INSIDE PROGRAM

• Welcome Mark Hyman
  
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Allegro” from String Quintet in G minor, K. 516
  Erica Kiesewetter, violin;; Joanna Jenner, violin ; NardoPoy, viola David Cerutti, viola; Arthur Fiocco, cello
  
• Poem “The Moon Sees All,” by Nora Neus, 6th grade Tenafly Middle School student
  
• Marcel Bitsch 2 Etudes for Solo Trombone
  Richard Clark, trombone
  
• Ludwig van Beethoven Minuetto from Trio, Opus 87
  Jonathan Spitz, Gabriella Spitz, and Susannah Chapman, celli
  
• Sophy Him Remarks
  
• Sophy Him Quartet (1987)
  Allegro
  Andante cantabile
  Allegro vivace
  Leona Nadj, violin; Katherine Hannauer, violin; Shelley Holland-Moritz, viola; Roger Shell, cello

Intermission

• Video Cambodian Master Performers School, by Jay Dorfman
  
• Jon Deak Khmer folk tune arrangement
  Erica Kiesewetter, violin; Gabriella Spitz, cello; Jon Deak, bass
  
• Chinary Ung “Spiral III,” String Quartet
  Erica Kiesewetter, violin; Lisa Tipton, violin; Adria Benjamin, viola; Wolfram Koessel, cello
  
• Poem “Out of the darkness,” by Emily Gallagher, 8th grade Tenafly Middle School student and youngestmember of Cambodian delegation
  
• Mozart Adagio; Allegro from String Quintet in G minor, K. 516

Cambodia Master Performers

In February of 2005, Global Care Unlimited (GCU) sent a youth delegation to observe the work of the organizations they had raised funds for, and those that they might raise funds for in the future. Among these was the Cambodian Master Performers Program (CMPP). Arn Chorn-Pond created the Cambodian Master Performers Program in an effort to revive traditional Cambodian performance arts, which had been nearly annihilated during the Khmer Rouge Genocide (1975-79). The Global Care Unlimited delegation spent an afternoon touring CMPP classes conducted in a squatter community in Phnom Penh. We were deeply moved by the beauty and passion of the performances by the child students, which was poignantly juxtaposed over the impoverished slum in which both the students and masters lived. As a result, Global Care Unlimited made a commitment to work with CMPP and its partner organization, World Education, to support the teaching and performing components of CMPP. To this end, GCU has set the goal of raising $5,000 to support one master and ten students for a year.

Program Notes

Tonight’s concert opens and closes with the music of one of western culture’s most celebrated masters, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The G minor viola quintet was chosen (besides for its sheer beauty and genius) because it exemplifies the journey and transformation from darkness and despair to hope and rebirth, such as that which the Cambodian people and their arts have experienced. Our journey will also brings us works of Beethoven, the French composer Marcel Bitsch , and Sophy Him. We are particularly honored to have Mr. Him as our guest, and would like to thank him for taking time out from his work on his Cambodian-American opera “When Elephants Weep” to grace us with his presence tonight. In addition, the program will feature “Spiral III”, an evocative look at Cambodian traditional music through the eyes of western-trained composer Chinary Ung. Ung was educated at Columbia University in the 12-tone system of music, and only after the Khmer Rouge ceased their occupation of his homeland was Ung moved to re-visit his cultural roots, creating works such as tonight’s offering. Prior to the Ung composition will be Jon Deaks’ rendition of a Cambodian children’s song, which we observed during our visit to the temples of Angkor Wat!

GLOBAL CARE UNLIMITED

Global Care Unlimited, Inc. is an educational outreach and humanitarian organization founded in 2000 by schoolteacher, Mark Hyman and inspired by the commitment of middle and high school students in Tenafly, New Jersey. Our mission is to promote youth leadership in global humanitarian service initiatives.