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The hauntingly beautiful music of John Schlenck enables the listener to explore the spiritual dimensions of life. His contemplative works for chorus and instrumental ensembles take you on an inner journey through a rich landscape that bridges ancient and modern, East and West.
Thank you for visiting the music of John Schlenck. If you would like to order CDs or audio cassettes of the complete compositions excerpted below please email VedWestCom@aol.com VAR001, VAR002, VAR004 and VAR005 are available from amazon.com
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For chorus with synth/flute, tambura, synth/harp and tabla. Text from Mundaka Upanishad. The spiritual teacher likens meditation to archery: "Even as the arrow is merged in the target, aim yourself, lose yourself, find yourself in Godhead." | MP3.com CD: Music Celebrating The Spirit - buy it!
CD: The Illumined Self: A Choral Cantata (VAR001)
Label: Vedantic Arts Recordings
Credits: John Schlenck directs Vedantic Arts Ensemble. Robert Alexander, tabla; John Schlenck, tambura, synth/flute, synth/harp. |
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Tenor solo with strings. Text from Walt Whitman’s Passage to India. "Passage indeed O soul to primal thought. . . . O my brave soul! O farther farther sail! O daring joy, but safe! Are they not all the seas of God?" | MP3.com CD: Music Celebrating The Spirit - buy it!
CD: The Bard and the Prophet and Three Vesper Hymns (VAR003)
Label: Vedantic Arts Recordings
Credits: Timothy Mount conducts Vedantic Arts Ensemble. Jonathan Goodman, tenor; Regis Iandiorio, violin; Julian Barber, viola; David Heiss, cello; John Schlenck, synthesizer |
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A paean to the ideal human being, as seen by Walt Whitman—"Fair, able, beautiful, content and loving"—and Swami Vivekananda—"His lips speak only benediction to all, His hands do only good works, His mind can only think good thoughts, He is himself a living blessing." | MP3.com CD: Music Celebrating The Spirit - buy it!
CD: The Bard and the Prophet: Journey to Freedom - To be released later this year
Label: Contemporary Record Society
Credits: Timothy Mount conducts Moscow New Choir and State Radio/Television Symphony Orchestra (Moscow) |
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