DoveSong.com Projects
An Acoustic Theater

The team at DoveSong.com has a vision of building a dome theater in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, just outside of  Denver, Colorado. This theater would be used only for the performance of selected compositions of great acoustic sacred classical music. 

Situated in the foothills, among the pines and the granite rock formations, this dome theater would attract people from around the world. They would come to hear great sacred music performed as it should be, in reverence and silence, with no applause, no announcements, no beverages...and no hotdogs. There would also be no electronic amplification, and lighting would be subtle. The theater would accommodate choirs, a full symphony orchestra, soloists and ensembles.

The primary focus would be the performance of sacred music for orchestra and choir, with an emphasis on sacred music, but the theater would also host other great classical sacred music traditions as well.

The theater would be a place where listeners would receive a healing and uplifting experience.

A selected reparatory of uplifting music would be performed in the theater, with music for choir with or without orchestral accompaniment as the specialty: the masses of Schubert, Beethoven and Bruckner, the choral music of Palestrina, Josquin, and Victoria, the requiems of Duruflé and Brahms. It would also encourage contemporary postive music composers to write inspired works for this setting.

The focus would be on the unique effect that concordant sacred music produces and how a spiritual impression allows an audience to be transformed. Upbeat music that would cause attention to the physical, such as upbeat gospel music, although greatly respected, would not be played here -- the reason being that the beat causes patterns of energy to be broken up. This can be a positive occurrence in other other environments, but in this theatre, a permanent sacred space would be created with a strong vibration that would be felt by aware people who entered, much as one can feel the omnipresent energy in the great cathedrals of Europe.

DoveSong.com is interested in working with organizations and parties who would like to participate in this project. It must be understood that a project such as this is not impossible to build and support. There is much skepticism today about classical music projects, much talk about low arts funding and so forth. But what we are talking about here has not been done before, and there will be serious interest. Wagner built his own theater for the performance of his works in Bayreuth, Germany, and certainly he had many doubters and detractors. But it thrives today, and the waiting period for purchasing tickets is around eight years.