the Rule of St. Benedict. Singing psalms made up a large part of the life in a monastic community, while a smaller group and soloists sang the chants. In its long history Gregorian Chant has been subjected to many gradual changes...
 
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Alice Coltrane, Jazz Artist and Spiritual Leader, Dies at 69 - New York Times

2007-01-17 15:34:00 by John H. Armwood in Armwood Jazz Blog
 
...Monastic Trio, Ptah, the El Daoud and Journey in Satchidananda, she was able to reconcile blues phrases and jazz rhythm with a kind of ancient, flowing sound Ms. Coltrane met her guru, Swami Satchidananda, in 1970, and in more recent years became a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba. By the early 1970s she developed a renewed interest in the organ,...
 
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The magnificent Orthodox liturgy

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2008-03-15 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...monastic day. It was the blazing fire at the centre of the house; its life and flame was the way of the house, all other activities led to it and in some way supported it - Jennifer Lash writes of her stay at the Monastery of Mother of God at Bussy-En-Othe, France in On Pilgrimage . A remarkable book by a remarkable lady . It is out of print...
 
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Meredith Monk out of focus

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2008-03-25 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...monastic orders are one of my interests, so it will come as no surprise that I have been greatly enjoying ECM's new release of music by Meredith Monk . Impermanence is a moving meditation on the transitory nature of life that expands Monk's distinctive vocal writing to embrace a range of instruments including piano, elephant bells, marimba,...
 
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Girder and Panel

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2008-03-26 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...monastic discipline compared with his brawling colleagues. It's also a movie explicitly about creation and the mechanism of the artistic method. Orphée has discovered a new process he thinks will be his salvation. He ends up crossing between the upper world and the underworld, a passage marked by ritual and rules, a bureaucratic tribunal,...
 
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What price the music of an unsung master?

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2008-03-27 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...monastic domain - recommended. Photos (c) On An Overgrown Path 2008. Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
 
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RIP Kurt Hanson 1973-2008 - Cast Out Devils

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2008-04-16 19:20:40 by detholz in Detholz! Mp3 Blog
...monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property : friar In the summer of 2004, Kurt crashed at my one-bedroom apartment in Chicago for a few days as he was wont to do. I had to step out one afternoon to run some errands, so I left Kurt alone on my couch deeply submerged in one of his...
 
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Frickes Picks: James Blackshaw

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2008-05-07 19:50:39 by David Fricke in Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
...monastic percussion Blackshaw is not, by nature, an improviser. The vast majority of my music is composed, he says, noting that his next album, Litany of Echoes , to be released in June, has more interplay with strings and piano. The repetition and drone are there, but there is more variation within the songs. Im not the New Weird America, he...
 
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Chronicle of April 2008

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2008-06-01 20:00:00 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...monastic solitude, in a little cell, far away from the houses of the great. Solitude is not something he has much of in real life: the Gunns are the parents of five young children" [Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 4/17/08 Beth Ditto and Gossip. Webster Hall, New York, NY. "Outspoken as a lesbian, as a self-proclaimed fat woman and...
 
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Sacred Grounds, Sacred Sounds AKA Weird Pere Lachaise

2008-06-05 21:11:16 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...monastic estate converted into the cemetery during Napoleons first empire) became the worlds first modern graveyard. Created both to supplant the overstuffed, odoriferous churchyards packed with victims of the Terror and to serve as a nondenominational Napoleonic theme park for the bereaved, the concept bombed when first introduced. Since...
 
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