About this Retreat
Eric Hollander is a musicologist, poet, violist, and community music facilitator. He has a BM in viola performance from The Boston Conservatory, an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University, and a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University. Eric wonders about what music is and how it helps while searching for fuller understanding through phenomenological description and spiritual participation. As a poet and performer, Eric is an active member of the Haiga Duo, a spoken-word/viola/accordion ensemble and exercises his enthusiasm for amateur music making with various community, folk, and parish ensembles. As a musicologist, Eric writes and presents on topics bridging the gap between music therapy and music theory. For Eric, music is a way of being amidst the song of God’s creation; music is often a philosophy; music is a rare but precious theology; and music is surely and sublimely a spirituality.
Details of this retreat
Join us for a very special experience of the senses in our Chapel. We will engage in the art of listening, with sound and silence, inviting participants to improvise sound, with the direction and gentle facilitation of Eric Hollander, our current Musician in Residence. No previous musical or improvising experience is required for your participation.
We will gather as a small ensemble of listeners so as to learn how to free the voice of the spiritual life, express our journey in sound, create listening spaces for one another, and reflect together on the sonic experience. Improvisation (making sound with provided instruments) brings us to a moment of vulnerability and openness – and also to the edge of silence: into which a voice burgeons, moves, and comes to rest.
"As a performing musician with experience in many different styles and contexts, I have had the joy of finding myself often embedded in moments of improvisation. Over the years, these moments of freedom became increasingly important to me and eventually opened up the possibility of engaging in music as prayer. As a musician, this was an important achievement." - Eric Hollander
Registration deadline: July 21
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