For Immediate Release DANIEL PEARL
FOUNDATION LAUNCHES SECOND ANNUAL DANIEL
PEARL MUSIC DAY ON
OCTOBER 10, 2003
Worldwide event calls
for Harmony for Humanity
Los Angeles, CA -
World-renowned artists and leaders have
joined with the Daniel Pearl Foundation
in a call to musicians of the world to
dedicate concerts to tolerance and
humanity on the Second Annual Daniel
Pearl Music Day. The day will be
celebrated on October 10, 2003, what
would have been Daniel Pearl's 40th
birthday.
Salman Ahmad, Yefim
Bronfman, Ida Haendel, Herbie Hancock,
Sir Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Zubin Mehta,
Mark OConnor, Itzhak Perlman, Prof.
A.J. Racy, Simon Shaheen, Ravi Shankar,
Barbra Streisand, and John Williams
comprise the Honorary Committee of this
global event to embrace dozens of
countries and hundreds of musicians in a
united stand for harmony and friendship.
Musicians, performers,
DJs and anyone who wishes to dedicate a
performance with a message of tolerance,
understanding and global harmony are
encouraged to join this global concert.
Participants are invited to fill out the
registration form on the Foundation's
website: www.danielpearl.org,
or send an e-mail to: [email protected].
Registration is free.
The event is scheduled
for Friday, October 10. However, concerts
from October 7 through October 19 can be
included. More than 100 concerts were
held in 18 countries during last
years inaugural Daniel Pearl Music
Day.
Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and
murdered in Pakistan in February 2002
while researching a story, was also a
violinist, fiddler and mandolin player.
He joined a band, orchestra or chamber
group in every town in which he lived and
formed connections through his passion
for music and friendship. Shortly after
his death, Daniel's family, friends and
supporters formed the Daniel Pearl
Foundation to further the ideals that
inspired his life and work, and to
spotlight his love of music to build
bridges and create friendships.
"We are thrilled
that this year leading artists from many
musical styles and traditions are joining
with us in a clarion call for asserting
the oneness of humanity. Danny's
determination to spread truth, music, and
friendship around the world strengthens
our conviction that humanity will triumph
and harmony will prevail, stated
Professor Judea Pearl, father of Daniel
Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl
Foundation. This year in
particular, music can help us bridge
divisions between cultures. We would like
to issue a special invitation to the Arab
and Muslim world to join us in harmony
for humanity, said Professor Pearl.
"We have a unique
opportunity to promote a message of
tolerance and the spirit of peace on
Daniel Pearl Music Day, said noted
jazz musician and composer Herbie
Hancock. I encourage other
musicians around the world to join me in
this message of harmony and understanding
through music.
Seeking to broaden
cross-cultural understanding, the Daniel
Pearl Foundation has already confirmed
several events and dedicated performances
across the globe. Locations include
Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Stanford,
Jerusalem, Paris, Guadalajara, Bangkok,
New York, New Jersey, Houston,
Washington, DC and other cities around
the world.
Throughout the week of
October 10, 2002, the 1st annual Daniel
Pearl Music Day created a spontaneous
outpouring of support. The diversity of
the first annual Daniel Pearl Music Day
participants was a testament to Danny's
own varied musical interests:
concertgoers enjoyed symphonies, string
quartets and classical pianists;
bluegrass fiddle players; folk musicians;
rock bands; jazz violinists and
ensembles; and many others.
Last year's
performances included concerts by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Itzhak Perlman (Oklahoma City and Kansas
City) and Sir Elton John (Meadowlands
Arena, New Jersey) and Pakistani music
group Junoon, Ravi Shankar in Vancouver,
the Russian National Folk Ensemble in
Moscow, an Arab-Jewish youth orchestra in
Tel Aviv, Faiz Ali Faiz in Paris, the
Royal Conservatory of Toronto and others
made special concerts and dedications
around the world.
The Daniel Pearl Music
Day Honorary Committee includes:
Salman Ahmad,
lead singer for Junoon, the famous
Pakistani rock group;
Yefim Bronfman,
Grammy-winning pianist and featured in
Disney's FANTASIA 2000;
Ida Haendel,
world-renowned classical violinist;
Herbie Hancock, modern
American jazz music icon;
Sir Elton John,
multi-Grammy Award winning composer,
performer;
Yo-Yo Ma, world-renowned
cellist with 14 Grammy awards;
Zubin Mehta,
world-renowned maestro, Music Director
for Life of the Israeli Symphony;
Mark OConnor,
American violinist, composer and fiddler;
Itzhak Perlman,
four-time Grammy Award winning classical
violinist;
Professor A.J. Racy,
Ph.D., musicologist, virtuoso performer
and composer of music of the Middle East;
Simon Shaheen, violinist
and master oud player appeared at the
Grammy Awards with Sting, performing and
arranging violins for live rendition of
"Desert Rose";
Ravi Shankar, legendary
sitar player and composer;
Barbra Streisand, Emmy,
Grammy, Tony, Academy Award winning
singer, composer, actress, director and
producer;
John Williams, acclaimed
American orchestral conductor and
composer of film scores and ceremonial
music.
Note:
We kindly ask that no unauthorized
fundraising take place on behalf of the
Foundation.
CONTACT:
Seth Jacobson or Robert Wynne, JCI
Tel: 310.317.1966 Fax: 310.317.1976
Second annual Daniel Pearl Music Day at Stanford University. Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church on the Stanford campus. Free and open to the public. Held in conjunction with the Daniel Pearl Foundation and features classical music including works of composers Dvorak, Brahms, Jonathan Berger, and Mark Applebaum. Call Stanford's Office for Religious Life at: (650) 723-1762 for more information.
Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who lost his life to terrorists in Pakistan, was not only a journalist but also an avid musician who carried his mission of dialogue through words and music in all his travels. In every city he lived, he joined a band, orchestra or chamber group and made new friends through his passion for music, friendship and humanity. The Daniel Pearl Foundation is encouraging a celebration of Danny's birthday by creating music around the world. The Office for Religious Life and the Chamber Music LIVE at Stanford will join musicians around the globe in presenting the second annual Daniel Pearl Music Day.
Daniel Pearl graduated from Stanford in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in communication. At a memorial at Stanford last winter, Danny's classmates remembered him as a magnificent violinist, whose music and writing both reflected, "precision, intensity, soulfulness, gentleness, and compassion from within."
Madeline Felkins' Celtic Festival and the Second Annual Memorial to and Celebration of the birthday and life of Daniel Pearl is an affirmation of global harmony held 10 October, 2003, in Los Angeles, California at the City of Palmdale's Courson Park, located 38226 10th Street East, (near Palmdale Boulevard/10th Street East), beginning 6:00 p.m. until 7:30. The memorial celebration includes special guest, mezzo-soprano Margret Seal performing Benjamin Britten's 'Highland Balou' among other compositions, and violinists Deanna France and Madeline Felkins' celtic, gaelic, and international music.
California Traditional Music Society and Scots Fiddlers of Los Angeles' Daniel Pearl Memorial 'Harmony for Humanity' Concert: 10:00 a.m. 12th October 2003. The Festival is located in Encino/Genesta Park
surrounding the California Traditional Music Society Center for Folk Music,
16953 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91316.
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