Pentecostal worship is often loud, emotional and ecstatic and our music this week reflects that with Hillsong, and the Christian City Church at Oxford Falls, rocking out. More traditional music for Pentecost is heard in the famous 9th century chant, 'Veni creator spiritus', and an orchestral adaptation of the hymn by Australian composer Ross Edwards.
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The Singing Bowls are believed to have originated with the Bon Shamans of Tibet many centuries ago. They're renowned for their ethereal sound tones which seem to hover and vibrate with great intensity. And this is because the bowls are made from a combination of at least seven different metals, mainly copper, tin and nickel, which when struck with a mallet or rubbed with a wooden wand set up unusual harmonic overtones. These days the Himalayan Singing Bowls are in demand by New Agers for meditation, but they're also used by sound therapists like my guest tonight Aidan McIntyre.
It's Good Friday for the Eastern Orthodox churches and we travel to Mt Athos in Greece to hear their 1000 year old tradition of Byzantine chant. We keep the Easter Vigil inside the Xenophontos Greek Orthodox Monastery, and hear from musician Stephan Micus who made his own pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain. Read Transcript
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Earth Day, celebrated on 22 April each year, is a secular event with spiritual overtones. It marks the founding of the modern environmental movement in 1970, but it also acts as a substitute religious festival drawing on the spiritual yearnings of many environmentalists. This hybrid spirituality was perfectly captured in the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi, a cavalcade of visions set to the music of composer Philip Glass. According to the film's director, Godfrey Reggio, 'Koyaanisqatsi' is a Hopi Indian word meaning 'life out of balance' and the film links the earth's degradation to our spiritual disenchantment. Reggio himself spent 14 years with the Catholic Christian Brothers order training to be a monk, while Philip Glass is a Jewish convert to Tibetan Buddhism.
Presented by
Geoff Wood
Friday 16 May 2008
Born in the hills of Kentucky in the 1930s, bluegrass music is noteable for its use of mandolin and banjo, simple harmonies, and its powerful streak of Protestant fatalism. In recent years, a new wave of female singers and songwriters have revitalised the gospel heart of bluegrass music and this week we hear some of the best, including Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch and the Cox Family.
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The National Interest
with Peter Mares
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