New Year’s: The Inner Life of Music – Music and the Human Condition

Dec 29, 2023

Single-day participation in Karl Middleman’s New Year’s Retreat, The Inner Life of Music. Lunch and dinner included!

Karl Middleman’s five-day workshop, New Year’s: The Inner Life of Music, invites participants to explore how composers use music as alchemy to turn personal hardships into life-giving measures. Through experiential individual explorations and group sharing, listening, and learning, we will search the musical paths of our own spiritual lives, and the boundless possibilities music offers for enlightenment and upliftment.

This one-day offering invites you to join ongoing participants for explorations of three heroic singers from the 1930s – Paul Robeson, Herb Jeffries and Ethel Waters – as well as Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 135 and other musical works. The evening activity will explore symbolism and humanitarianism in Mozart’s The Magic Flute from Julie Taymore’s 2017 production.

The day begins with an optional Meeting for Worship with the Pendle Hill community at 8:30am. The program will start promptly at 9:15am and will feature a morning workshop, noon lunch, an afternoon workshop, and dinner at 6pm. Participants are invited to stay for an evening workshop and an optional evening activity. No overnight accommodations are included with this program. To book an accompanying sojourn, explore availability here: https://pendlehill.org/stay/.