Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013 Time: 8pm Venue:17 Frost Theatre of the Arts
Sohrab was invited to play with the improvisational music repertory ensemble, THE DISSIDENT ARTS ORCHESTRA, which focuses on silent film scores. Under the leadership of John Pietaro this orchestra played music to the classic revolutionary silent film by Eisenstein, “BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN.” Here are two videos from the performance. The first one is the “warm up” before the real performance. And the second one shows the whole performance. Due to using only one camera Sohrab isn’t shown in the second video but you can hear him.
The line-up is:
John Pietaro – vibes, percussion, musical direction
Nora McCarthy – vocals
Cheryl Pyle – flute
Quincy Saul – clarinet
Rocco John Iacovone – soprano and alto saxophones
Patrick Brennan – alto saxophone
Ras Moshe – tenor and soprano saxophones, flutes Sohrab Saadat Lardjevardi – tenor saxophone and vocal
Nick Gianni – baritone saxophone and bass flute
Alon Nechustan – accordion
Javier Hernandez-Miyares- electric guitar and effects
Laurie Towers- electric bass
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic – double bass
Hollis Headrick – drumkit, percussion
Date: Thursday-Friday, December 6-7, 2012 Venue: Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, Milbank Chapel.
Last year Sohrab was invited to talk and play his saxophone at the “Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict” 2012 which was organized by theHuman Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS). He accepted the invitation because as a music activist he’s been promoting any movement for the last four years that promotes peace and acts peacefully. He heard about this movement from his Pakistani music colleague Ikhlaq Hussainand his wife Judit who are involved in it. They hooked him up with Evelin Lindner who started HumanDHS.
He closed the public event on December 6th with an improvisation.
“Sohrab was able to give dignity a new meaning through his sharing of his deep feelings, shared through his music. Authenticity of expression, be it by one person, or within one tradition, creates dignity, not only in music. This dignity is lost when everything is pressed into a uniform globalized Western style.” (Evelin Lindner)
What is HumanDHS?
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS, www.humiliationstudies.org) is a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation. They wish to stimulate systemic change, globally and locally, to open space for mutual respect and esteem to take root and grow, thus ending humiliating practices and breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world. They are currently around 1,000 personally invited members, and their website is being accessed by between 20,000 and 40,000 people from more than 180 countries per year.
Linda Hartling is the Director and Professor at the World Dignity University initiative. Please see her background atwww.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/linda.php. She is based in Portland, Oregon. She and her husband have created the first HumanDHS Dialogue Home (www.humiliationstudies.org/intervention/dialoguehome.php) and are building the HumanDHS Library. Linda is also affiliated with the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at Wellesley College near Boston, Massachusetts, of which she is the former Associate Director.
On 24th June last year, HumanDHS launched the World Dignity University initiative. The website www.worlddignityuniversity.org will from now on be ever evolving and growing. They invite all like-minded scholars around the world to contribute with their knowledge and insights. You see a video invitation to the World Dignity University initiative at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPwHC5JdU.
The HumanDHS network invites to the following future events:
1. The 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network, titled “Search for Dignity,” will take place at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 24th – 28th April 2013. Hélène Lewis is its local host. See www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/21.php.