MDACA Music and Cultural Diplomacy www.music.neu.edu/mcd Symposium and Concerts MARCH 27, 2009 Schedule 8:30 am Continental Breakfast, Northeastern University CONTENTS Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute 2 Schedule 9:00 am Introduction Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute 3 Previous Events Hans d’Orville, Assistant Director General for Strategic Planning, UNESCO 4 BSO Concert 9:15 am Opening Panel Presentations (7 - 10 minutes average length) Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute 5 Multicultural Concert * Anthony Fogg, Artistic Administrator, Boston Symphony Orchestra * Laura Freid, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, The Silk Road Project 6 Moderator * Michael Greenwald, Director, Musicians without Borders USA * Mehri Madarshahi, President, Melody for Dialogue Among Civilizations Association 7 Opening Panelists * Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Music, Harvard University 11 Invited Participants * Anthony Trecek-King, Artistic Director, Boston Children’s Chorus * Tony Woodcock, President, New England Conservatory 29 Performer Bios 10:30 am Roundtable Discussion: Open Forum Inside Back Cover About Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute Back Cover Organizations, Map 12:00 pm Break for Lunch (on your own) 1:30 pm Concert: Boston Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall See Insert Multicultural Concert Charles Dutoit, conductor; Lisa Batiashvili, violin Program Notes 3:30 pm Post-Concert Reception, immediately following the concert Miller Room, Symphony Hall 4:00 pm Free Time: suggested meeting places for networking to be announced, dinner (on your own) 7:15 pm Pre-Concert Reception Fenway Center 8:00 pm Concert: Multicultural Event Fenway Center Composers and instrumentalists from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, performing their original compositions for erhu, pipa and string quartet; the New England Spiritual Ensemble performing traditional American Negro spirituals; Orfeo in Asia, a work for solo piano composed by Su Lian Tan and performed by pianist Donald Berman; and the premiere of Let the sun shine in the night time, a narrated setting of the United Nations Cyberschoolbus‚ The Peace Poem, composed by Anthony Paul De Ritis, for Chinese erhu, pipa, guitar, Persian tar, flute, percussion and four narrators led by Del Lewis, the Director of Northeastern’s Center for the Arts. Anthony De Ritis, Administrator Program Design by Maureen Ton 1 About Previous Events The Music and Cultural Diplomacy Symposium at Northeastern University is the latest in a series Fusion Arts Exchange Fusion: Mutual Understanding through of events which began as a symposium and concert held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris Organized by Northeastern University Music Fusion Arts Exchange Ensemble on November 26, 2007. Produced by the Melody for Dialogue Among Civilizations Association, Department of Music and funded by the Performance “Music as a Means of Intercultural Dialogue,” investigated “How can music help people Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Organized by Northeastern University communicate, understand and respect one another in a globalizing world?” U.S. Department of State Department of Music, funded by the The Boston, Tanglewood, New York City, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, “Music and Cultural Diplomacy” will explore the role that music can play in fostering mutual Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. understanding, enhanced communication, and improved interaction and cooperation between July/August 2007 National Commission for UNESCO cultures. UNESCO, Paris Music as a Means of Intercultural April 2008 Invited participants include ethnomusicologists, ethnologists, historians, musicologists, authors, Dialogue musicians, composers, lawyers, as well as representatives of academia, governments, non- Organized by Melody for Dialogue Among Fusion Arts Exchange governmental and international organizations, and the private sector. It is expected that 35-50 Civilizations Association and Northeastern Organized by Northeastern University individuals will participate in this one-day symposium. University Department of Music and funded by the UNESCO, Paris Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, November 26, 2007 U.S. Department of State Planning Committee Boston, Tanglewood, New York City, Melody for Peace concert Washington, D.C. Susan Asai, Associate Organized by Melody for Dialogue Among July/August 2008 Professor, Music Department Civilizations Association and Northeastern Northeastern University University Strategic Music Diplomacy: Exploring UNESCO headquarters, Paris Models of Cultural and Social Anthony Paul De Ritis November 26, 2007 Engagement Professor and Chair, Music Department Organized by Melody for Dialogue Among Northeastern University Melody for Peace concert Civilizations Association Organized by Melody for Dialogue Among Paris Myran Parker-Brass Civilizations Association and Northeastern November 13, 2008 Director of Education and Community Programs University Boston Symphony Orchestra Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC Fusion Arts Exchange December 3, 2007 Organized by Northeastern University Emmett Price Department of Music and funded by the Chair, African-American Studies Music as a Vector for Peace Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Associate Professor, Music Department Organized by Melody for Dialogue Among U.S. Department of State Northeastern University Civilizations Association Boston, Tanglewood, New York City, Paris Washington, D.C. Richard Strasser April 4, 2008 July/August 2009 - coming soon Assistant Professor, Music Department Northeastern University 2 3 Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Multicultural Concert March 27, 2009 March 27, 2009 1:30 PM 8:00 PM Symphony Hall Fenway Center, Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts 77 St. Stephens Street, Boston, MA, 02115 Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit returns to Symphony Hall with one of his frequent collaborators, Program Georgian-born violinist Lisa Batiashvili, to perform Serge Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Also on Fusion 1, Gao Yunziang the program is music from two ballets both written for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in the same year, Impressions of Pipa, Zhang Maodi 1911: Ravel’s suite from the ballet Mother Goose and Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Roundness/Palingenesis/Samsara/Whirligig, Liu Sijun Heaven, Earth, Human, Luo Zijun Program Culture::Music::Exchange, Benoit Granier RAVEL, Mother Goose Suite Musicians from Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China PROKOFIEV, Violin Concerto No. 2 Leslie Levi, Zhongling Li, violins; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Patrick Owen, cello; Zhou Lingyan, erhu; STRAVINSKY, Petrushka (1911 version) Gao Yunxiang, pipa Charles Dutoit, conductor Orfeo in Asia, Su Lian Tan Charles Dutoit regularly collaborates with the world’s preeminent orchestras III. Metamorphosis and soloists. Since his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1980, he Donald Berman, piano has been invited each season to conduct all the major orchestras of the United States, including those of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Selections by Dawson, Burleigh, etc., to be announced Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. He has also New England Spiritual Ensemble, Boston, MA performed regularly with all the great orchestras of Europe, including the Berlin Philharmonic and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as all the London orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic, and all the major orchestras of Japan, South America, and Australia. As of September 2008, Christina Cynthia David Allyssa Orlando Myran Donnell Milton and continuing through the 2011-12 season, he becomes chief conductor and artistic adviser of DeVaughn Harmon Howse Jones Lightfoot Parker-Brass Patterson Wright the Philadelphia Orchestra, a post newly created for him. The Peace Poem: Let the sun shine in the night time, Anthony Paul De Ritis Lisa Batiashvili, violin Del Lewis, Benoit Granier, Arthur Rishi, Alexandra Sherman, narrators; Zhou Lingyan, erhu; Gao Few young soloists command the degree of warmth and respect from fellow Yunxiang, pipa; Amir Milstein, flute; Bahman Panahi, tar; Apostolos Paraskevas, guitar; Grant Smith, musicians all over the world as does violinist Lisa Batiashvili; and it is a percussion; Anthony Paul De Ritis, music director significant reflection of the esteem in which she is held that she is has been re-invited to both the New York and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras during 2007. With the latter she has been soloist not only in the orchestra’s 125th anniversary Europakonzert in May 2007, performing the Brahms Double Concerto for live television and DVD production alongside Truls Mork and conducted by Sir Simon Rattle; but also in October 07 under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1. In 2007 too she signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony BMG Masterworks. ___________________________ Performer Bios, Page 29 4 5 Moderator Opening Panelists Hans d’Orville Anthony Fogg Assistant Director General for Strategic Planning, UNESCO Artistic Administrator, Boston Symphony Orchestra Dr. Hans d’Orville, born in 1949, a German national, is the Assistant Anthony Fogg has been Artistic Administrator of the Boston Symphony Director-General for Strategic Planning at UNESCO since October 2007. Orchestra since 1994 and assists Music Director, James Levine, in the planning and selection of