I am Maxine Culpa. Along with my late daughter Mia, I first became aquainted with Saint Sybian through our husband, Composer Felix Sebastian Culpa. He was born and raised in Calabria, Italia, near the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Sybaris, in the last century. When he was thirteen, Sybian began to appear to him, initiating him into her spiritual and sensual world. Felix, who was forced to disappear after unfortunate and definitely unsaintlike events , told us of Sybian's devotion to the pleasures of the father's creation: food, drink, the arts (particularly music and dance) all nature ---especially the body!! With the help of American Musicologist Patrick Lockwood, I have written these entries. Now, He also has been taken from us. Our new Scribe is Daniel Pierce, and our new Goddesss is Esperanza, whom Sybian herself has ordained. I hope that all who view this site will be encouraged to let their minds and senses wander to discover the voluptuous gifts the father freely gives us. Newcomers are urged to go to the earliest postings.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

"The Ecstasies of St. Sybian":The Sound of Seduction from The Organ Loft!

In “Ecstasies of St. Sybian,” Felix Culpa took the themes of Sybian, the unusual melodies and intoxicating rhythms through which she revealed the voluptuousness of creation, and developed them into harmonic adventures with waves of tones and tempi that ebb and flow in intensity, with bursts of exuberance paired with dark, modal eddies.

In Chicago, working on an arrangement of “Ecstasies of Sybian” for brass quintet, Felix confessed to Maxine that he was having nightly visions of Mia dancing erotically over the bloodied body of Bishop Bassanni, while this music played. Thus, while “The Mausoleum at Rosarno” is about Death and Love, “Ecstasies of Sybian” seems to be about Sex and Revenge.

Ecstasies of St. Sybian...




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