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The Illumined Self: A Choral Cantata
"The Kingdom of God is within." An intense spiritual journey unfolds when twelve World-Class choral singers combine their talents with an East-West instrumental ensemble. Through music based on ancient Indian texts, we hear the tale of a trembling aspirant who approaches an illumined teacher. Full of yearning and awe, the aspirant receives instruction, which is followed by long hours of intense meditation. After attaining enlightenment, he bathes in the glow of sublime, eternal peace.
Tracks
1) Invocation
2) Arise! Awake!
3) I Know No Other Shelter
4) There Is a Way
5) In the Luminous Golden Sheath
6) When This is Seen
7) Raise the Great Bow
8) That Thou Art
9) I Have Realized that Great Being
10) Recognize My True Nature
11) Reprise and Concluding Prayer
Artist Profile
John Schlenck , a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, has served as music director of the Vedanta Society, New York, since 1961. He has composed numerous songs and large choral works, symphonies, piano solo works and chamber music. His interfaith cantata "Seek the Eternal" was performed at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago, 1993. Schlenck oratorio trilogy "A Mission to the World," for chorus and orchestra, vocal quartet and narrators, was performed at Alice Tully Hall in New York, 1994. In 1997, his Three Vedantic Hymns was released on the New World recording, Divine Grandeur.
Credits
©1996 Vedanta West Communications
Vedantic Arts Ensemble
Directed by John Schlenck
Robert Alexander, tabla
John Schlenck, tambura and synthesizers
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