• Bella
• Sweet Land
• Jean de Florette
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• Amazing Grace
• Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• A River Runs Through It
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Departures
• Ray
• Ponette
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Waitress
• Ce que mes yeux ont vu
• Jakob the Liar
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Roman Holiday
• Song of Sparrows
• John Adams
• 84 Charring Cross Road
• Polar Express
• The Moon and the Son (2005)
• The Princess Bride
• Man on Wire
• Walk the Line
• Waking Ned Divine
• Orfeu Negro
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Toy Story
• Babette’s Feast
• Forrest Gump
• The Neverending Story
• Awakenings
• A Bug’s Life
• 500 Days of Summer
• Shadowlands
• Chariots of Fire
• Molière
• Wings of Desire
• Is Anybody There?
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Le papillon
• The Mission
• 12 Angry Men
• La vita e bella
• A Star is Born (1954)
• Pete’s Dragon
• Avalon (1990)
• La vie en rose
• Edward Scissorshands
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Enchanted April
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• My Life
• Under the Tuscan Sun
• Say Anything
• Citizen Kane
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• E.T.
• Singin’ in the Rain
• Afterlife (1998)
• Pride and Prejudice
• Becoming Jane
• A Room with a View
• Somewhere in Time
• The Namesake
• Once
• North & South
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Remains of the Day
• Songcatcher
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Sense & Sensibility
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Never Cry Wolf
• The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
• Up!
• Wallace & Gromit
• Chicken Little
• Places in the Heart
• Winnie the Pooh
• Charlotte’s Web
• Ratatouille
• The Man of Snowy River
• The Boy Who Could Fly
• The Sandlot
• Serenity
• You’ve Got Mail
• Sleepless in Seattle
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• Into The Woods
• The Secret Garden
• Annie
• Casablanca
• An American Tail
• The Muppets Take Manhatten

If you are a classically-trained singer or know one, help us celebrate by sharing the gift of this largely unexplored repertoire.

Buy at Amazon or directly from the publisher.

Product description:
A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from a singer’s perspective and provides a basis for research into the songs of this richly musical area of the world. The book is divided by country into 22 chapters, with each chapter containing an introductory essay on the music of the region, a catalog of art songs for that country, and a list of publishers. Some chapters include information on additional sources. Singers and teachers may use descriptive annotations (language, poet) or pedagogical annotations (range, tessitura) to determine which pieces are appropriate for their voices or programming needs, or those of their students. The guide will be a valuable resource for vocalists and researchers, however familiar they may be with this glorious repertoire

• Las 13 canciones cantadas por mí
• Las 13 canciones con pistas instrumentales
• La partitura entera—veinte páginas con el acompanimiento para piano

Esperamos agregar ayudas visuales (gratis) al sitio en las semanas venideras. Yo he probado estas canciones y verdadermente ayudan que yo haya podido memorizar y RECORDAR todas las palabras a los Artículos de Fe. ¡Esperamos que puedan ayudarles a sus familias también!

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p.d. Este sitio lo hace muy fácil que compartas las canciones que te gusten. Haz click en el botón de “Share” y verás una variedad de opciones.

Para descargarlas (todas son gratis), haz click en “Download” y entra tu correo electrónico, país de origen y código postal. El sitio te mandará un correo electrónico con un vínculo para descargar el archivo .mp3

p.s. CoveritLive stream for Wednesday’s event here (12PM CST).

I’ve been visualizing how I would decorate my home if I had big, expansive spaces and lots of white walls. This is the kind of wall art I would print for myself. Maybe you know of some spaces out there that are in need of these types of pieces now…

If so, by all means, call.

Enjoy. Ahhhhh.

Inspired by Carol Tuttle’s energy profiling system.

This afternoon, I was talking with one of my sisters who has struggled to feel loved in our family. It’s not that anything was wrong with her or with my family; it was just that the way that love was/is generally expressed didn’t/doesn’t translate to feeling loved for her. I think all of us can relate to this scenario on some level.

As we were talking, we discovered five strategies that we can use to receive a greater amount of love in our lives.

1. Learn to love yourself. No matter what.
Whenever you are caught in an uncomfortable situation of any kind, immediately reaffirm to yourself how much you appreciate yourself for being alive and learning what you came here to learn. Life learning is messy. Love yourself anyway.

2. Learn to receive the gifts of others in the spirit of love.
Assume that people around you love you.
Whatever people do to you, around you, or say to your face, consider how it might be an expression of their love for you. This may open your eyes to other ways of expressing love that are not natural for you. For example, some people show their love by making you laugh; others by making you comfortable; others by helping you do something or improve how you do something; and others by helping you make something better. Rejoice in the gifts that others are giving. Feel gratitude for them and show your gratitude by joyfully receiving their gifts. As a modern-day apostle has reminded us, we should “assume the good and doubt the bad” when it comes to our relationships with others.

3. Love others in a way that makes sense to them.
What goes around, comes around. We all know that. But sometimes we have to be the ones to express love in a way that is not natural to us. Reach others with a love language that they understand, even if it’s not as self-gratifying. Many people have read The Five Love Languages. Practice different ways of communicating Words of Affirmation, spending Quality Time, Giving Gifts, performing Acts of Service, and extending loving Physical Touch until you find ways that really send the message, “I love you.”

4. Help others to understand what speaks love to you.
When others give you love in a way that really makes sense to you, tell them. Let them know with words that you appreciate their trying their best to communicate love to you. Also, make opportunities to share with your friends and family what love looks like to you.

5. Attract more people who speak your language.
Not everyone can meet your needs. Attract people into your life who can effortlessly give you what you need to thrive. That is a win-win situation that can shore you up, even when life is at its craziest. Remember that those who are close to you cannot fulfill 100% of your physical, emotional, or spiritual needs. Reach out to create a strong network of support (big or small) that will be meaningful to you. Choose to be around people who see the best in you, who encourage you, and accept you just the way you are.

Where to involve myself? That is the question for tonight AND for the next twelve months. 2009 was a great year of finishes for me: the translation certificate at the University of Chicago Graham School [check]. The thesis about Julián Aguirre to complete my MA in Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago [check]. A move to a new job at Illinois Wesleyan University in Normal, IL [check]. A new home and community of friends in central Illinois [check].

Now what? It’s time to think about what new goals to set for myself and where I’ll be heading next. There are a lot of options and for that I am grateful.

I am grateful to live in a country that still, in spite of human weakness, provides me with opportunities to develop myself and make a difference. I am thankful for the seen and unseen hands that have supported me when I’ve needed it. I am extremely thankful for my large family—so many personalities and challenges enrich my life and make it interesting. And I am thankful for my connection to God. His hand is and has been over me this year, guiding me step by step to the people and circumstances that I need for my own growth. I am glad and grateful for all of these things.

If I can just survive Travis’s 250 foot jump, ten more Nerf darts, and the final kiss in North & South, 2010 will be off to a great start.

My best wishes to everyone for a WONDERFUL new year!

I like this model because it allows you to give what you can and still contribute to worthwhile independent projects (THEREBY CHANGING THE WORLD).

Keep it up, Kickstarter!

2. Partituras individuales de CN

3. Yo sé que me ama el Salvador (partitura-dos páginas)

**Yo sé que me ama el Salvador (letra y música)**

Yo sé que me ama el Salvador (música)

4. Venid a mí (partitura)

Venid a mí (Letra y música con coro)

Venid a mí (Letra y música con solista)

Venid a mí (música)

¡Que tengan un muy buen año!

Good enough is my new mantra and I’m even asking people to tell it to my face. Hey you! Tell me that what I have done here is “good enough.” Hey you! Tell me that *I* am good enough. Might sound silly to those of you who don’t have this issue, but for my fellow Type 4s out there – you know who you are (you edit the cereal box) – let’s celebrate this week by declaring:

We’re not perfect. But we are more than good enough.

Acompáñame
Asombromeda
Cristo ha resucitado [Pascua]
Cuando hay amor
Dulce Tu obra es, Señor
El Espíritu de Dios
En la Judea, en tierra de Dios [Navidad]
Himno de la Pascua de Resurrección
Jesús en pesebre [Navidad]
Noche de luz [Navidad]
Oh, creaciones del Señor
Oración de gratitud
Por la belleza terrenal
Qué firmes cimientos

También hay otras canciones para solistas y dos voces. Gracias, Ashley!!

Dressing Your Truth™

Over the past summer, I have been reading and studying a new system of self care that I like better each and every day that I use it. It’s called Dressing Your Truth™ and I think it has something to offer every woman.

I’ve always taken a very practical and low-key approach to my clothing and makeup, mostly because it was so hard to find things that I felt really great in. “Whatever,” I’d say to myself, “it’s just my clothes. People will have to look beyond my outer experience to get the real me.”

But with this system of Dressing Your Truth™, I’ve learned a profound truth: people see the real me much, much better when I am presenting them with a consistent message about who that is. That’s what DYT is all about. It’s about aligning your outer appearance with your inner experience. And it feels so good.

The results after just a few months of moving myself in this direction have been remarkable. I don’t have to explain myself to people. I can relax and feel understood. People respect me. I am much more comfortable in my clothes. I know EXACTLY what type of apparel to attract into my life. No more guesswork when I’m shopping. And most exciting and unusual of all, I’m actually enjoying putting myself together in the morning! Instead of viewing dressing as a kind of barrier between me and my goals for the day, Dressing Your Truth™ feels more like I am honoring all that is most beautiful and good about me. I’m setting the stage so that I can be truly available for the people in my life.

I would highly recommend this to any woman. Think of both Energy Profiling and Dressing Your Truth™ as a special gift to yourself. Show that gentle kindness toward your body, mind, and spirit that you deserve by dressing it in the textures, colors, design lines, fabrication, and patterns that honor the real you.

Check it out! Visit Dressing Your Truth™ to discover what your dominant energy is and then watch the three hour training module for that type. You will be thrilled with the results!

You can read more about Energy Profiling in Carol Tuttle’s book, It’s Just My Nature!

La silenciosa (The Silent One)
Poet: Tomás Allende Iragorri (1881-1954)
Composer: Andrés Gaos (1874-1959)

Mis transidas esperanzas
llorosas y sin consuelo
preguntan por la su madre
por la su madre que ha muerto.
Cuando lloran por el día
las campanas del silencio.

Enlutaré mis alcobas
hasta hoy tan florecidas
y agostaré mis jardines
y sus fuentes de agua viva
que la rosa más preciada
murió agostando mi vida.

Despedido ha todo encanto
y el monje del desconsuelo
dice a mi oído palabras
mas amargas que el pan negro.
La silenciosa no llega
y a la silenciosa espero.

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My longing tears overwhelm me
spilling without a hope of consolation,
Yearning for my mother,
For my mother who is dead.
The evening bells cry out,
the bells of death’s silence.

I will drape my alcoves in black,
that once were in full bloom,
and I will starve my garden plants,
and I will choke the wells of living water.
My most precious rose
has died, extinguishing my life.

Life’s charm has disappeared
and the monk of sorrows
whispers words in my ears
more bitter than black bread.
The silent one does not come,
yet I wait for the silent one.

[English translation by Allison L. Weiss]

Soprano: Allison L. Weiss
Piano: Silas Bassa

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For more information regarding the Latin American art song, please visit LAASA.org and the LAASA social network.

On a wagon bound for market
There’s a calf with a mournful eye.
High above him there’s a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky.

How the winds are laughing, laughing
They’re laughing with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And laughing half the summer’s night.

Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don

“Stop complaining,” said the farmer,
“Who told you a calf to be?
Why don’t you have wings to fly away
Like the swallow so proud and free?”

How the winds are laughing, laughing
They’re laughing with all of their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And laughing half the summer’s night.

Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don

Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow must learn to fly.

How the winds are laughing, laughing
How they laugh with all of their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And laughing half the summer’s night.

Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don

Ol’ Father Joe is hoping for that apple pie
That Mama Sal will bake he makes that apple eye
And Jane is headed down to bring another boy home
And James is goin’ to play outside with friends.

I know there is another story
All together, summer glory
Evening light, a bowl of cherries
All together, the porch is swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair

Old Uncle Bob is bringing grandma home right now
And Auntie Liza swears she’ll shoot down all my cows
That Cousin Shane he’s made the army, going soon
And James is goin’ to play outside with friends.

I know there is another story
All together, summer glory
Evening light, a bowl of cherries
All together, the porch is swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair

These pictures, they are memories that I never had
But still I’d like to tell you of the tiny shack
Where birds and hearts are whistling a brand new tune
And James is goin’ to play outside with friends.

I know that there’s another story
All together, summer glory
Evening light, a bowl of cherries
All together, the porch is swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair

Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair

Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair

A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire

After more than eight years of collecting this stuff and one intense winter working with my family (‘06-’07) to input all 1243 individual songs (by 82 different composers), their ranges, tessiture, collections, publishers, dedicatees, etc., etc., ETC. into Excel, this information will finally be made available to adventurous singers and researchers the world over!!!

I know. It’s exciting. Just stay in your seat until the show’s over and you’ll get your very own autographed copy.

Dr. Maya Hoover has been great to work with on this project. I think all of us contributors are relieved, however, that we are on the home stretch. I sent my final edits in yesterday and if all goes well (knocking on every piece of wood within sight), this lovely reference will be available in December. Tell your local librarian to order this book!!

I’m hoping I’ll be able to make it available on the LAASA.ORG website.

Read more about the publication here. And check out the Table of Contents.

Yes, I’m a sappy sister. Yes, yes, yes. Kisses to California and Utah.

There are so many ways to say I love you.
so many ways to say I care.
With lunches, and bunches of roses on tables,
adventures in learning, the moments we shared.

Mornings unending, garage needs a cleaning,
the weeds need a picking, and my room does too.
A smile as sweet as chocolate in blenders
The wonders of blenders and motherly brews.

I love you. I love you. I do.

Floating like falling
Never if the water holds you up
Falling like floating
Didn’t think I’d have to drink this cup

Still the wind blows
Still the wind blows further
Still the wind blows.

Daughters never falter
Never when the water holds them up
Floating like flying
Winds that only carry me up

Never if the water holds you up
Falling like floating
Didn’t think I’d have to drink this cup
Still the wind blows
Still the wind blows

Thank goodness that I’ve been safe commuting back and forth to work on my bike each day. I’m so glad that I’m warm and protected from the cold. I had a great year at work. We accomplished a lot. I love the students and teachers I am privileged to work with at Lab. They are amazingly talented, generous, and good people that make my job easy and fun. I am glad to finally have a home “boffice” (bedroom+office) where I can access all my paper and things so easily. I am so grateful that my family has successfully made the transition to Logan, UT and that my three youngest brothers especially have been so courageous about the whole thing. I’m grateful for friends that support me, if even from a distance. I feel like I have sister- and brother-hearts all over the world, seen and unseen, that, in some small way, beat for me and send me good feeling. I’m grateful for heavenly guidance and protection and inspiration to help me on my way. I’m grateful for people here in Chicago that have looked out for me in small and meaningful ways. I’m grateful for children, their pure spirits and intent, which put me right back in my place when I need it. I’m grateful for Facebook =) for reminding me this year that we are all connected and directed to each other’s lives for a reason. I’m grateful for and humbled by the freedoms that I enjoy in this country to pursue my dreams, to set goals, to make something out of myself, maybe in a bumbling-not-so-elegant-sort-of-way, but still, I get to try.

2008 has been a good year. And 2009 is going to be so much better! Wishing all of my friends, contacts, and all of those faces that I encounter in my daily path a wonderful new year.

The first step is to know what you want. To have a desire.

Step two is to ask for what you want. Ask God. Ask the angels. Ask the Universe. You are asking a power greater than yourself to assist you in creating it.

Step three is to believe you can have it, to have faith, free of any doubt, that what you desire and have asked for is going to be manifest to you. [This involves consulting with your higher power to find out if the timing for this blessing is right and good in your life. Getting a confirmation to the timing question will help free you of doubt. -aw]

Step four is to let go and allow. To basically get out of your own way and allow spirit to be in charge of bringing your desire to you. The only job you have at this point is to follow through with any inspiration regarding your physical actions on behalf of your manifestation.

The fifth and last step is to express gratitude. Gratitude actually starts the cycle all over. It is the completion and the beginning of the creation process. Gratitude energy initiates more things manifesting in your life for which you feel gratitude. The creation process is one eternal round.”

-Carol Tuttle, Remembering Wholeness

Audio: Tonight Santa Is Coming!

Tonight Santa is coming!

Tonight Santa is coming!

With a sleigh and eight reindeer!

To bed sleepy head!

Anybody who has ever been part of a learning team or group such as I have described will know how fulfilling this is. Why? For starters, I think it’s because we strike an important balance. We simultaneously respect individual agency (choice) while leveraging the potential of diverse perspectives and experiences. Individuals do not feel impinged upon; they are allowed to freely associate with others who create meaning from the similar questions, needs, and problems. They can also disassociate at will. Even the means or the process they use to share is flexible and can be adjusted at any time.

Now contrast this with what goes on in schools and businesses around the globe.

1) Where is choice? Do I get to chose what I study? Do I get to find topics that are personal and important to me? Do I get to choose who to study those topics with? Can the group freely adjust their means and routines for sharing information?

2) Where’s the fun? Observe any healthy group and you’ll see a lot of playing. If play is the work of the child, than maybe it’s play that nurtures within us a childlike engagement with the world. So many great ideas come from play!

3) Where’s the respect for difference? Just because a group of learners finds a topic interesting does not mean that they will *ever* reach consensus in their views. How good are learners at acknowledging difference while rigorously testing ideas and concepts. Where does that happen?

4) Where’s the sharing? Sharing loses it’s effectiveness when its form or content are mandated or assessed; sharing should be voluntary for it to be really effective. It needs to come out of each learner’s desire to improve and share or process what they are learning in an open, free way, confident that their ideas and reflections won’t be immediately “graded”.

Find me this kind of group and I will move my little fanny to be around you. I will put my kid in your school. Find me this kind of group and pay me to be there and I will likely never leave. Find me this kind of group and I will learn so much material and solve so many problems it will astound the world. If there are organizations, educational or otherwise, that are aiming for this type of learning experience, I want to know about them. And I want to learn how they encourage this kind of group work, in spite of the many pressures that exist in every large organization to do things as they’ve always done. Inertia: only smaller sized groups will pull us out of that rut.

From this view of the playground, these are groups that really learn.

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Okay, I’m already hearing the shouts. “But will groups like this ever get anything DONE?” you’re asking. This sounds all fine and dandy, but we need productivity, we need measurable results, we need viability! My short answer to that is this: put a group that learns in front of a problem where there is a significant monetary motive to solve it, and you will get better results than if you put a loosely formed group of dead learners with twice that money as incentive. We’re talking demonstrable ROI. No, I don’t have studies to prove this but I wouldn’t be surprised if they existed somewhere. Problem solvers always win. We just don’t have the foresight to encourage and support problem solving on a regular basis, and the group dynamics like I’ve just described. And so we never get there. We never taste the wine *inside* formal organizational structures. We save all the good stuff, individually and collectively, for after work, after school. Why not bring it into our daily living/learning/working earlier in life?

BOSQUEJO COMPLETO de 2009

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La familia es de Dios (PDF)

(con letra)

(sin letra)

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Mi familia eterna (PDF)

(con letra)

(sin letra)

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Si niño yo fuera (PDF)

(con letra)

(sin letra)

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TEXTOS

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Esta canción es extra. No sale en el bosquejo pero sí tiene que ver con la familia, y es linda..

La Familia (PDF)

(con letra)

(sin letra)

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También, les invito a todas las personas que tengan algo para contribuir a la primaria SUD de formarse parte de esta comunidad en línea dónde pueden compartir ideas y ayudas con otras primarias del mundo de habla hispana.

Calling all instances
this question of why you are pasted
here next to my bathroom mirror
I know
I know it will never work

But why why do the toasted crumbs
stick to my thumb
we had loads of fun
don’t know
don’t know
don’t know
don’t.

Back at the table I stare where it’s written
you were coming back
in forty-five
I know
I know it will never work

But where where am I stuffing
this part of my heart that belonged to you,
what will the turkey do?
don’t know
don’t know
don’t know
don’t know

can you please
explain this show to me
as I pretend to drink
this nice cup of tea

1) Send last Tweet to Facebook status. Download Facebook app here.

2) Send last Tweet to Adium. Use this trick.

3) Send last Tweet to iChat. Download this little app.

4) Send last Tweet to Skype. Download Twitterrrific and under Settings, System Tab, select Skype radio button.

The upshot of all this is this: if I update in iChat it will use method 3) to sync with Tweet. And the Tweets will go out to Facebook, Adium, and Skype automagically using methods 1), 2), and 4). I hope my buddies don’t get sick of all of my messages flying everywhere!

They don’t call me a Power User for nothing.