On Sunday, before dinner,  i had only 10 minutes  time to let Monsieur Carl play and record something, and this entirely free Improvisation came out: "Monsieur Carl Is Praying". Hope you enjoy!

Monsieur Carl Is Praying

Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 No. 3 - III. Largo

Alleluia! O Virga mediatrix, sancta viscera tua mortem superaverunt et venter tuus omnes creaturas illuminavit il pulchro flore de suavissima integritate clausi pudoris tui orto.

Alelluia! O branch and mediatrix, your sacred flesh has conquered death, your womb all creatures illumined in beauty's bloom from that exquisite purity of your enclosed modesty sprung forth.

Alleluia, O  Virgo Mediatrix , Hildegard von Bingen

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Andrei Ioniță, cello
Fritz Reiner, conductor

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

Heading North(Piano Day 2016)

The late Wangari Maathai was a biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She was born under British colonial occupation and schooled by Catholic missionaries. But when she looked back on her childhood near the end of her life, she realized her family’s Kikuyu culture had imparted her with an intuitive sense of environmental balance. Maathai was steadfast in her determination to fight for the twin issues of conservation and human rights — and planting trees was a symbol of defiance.

Wangari Maathai founded the global Green Belt Movement, which has contributed today to the planting of over 52 million trees. She was the 2004 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Her books include the memoir “Unbowed” and “Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World.” She’s also one of the 100 heroic women featured in the book “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.” She died in 2011 at the age of 71. 

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Wangari Maathai — Marching With Trees

Untitled 28 was a sculpture, video and sound installation created in 28 days by artist Marie-Louise Jones and composer Lucy Claire. It was exhibited in July 2017 at Here East in London as part of Gavin Turk and Anna Maloney’s show, Inside Out. 

The music reflects each sculpture in the installation and explores themes of duality and pairs through atmospheric binaural recordings, beautiful violin melodies and vocal textures. The materials used in the physical installation; wood, stone and metal play a prominent role in the soundtrack and the sounds created when collided together were used to create unusual textures which were weaved into the piece.

Symbiosis

Most Things Are Beautiful (Piano Day 2020)

HAYDN — The Creation (complete) — beginning (Nos. 1–21)

reflect

An old forest in central Sweden with woodpeckers drumming

Woodpeckers in early Spring, Sweden

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Wangari Maathai — Marching With Trees

On Being Studios

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