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“Freedom Song is the most powerful and emotional performance that every parent and teenager should see together.” This experience leads to an open and honest discussion about addiction. By actually assuming the roles in Freedom Song, kids have the opportunity to connect to their emotions in a more insightful way than is possible by simply being an audience member. Our goal for this workshop is to increase positive attitudes and positive social behavior among today’s youth, while reducing substance abuse, and emotional distress. They will have the opportunity to role-play with a script on a set stage and confront certain issues they have never had to deal with before in a way that is both personal and profound. Instead of merely being a spectator, the youth in this program are invited to actively participate in a performance of Freedom Song. Using song and dance, tears and laughter, and an intense post show discussion with our cast, Freedom Song will open your eyes to the real life struggle against the “bondage of self” that we all fight every day. A full-orchestral version was also performed at the close of the 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms concert.By interweaving a Passover Seder with personal stories of addiction, Freedom Song poses one stark question: “WHAT ARE YOU A SLAVE TO?” The cast of Freedom Song is not a cast of actors they are actual addicts in recovery that have broken off the shackles of drugs, alcohol, gambling, and other destructive behaviors.In his liner notes Gold indicates that the arrangement used for Journey's End was influenced by the famous John Lennon recording 'Give Peace a Chance.'

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Both versions of 'Song of Freedom' are included in the Series 4 soundtrack CD issued in late 2008 the Planet of the Ood version as part of a medley entitled 'Songs of Captivity and Freedom', and the Journey's End version on its own.

Therefore it is not considered diegetic, or 'in-universe'. While the first version is heard by the characters, this version does not appear to be heard by them. The vocals were sung by the Crouch End Festival Chorus.

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In Journey's End an orchestral version with a full choir was heard during the sequence in which the Tenth Doctor and his companions use the TARDIS to restore the Earth to its original location.'When amongst humans, we should be humane.' Fact file on the Doctor Who website Save me and I will save you.'ĭum inter homines, sumus colamus humanita (cum tacent clament) Some lyrics and translations were also given: Murray Gold has stated that the Ood's songs are heard in Latin because the TARDIS translated them from 'Classical Ood' to the language closest in style and spirit.It is first heard during Planet of the Ood. Composed by Murray Gold, and voiced by counter-tenor Mark Chambers, 'Song of Freedom' is heard several times during Series 4.The song was never named within the narrative.Nevertheless, when they departed the Ood Sphere, the Doctor and Donna knew the Ood were singing a 'Song of Freedom'. Although the Doctor would obviously have been able to detect this shift of tempo and tone, it was unclear whether Donna did. Donna asked for the Doctor to allow her to hear it, but then could not bear its aching sadness.Īfter they had won their release, the Ood shifted the melody to something more uplifting. The Tenth Doctor could hear what might be called the 'Song of Captivity' from the moment he arrived on the planet, but Donna Noble and other humans could not. Because of the complex nature of Ood song, however, it was not clear that they were actually separate songs, but rather one long story. The 'Songs of Freedom and Captivity' were hymn-like pieces of narrative music sung by the Ood around the time of their great struggle on the Ood Sphere for liberation from human exploitation.

'Songs of Freedom and Captivity' is a title based upon conjecture.Ĭheck the behind the scenes section, the revision history and discussion page for additional comments on this article's title.

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