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1993 Next Wave Festival .' 1993 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL _ PROGRAM NOTES _ STEVE REICH ENSEMBLE Cheryl Bensman Rowe, lyric soprano Marion Beckenstein, lyric soprano James Bassi, tenor Hugo Munday, baritone Bob Becker, Russ Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, Thad Wheeler, percussion Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, Philip Bush, pianos & keyboards Elizabeth Lim, Todd Reynolds, violin Scott Rawls, viola Jeanne LeBlanc, cello Leslie Scott, Kenneth Dybisz, flutes, oboe, english horn, clarinet & bass clarinet SYNOPSIS In the Bible, Abraham buys a cave from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place for his wife Sarah. The Cave of the Patriarchs, as it has come to be known, became the final resting place not only for Sarah, but for Abraham and their descendants as well. In Jewish mystical sources, the cave is also a passageway back to the Garden of Eden. It is said that Adam and Eve are also buried there. The cave is of great religious significance for Moslems as well. While the Jews are descendants of Abraham and Sarah through their son Isaac, the Moslems trace their lineage to Abraham through his son Ishmael born to Hagar, Sarah's handmaid. Today the cave, located in the largely Arab town of Hebron, in the West Bank, is completely built over and inaccessible. The ancient structures built above it reveal a long history of conflicting claims. One discovers not only the wall Herod erected around 'the cave, but also the remains of a Byzantine church, and finally the: mosque built in the 12th century which has dominated the site ever since. Since 1967 the mosque built above the cave remains under Moslem jurisdiction, while the Israeli army maintains a presence at the site. Though tensions run particularly high, the site remains unique as the only place on earth where Jews and Moslems both worship. The Cave is in three acts. In each act we asked the same basic questions to a different group of people. The basic five questions were: Who for you is Abraham? Who for you is Sarah? Who for you is Hagar? Who for you is Ishmael? Who for you is Isaac? In the first act we asked Israelis, in the sec­ ond we asked Palestinians, and in the third we asked Americans. I _ PROGRAM NOTES _ Act I: West jerusalem/Hebron Act 2: East jerusalem/Hebron May/june 1989 june 1989 and june 1991 (Act I is 64 minutes) (Act II is 40 minutes) Israeli interviewees in order ofappearance: Palestinian interviewees in order ofappearance: EPHRAIM ISAAC Born· in Ethiopia, he has SHEIKH DAHOUD ATALAH The Muqri at AI­ lived in Israel and is currently Director of Aksa mosque, Jerusalem. the Institute of Semitic Studies at Princeton SUAD KARAMAN Poet and editor of The Univeristy. Women~s World in Arabic. She has also BARUCH NACHSHON An artist by profession, taught English. he lives in the Jewish Settlement of Kiryat ARAYDI NAIM Poet and writer from Maghar Arba in Hebron. Village. MAGEN BROSHI Chief Curator, the Shrine of KHALID M. SULEIMAN Journalist from the Book, and D. S. and J. H. Gottesman Hebron. Centre for Biblical Manuscripts. One of the MARIAN MARl Dr. of Education, initiator leading experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls. and director of Early Childhood Education NADINE SHENKAR Writer and Professor of Project for the Arab child in Israel, and Jewish Art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in President of the Galilee Social Research Israel, and scholar and practitioner of Center in Nazareth. Kaballah. ITAF ZIAD English instructor at Ramalah DAVID BEN YOSEF Social worker and resident Women's Training Center. She is also an of the Jewish Settlement of Kiryat Arba in Editor of Gesher, a Palestinian magazine in Hebron. Hebrew. RIVKA GONEN Archaeologist and chief cura­ HAJ MITHKAL NATOUR Served for 15 years tor at the ethnography wing of the Israel as director of Arab Education in East Museum in Jerusalem. Jerusalem. He is also Doctor of Islamic B. MICHAEL Political columnist and satirist studies and author of a book about the laws for the Israeli newspaper Ha-aretz. of the Moslem family in Israel according to MOSHE IDEL Leading scholar and writer on Islamic and Israeli law. Kabbalah and professor of Jewish Thought ALI EL-KHALILI Poet and editor of EI Fajar. at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. SAMIA KAZMUZ Singer and actress. She is YESHAYAHU LEIBOWITZ A biochemist by pro­ also an educational counselor. fession, he has been, since the early 1940's, DR. ABDUL LATIF BARGHOUTHI Professor of one of the most incisive and controversial Islamic Studies, Bir Zeit University, West Bank. critics of Israeli culture and politics. He JAMIL ABU TORMEH Principal of a secondary lives in Jerusalem. school, East Jerusalem. URIEL SIMON Professor at the Department MUSBAH T AHBOUB From a family which has of Bible at Bar Han University in Israel, and cared for the mosque of Haram el-Khalil in head of the Institute for the History of Hebron for generations. Jewish Bible Research. He is active in the DR. ADEL MANNA Professor of Islamic religious peace movement, Netivot Shalom. Studies at the Hebrew University. GABRIEL BARKAI A prominent archaeologist IMAM T ALAL EID Religious director, Islamic and scholar, specializing in the Iron Age­ Center of New England, and a graduate of the period of the Israelite monarchy (10th AI-Azhar University, School of Islamic century to 6th century B.C.)-and profes­ Science and Law, Cairo, Egypt. He also sor at Tel Aviv University. holds a Master of Theological Studies degree. YAEL LAMM At the time of the interview in from Harvard Divinity School. June 1989, she was a yeshiva student in KHALIL ATAMNA Professor of Islamic studies, Efrat near Jerusalem. Bir Zeit University, West Bank. M. WATAD Journalist and writer. He is also a former member of the Knesset. RIAD OTHMAN A hotel manager. (short pause) I (intermission) _ PROGRAM NOTES_ Act III: New York City/ Austin - April/May 1992 (Act III is 32 minutes) American interviewees in order ofappearance: SUSAN HEWITT Born in England, raised in the ELIZABETH LECOMPTE Born in Toledo, Ohio, in church of England tradition and has now lived 1959, and has lived and worked in New York in America for 15 years. She taught biology at City for 25 years. She is Director of the Yale for one semester, and has taught Hatha Wooster Group. Yoga for 10 years. She is a practicing Tibetan RICHARD SERRA Sculptor who lives and works Buddhist. in N.Y.C. and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. DENNIS PRAGER KABC Radio commentator in VALERIE STEELE Fashion historian and author of Los Angeles, writer and publisher of Ultimate several books, including Paris Fashion: A Issues, quarterly journal on Judaism and life, Cultural History and Women of Fashion: and Founder and President of the Micah Center Twentieth Century Designers. for Ethical Monotheism. JEFFREY SABALA A student studying mechanical MARION CHIIDRESS-USHER Clergywoman in the engineering at the University of Texas in United Methodist Church and Director of Austin, and co-leader of the Native American Campus Ministry for the United Campus Student Organization. Ministry of Austin. RON HAVERN Graduate of Harvard Divinity JEAN HOUSTON Philosopher, psychologist and School; he teaches philosophy and religion at cultural historian known for her many books New York University and at Marymount exploring myth and transformation. She is Manhattan College while maintaining a private co-director of the Foundation for Mind practice in psychotherapy. Research. FANNIE DEBOSE One of the pioneers of the MARY MACARTHUR GRIFFIN Former execu- Institutional Church of God in Christ in tive director of The Kitchen in N.Y.C. and an Brooklyn and head advisor to the youth depart- arts consultant who lives and works there. ment of the church. LISA ROGERS Graduate of the Episcopal VALERIE BRIDGEMAN DAVIS A minister from Theological Seminary of the Southwest, and is Austin who is studying Hebrew scriptures. program director of Out Youth Austin, a les- ELIZABETH BRUMMET Registrar of the Juilliard bian and gay youth peer support group. School in N.Y.C. KEITH SONNIER Sculptor who lives and works SAUL ROSENBERG Completing his Ph.D. in in N.Y.C. and Europe. He recently completed American Literature at Columbia University, he a kilometer-long installation at the new Munich teaches American Literature, Classical Hebrew airport. and Jewish Education in N.Y.C. DANIEL BERRIGAN In his own words, "Jesuit SHARON DUNN A legal assistant for Scadden priest, author, convicted felon - alleluia!" Arps Associates in N.Y.C., a member of the KERRI LOGSDON Scenic artist, University of choir of the Institutional Church of God in Texas Performing Arts Center. Christ in BrooklYn, N.Y. and performed in the ARTHUR DANTO Johnsonian Professor of choir of The Gospel ofColonus on Broadway. Philosophy at Columbia University, art critic LEROY FISCHER Self-employed heating contrac- for The Nation, and the author of many books tor and a longtime member and deacon of the on philosophy and the visual arts. Institutional Church of God in Christ in FRANCIS E. PETERS Chair of the Near Eastern BrooklYn. Religious Department at New York University; CARL SAGAN Pulitzer prize-winner, professor of among his books is Children of Abraham: Astronomy and Director of the Laboratory for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Planetary Studies at Cornell University. ANN DRUYAN Secretary of the Federation of CORA NIVENS A longtime member of the American Scientists and co-author of the Institutional Church of God in Christ in Cosmos TV series and Shadows of Forgotten Brooklyn where she is the second of five gener- Ancestors with Carl Sagan. ations active in the church. LYNN LYTTON Lives in Austin and is a personal CECILIA BABCOCK SMITH Assistant rector, St. computer consultant at the University of Texas, David's Episcopal Church, Austin.
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