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Welcome to The Golden Dance
Michèle Sharik
Handbell Solo Artist, Teacher, & Clinician
Composer, Arranger & Publisher
Director of Handbells, Sunnyvale
Presbyterian Church, Sunnyvale, CA
and Trinity
Episcopal Church, Menlo Park, CA
Member of Sonos Handbell
Ensemble & Sonos Quartet
Member of Bronzewood
Pædeia harp and handbell duo
Clinician, Portable
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The Golden Dance
A solo ringer plans the golden dance
To liberate from brazen bells a song
With intricate glissades and fluid stance
And thus to weave the notes into a throng
Of close companions, joined without a seam,
So that the music falls like liquid sound,
As raindrops, merged, create a flowing stream,
Cascading through and over and around
An aural landscape; this, the ringer's stage
Whereon the company of notes perform
Ballet no longer captive on the page
But freed to enter souls and there to warm.
The soloist turns practice into art
And this because these bells ring from the heart.
"The Golden Dance" sonnet is ©2002 Tamara
L. Raetz. Used by permission.
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Photo: Martin Reilly, 2004
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