Ave: a folk opera about the Marys [Cast Recording]

Editorial Reviews
Jill Mellick, PhD with Marion Woodman's Coming Home to Myself
...glorious musical celebration of soul, heart and healingan extraordinary multicultural creation

Jeanne Shutes, PhD, The Worlds of Potsunuu
a remarkable and melodic group of songs bringing spirit into harmonic form.

Album Description
Lifes procession marches in majesty and proud submission toward the infinite. Kalil Gibran AVE, a folk opera, is a contemporary interpretation of the two Marys, the sacrificial, transcendent mother of Jesus and the sensual, passionate Mary Magdalene. Nature, the glory of the divine feminine, surrenders only to Spirit. Virginal integrity submits to the invisible Holy Spirit in the youthful Mary, but it awaits living proof of God as the Son in the Black Madonna Mary Magdalene. Both the light and dark aspects of the divine feminine illumine the path of grace for the human soul. Ancient archetypes of the Spirit and Natures Life Force reenact this drama throughout the millenniums, beckoning to human understanding to find its way Home.

Ave: a folk opera about the Marys [Cast Recording]

Tracks:

Overture: (arrgd by Chris Abeyta, Sheila Schiferl, Rose Marie Caminiti)
Grace: (First rcrd @ Stepbridge Studios, re-arrgd & re-mixed ; vocal arrgd by Dennis Cicak, guitar by Sam Quintana, keyboard by Irvin Trujillo: Solo by Joel Kelly, Vocals: Gayatri, Dennis Cicak, Rosemarie Caminiti, Lois Goodman, Rebecca Hyde, Dan Kelly, Darla Sather, Dick Wilson)
Persephone: (vocals Gayatri, keyboard Irvin Trujillo, )guitars by Sam Quintana
I Need You: (vocals by Gayatri, guitar by Sam Quintana, Keyboard & Sitar by Frank Aon, Keyboard-Irvin Trujillo, arrgd by Aon & Trujillo)
This Man Does Nothing Right/Its Hard to Be Divine All the Time: (vocals by Wendy Hassemer & Joe Manuel, rcrd by Dave Schiferl, arrgd by Chris Abeyta (guitar), Sheila Schiferl (keyboard), Rosemarie Caminiti (Vocal Director)
Liberation Song: (vocals Gayatri, keyboard Bill Martin, guitar by Sam Quintana)
Come to Me: (vocals by Rosemarie Caminiti, keyboard & recording by Bill Martin)
Lyte: (Vocal & music arrgd by Sandy Kashmar, re-arrgd by Chris Abeyta (guitar), Sheila Schiferl (keyboard & harp), & Rosemarie Caminiti, (Vocal Director), rcrd-Steven Barnett, re-mixed by Dave Schiferl; vocals by the Ave Choir: Astrid Brower, Sandy Canzone, Frank Chisholm, Dennis Cicak, Alicia DaSilva, Terry Jansen, Kelly Graham, Gurupreet Khalsa, Meeri Peeri Khalsa, Sangeet Khaur Khalsa, Siri Kar, Khalsa, Ernesto Salaz, Barbara Tullman, Lynn Walters)
Magnificat: (vocals by Gayatri, keyboard and arrgd by Sheila Schiferl)
Shame: (solo by Wendy Hassemer & the Ave Choir, rcrd by Dave Schiferl,arrgd by Chris Abeyta (guitar), Sheila Schiferl (keyboard),Rosemarie Caminiti (Vocal Director)
Joseph's Perplexity: (vocals by Pat Dinkins & Alicia Da Silva, rcrd by Dave Schiferl, arrgd by Chris Abeyta (guitar), Sheila Schiferl (keyboard),Rosemarie Caminiti (Vocal Director)
I Will Stand By You: (vocals/keyborad by Gayatri, guitars by Sam Quintana, keyboard & arrgd by IrvinTrujillo)
Listen (composed-played-arranged by Neva Balduff)
I Love Men: (vocals-Gayatri, guitars by Sam Quintana, keyboard & arrgd w/ Irvin)
Beyond Betrayal's Kiss: (vocals/flute by Chris Brown & Gayatri, guitar by Sam Quintana, keyboard arrgd with Irvin Trujillo)
Won't You Play Me? (vocals by Gayatri, guitar by Sam Quintana, keyboard by Scott Leherrisey, arrgd with Irvin Trujillo (addl keyboard)
Breaking Free: (vocals by Joel Kelly, guitars by Sam Quintana; keyboard-by Irvin Trujillo)
* Ill Follow You: (music by Neva, Lyrics & solo by Gayatri)
* Do Unto Others: (by Neva Balduff vocal & music arrangement by Sandy Kashmar, music re-arrgd by Chris Abeyta (solo as Jesus & on guitar), Sheila Schiferl (on keyboard), Rosemarie Caminiti, (Vocal Director), solos by Martin Barela (1st), Gail Tereshita (as Mary, 2nd solo), rcrd by Dave Schiferl)
Virgin Birth? (Arrgd with Yamaha, vocal & addl music by Dan Kelly)
Breaking Free (solo by Chris Abeyta on guitar, keyboard Sheila Schiferl)
Bring Down the Power: (vocals by Chris Brown, arrgd, rcrd & played by Sandy Kashmar, saxophone by Elaine Nelson, addl arrgd w/ Irvin Trujillo)
Crucifixion: (vocals by Gayatri, keyboard and arrgd by Sheila Schiferl)
* He Will Return* (by Neva Balduff (lyrics by Gayatri arrangement by Sandy Kashmar with Chris Abeyta (on guitar), Sheila Schiferl (on keyboard, & Rosemarie Caminiti, (choir director), rcrd & re-mixed by Dave Schiferl; vocals by the Ave Choir: with add'l vocals by Gip Brown & Chris Brown25. Lyte: (vocal by Joel Kelly, keyboard & rcrd by Bill Martin)

Album Description

Lifes procession marches in majesty and proud submission toward the infinite. Kalil Gibran AVE, a folk opera, is a contemporary interpretation of the two Marys, the sacrificial, transcendent mother of Jesus and the sensual, passionate Mary Magdalene. Nature, the glory of the divine feminine, surrenders only to Spirit. Virginal integrity submits to the invisible Holy Spirit in the youthful Mary, but it awaits living proof of God as the Son in the Black Madonna Mary Magdalene. Both the light and dark aspects of the divine feminine illumine the path of grace for the human soul. Ancient archetypes of the Spirit and Natures Life Force reenact this drama throughout the millenniums, beckoning to human understanding to find its way Home.

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