
{"id":11027,"date":"2010-06-16T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=11027"},"modified":"2010-06-16T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:39:36","slug":"the-ripple-effect-takes-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/06\/16\/the-ripple-effect-takes-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"The ripple effect takes hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RECENTLY . . .<br \/>\nBy Valarie Schwartz<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nCynthia Crossen of Chatham County had a glimpse of Athena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new vision in January 1986, when she became inspired to expand her musicality beyond the singing groups she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d written for and performed with since her 20s. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wanted to write a choral piece,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said this week from the home she and her husband, Ken Crossen, built on land they bought near Chicken Bridge after they moved to North Carolina in 1972. Collaboration with her community of musicians culminated in <em>The Goddess Suite<\/em>, performed by women in praise of women. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel like I tapped into some inspiration flowing through me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Crossen said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a gift to me, but it came through collaboration.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The debut was in the Forest Theater, with other performances around the Triangle during 1986 and \u00e2\u20ac\u212287.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We shall work for change, we shall work for peace.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<\/strong>Her only child, a son named Jesse, was 4 when she conceived and first delivered the suite. She continued a life of serving her community through song and projects and through the Haw River Assembly, where she provides creekside environmental education programs. Then last October, a challenge was posed to Crossen \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to revive <em>The Goddess Suite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We shall find our wisdom in the dreams we weave.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<\/strong>The request came from perhaps the only person who could have helped Crossen find her way to agreement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hope Wilder, her daughter-in-law. Crossen took the request with her as she spent her 60th birthday on a solo campout on the family land, where Jesse and Hope now also have a home. She remembered the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spirit of love, inclusion and connectedness with people and community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during the previous performances, while concentrating on staying centered within herself, her mission for this period of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Wilder, 25, on a break from teaching as a result of Lyme disease, agreed to co-produce. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had no idea what I was getting into,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. But the rewards \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the reception by women willing to participate, the chance to witness the melding of talents and further consecration of the love of her mother-in-law \u00e2\u20ac\u201c have overshadowed the work involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Athena, help us weave a new dream.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hope is an amazing human being and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be standing on my shoulders,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Crossen said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a wonderful partner in this.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Each of the four performances will be a fundraiser for local nonprofits representing traits or needs of the seven goddesses profiled in the work. The 30-plus women involved range in age from 11 to near 70. There are singers, a keyboardist, flautists, percussionists, a cellist and dance interpreters, all conducted by Sheila Fleming.   <\/p>\n<p>There have been pre-show parties, and groups of women have gathered their children and friends to attend. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We opened the door to people we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Crossen said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and our kind of people showed up. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very open to the ripple effect; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve no idea where it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to go.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact Valarie Schwartz at 923-3746 or valariekays@mac.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> Performances<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAll begin at 7 p.m.; recommended donation $7<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 19:<\/strong> Forest Theater, Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<strong>June 20:<\/strong> Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham<br \/>\n<strong>June 26:<\/strong> Northwood High School, Pittsboro<br \/>\n<strong>June 27:<\/strong> Forest Theater<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11030\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/06\/16\/the-ripple-effect-takes-hold\/recently-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RECENTLY.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RECENTLY\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RECENTLY.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RECENTLY-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RECENTLY-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RECENTLY-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RECENTLY-106x80.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY VALARIE SCHWARTZ. Goddess Suite composer, Cynthia Crossen (center) watches Kate Finlayson rehearsing dance moves to the chorus as they sing the Athena portion of the suite, conducted by Sheila Fleming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Crossen of Chatham County had a glimpse of Athena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new vision in January 1986, when she became inspired to expand her musicality beyond the singing groups she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d written for and performed with since her 20s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11035,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions\/11035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}