Naturally you can sing productions was started in 1999 as a company to bring
singing and live music back into peoples lives. The world is singing less
than it ever has in the history of the world, and we do not want singing to
disappear altogether. Singing has since the beginning of time been a source
of joy, prayer, divine wisdom, a helper when working and a deep force of
healing and balance for the human being. Our goal is to find new and
wonderful ways to get people singing: to access the deep wonder and joy
which singing can bring into our lives. When we raise our voices in song
together we deepen our love and connection with each other, with the Spirit
that guides us and with the world. When we sing together we remind ourselves
of our true origin, our essential selves and the spiritual home from which
we have all come and to which we shall return again one day. Let us return
to this song medicine and remember....
"...there is always a reason to sing,
and a song to be sung!"
~Zimbabwe
 About the Musician
Mary Thienes Schunemann has a bachelor's degree in Psychology,
a musical instructor for LifeWays childcare trainings, is a Waldorf Teacher, music educator, singer, composer, inspired mother and homemaker! She teaches singing workshops around the country, and gives private music lessons in her home in southeastern Wisconsin. She is the president of the Rafael Foundation for New Impulses in Music, and is the director of the women's vocal ensemble Avalon a cappella.
She works out of the principles of the School of Uncovering the Voice, and has studied singing extensively in Europe and America since 1989. Her techniques are innovative and fun. Mary's musical mission has le her to found naturally you can sing productions for people who want to re-connect to the joy of singing and bring this joy to the children in their lives!
A Note on Mary’s Work from Her Husband
Mary’s final work is, of course, filled with deep and personal significance to me. The path she and I walked as partners I now continue as the earth-bound half of that partnership.
The quality, depth, and clarity of Mary’s work during her final weeks on earth were further crystallized as her commitment to human voice and beautiful sound deepened and expanded. Singing always made her happiest, from the early days at her parent’s side singing show tunes, to our nightly ritual of song for our children’s transition to sleep, to her final work in the studio on this project.
Her commitment to pure and clear sound that transcends the earthly is very apparent in this final work.
Offering joy, hope, and comfort to those who loved, knew, and worked with her, these songs carry her profound desire to find healing through sound. The recordings, well beyond the personal, offer everyone an invitation to transcend.
As she truly lived her dying days, Mary yielded to Life as her body failed. As she was physically failing, the experienced glimpses of the Beyond, which she left for us in these recordings. I release this work as she wanted it to be a resource for us all
Mary always dedicated her work to those who taught, guided, and influenced her work, particularly to her family, and especially her daughters, Aurora and Allegra. As in all her previous works, this project is also dedicated to the Great Spirit of God and the Angels which were ever-present in her life and which she began to describe more vividly in her final days.
Sven Schunemann
September 22, 2007
About the Illustrator
Lurs Schwarz Smith is a graduate of San Francisco state University. She has done illustration work for various publications for many years. In addition, her main work is producing art quilts which have received major awards at national and international quilt shows. Her work may be seen at
www.lura-art.com
If you wish to contact us about any of our products
or if you have questions pertaining to our mission of
getting people to sing. Please feel free to contact us
at 415-888-2168. You may also reach us by email: Sven
Schunemann
"Through our lives...
through our work...
We weave beauty and healing
into the fiber of our society....
...keep singing!"
As music teachers, we often ask ourselves - How will I teach?
When? Where? Who?
But we rarely ask ourselves - Why?
We've always known why...
Why Do We Teach Music?
Author Unknown
Not because we expect you to major in music...
Not only because we expect you to play or sing all your life...
Not only so you can relax...
Not just so you can have fun...
But...
so you will be more human
so you will recognize beauty
so you will be sensitive
so you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
so you will have something to cling to
so you will have more compassion,
more gentleness, more good, in short, ...more life...
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
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