Rosana Schutte assembled the performers and
elegantly hosted a diverse range of Subud talent for an hour and a half of entertainment on Saturday evening at the Regional Congress in Santa Barbara.
The opening act offered a powerful glimpse of the turmoil in Venezuela, as captured in a dance by Trina Frometa. Tina, a new member at the Walnut Creek Center, is from Caracas, where her family is living through the a period of terrible privation and violence.
Cherie Vala
rey and Howard Richmond (left) wove a moving piano/vocal improvisation around the text of a Bapak talk, which supported the Congress theme “begin, begin, begin….”
Later, Cherie showed the full and exquisite range of her voice with two dazzling operatic arias and Howard performed two of his evocative compositions for solo piano.
Susan Van Winkle and Elizabeth Trudell (below) sang a duet from Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise.”
Halimah Collingwood (below) joined forces with Elizabeth for a capella versions of a folk tune by Leadbelly and a jingle to highlight the SES MyCoolCap project.
Emmanuel Williams gave dramatic flair to odes to a cow AND to a frog from his book of animal poems. (below):
Laksar Reese changed the vibe with some cool latin jazz on the saxophone and flute (below).
