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Yesterday and Forever
(00:24:31)
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Documentary composition by Marjorie Van Halteren and Helen Engelhardt featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - December 2008 is the 20th Anniversary.
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(00:06:34)
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Jan Kerouac delivering her own poem to Jack over his own poem 30 years previously.
Transit Duchess
(00:02:10)
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Inner thoughts riding bus late at night in New York
Dead of Summer and other poems.
(00:09:15)
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
2" audio poem about summer, part of group of four. available separately.
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(00:29:21)
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Mothers and Sons is a double portrait of the German sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), who created "The Grieving Parents," a moving memorial to her son who died in WWI, and the contemporary German-Americansculptor Suse Lowenstein , who created an equally monumental work to honor her son, a victim in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. Both women describe how their work (18 years for Kathe, 14 years for Suse), became a path through their grief, bearing witness to the transforming power of art and creation. Mothers and Sons is a collaboration between Helen Engelhardt, a storyteller and performer, and Marjorie Van Halteren, sound artist. Kathe's diaries are performed by Helen, with Marjorie composing sound and music. Sound recorded on location on Long Island and in Southern Belgium. Mothers and Sons is the third program in a trilogy exploring the themes of war, loss, memory, and regeneration. The two other half hours, "Unquiet Graves," and "Yesterday and Forever, are also available.
The 20th Anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster is December 21, 2008.
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included are a thirty-second promo, and an optional introduction intended to be used with a newshole - intro is 1:18, insert live station headlines and/or newshole, then program, which is 25:16
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Veterans Day Special (00:53:53)
Dmae Roberts
Posted on November 03, 2008 at 11:50 AM | Permalink
Review of Veterans Day Special: Mothers and Sons
Marjorie Van Halteren is a true radio artist. Her sonic texturing and musicality makes her pieces rise above most audio work on public radio today. Nothing makes this clearer than "Mothers and Sons." In this deeply poetic and gently moving artistic piece, Van Halteren proves again her unsung brilliance in the public radio world.
"Mothers and Sons" is one moving and remarkable work. There is no glitz, no boring narrative, no spelling it out for the audience. This is sound art that tells a carefully woven and intelligent story of two mothers grief over the loss of their sons who were tragically killed. One in WWI and the other in the tragedy of the 1988 Lockerbie, Scotland air disaster. This piece describes how it took 18 years for one woman and 14 years for another to create loving memorials for their sons. For those going through grief, this piece can speak to the transformative power of art to heal from and to come to terms with terrible loss.
"Mothers and Sons" would make a touching sonic memorial for Veteran's Day, Memorial Day and Mother's Day. I urge programmers to give a listen and find room in their schedules for this beautiful and moving work.