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Save the Date!
On Sunday, April 26, 2009, at 3 p.m. the Society for
Universal Sacred Music and the New York Virtuoso Singers
will co-sponsor “Voices for Love and Unity—A
Concert for Peace,” held at the St. Ignatius of
Antioch Episcopal Church in New York City.
The program will consist of powerful anti-war choral music
featuring Francis Poulenc’s masterpiece Figure
Humaine, which is perhaps the most complex tonal choral
piece ever written, composed while Paris was occupied by
Nazi Germany during World War II. The program will also
include works by Benjamin Britten, Richard McIntyre, Richard
Rice and a world premiere piece composed by Roger Davidson,
Founder and President of the Society for Universal Music....
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All cultures have music that is mystical or transcendent,
and by listening to them together we can transcend our
everyday lives in a new way, and create an artistic
interfaith experience freeod dogma. Music becomes a pathway
to 'spirituality without borders.' The Thread of Life is a
narrative of music that binds us across cultures in an
exploration of the divine in music....
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The Society for Universal Sacred Music is now accepting
entries from composers of all nationalities for its new
composers' competition, the winners of which will have their
pieces performed in our Fourth Festival of Universal Sacred
Music in New York City, in May 2010....
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