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Showing posts with label world religions. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

London 2012 Festival

The London 2012 Festival bursts into life tomorrow. Over 12,000 events across the UK celebrating the Games – many completely free – with incredible cultural events and top artists from across the world. Wherever you are, whatever you're into, there's something for you. Take your place at the London 2012 Festival – find an event near you.

Here are some that look to me to be particularly interesting:
  • Jonathan Harvey: Weltethos - Weltethos is inspired by the shared spiritual heritage of humanity and founded on texts from six world religions - Confucianism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity.
  • Mittwoch aus Licht/Wednesday from Light - Stockhausen's vision for Mittwoch was "a musical expression of global harmony of love and collaboration in a united humanity."
  • Arthur Bispo do Rosario - Arthur Bispo do Rosário has become one of Brazil´s hottest art exports. Yet Rosário, who spent 50 years of his life in the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, never regarded himself as an artist: he saw his work as the fulfilment of a spiritual task. At the hospital of Colinia Juliano Moreira, he began to work creatively, believing he was on a mission from God. His works soon spread across the entire building. He lived there until his death fifty years later – everything he did and everything he made was in preparation for the Last Judgement.
  • Jubilee Concert - Coventry Cathedral's Jubilee concert showcases Neil Cox's 1980 'War in Heaven' together with the Golden Jubilee commission from James MacMillan (Gloria) as a major part of the Cultural Olympiad in the West Midlands.
  • How Like An Angel celebrates the beauty and grandeur of four stunning English cathedrals. Join performers and singers on a journey of discovery around these sacred spaces. Intensely beautiful music and feats of astonishing acrobatics draw you deep into a world of physical daring and soaring sound, against a backdrop of stunning architecture.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen - 4. Szene "Michaelion" (Mittwoch aus Licht).