Ruth Wieder Magan - "Z'oma Lecho Nafshi"
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- čas přidán 23. 11. 2012
- Photo by my friend Dave: - www.flickr.com/photos/roystonv...
My favorite track from this remarkable album of songs from the Jewish mystical tradition: - www.amazon.com/Songs-Invisible... - recorded on location at this site: - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Karem
About Ruth Wieder Magan: - www.myspace.com/ruthwiedermagan#!
Biography from an online source: ...
Ruth Wieder Magan is best known for her pioneering work integrating sacred Hebrew texts into contemporary music and theatre. Her unique approach to the transcendental aspects of voice, text and spatial perception is deeply rooted in Jewish oral tradition: Talmud, Kabbalah, and, in particular, the esoteric and influential 9th century text -"Book of Creation." Her innovative work has enriched voice study, introducing it as evolving vibrational sculptures, or a kind of scanner of dimensions. Another important aspect of Ruth's vocal performances, or Theatre of Voices, is the recreation of the female voice in Jewish text and song. In a Tradition where the male voice is omnipotent, Ruth is making audible and available to women the already deeply internalized female processes recorded by men.
Ruth's collaborative research of sacred Hebrew texts has served as a foundation for over ten original contemporary works of music and theatre produced with Theatre Company Jerusalem, of which she is a founding member and co-director. The original works of Theatre Company Jerusalem include "Ma'aseh Bruria," "Elef Ester Vehester," "Even The Birds," "Echoes of Prayer," "Sara, Take One" and "Songs Inner and Revealed". For these performances, Theatre Company Jerusalem has received national and international prizes.
Ruth began her studies of voice and speech as a young child with the renowned Australian teacher, Marie Boyers. She graduated from the Trinity College of Music in Sydney at the age of 18. A few months thereafter she emigrated to Israel and entered into rigorous studies of ancient Jewish texts, including Jewish mysticism and Hassidism. Amongst her teachers during this period were-the poet and inspired gypsy singer Allen Afterman whose songs always trod the fine line between flight and the terrible abyss, - and the enigmatic and saintly leader of Braslev Hasidism, Rav Gedalia Koenig. Through Rav Koenig and others she gained extensive exposure to the ritual singing of closed Hassidic sects and these opened up for her the area of mystical communion through song.
Ruth continued in experimental voice training with the Roy Hart Theatre in France, and in particular with Barry Coghlan. There she was introduced to the extended range of the voice and was able to further explore the connections between voice and psyche. In 1989, she began in-depth studies of cantorial singing with the noted teachers Dov Kaplan and Chaim Feifel. As important as all these teachers have been to Ruth's vocal genius, a motivating sources for her art has been her parents, both of whom were Holocaust survivors. Through them, she first heard melodies, intonations and spiritual inklings rooted in a lost world.
An interview with Ruth Wieder Magan: - • Interview with Ruth Wi... - Hudba
Thank you, Virginia! : D
And just between you and me - finding a pic for this track was a real chore. Finally came up with something but that's both gritty and majestic. : D
Greetings from INDIA.
Interesting information...
Lovely picture.
Thank you very much for sharing and uploading.
Thank you very much for your visit! : D
when you get down to it, or up to it?, life is pretty much like this very beautiful human lament.
This is mysticism. ... : )
Very tribal. Very holistic. I'd love to be the sort of mystic that explores God through sound. I really envy them. Maybe someday. : )
Maybe you can try it! : D
And I've always wanted to own property with a cave on it! Guess I'd have to move to Kentucky.
Thanks, Jan. I had hope for you. But it's like you're just getting worse. : )
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