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Media Reviews
Utne Reader, January 2003
Music for the Final Journey
A new CD helps the dying - and their loved ones -
let go
After the birth of his daughter in
1992, Gary Malkin, an Emmy-winning composer of scores for
film
and television, went in search
of a
better way to serve his fellow human beings. What he ended
up doing
is, as he puts it, "scoring lives." He and collaborator
Michael
Stillwater created a two-CD and book set - Graceful Passages
- that
combines spoken-word stories, chants, and prayers with Malkin's
gentle music. It's purpose: to help people facing death let
go,
peacefully. Released in 2000, Graceful Passages has already
helped
many people contemplate, and even celebrate, the end of their
lives.
The tracks fuse natural sounds with music and stories,
told by the
likes of Ram Dass, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and Arun
and
Sunanda Ghandi. "These are stories we can all relate to," says
Malkin. "My job is to listen to the voice tone in the
stories and
match the music tones to those of the speaker." It's
the first in a
planned series called Wisdom of the World from Malkin and
Stillwater's company, Companion Arts.
Roxanne Sadovsky
Utne Reader
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