Major Keys of Asia Minor - Music & the Spirit of the Imagination Have No Boundaries

This program has been a year in planning, and NMW's impresario Phil Collins’ vision for this project is to emphasize the strong commonality that music has among different Middle Eastern, as well as Western cultures. Music has thrived in the human civilization as a unifier; an unspoken dialect that crosses cultural divides and surrenders hearts.

It is a peace-inspired concert that involves subjects of a broader, and more public-oriented nature, than what contemporary chamber music concerts usually feature.
New Music Works Presents "Major Keys of Asia Minor" on Saturday April 16th at 8PM, at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall.

Two FREE community lecture/performances by Guest Artists Eitan Steinberg and Etty BenZaken offered Friday, April 15th, 8PM at Temple Beth El and again April 16, at 7PM, just before the concert.

Amazing and beautiful new vocal works and chamber music by six Middle Eastern composers of Christian, Jewish and Islamic heritages will be performed by nMw Ensemble and outstanding guest artists, pianist Kate Campbell, The Ariose Singers. And renowned Israeli vocalist, Etty BenZaken, who will perform Assembly of the Souls, a peace-inspired song cycle set to Arabic and Hebraic sacred texts, composed by visiting Israeli composer, Eitan Steinberg.

Co-Sponsored by the TENT OF ABRAHAM, an interfaith consortium.

http://www.newmusicworks.org/concert-iii-major-keys-of-asia-minor/