WNYC; New Sounds Live; Jocelyn Montgomery "Lux Vivens"
- Collection
- WNYC
- Series
- New Sounds Live
- Episode
- Jocelyn Montgomery "Lux Vivens"
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-93gxdv31
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- World Financial Center, New York City. Audio in DATs 78 and 79 appears to be identical, except levels are higher in 78 and it has start tones. Only 78 was dubbed. JOCELYN MONTGOMERY Performance program 1 Favus Distillans 2 Caritas Abundat 3 Orzchis Ecclesia 4 0 Clarissima Mater (David Lynch accompaniment) 5 Lux Vivens 6 Viridissima (David Lynch accompaniment) 7 Kyrie Encore Dues Enim Biography From her earliest childhood days, Jocelyn Montgomery was drawn to the musical life. Her grandfather was a Scottish fisherman and fiddlemaker, and she was deeply influenced by him during frequent family trips to his village on the North Sea coast. She grew up in London primarily, though her recognizable talent gained her an acceptance to The Purcell School of Music in Harrow, Middlesex by the time she was ten years old. She spent six years there, cultivating her musical interests on the beautiful Georgian campus among the apple orchards. At sixteen, Jocelyn moved to Saint Paul's Girl's School in Hammersmith, where she continued her formal vocal training. She aiso studied violin under the tutelage of the well-known Hungarian master, Suzanne Rozsa. After she finished school, Jocelyn spent a year or two busking in London, performing at various weddings and social engagements. To earn extra income she did some modeling and indie film acting, but continued her classical pursuits, spending two years studying composition in London. Jocelyn did some work with the medieval troubadour group Sinfonie, and she credits them with introducing her to the work of Hildegard von Bingen. Then in 1996, her natural abilities and hard work came to fruition when she was awarded a fellowship by the Arts Foundation. The income she was provided allowed her to focus exclusively on developing her vocal talent. She spent another year in London, before marrying and moving to Los Angeles. It is a rare artist these days that gets discovered by chance, but that is exactly what happened after Jocelyn's relocation. While singing on a walk in the Hollywood Hills, her voice fell upon the right pair of ears. She was signed to Mammoth Records and was in the studio within weeks, working with the noted filmmaker David Lynch as her producer. The result of this collaboration is Lux Vivens (Living Light), interpretations of the works of Hildegard von Bingen. Hildegard von Bingen was a Benedictine abbess who lived from 1098-1179. As a young child, Hildegard experienced mysterious religious visions, prompting her parents to entrust their child to the abbess Jutta von Spondheim at age eight. She received a broad education which, hand in hand with studies of the Bible and its illustrations, she developed her own visionary theology. Her first work, Scivias (Know the Ways), earned her the title of German prophetess. Pope Eugene III onfirmed her gift at the Council of Trier in 1147. Upon Jutta von Spondheim's death, Hildegard was unanimously elected to replace her mentor as abbess of Disibodenberg. After eleven years there, she decided to separate the nun's convent from the monk's monastery, and Hildegard built a new convent in Bingen-Bingerbruck with her twenty fellow nuns. She lived and worked there until her death. A prolific writer and theologian, scientist and herbalist, Hildegard is considered by some to be an early feminist. Her works include Liber Vitae Meritorum (Book of Merits of Life), Physica (Natural History), Divinorum Operum (Book of Divine Works) and Causae et Curae (Medical Science). Her theological texts were, along with those of Bernhard von Clairvaux, the acknowledged religious authority of the West. Her historical and scientific works were characterized by wisdom rooted in personal experience. Hildegard's extensive knowledge of herbs, in particular, earned her many followers. Yet beyond all of this, Hildegard was an incredibly blessed musician. Though she had no formal training, her visions led her to compose some of the most extraordinary musical works of the period. With a characteristic spirituality marked with a touch of the secular, it is her music above all which contains the secrets of the visionary Hildegard von Bingen. David Lynch is an acclaimed filmmaker with Eraserhead earning him widespread critical and cult status, Elephant Man an Academy Award nomination, and Blue Velvet the Film Critics Award for Best Film of 1986. A noted eccentric, David was once described by the New York Times as "sort of a psychopathic Norman Rockwell" for his peculiar style of marrying the bizarre with the seemingly benign. His trademark signature reached a wider audience during the two seasons of his television series Twin Peaks. He honed his musical creativity during this time working with the composer Angelo Badalamenti. Recently, David opened up his own recording studio to continue pursuing his musical interests. Lux Vivens (Living Light) is the first album David has produced here.
- Description
- Lux Vivens, by Saint Hildegard.
- Genres
- Performance
- Media type
- Sound
- Credits
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Performer: Montgomery, Jocelyn
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 64387.1 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: DAT
Generation: Original
Duration: 00:00:00
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 64387.2 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:00:00
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 64387.3 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: DAT
Generation: Original
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “WNYC; New Sounds Live; Jocelyn Montgomery "Lux Vivens",” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 5, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-93gxdv31.
- MLA: “WNYC; New Sounds Live; Jocelyn Montgomery "Lux Vivens".” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 5, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-93gxdv31>.
- APA: WNYC; New Sounds Live; Jocelyn Montgomery "Lux Vivens". Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-93gxdv31