Sono Terra: Sounds Across the Planet
Musical collaborations and artistic dialogues promoting
intercultural communion, connections and understanding.
For a New Beginning
(John O'Donahue, from "Benedictus")
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
where your thoughts never think to wander,
this beginning has been quietly forming,
waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
noticing how you willed yourself on,
still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
and the grey promises that sameness whispered,
heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
and out you stepped onto new ground,
your eyes young again with energy and dream,
a path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
you can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
that is at one with your life's desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be at home in a new rhythm,
for your soul senses the world that awaits you.
UPCOMING EVENTS
DECEMBER
15 – “African Solstice” - Berklee String Orchestra conducted by Eugene featuring new work for strings and soloists. http://www.berklee.edu/events
18-20 – PAUL WINTER, Winter Solstice concerts, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC , http://solsticeconcert.com/
JANUARY 2009
25 – Eugene with Windham County Orchestra directed by David Runnion, new work for cello and orchestra.
FEBRUARY
9 – TRE CORDA (Greg Hopkins, trumpets, Tim Ray, piano, Eugene, cello) – New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
16 – TRIO GLOBO, Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, workshops and 7PM concert, http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_2990.aspx
MARCH
3 – PRAIRIE TRIO (Darol Anger, violin, Philip Aaberg, piano, Eugene, cello) Fisch Haus, Wichita, KS, 7:30PM
4 – PRAIRIE TRIO – Stiefel Auditorium, Salina, KS 7:30PM
5 – PRAIRIE TRIO – Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS 7:30PM
14 – St. Patrick’s Fiddle Frenzy, 7:30PM, Stone Church Arts, Bellows Falls, VT, Eugene performs with fiddle stars from the Berklee College of Music. http://www.immanuelepiscopal.org/StoneChurchArts.html
19 – Lexington County String Festival, Eugene conducting and performing, Columbia, SC
20 – Eugene solo, Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center, Hendersonville, NC http://www.ticketbiscuit.com/BlueRidgePAC/CalendarPage.aspx?VD=3/1/2009
APRIL
4 – LOVE SONGS OF THE AMERICAS, Mili Bermejo, vocalist, Tim Ray, piano, Dan Greenspan, bass, Eugene, cello. 7:30PM, Stone Church Arts, Bellows Falls, VT http://www.immanuelepiscopal.org/StoneChurchArts.html
19 – WEST COAST MENNONITE MEN’S CHOIR, 6PM, Fresno, CA
23-24 – TRIO GLOBO, in residence St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
26-27 – Delaware Valley String Festival, Eugene conducts and performs, Oneonta, NY
JUNE
12-14 – TRIO GLOBO with Orchestra Nashville, Nashville, TN
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Through January 20, 2009, Eugene Friesen's "In the Shade of Angels" and "Sono Miho" are available online at the special celebratory price of $11.99. Additional volume discounts are available. Just follow these links:
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