<div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>The following two events will take place in MIT during next week:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:brown">Panel discussion and demonstration<i>Awakening the Arab Spring<br>

</i></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tuesday,
March 13, 2012<br>
5:30pm Panel |</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:white">|</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#1982d1;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://mit.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5bd6169a9474f2f7daa8086aa&amp;id=dc0cf92ad7&amp;e=ae412311df" target="_blank">Killian Hall, MIT</a></span></span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:brown"></span></i></b></p>
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Wind Ensemble<br>
Saturday, March 17, 2012<br>
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<div style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left"><div style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="color:rgb(165,42,42)"><strong>Composer Jamshied Sharifi and the Arab Spring at MIT March 12-17<br>
</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">MIT Visiting Artist and alumnus Jamshied Sharifi brings his unique compositional talent to MIT this spring<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">as composer-in-residence from March 12-17</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. Sharifi&#39;s residency includes the world premiere of<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Awakening,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">and a panel that recognizes the Arab Spring.</span></span></span></div>
<br><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="color:rgb(165,42,42)"><strong>World premiere concert of<span> </span><em>Awakening</em></strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">MIT Wind Ensemble<br>
Saturday, March 17, 2012<br>8:00pm<span> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Concert |</span></span></strong>|<strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://mit.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5bd6169a9474f2f7daa8086aa&amp;id=e561ab2f69&amp;e=ae412311df" style="color:rgb(25,130,209);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Kresge Auditorium, MIT</a></span></span></strong></span><p>
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<span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">General Admission $5<br>MIT Community free</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span>in advance, $5 at the door</span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Jamshied Sharifi presents the world premiere of</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Awakening,<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">commissioned by and for the MIT Wind Ensemble. The work is an extended composition that recognizes the Arab Spring and uses Arabic<span> </span><em>maqam</em>, the system of modes or scales in classical Arabic music, as source material</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.<span> </span></span><br>
<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The concert program for<span> </span></span><strong><a href="http://mit.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5bd6169a9474f2f7daa8086aa&amp;id=2749e2282c&amp;e=ae412311df" style="color:rgb(25,130,209);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><em>Awakening</em>: A world premiere by Jamshied Sharifi</a></strong>,<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">includes Bernard,<span> </span><em>Divertissement</em><span> </span><em>for Winds</em>; Copland,<span> </span><em>Variations on a Shaker Melody</em>; Schuman,<span> </span><em>When Jesus Wept</em>; Bernstein,<span> </span><em>Profanation</em>from Symphony no. 1; and Sharifi,<span> </span><em>Awakening</em>, world premiere. Performed by the MIT Wind Ensemble; Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director; Kenneth Amis, assistant conductor; Jamshied Sharifi, Composer-in-Residence. <span> </span></span></span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="color:rgb(165,42,42)"><strong>Panel discussion and demonstration<em>Awakening the Arab Spring</em></strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Tuesday, March 13, 2012<br>
5:30pm<span> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Panel |</span></span></strong>|<strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://mit.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5bd6169a9474f2f7daa8086aa&amp;id=dc0cf92ad7&amp;e=ae412311df" style="color:rgb(25,130,209);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Killian Hall, MIT</a></span></span></strong></span><br>
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Please reserve onlin</span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join Jamshied Sharifi,<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">MIT Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost Philip Khoury, as well as Obaidah Abuhashem &#39;12, president of the MIT Arab Students’ Association, and members of the MIT Wind Ensemble for a panel about the events of the Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests.</span></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">About Jamshied Sharifi</span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Jamshied Sharifi’s remarkable professional career as a composer and keyboardist, producer and arranger, has included scores for motion pictures, his own world music ensemble, collaboration with artists such as Ray Charles, and arrangements for the Inauguration of President Obama.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span> </span>Sharifi is an MIT and Berklee College of Music alumnus.</span></span></span><a href="http://mit.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5bd6169a9474f2f7daa8086aa&amp;id=87b1094466&amp;e=ae412311df" style="color:rgb(25,130,209);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><span> </span>http://arts.mit.edu/va/artist/sharifi/</span></a><br>
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<font color="#666666">President, MIT Arab Students&#39; Organization</font></div><div style><font color="#666666">Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</font></div><div style><font color="#666666">Class of 2012</font></div>
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