About
Transcendence...
Dolores writes:
Since 1970, I began writing poetry. By the time 2003 rolled around, I had
quite a collection of poems. In the latter part of September 2003, I began
a novena to the Archangels, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael for the guidance
of my poetry.
After attending a Christian Conference in Arizona, I learned of the Catholic
Music Association and e-mailed the association a small note stating that I
write Catholic/spiritual poetry and am searching for someone who would be
interested in putting my poems to music/song.
On September 29, 2003, the Feast Day of the Archangels, Michael, Raphael and
Gabriel I received a reply to my e-mail request….from Karsten Klemme
of Salzbergen, Germany. He was so gracious and eager to hear my poems…I
e-mailed him two or three samples of my poetry.
Through much prayer and communication we have worked together to bring about
beautiful, inspiring, heart-lifting messages, better known as our new spiritual
venture…Transcendence. I have been Roman Catholic all of my life. I adore
the Eucharist and have a loving devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and many
saints. Through their intercessions, they pray with me and for me, to Jesus,
to make known His divine will. Many of the poems I have written were inspired
in the presence of the Eucharist.
Karsten, a recent convert to the Catholic Church, manifests a deep love for
God, his wife and family. We share the richness of the faith and express this
in our cooperation and desire to glorify our Lord through beautiful music.
Never underestimate the power of prayer.
Karsten writes:
In 1989 I became aware of the power of spoken words mixed with the right music.
I recorded some bible passages and underlayed them with a kind of unobtrusive
and soothing music of mine. The result was an audio cassette which I had to
copy many times, since it was so popular among the peoples of the church I
was attending in these days. I began to search for other artists/CD's and
composers who did the same thing and was amazed by the richness I found.
In the years that followed I was often times asked to play music and 'lead
the worship' in congregations. My favorite style was to play gently on the
piano while the people prayed silently... it was my 'special field' of service,
and often I was rushing through the songs in order to get to this place of
quiet and intimate worship. I've never stopped doing this, and it's also a
great privilege to play with other musicians and singers at all kinds of events...
yet what I like the most is to retreat into my little 'sound-world' at home
and work on new compositions.
Since 1995 I started to write new songs and step by step expanded my gear.
The rapid high-tech progress
helped me a great deal, since it was now possible to play sampled instruments
on the computer, which was a possibility of musical expression too expensive
to do before. I produced several CD's, and when I had a broadband internet
connection I started to upload and share MP3's on the web.
In September 2003 I composed some instrumental pieces which I entitled 'Unspoken
Understanding'. During the writing process of these tracks it became clear
to me that it would be better to find someone to collaborate with, to leave
my place as a 'loner' composer. I joined different online networks one of
them was the Catholic Music Association. At the end of September I received
an e-mail from Dolores Thompson, she mailed me some poetry, and as I read
it I suddenly 'heard' new music inside of me...
We decided to find out if a colaboration might be a way worthy to follow.
Dolores sent me some CD's with recited poetry. I produced the little sample
'The Dawn'...this was the starting point of our project: 'Transcendence'.
Visit Karsten and his Jonsong projects at www.jonsong.net
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