Join ÆDONIS for EXPECTO: Songs of optimism and hope
To celebrate its new status as The Esoterics' sister ensemble, ÆDONIS will perform EXPECTO, its first concert series as part of The Esoterics’ 2008 season. The sixteen singers will offer a program of choral music by gay composers, one that revolves around the theme of expectation: anticipation of news from afar, optimism of a reunion between loved ones, and the hope for justice, solace, or healing at day's end. Read more.
Also check out the interview with Eric Banks in our EsoCast, The Esoterics' podcast, talking about the upcoming concert EXPECTO.
The Esoterics announces 2008-2009 POLYPHONOS Competition
The Esoterics announces its third annual international call for a cappella choral scores: POLYPHONOS. The purpose of POLYPHONOS is to encourage today's choral composers to broaden the scope of the a cappella choral repertory by setting sacred and poetical texts found beyond the Western classical canon in order to create a repertoire of choral concert music that reflects the universal beauty and power of unaccompanied voices joined in song. Read more.
NEW CD Release! MANDALA: Meditations on the wholeness of being
From the Sanskrit word for "circle," The Esoterics' eighth CD is a collection of choral works inspired by the universal symbol of meditation and psychic centeredness. The MANDALA is common to many world religions, and it is this spiritual unity within diversity that is the over-arching theme of this disc. Hinduism is represented by the mysterious verses of the Bhagavad gita in Roger Nelson's Attaining immortality, and the shimmering Sanskrit of the Mundaka Upanishad in Diane Thome's All this. Mark Adamo's vigorous Supreme virtue and Stephen Paulus' tranquil Meditations of Li Po bring the balance of the Tao. Donald Skirvin's luminous Songs of enlightenment awaken our Buddhist minds along with John Muehleisen's resplendent setting of verses by the 12th-century Myoe Shonin, Watching the moon go down. To complete this disc, the iridescent self-styled Chinese stophes of Linda Waterfall's Guang [Light] joins Jâvdâni [Eternity], Eric Banks' homage to the afterlife by the Persian poet Rumi. Read more.
The Esoterics' 2008 season
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