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Pop / Rock 10/03/2010

Musicians For Harmony 4/8 Concert For Peace Features Jewish & Arab Composers

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New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Musicians For Harmony Official Website) - Musicians For Harmony Brings Jewish & Arab Composers Together for April 8th 'Concert for Peace'. World Premiere Commission of 'Furia' by Mohammed Fairouz to be Featured; Works by Richard Danielpour, Halim El-Dabh, Yehudi Wyner and Tobias Picker Confirmed as Well. Performers to Include The Borromeo Quartet, Imani Winds and Baritone Randall Scarlata

On April 8th, Musicians For Harmony will bring Jewish and Arab composers together in its 2010 Spring 'Concert For Peace.' This remarkable event has been conceived as a contrapuntal dialogue between cultures, as five of the foremost living Jewish and Arab composers will showcase the diversities, individual richness and, above all, shared histories and common ground of their respective heritages.

Established by Allegra Klein shortly after September 11, 2001, Musicians For Harmony's mission is to promote peace and cultural exchange through music. The organization has earned significant and growing attention for its charitable and diplomatic efforts in the years since. M4H's annual concerts of chamber and world music are the centerpiece of an expansive, international program of performances, educational activities and cross-cultural exchange.

Their April 8th 'Concert For Peace,' at the Kaufman Center's Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, will feature the world premiere of 'Furia,' a song cycle commissioned by M4H from acclaimed Palestinian composer Mohammed Fairouz (PHOTO ABOVE). Other highlights of the program will include works by Richard Danielpour, Halim El-Dabh, Yehudi Wyner and Tobias Picker. Performers will include The Borromeo Quartet, Imani Winds and baritone Randall Scarlata. Proceeds will benefit M4H's innovative educational and cross-cultural projects, and additional program notes follow below.

MUSICIANS FOR HARMONY - 2010 Spring "Concert for Peace" 4/8/10 at 7:30pm Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center * 129 W. 67th Street * NYC * Tickets: $25, $60, $100; Students: $12 BOX OFFICE: 212-501-3330 Ticket E-mail: [email protected] https://kaufman-center.org/merkin-concert-hall/season-calendar/2010/04 Visit M4H's Facebook Event page, here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159675592070 Visit M4H's Concert Webpage here: https://www.musicians4harmony.org/spring10concert.html

April 8th Program overview - The Music of Jewish & Arab Composers: Halim El-Dabh, a revolutionary voice in Egyptian music, is heard through his String Quartet: Metamorphoses and Fugue on Egyptian Folklore. The quartet, written in the 1950s, explores Arab folk idioms, maqam (Arabic modes) and western contrapuntal forms (fugue). Tobias Picker's Nova follows: a chamber work by "our finest composer for the lyric stage" (Wall Street Journal) written as a companion to Schubert's Trout Quintet. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner's Tanz and Ma'issele, Yiddish for "Dance and Little Story," ends the first half of the evening.

The second half of the program opens with the work of a composer who combines his Persian/Jewish background with one of the most distinctive American voices of our time: Richard Danielpour's Third String Quartet was written to commemorate the Holocaust and uses the baritone voice as a vehicle together with the strings. The evening ends with the world premiere of a song cycle commissioned by Musicians For Harmony from Mohammed Fairouz, one of the most sought after composers of the young generation. Drawing on his Persian Gulf and Palestinian origins, Fairouz seeks to confront issues of communication through the rich heritage of music and languages from the Middle East. The cycle will incorporate Arabic, Hebrew and English poetic traditions.

More About Borromeo String Quartet: Considered 'simply the best there is' by the Boston Globe, the critically acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet is one of the most sought after string quartets in the world. They have been heard in the world's most illustrious concert halls, including the Philharmonie, Casals Halls, the Concertgebouw, Opera Bastille, and Wigmore Hall. In the United States, the group is a favorite at Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Jordan Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery.

The quartet is regularly invited to perform in distinguished chamber music series across the United States and abroad and has participated in the Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands, the Stavanger Festival in Norway, Music Isle Festival in Korea, and in North America at the Ravinia, Tanglewood, Caramoor, Santa Fe, Rockport, Cape Cod, and Vancouver chamber music festivals, among others. They also have long-standing residencies at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum ('one of the defining experiences of civilization in Boston' Boston Globe), the Tenri Cultural Institute ('one of New York's best kept secrets' N.Y. Sun), Dai-Ichi Semei Hall in Tokyo, and the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, where it has been the official Quartet-in-Residence for seventeen years.

In April 2007 the Borromeo Quartet was honored in New York with a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. They have enjoyed collaborations with composers John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Osvaldo Golijov, Steve Mackey, John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, Jennifer Higdon, Derek Bermel, and Lior Navok, among others. In 2000 they completed two seasons as a member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two and served as Ensemble-in-Residence for the 1998-99 season of National Public Radio's Performance Today. Additional information may be found at www.Borromeoquartet.com .

More About Imani Winds: Imani Winds has established itself as more than just a woodwind quintet. Since 1997, the Grammy-nominated ensemble has taken a unique path, carving out a distinct presence in the classical music world with its dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, genre-blurring collaborations, and inspirational outreach programs. With two member composers and a deep commitment to commissioning new work, the group is enriching the traditional wind quintet repertoire while meaningfully bridging European, American, African and Latin American traditions.

Imani Winds has performed at Atlanta's National Black Arts Festival, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Chicago Symphony Musicians Residency Program, the Ravinia Festival, the Kennedy Center, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, as well as at dozens of other venues throughout the U.S. and Europe. The group's Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center residency culminated in a recital in New York's Alice Tully Hall with renowned clarinetist/saxophonist/composer Paquito D'Rivera. The ensemble has also worked with luminaries such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bandoneonist Daniel Binelli, saxophonist Steve Coleman, clarinetist David Shifrin, and pianists Gilbert Kalish and Shai Wosner.

Imani Winds enjoys frequent national exposure in all forms of media, including two features on NPR's All Things Considered, appearances on APM's Saint Paul Sunday, NPR's Performance Today and News and Notes with Ed Gordon, and BBC's The World, as well as frequent coverage in major music magazines and newspapers. Their excellence has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2007 ASCAP Award, the 2002 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, and the CMA/WQXR Award for their debut and self-released CD Umoja. At the 2001 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, Imani Winds was selected as the first-ever Educational Residency Ensemble, in recognition of their valuable musical abilities and innovative programming. More about Imani Winds may be found on their website: www.imaniwinds.com .
For more information on the composers, please visit their websites at: Richard Danielpour - https://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=321 Halim El-Dabh - https://www.halimeldabh.com/ Mohammed Fairouz - https://www.mohammedfairouz.com/ Tobias Picker - https://www.tobiaspicker.com/ Yehudi Wyner - https://www.yehudiwyner.com/
For More information on the performers, please visit their websites at: The Borromeo Quartet - https://www.borromeoquartet.org/ Imani Winds - https://www.imaniwinds.com/main/ Randall Scarlata, Baritone - https://www.randallscarlata.com/

More About M4H: Musicians For Harmony began as a response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Musicians and New Yorkers from all walks of life came together on the first anniversary of 9/11 in 2002 to pay tribute and promote cross-cultural harmony through music. This sold-out concert was broadcast live on WNYC radio and received the highest critical acclaim. Since then, M4H has continued to promote 'peace through music' with annual fall and spring concerts in New York City. Renowned classical and world music artists perform on the same program, donating their services to raise money for peace-related activities. Over the years, more than a dozen new works have been commissioned by composers such as Mark O'Connor, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kinan Azmeh, Patrick Derivaz and Mohammed Fairouz.

Musicians For Harmony's mission is to foster and advance peace and dialogue among individuals of different cultures, ethnicities and religions through (1) musical performances, (2) educational activities and (3) cross-cultural exchange. M4H's concerts attract the highest caliber musicians, such as the Guarneri, Juilliard, Shanghai and Orion quartets; pianists Leon Fleisher, Jonathan Biss and Claude Frank; violinists Mark O'Connor and Anne Akiko Meyers; cellists Carter Brey and Peter Wiley; flutist Eugenia Zukerman; and world music artists from Albania, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Mali, Pakistan, Russia, Syria and many others. M4H's 'Music of the World' educational workshops bring the message of 'peace through music' to the next generation through an after-school program in Brooklyn's public schools. M4H's cultural exchange activities include the 'Mentorship Program' (featuring distance learning programs for Iraqi music students) and participation in Iraq's first-ever national youth orchestra. More about Musicians For Harmony may be found here: www.musicians4harmony.org

More About M4H Founder Allegra Klein: Allegra Klein first traveled to Baghdad in 2003 to bring musical instruments and supplies to the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. She journeyed to northern Iraq in 2007 to teach for the U.S. State Department-sponsored Iraqi Unity Performing Arts Academy, and returned in 2009 to help establish the first National Youth Orchestra of Iraq. Her articles about these trips were published in Strings and Symphony magazines, and her cross-cultural work has also been profiled in the New York Sun, the New York Daily News and Chamber Music Magazine.

A strong advocate for cultural diplomacy, Klein addressed a conference at the United Nations in 2006 about the role of the arts in educating girls in developing countries, and was invited back the following spring for a roundtable discussion on how the arts can bridge gaps between cultures. In 2008, she was asked to write an article for the Cultural Diplomacy Institute, which was published online in their Cultural Diplomacy News, and in 2009, she participated in conferences on Music and Cultural Diplomacy at Northeastern University in Boston and on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution for 3D Security in Washington, D.C.

Last fall, Klein re-located to Baghdad, where she was engaged by 4points Company - an Iraqi woman owned firm - to help develop projects that benefit Iraq's civil society organizations, small businesses, women's and children's centers, agricultural institutions and cultural entities. One of these projects was a training program for the administrative staff of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra (whose Music Director, Karim Wasfi, M4H presented in their Fall 2008 concert), and in March 2010, Klein created and taught a 4-day course on fundraising and grant-writing to members of INSO's staff. More About Allegra Klein, here: https://musicians4harmony.org/mfhbios.html






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