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Newsletter Archive
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Our Haiti
January 16, 2010
"At this moment, in this desperate hour, I am overwhelmed with grief for all of those lost, suffering, and struggling with the realities of this deepening disaster. I am not at all certain what my response should be, and I'm gripped by a feeling of helplessness.
Emeline Michel and I are determined to do all that we can for our Haitian brothers and sisters, and we're grateful that an array of musicians and artists are joining together in a journey of hope towards Haiti's recovery and rebirth. We are providing websites and links for you to respond immediately, and planning concerts and other special events that will be a march towards the reconstruction and resurrection of our island-nation—one that has given us so much while never asking for anything in return. We will rebuild, we must rebuild, and in doing so, we begin the process of helping and healing those who now need us the most, now, and in the coming months and years.
Nothing is as powerful as the will of a nation to survive, the strength of people to believe, and the fierce determination of the individual boldly acting towards world-wide change.
Please refer to my weekly blog on how you can help and continuously play your part in the coming months."
Daniel Bernard Roumain and Emeline Michel
***To act today, please support these sites and organizations***
http://www.whitehouse.gov/haitiearthquake
http://clintonbushhaitifund.org
http://www.redcross.org
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org
http://www.cnn.com
DBR Official Newsletter 12.30.09
Here is a recap of the last few months as well as what's
coming up next. Thank you for all your support and we wish you a very
happy turn of the decade.
cusp conference
DBR and Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientific were featured
artists in this year's cusp
conference in Chicago, IL, a conference about "the design
of everything" bringing together greatest thinkers and innovators
in the arts, sciences, technology, business, design and government.
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DBR & Kaki King
DBR wrote a song for Hewlett-Packard featuring DBR & THE MISSION
and guitarist Kaki King, who was named a "Guitar God"
by Rolling Stone Magazine. The song, Unstoppable, was performed
live in Las Vegas and is available as a limited edition free download
here.
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Othello
DBR was commissioned by OBIE Award-winning director, Bob
McGrath, to create a musical score for a contemporary rendition
of Shakespeare's classic, Othello, portrayed as the captain
of a basketball team. The show premiered at Virginia Tech in Nov
2009.
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Off And Running at
IFC
DBR composed the score for Off
& Running, a feature-length documentary film directed
by Nicole Opper about an African-American teen raised by a Jewish
lesbian couple in Brooklyn, will be shown at NY’s IFC
Center starting Jan 29. The film has been shown
across the U.S. since its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
last spring.
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New Clef Coalition
Troy
High School Orchestra will be the first of many youth orchestras
around the nation to premiere Symphony for the Dance Floor
(Jan 30) born out of DBR’s passion working
with young musicians. It will be performed at Rockport
Opera House in Maine on Mar 7, and at the New
England Conservatory in May 2010.
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2010 Winter Olympics
DBR will be a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for
the Canadian premiere of Voodoo
Violin Concerto at the Vancouver
2010 Winter Olympics on Feb 14. The very next
day, Feb 15, he and DJ Spooky will unveil an exclusive
duo collaboration at the Olympics Live Site.
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DMPL
Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, DBR's evening-length
multimedia pocket oratorio, Darwin’s
Meditation for the People of Lincoln, made its way to North
Carolina State University and Nashville's Vanderbilt University
this past fall, and will have its Texas premiere at TITAS
in Dallas, TX, Feb 25.
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Sphinx Consortium
DBR is currently working on his new full orchestra commission, Symphony
for Dreamers, Dancers and Presidents, commissioned by the Sphinx
Consortium which consists of 10 major national orchestras. This
20-min work in 3 movements will be premiered by New World Symphony
in Sep 2010.
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New Website
Whether you follow him on Twitter
or Facebook,
DBR’s website, new & improved, is the best to place to
obtain comprehensive updates on all-things-DBR. The site now features
a complete sheetmusic
library of over 50 published scores, mp3 preview samples of
recorded music, blogs and more.
See
the Library
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WBB
DBR has just finished recording his new album Woodbox
Beats & Balladry, slated for release in Mar 2010.
A collection of brand new as well as hit songs from live shows performed
by DBR & THE MISSION, the album is sure to be a winner. Preview
these tracks in this new promotional
video.
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DBR & BTJ
A new album of music written for Choreographer Bill T. Jones
(Fela!) and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. by DBR entitled
Lights, Bridges and Endless Miles, will
be released this spring, featuring memorable sounds from Another
Evening: I Bow Down, and more.
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In C Remixed
Raved by critics and recently ranked top 10 Classical chart on iTunes,
In
C Remixed is a collection of remixes of Terry
Riley’s composition, In C, by today’s top contemporary
sonic architects including DJ Spooky, Nico Muhly, David Lang, Phil
Kline and DBR.
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