{"id":3366,"date":"2013-01-11T18:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2013-01-11T18:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:15:37","slug":"weaver-and-campbell-perform-paraguay-primeval-at-cmu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2013\/weaver-and-campbell-perform-paraguay-primeval-at-cmu\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaver and Campbell Perform \u201cParaguay Primeval\u201d at CMU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weaver, on piano, and Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

January 11, 2013\u00a0<\/i>\u2013 CMU welcomed guest artists Carol Ann Weaver, composer and pianist, from Conrad Grebel College, University in Waterloo, Ontario, and Rebecca Campbell, singer and songwriter, to present their unique recital, titled, \u201cParaguay Primeval.\u201d The recital took place on January 11, 2013 in CMU\u2019s Laudamus Auditorium before an appreciative audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cParaguay Primeval\u201d\u00a0by Carol Ann Weaver is a musical work featuring stories of Mennonites who fled to Paraguay from Russian and Canada in the 1920s and beyond.<\/p>\n

“The January 2013 Manitoba tour takes this music to some of the very people who were born in Paraguay but have moved back to Canada,\u201d says Dean of CMU\u2019s School of Music, Dr. Janet Brenneman. The hope is that the stories will be thus celebrated.<\/p>\n

Recently released on CD, \u201cParaguay Primeval\u201d helps to tell the extraordinary story of Mennonites finding new \u201cPromised Land\u201d by moving to Paraguay from Canada in\u00a0order to retain their own schools, and from Russia to flee the Bolshevik Revolution and the Stalinist regime.\u00a0Once in Paraguay, theseMennonites settled in the \u201cgreen hell\u201d of the Chaco, suffering typhoid and other illnesses, but ever building colonies, growing crops, and maintaining livestock, while creating schools, churches, hospitals, and industries that lured back many indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n

Weaver says about the work: \u201cMy brief visit to the Chaco, in July, 2009, following the Mennonite World Conference in Asuncion, Paraguay, was a moving experience. What stole my heart, while travelling to these colonies, was a sense of incredible dedication to this new land as voiced by these Mennonites in their strong singing. I was particularly struck by a statue of a woman behind a plow, representing women who had lost their husbands during Stalin years in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weaver notes that texts are derived from Rudy Wiebe’s\u00a0Blue Mountains of China<\/i>\u00a0(with its vivid and poetically written Paraguayan sections), Dora Dueck\u2019s\u00a0Under The Still Standing Sun<\/i>, and Henry and Esther Regehr\u2019s translated\u00a0Schoenbrunn Chronicles<\/i>, compiled by Agnes Balzer and Lieselotte Dueck and written by Paraguayan Mennonite settlers.\u00a0\u201cBasic journal entries (in\u00a0Schoenbrunn Chronicles<\/i>) yield starkly perfect lyrics,\u201d says Weaver, \u201cespecially those recounting deaths in the Harms family, or adventures of Uncle Hans in the well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carol Ann Weaver is an eclectic composer, pianist, writer, and music professor atConrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo. Her music has been heard throughout North America, in Europe, Africa, Korea and Paraguay.\u00a0 She has produced seven CDs and tours extensively with vocalist Rebecca Campbell, often doing African or Mennonite-themed music.\u00a0She previously taught at WLU, at [then] Mennonite Brethren Bible College (a founding college of CMU) in Winnipeg, and at EMU in Virginia.<\/p>\n

Acclaimed singer and songwriter Rebecca Campbell is one of the most evocative, exquisite vocalists in Canada. Singing professionally since 1986, she has toured extensively with Justin Haynes, Jane Siberry, Fat Man Waving, Three Sheets to the Wind, Lynn Miles, Ian Tamblyn, and Carol Ann Weaver. She has performed across Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Spain, and Trinidad-Tobago. Her CDs receive high critical acclaim.<\/p>\n

For a description of the project and performers, recital schedules, and information on purchasing CDS, visit<\/p>\n

http:\/\/arts.uwaterloo.ca\/~caweaver\/concert.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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January 11, 2013\u00a0\u2013 CMU welcomed guest artists Carol Ann Weaver, composer and pianist, from Conrad Grebel College, University in Waterloo, Ontario, and Rebecca Campbell, singer and songwriter, to present their unique recital, titled, \u201cParaguay Primeval.\u201d The recital took place on January 11, 2013 in CMU\u2019s Laudamus Auditorium before an appreciative audience. \u201cParaguay Primeval\u201d\u00a0by Carol Ann […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,25,5],"tags":[346,348,347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}