Dear
friends,
We wanted to share with you the news about
a very special
Harmonic Choir evening concert this coming Wednesday,
November 20th in New
York city, right next to Ground Zero. Please forward
this announcement
to any friends, people, listings that you think may want
to know. The
concert will conclude with a Harmonic Chant for Peace with the
whole
audience...
Thanks and blessings,
Mickey Gibson and the Harmonique
Centre team
WNYC-fm and the World Financial Center present
New
Sounds Live at the Winter Garden
John Schaefer hosts a very
special concert by DAVID HYKES AND THE HARMONIC
CHOIR, presenting the
world premier of "The Silent Ground", on November 20th
at 6:30
pm.
New Sounds Live, hosted and curated by WNYC's John Schaefer, joins
in
celebrating the re-opening of the World Financial Center Winter Garden for
this very special concert evening. The concert, which will be taped
for
future broadcast on WNYC, constitutes part of the recently revived arts
series at the Winter Garden, the glass-encased centerpiece of the
World Financial
Center at 220 Vesey Street.
The center, which was damaged on
September 11, is celebrating its reopening
with a broad range of outstanding
cultural events. The New Sounds Live events
represent the first live music
performances to take place since the
reopening. "We are bringing some
remarkable music, some from other
parts of the
world and some perhaps from other worlds entirely, to
the Winter
Garden," says John Schaefer. "It is
quite simply one of the most special
places in New York, and to hear this
beautiful atrium resonating with music
is an extraordinary experience."
David Hykes and the Harmonic
Choir
Wednesday, November 20 at 6:30pm
World Financial Center Winter
Garden
David Hykes has created a new form of ancient/contemporary sacred
music, the
Harmonic Chant, similar to chanting techniques developed by
Tibetan monks
and
Mongolian and Tuvan nomads that allow them to
sing low and high notes
simultaneously. Joined by his groundbreaking
ensemble, The Harmonic Choir,
he uses the new resources of Harmonic Chant to
create otherworldly
compositions that explore the normally untapped
resonances of the human
voice. The one-time New York-based ensemble, now
residing in France, brings
together the West and the East in the exploration
of natural harmonics, the
"DNA of all musical sounds". The choir is
celebrating the 20th anniversary
of their landmark recording Hearing Solar
Winds, which brought the world of
"harmonic music" to many Western listeners
for the first time. They will
present the world premiere of "The
Silent Ground".
Admission is free. For information, call (212) 945-0505
or visit the World
Financial Center Web site.
