The World Peace ChoirDate: November 12, 2013 Views: 4658
Dear ChoralNet and other readers!
My name is Jonas Rasmussen and I am the creator of the
”World Peace Choir” together with composer Tommy
Jervidal.
The World Peace Choir is a project whose goal is to gather
singers from all over the world to make a statement of peace
through the art of singing. The choir is a “virtual choir”,
which means that every participant makes an individual video
recording of his or her part of the song we are recording.
After the deadline, which is January 15th, we will gather all
the videos and make a final creative video starring all the
participants in the song “Francis Prayer – Sancta Maria”. The
song is composed by Tommy Jervidal and Tove Lind and was
originally a part of their musical “God’s Troubadour” which has
just been performed in Assisi in October.
We launched the World Peace Choir on September 21, 2013,
World Peace Day, using music and song as great tools for
raising awareness of the current urgent need for world peace.
Assisi in Italy was named City Of Peace after the historical
inter-religious meeting there in 1986. Therefore Francis'
Prayer is an obvious choice for a worldwide peace choir.
The American composer Eric Whitacre created the concept of
“Virtual choirs” and it has grown very popular in the last
couple of years. We want to take the concept further by
incorporating world peace into the message of the music and we
think that a worldwide choir project is the ideal way to share
this message.
Many choirs around the world have already shown their
interest in the World Peace Choir and the community is still
growing. The Norwegian Choir Association has written an article
about the project on their website and the World Peace Choir
has been featured on national Danish radio as well. We hope
that you will help us share the message of peace too.
Listen to the demo of Francis’ Prayer – Sancta Maria here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Mw8cfFfqo For more information about the project, visit
www.worldpeacechoir.net
If you have any questions regarding the project don’t
hesitate to contact me.
All the best,
Jonas Rasmussen
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