Yup, it's time for another Climate Concert. This one's gonna be a doozy.
Mark the date: 11/11/11 will be the night
Three World String Traditions Come Together to Beat Climate Change!
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Get ready for one of the year’s most exciting and beautiful concerts! The fall event in the “Playing For the Planet” series showcases stringed instruments from three of the world’s greatest traditions, coming together to draw attention to the global climate crisis.
Featured artists include the Turkish and Ottoman music of Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and the Dünya Ensemble, the South Indian veena virtuoso Durga Krishnan, and the internationally celebrated classical guitarists Eliot Fisk and Zaira Meneses. The music begins at 7:00 pm, on Friday, November 11, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors, and can be purchased online here. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information, please call 781-396-0734.
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“Playing For The Planet” was conceived as a way for these creative musicians to contribute to the urgent struggle against global warming. Because the climate problem recognizes no national boundaries, the artists represent musical styles from three different parts of the globe. While the performers present different melodic and rhythmic concepts, they share key musical values: listening, honesty, creativity, and respect. And, of course, they are all committed to raising awareness of the potentially devastating effects of global warming.
Their choice of beneficiary, 350.org, is focused on building global consensus on reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels — action which climatologists agree is necessary to avoid catastrophic outcomes. It’ll be an incredible evening of powerful music — from some of the finest musicians in New England and the world.
“Playing For The Planet: World Strings Against Climate Change” is the fifth concert in an ongoing series of cross-cultural events produced by Boston-area musician, composer and environmental activist Warren Senders. For information about Mr. Senders’ current projects, please visit www.warrensenders.com.
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Eliot Fisk is one of the world’s greatest guitarists. Known throughout the globe for his adventurous repertoire and willingness to take art music into unusual venues (including schools, senior centers, and even logging camps and prisons!) he belongs, as his great mentor Andres Segovia once wrote, "at the top line of our artistic world.”
Mr. Fisk has transformed classical guitar repertoire with his ground-breaking transcriptions (including works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, and Paganini), through countless works dedicated to him by composers as varied as Luciano Berio and George Rochberg, and through extensive creative collaborations with other musicians in classical, flamenco, jazz and world music styles. His best-selling recordings have elicited unqualified praise from musicians, critics and the public.
Eliot Fisk plays "Estudio sin Luz" by Andres Segovia
Not only a virtuoso performer, Eliot Fisk devotes considerable energy to teaching, serving as a Professor at the Universitaet Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria (where he teaches in 5 languages) and in Boston at New England Conservatory. His students hail from all corners of the earth; many have become world-famous performers and teachers themselves. Closer to home, he is Founder and Director of Boston Guitar Fest, an annual cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural extravaganza co-sponsored by New England Conservatory and Northeastern University.
Eliot Fisk plays "Danza Paraguaya" by Agustin Barrios.
Zaira Meneses is among the most exciting performers on the international classical guitar circuit. Her musicality and charisma have delighted audiences on 3 continents in a wide variety of programs ranging from solo recitals to chamber music to highly acclaimed performances as soloist with orchestra.
Originally from Xalapa, Mexico, Zaira Meneses began studying both classical guitar and voice at an early age, and by the age of 17 won first prize in an important national concerto competition in the legendary guitar mecca of Paracho. This success led to performances of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez and Concierto Madrigal for two guitars throughout Mexico. Since moving to the USA in 2001, Meneses has built a stellar reputation for her warm sound, limpid technique and superb natural musicality — while enrapturing audiences in many of the great concert halls of the world.
Zaira Meneses plays Sonatina: I. Allegretto - by Federico Moreno Tórroba
Also noteworthy are her frequent chamber music collaborations with eminent pianists such as Jon Kimura Parker and Virginia Eskin. Added aspects to Ms. Meneses' artistry are her beautiful singing voice and talent for the dance, both frequently featured in encores following her appearances as guitarist. She has served as artist in residence at many colleges and universities throughout the United States and recently began a long term association with Syracuse University and with Boston Conservatory.
Zaira Meneses playing Bach
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South Indian veena master Durga Krishnan is a disciple of the legendary virtuoso, the late Dr. Chittibabu, whom she has accompanied in performance and on recordings, and is currently a student of Padmabhushan Sri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, one of the greatest figures in contemporary Carnatic tradition. She holds the degree “Sangeetha Vidwan” (Scholar of Music) and is a certified teacher of Carnatic Music.
A performer, teacher and composer of international repute, she has taught and concertized extensively throughout the world and is a very popular veena and vocal teacher in the Boston area; several of her students have won prizes at the Cleveland Thyagaraja festival.
Durga Krishnan plays "Entharo Mahanu Bhavalu," a composition of Tyagaraja.
Her collaborations with non-Indian artists have included extensive work with Berklee faculty member Mark Rossi, with Western classical violinists and Jazz artists, and with performers like cymbalom virtuoso Alexander Fedoriouk. Her veena playing is marked by a sensitive touch, uncanny timing and a lyrical insight into the intricate compositions of South Indian classical tradition.
Performing "Raguvamsa Sudha Kathanakuthukalam," a composition of Patnam Subramanya Iyer.
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Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol began as a classical piano prodigy before immersing himself in Turkey’s rich and diverse traditional music.
Now his life in music is dedicated to bringing together different cultural traditions while sustaining their unique qualities. His ensemble Dünya (“world”) has released 6 CDs and DVDs of contemporary Turkish music.
Dr. Sanlıkol produced A Story of the City: Constantinople- Istanbul for Istanbul’s 2010 European Culture Capital celebration, with a largely Boston-based cast of 35 musicians exploring over a thousand years of Istanbul’s communal memory through Greek Orthodox music, Greek folk music, Crusader songs, music of the Ottoman military ensembles, Ottoman court music, Sufi ceremonial music, Turkish folk music, Sephardic Jewish songs, urban music of Armenians and Turks, and contemporary popular music.
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol in performance at the Musical Instrument Museum
Mehmet Sanlıkol has collaborated and performed with a wide range of internationally-known musicians, including Tiger Okoshi, Bob Brookmeyer, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Okay Temiz, Omar Faruk Tekbilek and the Boston Camerata, and with many Turkish pop stars. He has taught at New England Conservatory of Music and Berklee College of Music, and is currently a faculty member at Emerson College and Brown University.
Dünya performs "Dillirga / Tillyrkotissa"
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Co-founded by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, 350.org is the hub of a worldwide network of over two hundred environmental organizations, all with a common target: persuading the world’s countries to unite in an effort to reduce global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million or less.
Climatologist Dr. James Hansen says, “If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 392 ppm to at most 350 ppm.” (Dr. Hansen heads the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, and is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.)
Activists involved in the 350 movement include Rajendra Pachauri (Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Vandana Shiva (world-renowned environmental leader and thinker), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1984 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a global activist on issues pertaining to democracy, freedom and human rights), Van Jones, Bianca Jagger, Barbara Kingsolver and many more.
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Warren Senders is the contact person for “Playing For The Planet: World Strings Against Climate Change.” Both an acclaimed Hindustani classical singer and a groundbreaking jazz composer, he is one of thousands of concerned global citizens hoping to trigger positive change through social action and the arts. This concert is the fifth such benefit he has produced in the Boston area since October 2009; there are more concerts planned for 2012. He can be reached at warvij@verizon.net or by telephone at 781-396-0734, or through his website: www.warrensenders.com.
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