Musicians from Israel, Syria, and Jordan will perform together at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on January 8, 2012, as part of Multicultural Music Day, an event organized by the nonprofit organization Listen for Life. The Carnegie Hall concert will feature two world premieres: Walk Within Winter by Brent Heisinger, a California-based composer; and a new work commissioned for the event by the Grammy-winning composer Avner Dorman. The concert, which incorporates world music, classical music, and jazz, will also feature musicians from Vietnam, Western Europe, and the U.S. performing on non-traditional instruments such as the oud, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, and Vietnamese dan tranh. Co-hosts for the concert are Donna Stoering, founder of Listen for Life, and Karen Hoyos, described as a global transformational speaker. Listen for Life’s mission is to make music a channel for positive cross-cultural communication worldwide via projects in schools, hospitals, refugee camps, and prisons. Previous Listen for Life events raised awareness of U.N. Millennium Development Goals and International Peace Day. For more information on Multicultural Music Day, visit http://www.listenforlife.org/ListenForLife_2012-01-08_LFL_Carnegie_Hall_NYC.html.
Posted January 3, 2012
