Violinist and artistic director Gil Morgenstern will present the fourth and final concert of his acclaimed Reflections Series International 2013-2014 Season, celebrating the series' inaugural year at Avenues: The World School. The program's theme, as well as the works to be performed, is the result of an intensive collaboration between Morgenstern and Avenues tenth grade students, who are being asked to help shape a narrative by finding thematic links between various discrete academic subjects. Out of this unique partnership, and with the guidance of the school's faculty and creative team, the program "Identities and Transformation" will be developed.
Seeking a broader understanding of what forms and transforms our personal and collective identities, Morgenstern intends to raise such questions as: What roles do history, culture, religion, the environment, gender and politics play in shaping or reshaping them? How does one negotiate personal identity in an age of globalization and its concurrent loss of privacy? Can we choose to transform ourselves or does our cultural memory remain at the core of who we are? And what are we to do when new values and cultural practices are imposed on us?
Morgenstern and the students will explore these questions and create a narrative using music and literature. Texts will range from Genesis to Walt Whitman, the Koran to Sir Edmund Hillary, and from Mao to Mayan fables. Music will include Sergei Prokofiev's viscerally powerful Violin Sonata in f minor, the Peruvian rhythms of Gabriela Lena Frank, Enzo Rao's Sicilian folk music and John Cage's haunting Nocturne. Joining Morgenstern will be J.Y. Song, piano, Yousif Sheronik, percussion, and celebrated TV and film actors Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel.
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