Alphabet of Wrongdoing |
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| Author:
| Gesundheit, Daniela |
| Composed by:
| Gesundheit, Daniela |
| Artist:
| Gesundheit, Daniela |
| Arranged by (music):
| Gesundheit, Daniela
Spence, Johnny
Goldman, Dan Misha
Pallet, Owen
Pagé, Sarah |
| Concept by:
| Gesundheit, Daniela |
| Engineer:
| Gesundheit, Daniela
Goldman, Dan Misha
Taheny, Leon
Petrowski, Nicolas
Kaye, Stephen
Travers-Smith, David |
| Libretto by:
| Gesundheit, Daniela |
| Music by:
| Gesundheit, Daniela
Goldman, Dan Misha |
| Performed by:
| Gesundheit, Daniela
Spence, Johnny
Goldman, Dan Misha
Sharp, Jason
Bulat, Basia
Lightman, Sari
Lightman, Romy
Lukashevsky, Alex
Cartwright, Evan
Pagé, Sarah |
| Produced by:
| Gesundheit, Daniela
Goldman, Dan Misha |
| Editor:
| Bulger, Kristen
Reginiano, Dana |
| Photographer:
| Garcia, Dawn
Woelfle-O'Brian, Caitlin |
| Based on a work by:
| Levy, Richard N. |
| Cover Design by:
| Harvey, Brankica
Deegan, Ken |
| Designed by:
| Harvey, Brankica
Deegan, Ken |
| Directed By:
| Spence, Johnny |
| Instrumental Soloist:
| Spence, Johnny
Sharp, Jason |
| Choreography by:
| Poole, Erin |
| Dancer:
| Cheng, Eric |
| Performed by Musical Group:
| The Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra, |
| Conducted by:
| Kondratenko, Oleg |
| ISBN: | 978-0-578-88694-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2021 |
| Publisher: | Alphabet of Wrongdoing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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In Alphabet of Wrongdoing, vocalist, composer, and cantor Daniela Gesundheit invokes ceremonial Jewish prayers and blessings encircling themes of reckoning, forgiveness, mortality, striving, and atonement, and transposes these sacred texts for secular audiences and secular spaces. This full-color libretto is a roadmap to follow in sequence while listening to the Alphabet of Wrongdoing album, or you can turn to any page, regarding each facet you encounter as a koan that serves to...
More DescriptionIn Alphabet of Wrongdoing, vocalist, composer, and cantor Daniela Gesundheit invokes ceremonial Jewish prayers and blessings encircling themes of reckoning, forgiveness, mortality, striving, and atonement, and transposes these sacred texts for secular audiences and secular spaces. This full-color libretto is a roadmap to follow in sequence while listening to the Alphabet of Wrongdoing album, or you can turn to any page, regarding each facet you encounter as a koan that serves to illuminate the more esoteric aspects of this work. This debut collection of poems and essays investigates communal gestures of forgiveness, and asks, Can we transmute a world's weight of unforgivable acts, an Alphabet of Wrongdoing? Excerpt from Alphabet of Wrongdoing Digital Libretto:We have un-vowed, we have pounded our hearts open, we have prostrated ourselves on forest floors, pine needles pressing into our bellies, and we have fissured our hardened shells all to see if there is some shining, iridescent yolk of incorruptibility inside of us. From that place, where the shards of who we once were somehow fertilize the soil around us, a date palm begins to grow in rapid time-lapse. The summation of brokenness feeds the date palm, moves up its proud, upright trunk as sap, moves into its branches, first as blossoms and then as sweet endless fruit. Just glimpsing the palm sway we feel more whole, more alive: "fresh and full of sap." This perpetual transmutation is justice.Artwork, typography, and layout by Brankica Harvey and Ken DeeganCover photograph by Dawn GarciaEdited by Kristen Bulger (English) and Dana Reginiano (Hebrew)Fonts Flecha and Grifo designed by Rui Abreu of R-TypographyBooklet photographs by Caitlin Woelfle-O'BrienThe images are stills from a video for All Our Departed, directed by Johnny Spence, choreographed by Erin Poole, featuring Erin Poole, Daniela Gesundheit and Eric Cheng"Daniela - whose words and music I have long admired" . . . Maggie Nelson (Author of The Argonauts)