Reviewed on 6/20/2012.
This Cd was Awesome!!!
LeeAnn T. (makaua) from PORTLAND, OR
Reviewed on 2/15/2010.
Excellent compilation including well recognized names in the music circle.
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STEVEN F. SCHARFF
| 05/10/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) I first heard this as part of a radio program on the local NPR station, and was shamed into silence. The diversity of collaborators in this work (including US folk-rocker James Taylor, Yemenite singer Ofra Haza, Canadian rocker Alanis Morissette, the late Musrat Fateh Ali Khan [one of his last performances], the American Boychoir w/Devin Provenzano, the English Chamber Orch. & Chorus) shows the great number of fields that composer Jonathan Elias was drawing from.The song Hope will lift your spirit, while James Taylor s melancholy vocals on Grace will move you to tears (At first, I thought he would be horribly out of place, but his voice fits the work perfectly!). The lyrics run all ove