The Music for Peace Project: Stony Brook

A festival of music, film, and ideas at Stony Brook University
February 4-6, 2004

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Coming from off campus? Helpful info below:

Stony Brook Campus map:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/map/
(Click on the Academic Mall for a larger view; all festival venues will be visible.)

Festival venues:
Staller Center for the Arts (Staller Center Recital Hall)
Charles B. Wang Asian-American Center (Wang Center Theater, Wang Center Chapel)
Student Activities Center (SAC) (SAC Auditorium)
Student Union (University Café; entrance is at western end of building—it's new, and not yet on campus map)
Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library (Javits Room, 2nd floor )

Directions to Stony Brook University:
By train, ferry, car, or plane (also parking info, where to stay):
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/visiting.shtml

Local taxi service:
Lindy's Taxi (631) 473-0707

Questions? Email us at: peacefestival@m4p.org

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Notes on Music for Peace Festival: Stony Brook events:

Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
(Moveon.org's documentary about pre-war intelligence and the war in Iraq)

This controversial and arresting film takes you behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out, many for the first time, detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons to fight a "preemptive" war that wasn't necessary. This documentary offers an in-depth look at the unsettling distortion of intelligence and the "spin and hype" presented to the American people, the Congress and the press. Fighting wars to bring about regime change is in breach of international law. Yet, throughout the fall of 2002, and into the weeks preceding the war in Iraq, the Bush administration systematically distorted intelligence evidence and misled the public in order to turn opinion favor of "regime change" in Iraq.

The film will present interviews with more than 20 experts, all of whom have informed opinions about the reasons we were given for war and the evidence presented to support those reasons. Some supported the war itself but are deeply concerned about the way information was misused. All believe it is their duty to speak up.

Among those interviewed are former Ambassador Joe Wilson, weapons inspectors Scott Ritter and David Albright, anti-terrorism expert Rand Beers, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, former CIA operative Robert Baer and Washington editor of The Nation, David Corn.

http://www.truthuncovered.com/

Colin Carr
Colin Carr has appeared throughout the world as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.

As a concerto soloist, Colin Carr has played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic and the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia and Montreal. He is a regular guest at the BBC Proms, he has twice toured Australia and has recently played concertos in South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Last year he returned to the Philharmonia in London and made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Mark Elder. This year he toured with Mr Elder and the Halle Orchestra playing Dvorak, Elgar and Walton Concertos. Other highlights included a performance of Dvorak Concerto to close the Prague Autumn Festival and Beethoven Triple Concerto with Sir Colin Davis conducting at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Recitals have taken him to major cities each season: he regularly performs in London, New York and Boston. As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio he recorded and toured extensively for twenty years and recently formed the new group Sequenza. He is a frequent visitor to international chamber music festivals worldwide and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.

His solo recording of the unaccompanied cello works of Kodaly, Britten, Crumb and Schuller received an industry award in the US. The "Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello" performed live at Boston's Jordan Hall (GM Recordings) have been highly acclaimed and the Brahms Sonatas (Arabesque) were released in November 2000. He was also the soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic on a BBC
Music Magazine cover CD.

Colin Carr is the winner of many prestigious international awards, including First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award and Second Prize in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition.

He first played the cello at the age of five; three years later he went to the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied with Maurice Gendron and later William Pleeth. He was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998 having been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years; in 1998 St. John's College, Oxford created the post of "Musician in Residence" for him and in September 2002 he became a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.

Mr. Carr plays on a Matteo Gofriller cello made in Venice in 1730.

Concert for Peace and Social Justice
A concert of music and spoken word calling for Peace and Social Justice.

…The Stony Brook Gospel Choir…a piece about the Amado Dialo case by Dan Weymouth …tabla player and singers of the Muslim Students’ Association…compositions Ben Robison and Ellen Lindquist, performed by Ben Robison, violin; Laura Karney, oboe; Aaron Packard, violin…words from the Stony Brook Buddhism and Study Group…Bach for solo cello by Katie Schlaikjer, and for solo viola by Emily Rideout…(subject to change)

Amandla!: A revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. Specifically considers the music that sustained and galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the struggle's spiritural dimension named for the Xhosa word for "power". An uplifting story of human courage, resolve and triumph.

http://www.amandla.com/home/index.php

Stolen Shack
An all-acoustic trio of harpsichord, bass, guitar, and voice puts a new twist on contemporary pop songs and old Appalachian hymns. Gabe Shuford, Nicholas Walker, and Kent Gustavson.
http://www.stolenshack.com/

Breakthrough
Creating a “Human Rights Culture” through Music and Film
A frank discussion by the international nonprofit Breakthrough on the use of popular music, videos and concerts for human rights and peace activism. Moving music videos, and powerful concert footage produced by South Asian activist arts organization Breakthrough shown.
http://www.breakthrough.tv

Ray Anderson
Named five straight years as best trombonist in the Down Beat Critics Poll and declared "the most exciting slide brass player of his generation" by the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, Ray Anderson has shown remarkable range. He has led or co-led a daunting assortment of tradition-minded and experimental groups, big bands, blues and funk projects and even a trombone quartet. Anderson attended the University of Chicago Lab School, where one of his classmates was another notable trombone original, George Lewis. His teachers included Frank Tirro and Dean Hey. In 1973, Anderson moved to New York where he studied and played with composer and music theorist Jimmy Giuffre, joined drummer Barry Altschul's free-form trio and played for three years with the quartet of AACM saxophone hero Anthony Braxton. In the '80s, he garnered attention with collective bands including the funk-oriented Slickaphonics and the trio BassDrumBone, featuring bassist Mark Helias and drummer Gerry Hemingway. On a series of acclaimed recordings, he has ranged from Ellingtonia and jazz classics to striking originals.
http://www.rayanderson.net/

Concert: Meditations for Peace
This concert will be a kind of meditation for Peace…musical expressions of Peace flowing from one to the next.

…Jyoti Pandit playing taanpura…pianist Kirsten Olafson playing Bach-Busoni… Michelle Wenderlich playing contrabass…Christopher Trakas singing songs by George Butterworth, texts by Houseman…Laura Karney, oboe and Ellen Lindquist, piano…Ani Kavafian, violin and Daniel Schlosberg, piano…a choral piece (text: Walt Whitman) by Ellen Lindquist: Kathleen Flynn and Edward Lovett, soloists; Kirsten Olafson, piano; Aaron Packard, violin; Jonathan Yates, conductor…an electronic piece about resistance in Columbia by Ricardo Gallo…(subject to change)

Song of the Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
Legendary cellist Pablo Casals is profiled in this video biography featuring archival footage and recollections from such luminaries as Mstislav Rostropovich and Yehudi Menuhin. Includes interviews with his biographers, contemporary musicians, and his wife, Marta Casals Istomin. Archival film footage shot between 1959 and 1971 includes footage of the legendary Puerto Rican Casals Festival.

Daniel Weymouth
Composer/conductor Daniel Weymouth writes for a wide array of ensembles, from standard orchestra to computer-interactive "instruments." He has studied and worked at several of the world's leading computer-music facilities, including Stanford's CCRMA, Pierre Boulez's IRCAM and Iannis Xenakis' CEMAMu (both in Paris). His compositions have been performed throughout Europe, Canada and the United States and appear on the SEAMUS and New World Record labels as well as MIT Press (sound and programming excerpted on CD-ROM). Commissions have come from numerous ensembles and individual performers; grants from Meet the Composer and ASCAP. Weymouth is a current member of the Stony Brook Academy of Scholar Teachers. A ten-year stint as an itinerant musician in popular genres may have something to do with his fascination with gadgets, as well as the kinetic and compact nature of much of his music, both acoustic and electronic.
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS%5Cmusic.nsf/pages/weymouth

Post-Festival Celebration
Come celebrate the close of the Music for Peace Project in Stony Brook! Music by Stony Brook’s favorite techno guru, Andy Papadeus, with DJs Cutstello and AK.