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Concert to feature Yiddish, klezmer, Sufi, Tibetan, and gospel
12.7.95
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
PRESENTS
Songs of the Spirit: A Musical Celebration
of Unity Among Diverse Faiths and Cultures
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA – On Saturday evening, December 10, at 8PM, the historic Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will resonate with Songs of the Spirit--a thrilling concert of world music designed to convey the shared spiritual principles that connect people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. The program will feature “the mother empress of folk and blues”, Odetta, performing Gospel and other music;
Iranian Sussan Deyhim, a remarkable vocalist and performance artist whose work blends traditional Middle Eastern music with cutting edge technology and a progressive sensibility, singing Sufi love poems in Arabic;
the Nigunim Trio, blending the talents of two founders of the Klezmatics -- Lorin Sklamberg’s beautiful voice and the adventurous arranging skills of trumpeter Frank London -- with the sophistication of Rob Schwimmer’s piano phrasing, in a new take on Jewish classics; and
the Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery, renowned for sacred multiphonic chanting in which each singer holds multiple notes simultaneously.
A special part of the evening will be readings from the acceptance speeches of Nobel Peace Prize winners: Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel; American civil rights leader Martin Luther King; the Dalai Lama; and Iranian Shirin Ebai, recognized for her human rights work with women and children. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (establishing Human Rights Day); it is traditionally at this time that the year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner gives his or her acceptance speech. Readings will be presented by Seth Rogovoy, author of The Essential Klezmer and editor of Berkshire Living Magazine, and dancer/choreographer Sandra Burton, who is director of dance at Williams College and a board member of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.
Tickets are $20, $30 and $40. For more information, call the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Box Office at 413.528.0100 or visit www.mahaiwe.org.
Though he will give his Nobel acceptance speech this December 10, recent remarks by 2005 Peace Prize designate Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, summarize the concert’s theme. “If we are going to survive,” El Baradei said, “We need to put the emphasis on what unites us and not what separates us. It is not the difference in color or creed or border… it's the fact that you are part of the human race, and the more we are able to understand the affinity we have with each other, the more we can achieve a lasting, durable peace.”
Songs of the Spirit comes to the Berkshires from New York, where it will be performed at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on December 6. A presentation by Parallel Voice Productions, in association with World Music Institute, the program is the brainchild of Brian Young and the Mahaiwe’s Artistic Director, Jonathan Secor, who co-produced the Candlelight Concert of Remembrance and Hope, held at St. John the Divine on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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