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Musical Offerings for Human Rights | Season 2

Building awareness with the universal language of music 

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A series of online events combining performances from the ensemble’s digital archives with current conversations, each anchored by our shared conviction that the more we explore, experience, and understand cultural differences and varying viewpoints as captured in music, the more we honor and celebrate every individual’s right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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Patricia Spencer, curator

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SEE & HEAR – all Musical Offerings to date

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Argentina and Cuba

Exploring music and human rights with composers Martin Gendelman, Tania León, and Pablo Ortiz

 

The United States

Exploring chamber jazz works by African-American composers David Baker and David Sanford

Please support the enlightening programs of the Da Capo Chamber Players by making a contribution to MUSICAL OFFERINGS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

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Tuesday,December 12, 2023, 7pm

Da Capo Chamber Players YouTube channel

Exploring Persia and Mongolia

Works inspired by a Medieval Sufi poem and Mongolian traditional song

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Joining host Lara Pellegrinelli and series curator Patricia Spencer, are the composers, and percussionist Michael Lipsey, a longtime collaborating musician with the ensemble.

 

Learn more about Lara Pellegrinell

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Shirish Korde – The Conference of the Birds 2 (2022)

   written for the 50th anniversary celebration of Da Capo Chamber Players

Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello Patricia Spencer,  flute | Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet | Steven Beck, piano | Ariadne Greif, soprano | Michael Lipsey, guest percussion 

   – Performed live at Merkin Hall, April 6, 2022

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This piece will also be performed live on Da Capo Chamber Players' NYC series at Tenri Cultural Institute on May 19, 2024

 

Learn more about Shirish Korde

See the images and credits for Conference of the Birds II

Read the texts for Conference of the Birds II

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Lei Liang – Gobi Canticle (2004) 

Curtis Macomber, violin | ChrisGross, cello  

    – Performed live at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 6, 2022

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Learn more about Lei Liang

Read about the Lei Lab at UC San Diego

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Musical Offerings for Human Rights: Season I 

Building awareness with the universal language of music

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A series of three online events combining performances from the ensemble’s digital archives with current conversations.

 

Each anchored by our shared conviction that the more we explore, experience, and understand cultural differences and varying viewpoints as captured in music, the more we honor and celebrate every individual's right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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Works by composers Luciano Berio, Valerie Coleman, Kyle Gann, Wendell Logan, Chinary Ung, Chou Wen-chung

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Bruce Adolphe, Carman Moore, Harvey Sollberger, hosts

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Kyle Gann, Michael Lipsey, David Rakowski, David Sanford, Whitney Slaten,  Chinary Ung, speakers

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Patricia Spencer, curator

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SEE & HEAR all three events in this series

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 7pm

Hearing the African-American Experience

 

Wendell Logan's Runagate, Runagate, a musical embodiment of spirit and determination to be free, and Berlo's tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., O King

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Carman Moore, host

David Sanford, David Rakowski, Da Capo's Patricia Spencer and Steven Beck, speakers

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Wendell Logan – Runagate, Runagate (1989) 

Robert Mack, tenor soloist | Curtis Macomber, violin | ChrisGross, cello | Patricia Spencer, flute and piccolo | Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet and bass clarinet | Christopher Oldfather, guest piano | Michael Lipsey, guest percussion | Marcus Parris, conductor

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Performance from: February 12, 2020 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NYC

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Luciano Berio – O King (1968) 

Lucy Shelton, soprano | Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello | Patricia Spencer, flute | Meighan Stoops, clarinet | Steven Beck, piano

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Performance from: May 1, 2017 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NYC

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SEE & HEAR – Hearing the African Americancan Experience

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EVENT PROGRAM PDF

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 7pm

Asian Echoes

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​Chinary Ung’s Child Song, delighting in and preserving Cambodian song in a time when it was forbidden, plus Chou Wen-chung’s Ode to Eternal Pine, a musical reflection of the Chinese terms “tian di ren – heaven, earth, and humanity”

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Harvey Sollberger, host

Chinary Ung, Michael Lipsey, members of Da Capo Chamber Players, speakers

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Chinary Ung – Child Song (1985) 

Patricia Spencer, flute | Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello |  
Steven Beck, piano

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Performance from:  June 5, 2019 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NYC

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Chou Wen-chung – Ode to Eternal Pine (2009)

Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello | Patricia Spencer, flute | Nuno Antunes, guest clarinet | Steven Beck, piano | Michael Lipsey, guest percussion 

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Performance from: June 5, 2019 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NTC

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Lia Di Stefano, images | Andrés León, video

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SEE & HEAR – Asian Echoes

 

EVENT PROGRAM PDF

Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 7 pm

Paean to Merging Cultures

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Exploring sounds of Native American history — merged with African American history in Valerie Coleman’s Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes — and as memorialized in Kyle Gann's Hovenweep.

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Bruce Adolphe, host

Kyle Gann, Whitney Slaten, Curtis Macomber, Patricia Spencer, speakers

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Valerie Coleman – Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes (2014)

Curtis Macomber violin | Chris Gross cello | Patricia Spencer flute | Marianne Gythfeldt clarinet | Steven Beck piano

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Performance pre-recorded for August 13, 2021 virtual National Flute Association Convention. Recorded on June 11, 2021, Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY, by Judith Sherman and Charles Mueller.

 

Kyle Gann – Hovenweep (2000)\

Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello | Patricia Spencer, fluteMarianne Gythfeldt, clarinet | Margaret Kampmeier, guest piano

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Performance from: March 10, 2020 at The László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Performance Space, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

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SEE & HEAR – Paean to Merging Cultures 

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Hovenweep is an ancient, highly developed, and well-preserved village on the Utah-Colorado border, occupied by the Anasazi from 500 BC to 1300. The Anasazi (the “Ancient Ones”) are thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians.

Consultants for Musical Offerings for Human Rights

 

Amy Roberts Frawley, producer; Hemsing Associates, public relations ,  Andrés León, technical director;  Lia Di Stefano, graphic designer, Sarah Elia, social media

Background music: Petroushkates (1980) by Joan Tower, founding pianist of Da Capo Chamber Players, commissioned by the ensemble in honor of its 10th anniversary – performance by Da Capo Chamber Players at Bard College, September 10, 2014

This series is dedicated to the memory of Bernard Hulbert, MD

 

This concert series of the Da Capo Chamber Players was made possible in part with public funds from: 

 

National Endowment for the Arts – which believes that a great nation deserves great art

 

They are also made possible with private funds from: The Aaron Copland Fund, The Alice M. Ditson Fund,  The Amphion Foundation, Hulbert Charitable Trust, Zethus Fund, and generous individuals

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