A Dove Has Spread Its Wings
A Spoken Word Oratorio, a message of peace

  Bill Stevens - compositions using Logic Pro
  Spoken Word using Narakeet, AI text to speech program

  * John F. Kennedy - Peace Speech, exerpt, American University, June    10, 1963
  * Prelude_Aria 1 with messages of peace by... 
                                                                            Martin Luther King, Jr.
                                                                             Hafsat Abiola
                                                                             Malala Yousafzai
                                                                             Nelson Mandela
                                                                             John Lewis
                                                                             Elijah Cummings
                                                                             Martin Luther King, Jr.
                                                                             Hafsat Abiola
  * First Interlude
  * Recitative - A Brave and Startling Truth, 
                             Dr. Maya Angelou
  * Second Interlude
  * Aria 2_Finale with messages of peace by… 
                                 Mother Teresa
                                 Thich Nhat Hanh
                                  Indira Gandhi
                                  Mahatma Gandhi
                                  Mother Teresa
                                  Thich Nhat Hanh         
* Finale: 
Buddha
Prophet Muhammad
Krishna
Jesus
Lao Tzu
Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation Speech - A Tiny Ripple of Hope, excerpt, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1966

Cover Art - Pablo Picasso’s Peace Dove - Picasso’s dove of peace spread its wings and flew around the world. No power could stop it.

A Dove Has Spread Its Wings

A Dove Has Spread Its Wings
A Spoken Word Oratorio, a message of peace

Bill Stevens - compositions using Logic Pro
Spoken Word using Narakeet, AI text to speech program

* Aria 2_Finale with messages of peace by… 
                                 Mother Teresa
                                 Thich Nhat Hanh
                                  Indira Gandhi
                                  Mahatma Gandhi
                                  Mother Teresa
                                  Thich Nhat Hanh         Finale: Buddha
                                                                                    Prophet Muhammad
                                                                                     Krishna
                                                                                     Jesus
                                                                                      Lao Tzu
Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation Speech - A Tiny Ripple of Hope, excerpt, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1966

Aria 2 - Finale - Epilogue

A Dove Has Spread Its Wings
A Spoken Word Oratorio, a message of peace

Bill Stevens - compositions using Logic Pro

* Second Interlude

Second Interlude

A Dove Has Spread Its Wings
A Spoken Word Oratorio, a message of peace

Bill Stevens - compositions using Logic Pro
Spoken Word using Narakeet, AI text to speech program

* Recitative - A Brave and Startling Truth, Dr. Maya Angelou

Recitative

A Dove Has Spread Its Wings
A Spoken Word Oratorio, a message of peace

Bill Stevens - compositions using Logic Pro

  * First Interlude

First Interlude

A Dove Has Spread Its Wings
A Spoken Word Oratorio, a message of peace

Bill Stevens - compositions using Logic Pro
Spoken Word using Narakeet, AI text to speech program

* John F. Kennedy - Peace Speech, exerpt, American University, June 10, 1963
Prelude_Aria 1 with messages of peace by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hafsat Abiola
Malala Yousafzai
Nelson Mandela
John Lewis
Elijah Cummings
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hafsat Abiola

A Dove Has Spread It's Wings - Prelude - Aria 1

Bill Stevens has been driven by a quote he attributes to Miles Davis, “I have to change”, but he will be the first to tell you that his music is embedded in a deep understanding of history brought to the present and beyond. He is always thinking about the process of creation, finding the new, pushing boundaries both in his playing and especially in his compositions where he has always looked to follow the voice inside of him toward his own spiritual path throughout a life in music. 

Although Bill’s current music is based in sound and color through electro-ambient sound settings that often utilize spoken word, fine art inspiration and field recordings, he also has a robust back catalog of straight ahead Jazz, modal Jazz in an ECM style with an emphasis on Impressionistic harmony and Romantic based melodies, free Jazz and avant-chromatic funk.

It has been a journey with many accomplishments (signed by iti Records, grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, conference speaker and guest performer in Norway and Australia to name a few), but there have been challenges on the path as well (years of overcoming a distinct fear of performing, a break from the exhaustion of maintaining a career in music that turned into a six year sabbatical to a debilitating almost career ending bout with bells palsey that affected his ability to play the trumpet. Bill refers to his sound on the horn today as a ‘fragile beauty’). But Bill’s middle class upbringing in Syracuse, NY taught him the value of hard work, that anything worth caring about as much as he cares about his music is worth fighting for. It was out of these trials that Bill began to commit toward sharing his love of music with a younger generation in the New York City public schools. Bill has worked to inspire and provide his students with creative experiences through his love of music, performance and composition.

Bill wants his fans to know how important they are to him. He always ends his newsletter by saying, “Thank you for being the most important part of my music”. For Bill this is not just a slogan, but his mantra. He genuinely cares about the lives of the people who listen to his music by often saying that his mission each time he performs or each time someone listens to his music at home is to transport them away from their daily grind, to have them momentarily forget about their job, issues at home, whatever the case may be to find a moment of relaxation and inner peace transforming them through instrumental abstract concepts as a fuel to empower and enlighten.

A Dove Has Spread Its Wings

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