The Tower of Song will be presenting its annual New Year’s programming, with the Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series, “The New Year & Rebirth In Archaic Myth & Ritual.”
Tune in at 12 AM, December 30, and hear the Gypsy Scholar, in anticipation of New Year’s Day, discuss the archaic, sacred origins of our modern, secular New Year’s observance, when traditional peoples periodically sought, through “ritual archetypes and repetition,” to abolish profane time and thus regenerate the sacred “time of the beginning.” Yes, tune in and hear how our New Year’s celebrations, despite their utterly profane and secular nature, nevertheless still carry vestiges of the sacred New Year’s ritual of archaic and ancient times, which, due to a “nostalgia for beginnings,” offered its celebrants a way of transcending time and experiencing a new beginning through rebirth. Thus, the Gypsy Scholar’s New Year’s wish is that by employing the New Year leitmotif of “new beginnings” throughout this musical essay series his listeners will be inspired to seek out ways for this New Year to “start all over again.”
Be sure to check out the fantabulous “New Year” webpage that is dedicated to this musical essay series located on the Tower of Song website at revradiotowerofsong.com.
Update: this broadcast is now available for listening on the “Archived Musical Essays” webpage, along with the corresponding playlist on the “Program Playlists” webpage, located on the Tower of Song website at revradiotowerofsong.com.
