
ROBERT LEPLEY: VISIONS WITHIN
Spiritual Poems of Rainer Maria RilkeInterpreted Through Vocal Chants & Harmonies
Robert Benford Lepley
NEW YORK VOICES
MERYL STREEP, recitation
[MS1215]
$12.95
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Robert Benford Lepley is a composer and a jazz and classical pianist who has performed with legendary "big bands" such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra and Bob Crosby's Bobcats as well as many well-known contemporary jazz musicians. He was also a parish minister for twenty five years, and has been an activist and community organizer since the 1960s. For six years he directed the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives - the largest peace organization on Long Island. He holds graduate degrees in the areas of theology and choral composition. Mr. Lepley is married to Martha Helen Chamberlain. They have one son, Benford Chamberlain Lepley.
Rainer Maria Rilke has long been considered one of the world’s greatest spiritual poets. His mystical and unique subjective view have influenced generations of later writers as well as several prominent literary and spiritual movements. The meditational poems interpreted on this recording are from the middle of Rilke’s career, having been written between 1899 and 1903. During this stage of his life, Rilke was striving for a personal, plain-spoken perspective on the self, the spirit and the act of poetry. In these poems, Rilke looks inward as he seeks "God/Spirit" within the dance between thought and emotion as well as outward in "all the things of the world". Rilke's voice is one of a poet seeking to nurture the inner and outer lives of people who seek a meaningful place on a chaotic planet.
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ROBERT BENFORD LEPLEY
You Darkness That I Come From
Already The Ripening Barberries Are Red
To Music
My Life Is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour
I Find You In All These Things Of The World
I Live My Life In Growing Orbits
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