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Mother Divine Mother
May is Mother’s Day month! The Candlelight Reading Series presents Mother Divine Mother, a tribute to The Mother with songs, stories, anecdotes and poems honoring motherhood on Friday, May 11, 8 PM at Revelations in the piano room. This event of sharing will have a festive character, celebrating all our moms. There will be tea, cookies, flowers and candlelight. Love donation $2.
On the program are portions from the Thousand Names of Mother Divine recited by Patricia Kirti Wood, accompanied on tampura by Mousumi Dey, as well as Welsh, Irish, Italian, German & Indian songs sung by Pamela Vaughan, Magda Georgio, Mousumi Dey, sopranos, and Freddy Niagara Fonseca, tenor with accompaniment by pianists Mahima Lise Marcell and Patricia Saunders with Nathanael Zumstein on viola obligato.
You'll also hear poetry about motherhood from various countries read by Karen Carter, eurythmist, Freddy, Jewel McDonald, Megan Robinson, and Ingrid Saterstrom and some fun, touching stories about our mothers, as well as the winners of the poetry and short story contest for Fairfield poets and writers.
Everyone is invited to bring a xerox copy of a favorite photo of their mother. We’ll have them all on a display, smiling to us from wherever they are now. Please come on time and enjoy!
As to the poetry and story contest in the works: all Fairfield writers are invited to send in ONE original poem or story — not more than one page long — about either your own mother, the heavenly mother, motherhood, or all mothers). If you win in either category, you’ll be invited to come recite your entry at the reading. Send to freddypoetry@mac.com by May 9th, midnight.
PROGRAM
Mousumi, tampura
The Thousand Names of Mother Divine — Patricia K.W. & Mousumi, tampura
Annie Dougherty — A Daughter’s Song — Jewel
Lucille Clifton — If Mama — Jewel
Charles Gounod — Ave Maria — Magda, soprano & Mahima, piano
Alfred Tennyson — The May Queen — Karen
Danny Boy — Freddy, tenor & Patricia S., piano
Maureen Tolman Flannery — Bond — Ingrid
Maureen Tolman Flannery — Newborn — Ingrid
Lydia Huntley Sigourney — The Second Birth-Day — Ingrid
Ingrid Saterstrom — The Birthing of a Mother — Ingrid
All Through the Night — Old Welsh Melody — Pamela, soprano, Patricia S., piano, Nathan, viola
Megan Robinson — Circle — Megan
Story told by Patricia K.W.
D. L. Roy — My country! my beautiful mother — Mousumi sings, Nathan, violin
E. E. Cummings — if there are any heavens my mother — Freddy
Giuseppe Verdi — La Vergine degli Angeli — Magda, soprano, Mahima, piano, Nathan, violin
The Thousand Names of Mother Divine — Patricia K.W. & Mousumi, tampura
Schubert — Ave Maria — Freddy, tenor, Pamela, soprano, Patricia S., piano, Nathan, violin
Shunfenthal, Jennifer — My Mother Is the Best — Megan
Eve Merriam — Fantasia — Jewel
Thelma J. Palmer — Note of Advice to the Good Nurse, Death — Jewel
William Butler Yeats — A Cradle Song — Karen, eurythmy & Freddy, narrator
Rishi Chattopadhyay — Rejoice the Name of Our Mother — Mousumi sings, tampura
Kathleen Raine — A Poem of Incarnation — Karen & Freddy
Paul Cleaver — Storm’s Child — Karen
Francesco Durante — Vergin Tutto Amore — Magda, soprano & Mahima, piano
Ingrid Saterstrom — Saved by My Mother, a story — Ingrid
Ingrid Saterstrom — My Mother’s Death — Ingrid
Ingrid Saterstrom — The Heart of a Mother — Ingrid
Believe Me if All Those Endearng Young Charms — Freddy, tenor, Patricia S., piano
The Thousand Names of Mother Divine — Patricia K.W. & Mousumi, tampura
Franz Schubert — Schlafe, Schlafe — Pamela, soprano, Patricia S., piano
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