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Joan Szymko
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Where is the Door to the Tavern
A rowdy, highly rhythmic celebration of life and is accompanied by double bass and pitched beer bottles.
SATB with divisi, double bass and 3 pitched bottles
A wild setting of a selection from the anthology “The Gift”, poetry of the great Sufi poet Hafiz, translated/transformed by Daniel Ladinsky. I was taken with the mystical notion of being intoxicated on God and of the willingness to see everything as a potential “door to God.” A rowdy, highly rhythmic celebration of life and was is accompanied by double bass and pitched beer bottles, this piece was definitely inspired by drinking longnecks at the local tavern!
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Where is the door to the tavern?
Where is the door to God?
In the sound of a barking dog
In the ring of a hammer
[In a drop of rain]
In the face of everyone I see.
– Hafiz (14th c.) translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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Music from Joan Szymko Music
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We Are All Bound Up Together (TTBB)
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Sioux Prayer (SAB)
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