[LCM Events] Composer Jamshied Sharifi and the Arab Spring at MIT

[Obaidah Abuhashem]

Dear All,

The following two events will take place in MIT during next week:

*Panel discussion and demonstrationAwakening the Arab Spring
**Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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*World premiere concert of Awakening
**MIT Wind Ensemble
Saturday, March 17, 2012
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Obaidah


 Jamshied Sharifi, composer-in-residence at MIT.
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*Composer Jamshied Sharifi and the Arab Spring at MIT March 12-17
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MIT Visiting Artist and alumnus Jamshied Sharifi brings his unique
compositional talent to MIT this spring as composer-in-residence from March
12-17. Sharifi's residency includes the world premiere of Awakening,and a
panel that recognizes the Arab Spring.

*World premiere concert of Awakening*
*MIT Wind Ensemble
Saturday, March 17, 2012
8:00pm **Concert |*|*Kresge Auditorium,
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General Admission $5
MIT Community free in advance, $5 at the door

Jamshied Sharifi presents the world premiere ofAwakening, commissioned by
and for the MIT Wind Ensemble. The work is an extended composition that
recognizes the Arab Spring and uses Arabic *maqam*, the system of modes or
scales in classical Arabic music, as source material.

The concert program for *Awakening: A world premiere by Jamshied
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*,includes Bernard, *Divertissement* *for Winds*; Copland, *Variations on a
Shaker Melody*; Schuman, *When Jesus Wept*; Bernstein, *Profanation*from
Symphony no. 1; and Sharifi, *Awakening*, world premiere. Performed by the
MIT Wind Ensemble; Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director; Kenneth Amis,
assistant conductor; Jamshied Sharifi, Composer-in-Residence.

*Panel discussion and demonstrationAwakening the Arab Spring*
*Tuesday, March 13, 2012
5:30pm **Panel |*|*Killian Hall,
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Join Jamshied Sharifi, MIT Ford International Professor of History and
Associate Provost Philip Khoury, as well as Obaidah Abuhashem '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.

About Jamshied Sharifi
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. Sharifi
is an MIT and Berklee College of Music alumnus.
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Obaidah Abuhashem
President, MIT Arab Students' Organization
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Class of 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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