presents WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Hafiz Shabazz director drums of passion and the spoken word with Darrin Jones ‘95 Olivia Scott ‘13 This performance is made possible in part by the William D. 1905 and Besse M. Blatner Fund No. 1, the Bruce Webb Eaken 1926 Memorial Fund and the Hopkins Center Performance Fund No. 2. Wednesday, November 5, 2014 • 7 pm Spaulding Auditorium • Dartmouth College program Program order will be announced from the stage. Odunde Baba Michael Olatunji Still I Rise Naima Maya Angelou John Coltrane Chant for Shango Traditional Dervish at the Door Water No Get Enemy Rumi Fela Ransom Kuti Praise to Elegua Yoruba keeper of the Gate/trickster Longstory Short A Love Supreme Sekou Sunjata John Coltrane Kanuwa Ashanti war chant Phenomenal Woman After the Rain Maya Angelou John Coltrane Work Song Julius Cannonball Adderly Jingoba Baba Olatunji and Carlos Santana Black Boys to Men Nature boy Sabar Sekou Sunjata Eden Ahbez and Herman Yablokoff Senegalese traditional recreational drum and dance music world music percussion ensemble Hafiz Shabazz director Andrew Nalani ‘16 vocals, percussion Wilson Fanestil ‘18 percussion Moises Silva ‘16 drums Taeho Sung ‘17 drums, percussion Kieran Sim ‘16 percussion Nicholas Valenzuela ‘18 percussion Charlotte Kamin ‘18 percussion Christopher Hoefs percussion, trumpet Tom Morrow percussion Roger Ardontonville percussion Band members Ron Smith saxophone Jon Weeks flute Rafael Flores guitar David Westphalen bass Dan DeWalt piano, trombone Darrin Jones drum Olivia Scott spoken word program notes “Drums of passion” speaks to the compelling, hypnotic trace-like sound of drums as they pulsate and interact with one’s heartbeat. There are rhythms moving fast like a storm or slowmoving like the flowing of clouds on a breezy, bright summer day. The power and subtle dynamics of the spoken word create a myriad of thoughts and emotions. In poetry, Wallace Stevens asserted, “The sound of the words is the first primitive pleasure in poetry. When listening to poetry, you must love the words, the ideas, images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.” Stevens lists the love of words as the first condition, because it is the words that make things happen. Sekou Sundjata has been revered and praised as a fantastic conscious-raising poet and civil rights and health rights activist. Sekou lived in New York City where he taught writing at the Eugene Lang College at the New School. He recorded many of his poems on independent labels that are still in print. Sekou produced the Gift of Life Concert performed at the Apollo Theater to raise awareness about kidney disease and organ donation. He was known for his innovative style of integrating live jazz with poetry. Maya Angelou was a poet, activist and awardwinning author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, among others. Maya also was chosen to read an original poem at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Jalal ad Din Muhammad Rumi was a thirteenthcentury Persian Sufi mystic poet. Rumi’s poems in many ways reflect the positive relationship with the “Beloved.” In addition he gave voice to the varied human condition and the dominance of nation states. It was as if he were writing poetry today. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Darrin Jones ‘95 has traveled and studied music in Senegal, The Gambia and Brazil. He performed with the World Music Percussion Ensemble for several years during his Dartmouth career. His command of the drum and its music helped to maintain the high standard of musicianship for future ensemble members. Olivia Scott ‘13 is in her second season at the Northern Stage theater company in White River Junction, VT. Scott, originally from Charlotte, NC, majored in African and African American studies while at Dartmouth. She received the 2013 Dodd playwright award and was the inaugural recipient of the William Louise Jacobs award. Hafiz Shabazz director is an ethnomusicologist, percussionist, performer and lecturer. He teaches courses on improvisation and non-Western music. He has studied at the University of Ghana, the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and in Cuba with master drummers and folklorists. He has performed with Max Roach, Lionel Hampton, Julius Hemphill and Alhaji Bia Konte, Master Cora and Griot of Gambia, West Africa. Professor Shabazz toured for many years with Wind and Thunder, a group devoted to improvisational jazz and non-Western music. He has toured France, the Caribbean, and extensively throughout Canada and the United States. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University and has lectured in over 500 schools ABOUT THE ARTISTs CONTINUED and universities. He is an initiated member of the Ancestral Shrine of the Ashanti Nation in Ghana, has authored articles for the Black Music Research Journal, and was a consultant with John Chernoff in the writing of African Rhythms and African Sensibilities. WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Deep Forest electro-Acoustic HaFiZ SHaBaZZ director fri feb 13 8 pm • SpaulDing auDitOriuM The ensemble performs African chants, Caribbean ska and South American samba in collaboration with local dancers. Natural sounds of tempered instruments will be mixed with an array of digitally-generated sounds. DIEGO EL CIGALA wed nov 12 7 pm • SpaulDing auDitOriuM Three-time Grammy Award winner Diego el Cigala is quite simply the most exciting and innovative flamenco singer in the world today. 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