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Sunlit Reverie
A superb blending of traditional and original melodies designed to create a peaceful environment of love, light and beauty. Includes flutes (Radhika Miller), harp (Michelle Sell), piano (Rob Ramos) and sounds of nature in works by Debussy, Bach, O'Carolan, Miller and Gregorian chant.
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Heaven
Heaven was inspired by the possibility of bringing the listener to that place after death or in life where one experiences peace. It is a tribute to my teacher Swami Satchidananda who passed away in August 2002. Twenty years ago he asked me to make an album to help people become peaceful and relaxed. This is my tenth flute recording following his advice, and is a fond farewell to the incredible soul who gave me and the world so much peace. May you capture a glimpse of his greatness in this music.
Alto and C flutes, recorder, glockenspiel (Radhika Miller), piano, marimba, accordion, dumbek, shaker (Tony D'Anna), cello (David Darling), mandolin (Peter Rowan), tamboura (Leslie Curchack), acoustic guitar (Chip Dunbar).
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Origins
Joyous creations for pipe organ (Dorothy Papadakos), cello (David Darling), flutes and recorders (Radhika Miller), piano (Allaudin Mathieu and Dorothy Papadakos), harp (Michelle Sell) and percussion (Ted Moore and Tony D'Anna) recorded in the magnificence of NY's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of our all-time favorites! Great for massage and yoga!
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Blossoms In The Snow
Holiday minstrel magic with delightful renditions of familiar favorites on traditional medieval and renaissance instruments plus refreshing originals for flute and recorders (Radhika Miller), harp (Michelle Sell and Cheryl Ann Fulton), piano (Louis Magor), cello (David Darling), vielle and rebec (Shira Kammen), mandola (Peter Rowan), kalimba and dulcimer (Tony D'Anna). CD Review gave it their highest rating. "Simply the most striking Christmas album of any year." Great holiday gift item!
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Dancing Light
Beautiful works for flute, cello and piano featuring Grammy Award winning cellist David Darling and pianist Tony D'Anna. Graceful, light-filled, soothing.
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Gems Of Grace
Variations on the theme of grace in an album of lullaby-like serenades for alto flute and recorder (Radhika Miller), harp (Michelle Sell), French horn (Alicia Telford), strings (David Darling) and piano (Louis Magor, Allaudin Mathieu and Tony D'Anna). Great for massage and yoga!
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Here And Faraway
Bright and reflective pieces for dance and celebration with mandolinist Mike Marshall, bassist Edgar Meyer, guitarist John Stewart, cellist David Darling, harpist Michelle Sell, pianist and percussionist Tony D'Anna, and Radhika on recorders and flutes
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Laughing Waters
1993 Parents Choice Best Album Award! Inspired children's music featuring the humor and genius of Peter Rowan, Jerry Douglas, Fred Curchack, Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer, Sally Van Meter, and other bluegrass greats performing tongue-twisters, stories, sing-alongs and dance tunes.
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Lotus Love Call
The original classically based serenity album with meditative alto and C flutes (Radhika Miller), piano (Bill Quist and Jim Moran) and sounds of nature in works of Bach, Telemann, Dvorak, Miller and Gregorian chant. Great for massage, yoga and children's bedtime!
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The Larks Bride
Lovely renaissance and traditional melodies for flute (Radhika Miller), harp (Michelle Sell), and piano (Rob Ramos) with classically inspired improvisational duets featuring cellist Eugene Friesen.
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Within The Wind
A soothing collection of world music, Debussy and an Irish lovesong. Includes alto and C flutes, recorders (Radhika Miller), sitar (Leslie Curchack), harp (Michelle Sell), kalimbas, Chinese harp and waterphone (Tony D'Anna).
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Arabesque
Fresh compositions inspired by the French Impressionists with flute (Radhika Miller), harp (Michelle Sell and Karen Gottleib), cello (David Darling), and piano (Tony D'Anna and Jeanette Tietse)...infused with a light that is both brilliant, tranquil and tender. Highly recommended! Great for massage and yoga!
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Bio
Radhika Miller was born and raised in San Francisco, the fifth of nine children. Her parents encouraged a creative childhood in a home complete with puppet theater, ballet bars, pianos, painting easels, dance room with a real juke box, and family sing-a-longs led by a mother who is a professional soprano as well as an accomplished pianist.
At age six, Radhika started her own piano lessons. By nine she had discovered the works of Stravinsky and Bartok, whose modern tones spoke to her in a language that sparked an early interest in composing. Her love of choral music led to singing with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus where she met Louis Magor, the renowned conductor. Under his mentorship, she found an artistic model of pure tone that she emulates today in her flute playing.
"It was on a whim," says Radhika, "that I began playing the flute in college. Inspired by a passage about the flute in a yoga book, I decided to try one, find a good teacher and spend about six hours a day studying it." By the end of her first year she was studying at the Academie International in France, with Jean Pierre-Rampal. Three years later she graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Music, with an emphasis in flute, composition, and choral music. A desire to link the human voice with an instrument and to unite imagination with the sounds and beauty of nature, has led her into the realm of what she calls "the singing flute", which combines her love of nature and choral music with an emotional rendition of music rather than mere technical virtuosity. Hard pressed to find flute music (outside of Bach) that spoke to her heart's calling, Ms. Miller began to transcribe soprano parts from sacred music scores, spirituals and choral works for her own performance on flute with harp, piano and cello accompaniment and to create her own prayerful, uplifting compositions.
Ms. Miller is an accredited music educator, and is considered a master teacher in her field. She has created music and dance curriculums for the California public school system and has offered several teacher training in-services. She has taught "Musicality for Dancers" as part of Marin Ballet's Guest Master Series and was founder and artistic director of YOUNG IMAGINATIONS, a non-profit multi-cultural arts education company dedicated to providing inspired music, dance and drama education to thousands of school children. Radhika is also an experienced yoga instructor having taught in several universities, prisons, homes for the elderly and Girl Scout groups in the US and Europe (she is comfortable speaking French, and some Italian and Swiss German). Along with her husband and two young children, Radhika is an enthusiastic nature lover on hiking trails or in the garden of her Northern California home.
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David Newman
chanting brings forth the ancient Yogic tradition of sound as a healing path.
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