Two blogs under transition

It feels like I'm changing offices, shuffling papers, files, desks, art on the walls-- you get it.  By next week I'll be settled in.  I am starting to work on a new project, an ebook:

Feed the Beauty~The Art of Aging. 

The text at the upper right corner of this blog gives an overview of what we will be creating--this is a collaboration of women.  I want to know and see how you are thinking, feeling, creating the space in which you are aging. I want to listen, staring with myself.

One of the Listening Women from Feed the Beauty~White Rose

Lotus

Tarab and the voice of Umm Kulthum

I have listened to Umm's voice many times in my studio. But I did not know about tarab until I listened to a recent NPR show (links and quotes below-emphasis mine).

Tarab is "a unique quality of Arab music that translates best to the word enchantment. 


Part of tarab is the idea that listeners are as important as singers; that there's a powerful, spiritual exchange between them that is crucial to the performance."


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124612595
More on "The Voice of Egypt" on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90326836