Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean
(conference, public lectures, concerts, workshops, exhibits, films)
October 7 - 28, 2000
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D O N T M I S S T H E S E U. C. L. A. C O N C E R T S !!
Locations:
-Popper Theater/Ostin Hall = in Schoenberg Bldg., UCLA, (310) 206-3033
415 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095
-Freud Theater = MacGowan Hall, UCLA
first-come, first-served, no prior reservation taken
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T h u r s d a y, O c t o b e r 1 9, 2 0 0 0
8:00 p.m. Concert:
Aramirč, Tarantismo and Traditional Salentine Music
a n d
Alessandra Belloni, Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider, Schoenberg
Hall, UCLA
[$10; free to full-time UCLA students and IOHI members; UCLA parking: $6]
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The best of the current performers of Salentine music today. From Italy for
this performance only, Aramirč: Ensemble of Traditional Salentine Music not
only performs the music traditions of the Salento (southeastern-most tip of
Italy), but is committed to cultural ecology. Aramirč makes full use of
Chiriatti’s private archive of field recordings which spans 20 years of
collecting, and therefore uses the voices of the tradition itself, as its
guide in reviving Salentine oral culture. The ensemble also performs songs
of the Griko-speaking minority (the last Greek linguistic “island” of the
Salento), the music of tarantismo--the pizzica tarantata, so currently in
demand--but also love songs, nursery rhymes, ballads, worksongs, religious
songs and ritual dramatizations, performing the full range of songs present
in Salentine folk culture.
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Alessandra Belloni: Italian-born singer and master percussionist specializes
in the ritual music and dance traditions of Southern Italy. She has been
artistic director of “I Giullari di Piazza,” for over 20 years, and is
artist in residence at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York. She is a
high energy performer, recording artist (a Remo signature artist), and
teacher, also known as the “Mediterranean volcano.” She performs
internationally, and her recent Sounds True release “Tarantata: Dance of
the Ancient Spider” has taken Belloni even beyond World music fans.
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F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 2 0, 2 0 0 0
3:00 p.m. Concert: UCLA Sounds: Sacred or Secular? Ecstasy in Early Music
a n d
Judith Cohen: Iberian Jewish Women's Songs: Ritual, Dance, Meditation,
Popper Theater
[free; UCLA parking: $6]
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UCLA Sounds is a series of concerts designed to showcase small instrumental
and vocal works seldom heard in live performance. Programming focuses in
particular on little-known music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and
the early seventeenth century. Each UCLA Sounds program includes lively
commentary by musicologists and performers. A wide range of performing
artists, including UCLA faculty, distinguished alumni and outstanding UCLA
students are featured
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>From Toronto, Canada, Judith Cohen, a performer and scholar of Sephardic
Jewish musical traditions, performs with her daughter Tamar Ilana.
Accompanying themselves on traditional percussion and string instruments,
they perform songs of Sephardic, crypto-Jewish, and Medieval Iberian women
and their cultural diasporas.
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S u n d a y, O c t o b e r 2 2, 2 0 0 0
2:00 p.m. Concert: Ali Jihad Racy Ensemble
Voices of Mystical Devotions: Sufi Music from the Arab World
a n d
Musicŕntica, Mediterranean Music of the Crossroads, Freud Theater, UCLA
[$10; free to full-time UCLA students and IOHI members]
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The Ali Jihad Racy ensemble includes singer Ahmed El-Asmer and percussionist
Souhail Kasparin solo improvisations on the nay, buzuq and oud by Dr. Racy
as well as Mawwal and Qasida (traditional Arabic vocal forms) sung by Mr.
El-Asmer.
Ali Jihad Racy, virtuoso performer, composer, and scholar of Middle Eastern
music began his career in Lebanon. He has appeared as a soloist in major
concert halls throughout the United States, including Carnegie Hall and the
Kennedy Center. His scores for television, feature films, and documentaries
include the ten-part series, The Arabs, shown on BBC and PBS, and his
compositions have been commissioned by major ensembles such as his Zaman
Suite for the Kronos Quartet. Professor of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, Dr. Racy
has authored numerous publications on Middle Eastern music. In addition to
the nay and 'ud, he is a master of the buzuq long-necked fretted lute, the
mizmar double-reed, the rabbah spiked fiddle, and the mijwij double pipe.
His LP, cassette, and CD releases include Hellucination Engine in which he
performed with other major world artists including Zakir Hussein and Wayne
Shorter, and Ancient Egypt (Lyrichord), praised in CD Review as "exquisitely
beautiful . . . immaculately performed . . . and gentle and dreamlike."
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Los Angeles group Musicŕntica features a variety of music from the southern
Italian tradition spanning the 17th century to the present time. The
ensemble’s repertoire includes both oral and popular traditions: songs of
fishermen, carters, street vendors, peasants as well as songs and
instrumental compositions by urban and suburban musicians from the 18th and
19th centuries. They perform the high-energy dance Pizzica Tarantata from
Apulia, religious and works songs from Sicily, love songs from the
Neapolitan area, instrumental dance music from Sardinia, and modern popular
compositions.
Musicŕntica uses traditional Italian instruments such as the tamburello, a
frame drum used for the tarantella dance; the putipu, a friction drum, the
chitarra battente, a type of medieval 10 string guitar, castanets, jaws
harps, and cane clarinets from Sardinia called benas, as well as a mix of
instruments from the Mediterranean area and beyond. Its arrangements and
interpretations are creative and contemporary, maintaining a stylistic and
thematic connection to the historical periods and the peasant culture from
which its music is drawn. Three of the group’s musicians are Italian born:
Lorenzo Buhne (Naples), Roberto Catalano (Sicily), and Apulian frame
drum-virtuoso, and inventor of the ‘mbira-inspired “fina,” Enzo Fina
(Salento); and fourth member, Kedron Parker is from Los Angeles.
Luisa Del Giudice, Director
I.O.H.I.
Italian Oral History Institute
P.O. Box 241553
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1553
Tel: (310) 474-1698
Fax: (310) 474-3188
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.iohi.org
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