Asian and Nerdy: Alludes to model minority stereotypes in Grandmother Song ("All the good boys, baby, they're in grad school.") Teng herself attended Stanford as an undergrad and worked for Cisco as a software engineer before seriously pursuing music.Anachronic Order: Recessional is backwards.Amazing Freaking Grace: The penultimate line of Recessional is "oh words like rain, how sweet the sound," sung almost exactly to the familiar tune. ![]() Album Title Drop: "Recessional" provides the title to Dreaming Through the Noise:.Alternate Universe: No Gringo, where-in Americans are trying to get across the border into Mexico because America's economy collapsed.All Drummers Are Animals: When introducing Antebellum on the live album, Vienna mentions Alex drooling over the arrangement, which Alex notes is a very clichéd thing for a drummer to do.After the End: Enough to Go By, according to Word of God.2010 - The Moment Always Vanishing (live album).She has taken to touring in the past few years, often accompanied by professional percussionist Alex Wong, who co-produced Inland Territory with her. A classically trained pianist, she left a job at Cisco Systems to write and record music full-time. Sam.Vienna Teng (born Cynthia Yih Shih, October 3, 1978) is a San Francisco Bay Area singer/songwriter who works in a style she likes to call chamber-folk. Just land it, okay? We wouldn’t want anyone to think I was playing favorites. ![]() So give up, give in, give me the green light Nothing like a goddess falling down to earth Someone’s gonna scoop us sooner than later Now we’ve got this guru keeping her silence Have you ever seen a brick wall with nothing behind it? It was really sweet of you to give it a try (All start tapping on their smartphones and computers) She keeps a tight grip on how the public sees herĪsk about her past, you get the mona lisa Interviews are rare, no one dares to squeeze her (Reporters grumble their agreeement with BEV.) Honey, that’s great, but if all you’ve got is a hunch. She's posing as the mother of the whole damn planet Or you'll be writing little league play-by-plays! We need watergate, wikileaks, lewinsky scale (All move into place around a long table.) The truth, the truth, the truth, the truth. The truth, the truth, the truth will come out “Masterful and compelling.both timeless and contemporary…” - Stage and Cinema.“Beautiful.A triumph… Shaffer’s book brims with intelligence and wit… ” - Theater Dogs.“A satisfying and remarkably entertaining new musical that takes on spiritual life with wit and emotional resonance…” - KQED/NPR.Shaffer's musical has the audience emotionally involved and on the edge of their seats.” - The Huffington Post “Intelligent and skillfully crafted…hugely ambitious and refreshingly original.“An exciting and ambitious project, driven by Teng's eclectic score, Shaffer's inspired rewrites of the Buddha story, and their punchy, provocative lyrics… An absolute delight.” - San Francisco Chronicle The PDF will be released on November 7, in conjunction with The Fourth Messenger album featuring Viena Teng. Script includes all lyrics and text, not musical score. Book and lyrics by Tanya Shaffer, music and additional lyrics by Vienna Teng. ![]() Epic and intimate, comic and profound, The Fourth Messenger investigates what it means to be both enlightened and human. But a determined young woman seeks to unearth Mama Sid’s mysterious past, exposing long-held secrets that could change everything. What if the Buddha were a woman, living in our times? In this captivating new musical, Mama Sid is a modern-day “awakened one” with a worldwide following. Via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Includes unlimited streaming of The Fourth Messenger, featuring Vienna Teng
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