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W&M Scholarworks 2005-2006 W&M ScholarWorks Ephemera Materials Middle Eastern Music Ensemble Archive 9-1-2005 2005-2006 Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’ Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/memea_ephemera Part of the Ethnomusicology Commons Recommended Citation Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’, "2005-2006" (2005). Ephemera Materials. 11. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/memea_ephemera/11 This Ephemera is brought to you for free and open access by the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble Archive at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ephemera Materials by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. College Community Showcase Welcome Gene Nichol, President Masters of Ceremony Clay Clemens, Professor of Government Sam Sadler, Vice President for Student Affairs Performances Christine Niehaus and Harris Simon Christine Niehaus, a Steinway Artist and grand prize winner in the International Piano Recording Compet1t1on, has performed in America • and Eu rope. Harns Simon has played at events around the world, including the Montreux and Edinburgh jazz festivals. Both are instructors of piano ,n the music department. Woody Beckner and Matt Hall Woody Beckner teaches jazz guitar at the College, performs regularly in jazz series and festivals, and has produced several albums He is accompanied tonight by double bassist Matt Hall. Anne Rasmussen and the Middle East Chamber Music Ensemble Anne Rasmussen teaches music and ethnomusicology, has produced four albums, and has published widely in the field-including on her specialty, Islamic music. She 1s Joined by the Middle East Chamber Music Ensemble, a student group that has performed throughout the region. Sinfonicron Light Opera Company An entirely student-run organization Sinfonicron 1s in its fifth decade of performing light opera and musicals. Tonight's performance features selections from the Broadway show Ragtime, with soloists Jasmine Wilkins and Devan Donaldson. Bhangra Dance Group A part of the South Asian Student Association, the Bhangra Dance Group 1s known for its electrifying performances of dances from • the Punjab Region of .,orthern India. The Gentlemen of the,;; ~liege The College's oldest all-male a cappella group has so q around the country, most recent ly at the White House, and will release their n 1th album this month Show-stopping performances Featuring W&M faculty and students CELEBRATING the investiture of SANDRA DAY O ' CONNOR and the inauguration of GENER . NICHOL Thursday. 9 p.m. APRIL 6, 2006 PHI BETA KAPPA MEMORIAL HALL §§r:•d•rn Ienter keyword ILGOJ Advanced Search/Archive You Are In: USINFO > Regions > Middle East and North Africa American Students Drawn to Mideast Studies Through Music Ensemble -RELATED ITEMS I Learning classical Arab instruments, students become cultural ambassadors By Stephen Kaufman Washington File Staff Writer Washington -- The audience in the Dupont Circle conference room easily could have imagined itself sitting in a concert hall in Lebanon or Egypt, listening to the sound of an Arab lute, or 'ud, playing a solo over a delicate orchestra! drone and a dynamic rhythm. But, remarkably, the Arab music was being performed by young American college students from Virginia. Founded in 1994 by professor Anne Rasmussen, The Middle Eastern Music Ensemble has played ethnomusicologist and talented player, the for 'ud Arab ctrgn!tar1es such as College of William and Mary's Middle Eastern Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Music Ensemble not only has delighted audiences, winner Shlreen Ebadi and but also has directed the interest of many music Jordan's Prince Ensemble director Dr. Anne lovers toward the Middle East, and instilled young Hassan.(State Dept. photo - Rasmussen (foreground) plays scholars with a love and appreciation of classical Steve Kaufman) the qanun at the group's Arab music. concert In Washington. (State ◄) Music & Slideshow Dept photo Stephen Kaufman) Rasmussen jokes about how many western­ trained musicians join the ensemble out of curiosity and then find themselves signing up for Arabic language classes, or for • courses in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Julia, originally a flute player, said she came to the ensemble after becoming frustrated with western music. Now she has plans to start learning Arabic and is adjusting her course load to focus on Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. She said the cultural background obtained through the music "is a complement to the academic side." Rasmussen wa~ approached one day by a sophomore named Jesse with an 'ud his father had brought him from Iraq. Jesse, a rock guitar player, was seeking guitar lessons. Seeing the 'ud, she told him, "Your guitar playing days are numbered, or they're just on hold for the moment. You are coming into this ensemble." Jesse, now enrolled in his first year of Arabic, is seeking to study at William and Mary's overseas study program in Morocco. "I'm definitely going to continue the Arabic, and I'm definitely going to continue playing the 'ud," he said. "I just love it. I'm just so absorbed by the culture, being in the ensemble." Telling the story of Jesse's introduction to the Middle East, Rasmussen warned, "Be careful of what your parents bring home for you." One student, Scott, who plays the percussion instrument known as the daf, took the opposite route to the ensemble. "I don't play any musical instruments but I do speak Arabic. I'm a Middle Eastern studies major and I just thought it would be kind of a fun thing •... It's really a lot of fun!" he said. Rasmussen, who teaches academic classes on Middle Eastern and other world music cultures, believes her students' participation in the ensemble is ''much more experiential" and conducive to appreciating the subject than the normal course work of reading articles and writing papers. "This is really Integral to my teaching mission. 1_·.···:;·:~• This is really what I like to do," she said, • adding that she believes more students are likely to continue pursuit of their interest after ,. having had the benefit of first-hand experience. "I have six students right now that are doing Ph,D.s in ethnomusicology. All of them have been through the ensemble," she said. One of them, Anne Elise Thomas, was featured r in a 2004 Hi Magazine article, in which she told how her Introduction to Middle Eastern music through the ensemble led her to visit the region, where she received music Jesse's (center) growing interest instruction by teachers in cairo, Egypt. In the Middle East region and Its Thomas plays the qanun, a 72-stringed zither culture ultlrnately began when reminiscent of a hammered dulcimer. (The his father bought him an 'ud In Iraq. {State Dept photo - article is available on the Hi Magazine Web site Stephen Kai..'fman) in both fD.9:!i.fil]' and Arabic.) AMBASSADORS OF ARAB CULTURE TO AMERICANS For most of the ensemble's American audience, the musical performance is its first introduction to Arab music and its unfamiliar instruments, songs, musical scales and rhythms. Between sqngs, Rasmussen will take the time, for example, to explain how a 10- beat rhythm, virtually unused in western music, fits the cadence of the next number. Before performing a Sufi song that includes lyrics, she tries to convey the meaning to her non-Arabic speaking audience. "It's got this incredible text that talks about the power of love, and like much Sufi poetry that's characteristic of this genre, it's sometimes not quite clear whether you're talking about the love of a lover or a love for God. And so that's one of the beauties of Sufi poetry," she tells them. Rasmussen says she is aware the classical music being studied and performed by the ensemble does not paint an accurate picture of the contemporary Arab music scene for their American audience. "If you want to know about Arabs in the real world, and they're all listening to popular music, then what we present is a misconception," she said. But at the same time, she said, "If you want to know what most Americans listen to, and we play a [Felix] Mendelssohn piano concerto, that's also a misconception." Some of the ensemble players have been Arab American, joining at an age when Rasmussen says many people "are not interested in being ethnic." But the participation of these "heritage learners," as she calls them, has led them to discover a part of their identity. She recalled one completely "Americanized student• who participated in the ensemble, a girl whose father's famfly was of Lebanese heritage. After a concert; Rasmussen safd the girl's father approached her and said, "I've been dying to teach my daughter what it means to be hint 'arab - an Arab girl.... Your ensemble helped to instill my daughter with something that I've been trying to do fpr years!" Asked about the reactfon of Arab-American audiences, Rasmussen said many are amazed that "white kids from Virginia" are performing their traditional music, and that it is being studied at the college as part of an academic program. Laura, a qanun player who serves as the ensemble's assistant director, said that many express gratitude, with comments such as, "This is the music I grew up with and I never hear it around here any more."' The ensemble also has played for Arab dignitaries such as Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shireen Ebadi and Jordan's Prince Hassan. The prince "thanked us personally," Laura said. "He said 'This is great - I've never seen this!"' More information on the ensemble is available on the College of WUliam and Mary's Web site. Created: 01 Mar 2006 Updated: 02 Mar 2006 Page Tools: Ei1 Printer frlendly version ~ E-mail this article JJSINFO delivers Information about cur;ent U.S.
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