Author: SCI Members Mailing List
Subject: October 23 Berklee Protest Concert
Dear SCI Friends,
Any of you in the Boston area are invited to a concert at Berklee College of Music on Monday, October 23 at 7:30 in David Friend Recital Hall. I Protest, a concert of five modern classical pieces written as acts of resistance against the current administration, is also a tribute to former Berklee professor Vuk Kulenovic, who risked his life by defying the Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic and was placed at the top of a list of dissidents to be exterminated in the 1990s. Fleeing to the West, where he continued composing an opus of internationally acclaimed contemporary art music until his death earlier this year, Vuk recognized the grim irony that the U.S. election of 2016 was unleashing the very fascist forces he had fought against in his native country. This fall, his friends and fellow-composers come together to protest in his spirit in a concert conceived by Kari Juusela, Dean of the Professional Writing and Music Technology Division at Berklee and a fellow traveler of Vuk’s.
I Protest features three new pieces specifically commissioned for the concert: “The Audacity of Hope” for piano and cello by Marti Epstein, “Dance of Defiance” for guitar and cello by Apostolos Paraskevas, and “March Towards Martyrdom,” a voice and cello duet, by Jonathan Holland. Performers include Paraskevas (guitar), Juusela (cello), Felicia Chen (soprano), and Richard Carrick (piano).
The concert also presents the premier of “Them,” a contemporary multi-media chamber opera written by Kari Juusela and Tatiana Holway, which explores the limits of the political differences that a relationship can endure, with performances by Juusela (cello), Helen Sherrah-Davies (five-string violin), Natalie Logan (soprano), Craig Juricka (tenor), and dancers Jorge Ramos and Alyx Henigman.
Vuk Kulenovic’s “String Quartet No. 9,” performed by the Sound Energy String Quartet, will conclude the program.
Kari Juusela, Dean Professional Writing & Music Technology Division Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215-3693 617-869-6996
Subject: October 23 Berklee Protest Concert
Dear SCI Friends,
Any of you in the Boston area are invited to a concert at Berklee College of Music on Monday, October 23 at 7:30 in David Friend Recital Hall. I Protest, a concert of five modern classical pieces written as acts of resistance against the current administration, is also a tribute to former Berklee professor Vuk Kulenovic, who risked his life by defying the Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic and was placed at the top of a list of dissidents to be exterminated in the 1990s. Fleeing to the West, where he continued composing an opus of internationally acclaimed contemporary art music until his death earlier this year, Vuk recognized the grim irony that the U.S. election of 2016 was unleashing the very fascist forces he had fought against in his native country. This fall, his friends and fellow-composers come together to protest in his spirit in a concert conceived by Kari Juusela, Dean of the Professional Writing and Music Technology Division at Berklee and a fellow traveler of Vuk’s.
I Protest features three new pieces specifically commissioned for the concert: “The Audacity of Hope” for piano and cello by Marti Epstein, “Dance of Defiance” for guitar and cello by Apostolos Paraskevas, and “March Towards Martyrdom,” a voice and cello duet, by Jonathan Holland. Performers include Paraskevas (guitar), Juusela (cello), Felicia Chen (soprano), and Richard Carrick (piano).
The concert also presents the premier of “Them,” a contemporary multi-media chamber opera written by Kari Juusela and Tatiana Holway, which explores the limits of the political differences that a relationship can endure, with performances by Juusela (cello), Helen Sherrah-Davies (five-string violin), Natalie Logan (soprano), Craig Juricka (tenor), and dancers Jorge Ramos and Alyx Henigman.
Vuk Kulenovic’s “String Quartet No. 9,” performed by the Sound Energy String Quartet, will conclude the program.
Kari Juusela, Dean Professional Writing & Music Technology Division Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215-3693 617-869-6996