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ANNE DOROTHY
HARLEY
founding director of www.voicesofthepearl.org
commissioning, performing, and recording since 2011
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professor of music at Scripps College since 2009
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operatic soprano specializiing in early and contemporary music
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stage director
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extended voice workshop director
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writing
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comfortable in standard operatic languages, Mandarin, Russian, and Hebrew
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My flagship project.
For over a decade, I've been commissioning works to texts by and about female spiritual practitioners.
Our projects have been awarded 4 times by the National Endowment for the Arts and also by the Canada Council for the Arts.
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So freed! So freed!
So thoroughly freed am I—
from my pestle,
my shameless husband
& his sun-shade making,
my moldy old pot
with its water-snake smell.
Aversion & passion
I cut with a chop.
Having come to the foot of a tree,
I do jhāna, from the bliss thinking:
“What bliss!”
From the verses about female Buddhist monk Sumangalamata, in the Therīgāthā set in the NEA commissioned Therīgāthā Inside Aura by Chinary Ung:
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