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HOME
(revisited)Features performances of Om Shanti, Tapasya, Leningrad Spring and HOME (revisited) for men's chorus and gamelan. Performances by the New Performance Group - Matthew Kocmieroski, Director/Percussionist; Gamelan Pacifica - Jarrad Powell, Director; Philandros (Seattle Men's Chorus) - Dennis Coleman, Director (with featured soloists Thomasa Eckert, soprano, Paul Taube, flute, Roger Nelson, piano and Mimi Dye, viola.) Released in 1992 by New Albion Records, the album is "Dedicated in prayer to benefit people living with AIDS." All royalties, performance fees and other contributions are donated to The Names Project and to Seattle Men's Chorus Family AIDS Project. Kyle Gann, of The Village Voice, chose HOME (revisited) as one of two "pick hits" for the 1992 Consumers Guide: "It's time East Coaster quit asking 'Who?' when I rave about Seattle's Giteck."
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New Performance Group in Music by Janice GiteckA 1988 Mode Records release features recordings of Breathing Songs From A Turning Sky, Thunder, Like A White Bear Dancing, and Callin' Home Coyote. Performers include the Seattle-based NPG featuring Thomasa Eckert, soprano, John Duykers, tenor and Andy Narell, steel drums. Upon hearing the recording John Cage said, "This music (Callin' Home Coyote) is so beautiful it makes me cry." Of Thunder , Roger Downey (Seattle Weekly) describes it as "a kind of up-to-date shamanic ritual...weirdly convincing spiritually, as well as stunningly beautifuly to listen to...you can almost smell the wood smoke."
SCORES
A prayer dedicated to people living with AIDS, scored for soprano (with synthesizer), flute(s), clarinet(s), violin, cello, percussion, and piano. The piece is in five sections, each addressing some aspect of the dilemma of the soul visited upon us in this age of the virus. The first and last sections are based on Sanskrit texts, the third is an intensely emotional duo for violin and cello. The last section is a ritualized chant and can be performed by alternative instrumentation(s) and voice(s). Any of the five sections can be performed independently. (20 minutes)
("Ten Meditations on the Sefirot as a Wheel of Light" - Naftali Bacharach.) A concert/instrumental piece scored for flute(s), clarinet(s), bassoon, cello, percussion and piano. The piece derives its form from the ten states of enlightenment outlined in the Kabbala (Jewish mysticism) and can be performed in a simple manner or with elaborate lighting and individual "stations" for each of the meditations. Each meditation may be performed independently. (30 minutes)
A concert/performance piece for solo female vocalist, flute(s), clarinet(s), violin, cello, piano/synthesizer and percussion. In six ingegrated sections, it is a highly dramatic, ritualized journey of one woman to her most interior, most primitive psychic state, not witholding the more difficult emotions of rage, terror or grief. The text is in part original but also draws material from the Gnostic literature, contemporary poetry and ethnopoetic translations. (25 minutes)
Scored for solo viola and solo percussion (vibraphone, marimba, cymbals and gongs), this concert piece takes its title from the Sanskrit word meaning: the heating up of the senses as an action toward Self realization. The piece is in three sections - opening and closing instrumental "mantras" which are lyric and spacious and a middle section which is outwardly energetic and continually rhythmic in nature. (14 minutes)
("The soul at dawn is like darkened water that slowly begins to say thank you, thank you." - Rumi.) A concert trio for solo flute (piccolo, flute, alto flute), piano and percussion (a considerable collection, excluding timpani). In the shape of one spiraling movement, this virtuosic piece evokes a ritual procession, a musical - and state - of being, a continuum of alternating "darkness" and "lightness". (18 minutes)
Item number GJ-S-5; Score $18.00 OUT OF STOCK
Born in New York in 1946, Giteck teaches music and women's studies at Cornish College of the Arts (1979-present); was composer-in-residence with Relache Ensemble/Music in Motion (1993-94); was lead-artist for Arts Regional Transit Project - Municipality of Seattle (1992-93); and Music Specialist - Seattle Mental Health Institute - (1986-91). She is described as "among those who recognize the nurturing and restorative powers of music...transpacific works that are spacious, reflective...always ripe with intense emotional energy...gorgeously absorbing..." San Francisco Bay Guardian. "All are infused with spirituality and a keen sense of ritual...shows an intense insight as well as a vigorous sense of wonder and homor." Option Magazine. "Much of her music just hangs in the air...it is touched by light...it glows transparently." Seattle Weekly. Giteck's music has been performed and broadcast throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, India, Japan and Australia, and has been featured in two PBS films for "American Experience". Awards and commissions have come from the National Endowment(s) for the Arts and Humanities, the French Government, Meet the Composer/Readers Digest, the San Francisco Symphony, the California Arts Council, Seattle Arts Commission, King County Arts Commission, Music America - San Francisco and Seattle, and Gaudeamus in Holland. She attended Mills college (B.A .and M.A., Music), Paris Conservatory and Antioch University (M.A., Psychology). She has also studied with Darius Milhaud, Olivier Messiaen and Rebecca Weinstock.
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