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Heather Niemi Savage
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I am a composer of contemporary classical music, collaborative pianist, teacher, writer, and podcast host.
I compose music that explores universal questions of essence and finding beauty and joy in the midst of suffering, resulting in evocative pieces that take listeners on a journey which nourishes the soul, stimulates healing, and builds empathy.
Through my work as a composer, teacher, collaborative pianist, podcast host, and church musician, I celebrate the communal and cultural aspects of music and am committed to bringing musicians and community members together through a range of musical experiences accessible to all people.
I offer my scores on a pay-what-you're-able basis. If you would like to see my scores, go to my website www.heatherniemisavage.com and click on "compositions" to sign up for access to the downloadable scores.
I love collaborating with people on projects. Get in touch with me if you have an idea!
I compose music that explores universal questions of essence and finding beauty and joy in the midst of suffering, resulting in evocative pieces that take listeners on a journey which nourishes the soul, stimulates healing, and builds empathy.
Through my work as a composer, teacher, collaborative pianist, podcast host, and church musician, I celebrate the communal and cultural aspects of music and am committed to bringing musicians and community members together through a range of musical experiences accessible to all people.
I offer my scores on a pay-what-you're-able basis. If you would like to see my scores, go to my website www.heatherniemisavage.com and click on "compositions" to sign up for access to the downloadable scores.
I love collaborating with people on projects. Get in touch with me if you have an idea!
Looking at the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony Through the Lens of Form
Many conservative Christians have been in an uproar about the recent opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, saying that a scene mocked the Last Supper (as shown in DaVinci's painting.) Is that really what happened? There are a lot of opinions. Here, I share mine based on my experience as a Christian composer and afficionado of all art who has spent a lot of time in contemporary art spaces.
Webpages I reference in this video:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-supper-parodies
www.vogue.com/article/thomas-jolly-profile-paris-olympics-opening-ceremony
www.faithonview.com/what-do-people-see-exploring-the-last-supper-vs-bacchanalia-debate/?awt_a=XSIU&awt_l=JrN98&awt_m=ghsomb2BAcF2OIU
In accordance with the AI Code of Ethics for Artists developed by Brian Kavolius-Matherne ( www.briankm.com/ai.html) I acknowledge that I used AI to remove and replace the background in my video and create a rough draft of the captions (which I then edited.)
Webpages I reference in this video:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-supper-parodies
www.vogue.com/article/thomas-jolly-profile-paris-olympics-opening-ceremony
www.faithonview.com/what-do-people-see-exploring-the-last-supper-vs-bacchanalia-debate/?awt_a=XSIU&awt_l=JrN98&awt_m=ghsomb2BAcF2OIU
In accordance with the AI Code of Ethics for Artists developed by Brian Kavolius-Matherne ( www.briankm.com/ai.html) I acknowledge that I used AI to remove and replace the background in my video and create a rough draft of the captions (which I then edited.)
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"White Apples" for String Quartet by Heather Niemi Savage
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The Prayer of St. Francis by Heather Niemi Savage
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it does not matter what they wanted what matters is how Christians recived it and what we saw is decadency and male genitalia in our face... it is mocking and it is in our face and we, the Christians, have to stop being so weak
What these self righteous christians need realise. THEY are NOT Our leaders They Nolonger control us. Christians didn't like it? suffer. Get used to it Religion is NOLONGER important in peoples lives.
Don't think we agree with you. Calling it art is what Satanists do .
Let's be honest, They (the organisers) would have been sensitive to Islam and other people groups, after all this was on the international stage, And as a result ensured that there would be no possible accidental conclusion drawn that could upset any group. They would have gone over everything with a fine tooth comb to ensure that people who they don't want to offend, don't get offended. To believe that they had no idea that this would upset Christians is simply being naïve.
How can they make it clearer? Of course they wanted to mock Jesus. Sure, we don't need to do anything about it, but that was their intent. I think what pushed it over the line was the "halo", as you put it, looked like a mostrance to me (which is a container that holds a consecrated host in the Catholic tradition). By that, she was saying she was, or was as good as, Jesus. Either way it was mocking. And I tuned in briefly when it was on TV and I saw some disgusting beared "woman" dancing in a sexualised manner.
Halos are not specific to the Christian tradition. They had been around for centuries before being used in Christian art, and if you do some research, you will see that the design of the halo worn by the woman is a Roman style, which only supports my point.
I am a savage
Get off the fence.
Don’t dismiss the ending ceremony!
Una gente que se ofende si dices un pronombre que no les gusta, bien podrían preguntarse si lo que están haciendo ofende a otros.
The Olympics is not about pure sports anymore. It has become a platform for the weird, deviant, and WOKE mentality. Look at womens beach volleyball. The way those women are displayed with hardly any thing covering their bodies is soft porn. In mens volleyball you don't see that do you? As for the opening ceremony, that was a joke. A display of human bodies as if they were mocking humanity its self. Mocking God? For sure. I watched a few moments here and there, but I am pretty much done with the Olympics.
You don't need to be a so called 'conservative' Christian to see the obscene, blaspemous and innappropriate nature of the opening ceremony. It did what it was intended to do and offended people from all faiths not just Christians and stuck the finger up at anyone who didn't jump on the current bandwagon of entitled, minority behaviour. It was shameful to many Parisians/French people. It was not artistic or even avant garde, it was downright disgusting with a male exhibitionist, standing next to a little girl, with his scrotum on display. Ugh! Not art but soft porn. As a Christian I found it highly offensive and sadly lacking imagination. From any Christian stance, 'anything goes' is NOT an acceptable proposition.
My only point was to comment about the form and it not being “The Last Supper.” As far as the assessment of the quality of it, as I said at the end of my video, everyone can make their own judgments about that. My video does not address that. But I also don’t think that Christians should take it personally and cry, “they mocked us!” when someone makes art they consider obscene.
This was a recreation of a Roman Bacchanal, not the Last Supper. Get over yourselves. The French aesthetic is completely different from America's. It has nothing to do with religion.
Yes! When I researched the use of halos in art, I saw that they had been used long before they were found in Christian art, and the halo the woman was wearing at the opening ceremony looked very much like a Roman-style halo, very unlike the halos often found in Christian art through the centuries. I debated whether or not to bring this up in the video.
Again. A woman is giving some explanation. Really. Have we reached peak feminist yet? Your so clever but you fail to identify your flawed psychology when making judgements concerning worldly matters. Eve was the one tempted by the serpent.....
And Adam was the one who BLAMED GOD for creating Eve. What's your point?
God was not angry when Eve ate the fruit. He became angry after she shared it. She should have kept her mouth shut, but it would have been horrifyingly lonely. Who hasn't wished that a dumb boyfriend was just a little bit smarter? By the way, Justin McGinty, "YOU + ARE = YOU'RE". And Jesus Christ was a feminist.
🤦🏼♂️it literally used all symbolic and real elements found offensive by Christianity to present Christian mock imagery. Don’t be naïve.
There are none so blind as one who will not see
It did NOT directly reference The Last Supper - please do some more research. It referenced the Feast of the Gods (which did copy the form of Da Vinci's painting).
If you had watched the whole video, you would have seen that I brought up Bijlert's painting about the Bacchanalia and talked about how that took the form of DaVinci's painting. The original blog post I wrote took a few days to write as I did extensive research and did my due diligence finding various sources, including the original Vogue interview with Jolly, all of which I linked to below the video.
@@heatherniemisavage Sorry, I'm not great at this, this was supposed to be an answer to Carpphone7744.
Got it!
Thanks for the erudite, complex, esoteric & somewhat hard to follow explanation. It is a little late now, it should have been presented before the event to lead up to it, followed by a thorough discussion period, to hopefully elicit the correct interpretation from the public. - It is much too late now, as every cell of the viewers got imprinted by the emotions elicited by the the stage-work. We need to remember that the subject of contention is not of science, therefore facts do not mean much. In art, it is feelings, thoughts, that get conjured that matter, not data analyses.
This. The backlash was because the insult was *felt*, not intellectualised. The proper response to 'my staging has caused mass offence to a diverse international audience' is 'perhaps there was a problem with my staging' rather than 'they all missed the point'.
Too many people are too used to (and desire) easy-to-process art. While I agree that art is felt, it also is related to one's art-diet. Just like with food. When I lived in southern Indiana for five years, the food was so bland and over-sweetened people there thought garlic was spicy. If art is complex and not immediately understood, it won't be liked by people who have a diet of only pop culture. Is that the artist's fault? I don't think so, but maybe he had too high of an expectation for people's capacity for understanding art.
Lots and lots of people did not miss the point. I think those who missed the point are in the minority.
The opening wasn't about The Last Supper it was about another painting, Feast Of The Gods, paying homage to the Olympian Gods. So it was perfectly appropriate to the opening of the World Olympics. Which came to us from Greece the land of the Olympians. Christian's are so arrogant that they think that everything in the world is about Christianity. And they go out of their way to play the victim. (See Candida Moss' The Myth Of Persecution.) Even though their Roman Catholic Teaching Of Jewish Deicide resulted in the extermination of 6 million Jews. And their Roman Catholic Doctrine Of Discovery resulted in the extermination of 56 million Indigenous Non-Europeans. They have never been victims but always victimizers. Just ask anyone on this planet who isn’t Christian.💙
Yes, I brought up Bijlert's painting in the video.
Sorry, but this is mocking Christianity by its clear reference to the last supper. That's not okay anymore than some tableau mocking Muhammed or Budha would be. I am a Christian, and I do not think that Islam holds truth, but that does not give me permission to mock the beliefs of millions. That's not what Jesus would do or did.
Christians were not alone in their revulsion. Much commiseration came from other religions, or atheists, as they were similarly offended. It was beyond the religious angle, as people quoted lack of decency, lack of appropriateness, missing family friendliness, to say the least.
It did NOT directly reference The Last Supper - please do some more research. It referenced the Feast of the Gods (which did copy the form of Da Vinci's painting). It is absolutely FINE to mock any religion, if a religion can't take a bit of mocking it's not really up to the Job. And remember, it has been religion that, in the name of its dogmas has oppressed and, yes, mocked Gay, Lesbian and Trans people for 2000 years.
@StudentDad-mc3pu still though they probably should have mentioned that before the presentation of it like people would probably be less offended by it if they were told in advance
With such a quick moving, very large exposure event it is futile to teach about intricate and highly esoteric intentions. The public will simply relate its experience and evaluation to items present and obvious in their consciousness. After all, they are not attending a detailed fine art lecture.
@@HuxtableTV just because it happens quickly and in a larger context does not make it okay.
How come these "artists" never use imagery from other religions?? Why always christianity?? The short answer to your question is yes...yes they did.
Christianity is picked on. Surprisingly, it seems, the pervasive speech laws do not apply to Christianity. It seems that Christians are exempted from them, and thereby being discriminated against, open to more discrimination. Why.
Why.
Christianity is the only true religion. The others are not.
Because this is from a country whose main religion is Christianity?
100% Being on the international stage, they would have people ensuring that there is no way that what is done could be misconstrued as offensive. To believe that the organisers had no idea..... is simply being naïve.
Look at it through the lens of history. Opening the GREEK Olympics featuring a Pantheon of Greek Gods is historically correct. Nice that they brought it back after centuries. Only uneducated people living in idiocracyville don't recognize what the hell it was.
Thank you for a rational and intelligent review of the Olympic Open "incident" from a Christian perspective. I agree wholeheartedly. You might be interested to know how this all began. The outrage can be traced back to two X (formerly Twitter) posts by Roman Catholic Bishop Robert Barron. (Linked below,) Barron, "Bishop of the Internet", has the largest social media following of all Catholic clergy. Barron is also part of the right-wing anti-Francis schism that's been growing inside the Catholic Church. He was associate Bishop of LA and was building a small media empire that threatened the sovereignty of the Bishop assigned to LA, so Francis "promoted" Barron to a small diocese in Winnona-Rochester Minnesota. Barron wasn't happy about that. I think what we witnessed was a flex against Francis for his decrees supporting the LGBTIQA+ community (See the Dodgers event below). Also it appeared to be a test by Barron to ascertain his ability to manipulate the faithful. The test was overwhelmingly successful. I tracked his "Last Supper" tweet influence and the response results were staggering. International political and religious leaders, celebrities, U.S. politicians, endless influencers, and the spectrum of mainstream media around the world supported Barron and joined the attack. The devastating planet-wide manufactured anger Barron focused on 20 innocent strangers was, IMO, nothing short of terrifying. Here's the start of Barron's Olympic Open attack, Tweet 1: x.com/BishopBarron/status/1816989733504860577 Barron's follow up divisive booster tweet: x.com/BishopBarron/status/1817638480278606074 This wasn't Barron's first rodeo. He pulled this crap last year: th-cam.com/video/Ec7fys0RucU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bkg1tcQzBB3p_sMk
Thanks for watching and sharing this info! So many “outrages” have started under false pretenses!
As a fellow artist and musician I ask this, if it wasnt to mock why use the form of a Sacred Image? Nobody could come up with anything original??? I dont use images of Buddah in my music or art cuz i am NOT BUDDIST. FAITH AND MOCKING ASIDE: The opening cermony was still highly inappropriate for a GLOBAL FAMILY EVENT! My poor 6yo boy could have been scared and confused, thank God he didnt see it. Lifes confusing enough without people turning the Olympics into a political warfront. That said, even though i disagree, I gave you a Like for speaking your mind politely and not fighting hate with hate. Thank you
Thanks for watching! I agree there is no reason for hate or being heated in this discussion. I did address the "sacred image" issue in the video, though. Quite a bit. Each individual can have their own opinions about the quality, effectiveness, or appropriateness of the ceremony. That's beyond the point of my video, and I don't care to get into all that.
@@heatherniemisavage you are very welcome. And I hear what you are saying about sacred images, I agree, and my Faith has nothing to do with some dead artists creativity, (RIP DaVinci.) But that painting is in millions of Bibles and thousands of churches, and has been historically meaningful to believers in Christ. So if it isn't special or meaningful to them, but if it is to BILLIONS of other humans. Why not just leave that FORM alone? It's just common respect like you are showing me and I am showing you. 🙏🏼 Thank you
I appreciate your reply. I find it ironic that so many churches and Bibles use this image considering the concept DaVinci was going for. Plus, the form has been used so many times. The Bijlert painting does something similar with the long table, though there are people in front of the table as well (I'm not sure what the space available on the platform was for the opening ceremony.) Having worked a lot in theater, I am used to seeing a space and framekwork/set used for multiple different things and given the "runway show" that was also part of this section of the ceremony, I'm not sure what would have been a better option. It would definitely be interesting to see the parameters of the commission.
The second version is so ethereal!
Thank you! Ethereal is definitely less concrete, haha.
I love seeing your process! Thank you!
Thank you!
It was an announcement for what followed. The competition between men and women was new. It was unfair, controversial and the resistance has been obviously big. It means that people conserve their common sense.
Well done… the pearl clutching and “outrage” seemed more obscene to me …thank you…
Thanks for watching!
Gosh what happened to the freedom to not be offended? I guess that's only for the trans crowd and not for Christians? The attitude that this is of no concern because it does not collide with your personal beliefs, is a cornerstone of fascism. Congratulations, you are what you pretend to hate.
Persecute others long enough, soon you begin to imagine people persecuting you everywhere you look.
Thanks for watching!
Jesus/God will not be mocked. Jesus/God said "Pave the streets with gold." Revelation 21:21 That is put permanently sympathetic magnets in the roads & copper coils underneath cars, trains, buses to siphon off earth's increasing magnetosphere due to the mystery of the 7 star crossings in one rotation of the galactic bulge Jesus held in his hand. Earth's increasing axial tilt not you is thawing frozen co2 in the arctic. Cause & effect on a closed co2 loop planet. Solomon "Nothing new under the sun" except our position relative the galactic bulge eccentricity, the Sun's position relative the nucleus milky way separating the galaxies fermie cells obliquity and the earth's position relative the nucleus of the Sun's OOrt cloud magnetosphere precession of the equinoxes. The galactic Milankovitch cycles not you or co2 causes climate trends & cataclysms according to God's timeline. These the birthing pains of this the millennium of climate change end times due to the precession of the sun's shadow millennial alpha & or omega equinoxes. The first of Noah's SE to NW tidal wave tsunamis will be pulled out & around the planet east to west by the new moon with the first of 19 major conjunctions of mercury & venus in 2033 & every 40 years thereafter for the millennium it takes to cross. Jesus/God our fathers New Covenant New Commandment is the truth life & only way to have life & life more abundantly on his fathers planet.
Like most other commenters you have missed the point of the opening ceremony. All the woke factions, in all their depravity, came together to boast and demonstrate how they’ve conquered the world. There was the obvious presence of the alphabet people but also the ‘women’s health’ were represented by the golden bull which is Molec the god of child sacrifice. The white horse, of revelation 6, was showing their conquering of the world.
Having been involved in Evangelicalism for almost 50 years, I have seen a lot of "symbolism" read into many things, and I'm done. When I see a bull's head of any color, my mind does not immediately go to Molech when there is no oven or other place for a fire to be built, like in all the pictures of ancient statues of Molech. But if you can provide proof that that is the meaning behind it, go ahead and provide it here. I have not found any in my research.
Wow! Yes, definitely love the background. What an amazing thing you are doing by exposing these tricks to burgeoning composers! It sounded rather benign until you spelled out all the ramifications to the composer...and benefits to the organizations! Shame on them, and kudos to you!
Thank you! I agree - this sounds benign at first!
Wow. I'm not a composer, but I'll still thank you for what you're doing. PSAs like this to out psychopaths (because let's not kid ourselves, this is what these people are) are always appreciated. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! It's hard to call a whole organization psychopathic, but I do scratch my head and wonder how this passed the board with no one stopping to say, "Wait, this sounds really unfair." Of course, that board member might have been outvoted...
Love the background and listening to your video made me so angry that there are predatory competitions out there like this. Thanks for enlightening us!
Thanks, David! Yeah, these get me riled up, too. Thankfully, most competitions are not like this, but there are some... It's so important to know the implications of how things are worded!
quite delicious......
Thank you so much!!!
quite delicious......
Thank you so much!!!
So nice.
Thank you so much, Randi!
Time stood still as I was totally captivated by the beauty and love in this piece. One of my favorite new discoveries this year for sure. Thank you for your faithfulness, Heather. I look forward to hearing even more of the music you bring into the world.
Thank you so much, Magnus! I appreciate your support!
What a tresure. I love this.
Thank you so much!!!
Yay, Heather! Congratulations!
Wow, Erin is amazing too.
Erin is an amazing player and wonderful to work with!
"My Mix" brought me to your Meditation once again. It is well thought out and well played. And the end is permeated with GOODNESS. God bless you Heather!
Thank you so much, Bill! God bless you, as well!
Heather, what a stunning piece. It perfectly reflects the many tensions in these days. I love how you re-imagined this wonderful hymn and brought out something nobody else would have thought to find. Gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you, K!
Beautiful, Heather.
Thank you so much, Judy!
THIS is such a stunning piece..I love the other recording of it. I love the turbulent river
@@maryseamonsterchick Thank you!