In 1996, her music tops the charts and her visions are being examined by feminists, scholars, New Agers and Early Music performers with equal passion. Ellen Kushner presents a variety of musical interpretations, and chats with Barbara Thornton, director of Sequentia, whose Grammy-nominated album Canticles of Ecstasy has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. Join host Ellen Kushner for a world-wide muisical journey that includes songs of parents' commitment to children, lullabies and birth rituals, children's songs by Woody Guthrie, and Malagasi tribal songs that welcome children into the world. Through their most inspired words and music she explores the wonder, joy and frustration of the creative process. While some believe that the beauty of music is actually denied to the great enemy of humankind, others credit the Devil as inspiration, or even author of particular music.
Dreams are a wellspring of creativity, a place where our life and the shadowlands meet.
Join host Ellen Kushner for harvest songs from the chants of the workers in the rice fields of Japan to ebullient Harvest Home celebrations in the British Isles, and for a look at what harvests, good and bad, mean to the faith of the American farmer. Host, Ellen Kushner samples some captivating new classical, contemporary and world music recordings from our continuously expanding collection of music with religious dimensions or spiritual connections. It's also our chance to respond on air to recent listener letters, and to offer listeners a chance to win new albums. Join Ellen Kushner for shape-note singing from the Sacred Harp and other collections of American folk hymns, and for concert music from American composers inspired by this rough and ready American hymnody. We'll also use Klezmer's journey to explore what it means to be a Jew in a changing world.