Diane Mosers Composers Big Band is participating in the Daniel Pearl World Music Days.
10th Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days - October 1st - 31st, 2011
When I registered our event-they asked for a dedication and this is what I wrote...."We will be dedicating this concert to the memory of Daniel Pearl and to the belief that we are all music and that music can bring us together! "
Our concert will be:
Wed Oct 12th
8-11PM
$15 cover
Trumpets Jazz Club
6 Depot Sqaure
Montclair, NJ 07043
973.744.2600
http://www.trumpetsjazz.com/main.html
http://www.myspace.com/dianemoserscomposersbigband
Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963, Princeton NJ – February 1, 2002) was an
American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by
Al-Qaeda.At the time of his
kidnapping, Pearl served as the
South Asia Bureau Chief of the
Wall Street Journal, and was based in
Mumbai,
India. He went to
Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between
Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently
beheaded by his captors.
In July 2002,
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a
British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder.
In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally
beheaded Pearl.
Current
al-Qaeda leader
Saif al-Adel has also been connected with the murder of Daniel Pearl.
Daniel Pearl recognized the ability of music to bridge differences among people. In the spirit of his love of music and commitment to dialogue, the Daniel Pearl Foundation launched the first Daniel Pearl World Music Days on October 10, 2002, which would have been Danny's 39th birthday. Using the power of music to promote tolerance and inspire respect for differences, Daniel Pearl World Music Days has grown to include more than 6,700 performances in 111 countries. In 2005 the Daniel Pearl Foundation introduced World Music Days eStage, a monthlong radio station and permanent online gallery which features music, poetry, art, articles and dedications reflecting Danny’s lifetime of work connecting people through words and music.
Daniel Pearl World Music Days is an international network of concerts that use the power of music to reaffirm our commitment to tolerance and humanity. Since 2002, Daniel Pearl World Music Days has grown to include the participation of more than 6,700 performances in 111 countries. World Music Days is an awareness-raising program, not a fundraiser.
Just finished a month long residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts made possible by a grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation-finished transcribing the last 2 compositions of The Birdsong Project and one more movement for the Music of the Spheres Project-which will be scored for the big band! It was an amazing residency...filled with wonderful encounters with nature, exploring new territory with my music as well as the environs. Situated on top of a mountain and surrounded by a state park, I had the perfect setting to work on the music of the spheres project. My studio door led out to an open space with perfect viewing of the night sky! It's been a while since I've been able to see the Milky Way-I haven't been camping lately-and I haven't been in areas that aren't surrounded by light pollution. It was very dark at night outside my studio door-and very quiet-I just loved it! What a luxury to be able to just step outside a door and see the heavens-with the Perseid meteors zooming across the sky!
