“Out Beyond Ideas” was commissioned for a joint performance of Sabathani Vintage Voices and the Champlin Park High School choir, Viva Voce. The two choirs, one senior adults, the other, high school students, met several times to rehearse, to share food, and to get to know one another. It was a beautiful experience. The directors of the choirs, Robert Graham and Margaret Sabin, respectively, and I selected this text to match this rare experience of conversation and working together to make music, which bridged generations and other differences. We talked a lot about what it might be like like to meet in that field that Rumi speaks of, a field beyond . We talked a lot about what it might be like like to meet in that field that Rumi speaks of, a field beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, where even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense. Hear, see, and buy it on MusicSpoke. http://musicspoke.com/downloads/out-beyond-ideas-2