Eastend String Quartet, Eastman Conservatory

The Eastman School’s acclaimed quartet performs an all–Shostakovich program, as part of the Ray Smith Symposium’s Music of Conflict and Reconciliation.

Wednesday, 15 September
8 p.m.
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building

Co–sponsors:
Ray Smith Symposium; Department of Art and Music Histories; and The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative

Society for New Music Presents Simon Shaheen

Renowned Arab–American composer Simon Shaheen joins musicians from the Society for New Music for a program of original Arabic music in conjunction with Music and Reconciliation: War in Iraq 

Sunday, 14 November
4:30 p.m.
Hendricks Chapel

Co–sponsors:
Ray Smith Symposium; Department of Art and Music Histories; Office of the University Arts Presenter; and The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative

Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo

Ping Chong, Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in The SU Humanities Center

9 December–11 December
Thursday, 9 December, 7 p.m.; Friday, 10 December, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 11 December, 2 p.m.
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage

Approximately 200 Congolese, refugees from the genocide in the Congo, now live in Syracuse. Their numbers represent 12 different tribes with a blood-soaked past hanging between them. Although they’ve escaped the conflict in the Congo, while they’ve achieved a delicate unity here, tensions and mistrust remain as justice has not been realized in their homeland. Internationally renowned theatre artist Ping Chong, writer and director of Syracuse Stage’s Tales from the Salt, returns to Syracuse to create a new piece of documentary theatre based on interviews with members of Syracuse’s Congolese community. Cry for Peace: Voices for Justice in the Congo (working title) will be presented in a workshop production in the Regent complex, made possible by Syracuse University and Syracuse Stage.

Co–sponsors:
Syracuse Stage; The Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Collaborator in the Humanities; and The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative.

2010 Ray Smith Symposium: Music of Conflict and Reconciliation and Humanities Center presents: Refugees and Exile

Thursday, February 17
Colloquium on the music of Afghanistan and Ghana with Michael Frishkopf (University of Alberta) and John Baily (University of London)
7:30 p.m.
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building

Friday, February 18
Mini seminar with Professors Michael Frishkopf and John Baily
9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The SU Humanities Center Seminar Room (304), The Tolley Building

Concert by John Baily, Afghani rubab, and Dibyarka Chatterjee, tabla
8 p.m.
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building

"Refugees and Exiles" includes the screening of John Baily's award-winning documentary “Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan” (Royal Anthropological Institute, 1985) and the Syracuse Symposium Seminar "Music of the Middle East and West Asia," taught by Carol Babiracki in Spring 2011. Dates, times, and location http://syracusesymposium.org/seminars/
Further information:  http://thecollege.syr.edu/connections/events/ray_smith_symposium.html

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