"This Is Not a Buddhist Prayer" by Garry Eister on the glass harp and Tibetan bowls

A composition written by GRAMMY nominated Garry Eister. This is the version made for the GlassDuo playing the #GlassHarp and #TibetanSingingBowls.

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Here's a program note about the piece:

In April of 2010, my wife, Mary, and I were tourists in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. On the morning of April 28th we visited the gorgeous and imposing Punakha Dzong, otherwise known as the Fortress Palace of Blissful Happiness. The building serves both civil and religious functions. We had arrived at the dzong on a day when upwards of 200 red-robed monks were holding services, chanting as they sat on mats on the stone floor inside the dzong’s main temple. For a tourist, Bhutan is not a very musical place. We heard these and other chanting monks, sometimes accompanied by the heterophonic outbursts of the trombone drones and oboe-like wailings of the country’s two predominant brass instruments, which punctuated chanted prayers along with the seemingly random beating of frame drums and the clashing and rattling of pairs of hand-held cymbals. Other than that and a little bit of generic K-pop on the radio, for well over a week after our arrival, I had heard no music in Bhutan. So, when on the afternoon after our visit to the Dzong we had a few unscheduled hours to ourselves, I hungered to exercise the musical part of my brain. Sitting in a semi-darkened hotel room in Punahka, I wrote this piece’s melody. I realized that it would be greatly enhanced, and in a fashion most appropriate to its origin, if it was accompanied by the droning of some Tibetan singing bowls, which are also commonly found in Bhutan and which also make their sound, like glass, when their rims are rubbed, usually with a wooden beater.

Some links about Garry Eister:
http://www.eistermusic.com - official website
https://vimeo.com/user9853968 - vimeo channel

Some links about GlassDuo and the #MusicalGlasses:
http://GlassDuo.com - official website
http://GlassHarp.eu - order your own glass harp
http://shop.glassduo.com - buy CD and MP3
https://www.facebook.com/GlassHarp.GlassDuo - Facebook profile
https://www.instagram.com/glassharpduo - Instagram profile

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