As she tells her flock of violinists at Peeler: “Find your sound. Last year, she and musician Rory Paul launched a podcast called The Creative Coop with the Winter Chickens. She was a founding member of the nationally acclaimed world music band Songs of Water and released a solo album called Mystic Canticle. Through the years, she has collaborated with various local musicians, spoken word poets and visual artists. Since 2002, Richardson has been empowering students at Peeler Open School for the Performing Arts. It became her “salvation.” After graduating from the UNCG School of Music in 1981, Richardson discovered improvisation and how to make spontaneous music with others. And since he never got the chance to express himself musically, he wanted Marta to play the violin. His hands are “so large that he can’t play a piano key without hitting two,” the muse says of her father. After the war, he came to the States as a displaced person, then settled in Greensboro when he married Marta’s mother, Betty. And so, says the performer and educator, “I serve the music.” Marta’s father was 10 years old when Nazi Germany invaded his native Poland. While the song is not her own - the “download of sound” comes from a Divine source, she will tell you - Richardson knows she has a gift. She is answering a call, transmitting what sounds like an ancient love song through her bow and strings. When Marta Richardson plays her electric violin, she isn’t going through the motions. Then, says the Muse of Sacred Poems, she’ll return to writing her spiritual memoirs, no doubt infused with sacred poetry. Her sequel to Black Angels - a novel for young adults - is also in the queue. You can find them in The House of Gratitude, to be released later this year. During the pandemic, Brown was guided to write a new “Poem for Peace” each week for over a year, which she shared with her mailing list every Tuesday. They were “gift poems,” she explains, meaning they arrived in a flash, practically complete. Her collections of “Mary poems” - A Mother Knows Her Child (2014) and Something of His Mother to Remember (2016), both about the mother of Jesus - are her most intense examples. Guidance always came, and whether she was working on a novel, play, poem or nonfiction, this silent dialogue between Brown and the “Invisible Universe” became a natural part of her writing process. When a deadline loomed, for instance, and her direction was unclear, Brown would sink into meditation and ask for clarity. “At that point, I deliberately set out on a spiritual journey,” she recalls. Although she had faithfully attended the Episcopal church since she was a girl, Brown “temporarily closed the church door” as a young adult until a profound metaphysical experience secured her faith in a higher power a few years later. And lucky for all of us, Greensboro pulses with creative inspiration now more than ever.Īward-winning author and retired professor Linda Beatrice Brown has always been “kind of rebellious.” As a student at Bennett College, she took part in the Greensboro sit-ins, which she wrote about in Belles of Liberty some 50 years later. We are fortunate to have many - men and women alike - all here to awaken something deep within us with their vision, compassion, talents and wisdom. They are here, in our Gate City, walking among us. Yet such influential beings are not lost to the mythic past. They sing and dance in the space between realms, ever revealing glimpses of heavenly grace and beauty to those seeking enlightenment. Wholly dedicated to the Arts, they embody creation itself and have long been called upon by writers, painters and philosophers to fan the flames of imagination and wonder. I n Greek Mythology, the Muses are nine divine forces, each with a sacred gift to help guide, heal and inspire the human spirit. Nine divinely inspired humans who live, breathe and encourage creative compassion in Greensboro
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