Daily Nourishment for April 3, 2024: Long, long, long ago with Anonymous 4 and Lauren Winner

Daily Nourishment Read Time: 50 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 10-13 minutes


On “long, long, long ago” beginnings.

 

Prompt.

Among my favorite cds (yes, that’s still how I listen to music) are those by Anonymous 4, a now-disbanded quartet (obviously) of women who first sang medieval music, and then, in 2004, began interweaving American music into their recording repertoire. 

After the release of their first American-flavored album, Anonymous 4 was interviewed on NPR. In that interview Marsha Genensky says that long before Anonymous 4 even existed, she was studying traditional folk music with a woman in the Ozarks. Genensky’s teacher took her to church, where she heard “Abbeville.” “I was moved beyond anything and I just had to know more.” That was the beginning of the many-years-later American Angels.  “Sometimes you just get a sound in your head and you, you just have to follow it,” said Genensky.

 

Practice.

Write for 7-10 minutes about something you heard in the past that you just had to follow.

If nothing comes to mind, see if you can write your way into a memory of something you heard and followed.

Want More?
Listen to the NPR interview quoted above:
‘Hope, Redemption & Glory' with Anonymous 4

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Today’s Note from Charlotte


Today’s Daily Nourishment was provided by Lauren Winner.

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