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J'ay mis mon cuer et ma pensee - Guillaume Dufay The Marion Consort from Chicago, Illinois From our summer concert on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Check out more live recordings on our facebook page! www.fa...  moreJ'ay mis mon cuer et ma pensee - Guillaume Dufay The Marion Consort from Chicago, Illinois From our summer concert on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Check out more live recordings on our facebook page! www.facebook.com/themarionconsort  

November 22!!! Having returned from our successful tour to Wales (UK), earlier this summer, will be staging an event to launch our first Album this month.   The Album titled Behold the S...

November 22!!! Having returned from our successful tour to Wales (UK), earlier this summer, will be staging an event to launch our first Album this month.   The Album titled Behold the S...

Under the direction of Itai Daniel, ECC sings the major repertoire of Jewish music, either liturgical or secular. Ensemble Choral Copernic maintains the high musical tradition which is the basis of the liturgy of ULIF-Copernic. 1 weekly rehearsal

I. A WATER WHEEL TURNS Inside water, a water wheel turns. The star circulates with the moon. We live in the night ocean wondering, What are these lights? Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. ...  moreI. A WATER WHEEL TURNS Inside water, a water wheel turns. The star circulates with the moon. We live in the night ocean wondering, What are these lights? Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. Performed by the Millennium Consort, Martin Neary, conductor, and the Pomona College Choir, Donna Di Grazia, director. Water Ruminations is a setting of six poems by the thirteenth-century poet Rumi, in English translations from the Persian by Coleman Barks, for double choir and organ. The poetry sings of literal and spiritual connections between water and sky, a drop of water and human life, flowing water and love, drinking water and its container, the giddiness of spring and rolling seas, and the ocean's gifts and singing. Its images, from 800 years ago, speak to us with both vivid immediacy and transcendence. The idea for the piece originated with the Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative, which proposed funding activities that would involve students in ar...    less