<div>Living Songs recitals are approximately 50 minutes long and always include a solo piano piece played by pianist Jelena Makarova who has worked with Living Songs from its outset. Although Living Songs is not a commissioning song project, Jessica and Jelena have had songs composed for them and are proud to have given world, UK and London premières. Often, having premièred a song or song cycle, they build it into their repertoire and give further performances around the UK.</div><div></div><div></div><div>shady grove has been a song I have been developing a relationship with for years and it always felt a little dark and troubled, like an abuser of some kind taking possession of a very unfortunate girl and having a completely unrealistic idea of where this relationship is going. It is an awful thought, but yet so compelling to sing. Anyhow, the song makes much more sense to me now and when I sing it this saturday at a charity gig I may introduce it with some confidence- or if that seems like a bad idea, just let the audience make up their own minds!</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>art of living bhajans mp3 song free download</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD:
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Songs shape the arc of the exhibition, which lead the audience through a polyphonic narrative in which events are testified to the emotional and transcendent impulses of peoples, nations, and beings living under the symbols of higher powers.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Part of grieving is often remembering the unique qualities of our loved one and speaking of our pain with others who understand. Sharing funeral songs at a celebration of life service is just what we need to help our hearts heal.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is the song to remember a loved one who was always there for their friends, no matter what. It helps us remember to call on the special people in our lives and know that no matter what happens, we always hold a piece of their loving spirit with us as long as we live.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Funeral goers are especially in need of remembering the good times with others. Celebration of Life songs can bring a loving and hopeful perspective to an otherwise dreary event. Choosing a happy funeral song to mix in with the more heartfelt songs can make any traditional funeral service feel more uplifting.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>This song is all about doing something (such as drugs) to forget the hurt and pain that sometimes accompany life. Although some people interpret the lyrics to be about suicide, others find its meaning to be more along the lines of admitting guilt, surrendering, and giving up the habit for good.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>This song hits on the idea that although the abuse of drugs may seem like fun and games, it can be deadly. It also talks about song lyrics today and how rappers underestimate the power their words have on young people. If you need a reminder about the damage addiction can do, listen to this song.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Although this popular hit by Kygo is about relationship problems, its lyrics could also be viewed from the lens of living life with a chronic illness and making the decision to put your well-being first to avoid returning to an old life filled with harmful behaviors.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>A strong, starkly haunting note vibrates through the air, slipping amongst those gathered with gravity and majesty. It is the opening note of a welcome song, a song which resonates through the years and the earth to evoke a warm welcome onto land which is proudly and resolutely owned by the Munyarryun Clan. The music provides a link right back to the beginning of time and through to the core of the Earth, revealing the bright spectra and molten heart they possess. Whereas white Australians might prepare a few words-a suitable representative knocks off a quick speech-indigenous Australians have a song for the occasion, made ready in the Dreaming and still alive despite impossible odds.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hearing an Aboriginal song from the Dreaming consistently evokes a strong response from its listeners, regardless of whether the audience is Australian or from further afield. At the Edinburgh International Festival of the Arts in August 1997, Bangarra Dance Theatre premiered its new work, Fish. After the well-received performance, the British Council hosted supper for the company. When the meal was over and the wine was drunk, Djakapurra Munyarryun-principal dancer and cultural consultant with Bangarra-called everyone out to the back garden. There, he proceeded to perform a song and dance of thanks. The atmosphere was electric, with both company members and English and Scottish hosts completely transfixed. As one, the gathering was completely overwhelmed by Djakapurra's performance. The Scots could do no more than break into an almost embarrassed rendition of 'Auld Lang Syne'. With Aboriginal song, as the music permeates, one gets a sense of timelessness, of connectedness, of a collective spirituality encompassing both humanity and nature-a powerful religiosity that incorporates humanity into nature. Like the chants of the yogi from India, the strength of traditional song in Aboriginal ceremony flows into and draws from the power of nature, meshing human song with the world around it. In contemporary life, many are eager to develop a greater or higher understanding of their place within the natural world, and often it is through creativity that people feel closest with their environments. This is particularly true of musical expression: people 'get' it when they hear it, even if they can't say why.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Just as hymns and prayer are ritualised expressions of spirituality in the Christian faith, music and dance in Aboriginal Australia are key means of communicating and experiencing spirituality. Their performance becomes a form of collective self-actualisation-it is in and through the singing of ancient, sacred songs and the performance of the dance that accompanies them that deference and respect to the land and country is demonstrated and lived out, and one's own place within them and as part of them acknowledged and joyfully experienced.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In Aboriginal society, there is no strict demarcation between the law and culture, between religious and legal institutions. Whereas in white Australian society, the separation of powers is constitutionally entrenched, the system of governance in Aboriginal communities concentrates spiritual wisdom in the hands of the Elders, who become the custodians of law. An Elder knows the laws one must observe, where they come from, why they are important, and how they are to be followed. Each legal system has jurisdiction over its own familiar territory, and it is expected that the laws of each territory will be respected by visiting outsiders. Law is enshrined and observed because it is respectful of culture and tradition, not because of any additional or external values deemed important. These laws have built up over thousands of years: they are traced back to the Dreamtime, that temporal and actual world before time began when the land was formed and the spirits roamed free. All are orally passed down from generation to generation, often through performance. Thus, in Aboriginal culture, song and dance become the means of the transmission of history, allowing a complex system of laws and identities to be passed through generations, and thus to survive.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Aboriginal communities contain hierarchies of knowledge and access to knowledge that are governed by strict protocols. Elders from a community are custodians of both secret and sacred knowledge. This knowledge will be passed on to the next generation of a clan's leaders at an appropriate time; it is often only as an Elder feels death approaching that he or she may communicate all the songs or stories which their predecessors entrusted to them. Knowledge must be earned-it is accumulated and passed on over a lifetime. It is this reality white Australia found so difficult to grasp during the debate over the Hindmarsh Island bridge. Trying to play a numbers game, supporters of the bridge believed that if they could muster a critical mass of Ngarrindjeri women who had not heard of the Secret Women's Business associated with Goolwa and Hindmarsh Island, the Elders who spoke of the area's critical importance to female fertility matters must be lying. It is quite normal for pivotal information on sacred issues such as reproduction to be restricted to the leading women of a clan. To think otherwise is analogous to believing a Cabinet-in-Confidence document or other highly classified information would be known by a local parliamentary member, or even a city councillor.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Djakapurra Munyarryun is a member of the Munyarryun Clan based in Dhulinbouy, Arnhemland. The Munyarryuns are one of the strongest families in the area, in a region which has produced many of Aboriginal Australia's artistic and political leaders. Yothu Yindi was formed in Arnhemland; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Chair Gatjil Djerkerra is also from the area. Djakapurra himself is a principal dancer with Bangarra Dance Theatre, and it is his family who provide the traditional injection which Bangarra has fused with contemporary dance and music with such success. He has been chosen to be a Song-Man with his community, which charges him with the responsibility of acting as custodian of the songs, dances, and country that have been part of his clan since the Dreaming began.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The songs that are part of any particular clan's culture form a kind of musical landscape-they are part of, inform and describe the surrounding country, just as the great works from the Aboriginal visual artist Emily Kngwarreye are monuments to her beloved country in Alhalkere, Utopia, all portraying the same small area where she grew up and lived out her life. As an individual learns more of his or her landscape, they are undergoing a process of acquiring ritual knowledge, extending the song-map. Despite being in the middle of Bangarra's touring programme, Djakapurra is to return to Arnhemland in June, to take part in a learning session at which more secret knowledge is to be passed to him and his brothers. His father and uncle are growing old and tired, and thus Djakapurra's generation of Elders' learning processes-their acquisition of ritual knowledge-is being accelerated. Djakapurra and his brothers will be taken to one of their clan's sacred sites and learn more of the songs and the stories that have ruled their extended family since the days of the Dreaming.</div><div></div><div> ffe2fad269</div>