WEBVTT 00:04:16.706 --> 00:04:26.963 - Symposium has been organized by the School of Global and International Studies, Hamilton Luger School 00:04:26.963 --> 00:04:36.214 - of Global and International Studies. And we have. Tom's here. Can I turn it up, please? OK, 00:04:36.214 --> 00:04:43.454 - I could do this. So as you know, there is a two-day symposium going on. 00:04:47.266 --> 00:04:55.059 - Global Area and Perspective Symposium. Every year it takes place. And the dean of the school and his 00:04:55.059 --> 00:05:02.235 - wonderful crew asked us if we could also contribute to the theme of the symposium this year, 00:05:02.235 --> 00:05:10.337 - which is Music, Culture, and Conflicts, if I'm not mistaken. That's the theme. And on that note, I would 00:05:10.337 --> 00:05:16.510 - like to thank the dean of the school, please, Professor John Cioccioli, please. 00:05:24.418 --> 00:05:32.305 - setting for us and we are very delighted to be here. We will be playing five, six, seven tunes for you 00:05:32.305 --> 00:05:40.422 - from different regions of the world. You have the program in your hand, short snippets of the translation 00:05:40.422 --> 00:05:48.156 - of some of the songs so that you know what we are talking about. And the first song that we sang, it 00:05:48.156 --> 00:05:53.822 - was dedicated to the people of Afghanistan who have gone through horrific 00:05:56.130 --> 00:06:02.668 - of life. And recently I heard that two weeks ago, the regime there, they just shut down all the communication 00:06:02.668 --> 00:06:08.672 - systems. So they were worried that people would talk to each other, send messages. That's the theme, 00:06:08.672 --> 00:06:14.616 - one of the symposiums. So I feel sorry for the younger generation, so then they can now have access 00:06:14.616 --> 00:06:20.679 - to basic internet to educate themselves and know what's happening in the world. So that was dedicated 00:06:20.679 --> 00:06:22.878 - to them, telling them that the world 00:06:23.106 --> 00:06:31.389 - Tomorrow will be different. The good old days that you experienced in the past will come back to you. 00:06:31.389 --> 00:06:39.510 - You will again be happy and free in your choices. Thank you so much. And the next tune is a Turkish 00:06:39.510 --> 00:06:47.712 - tune. It's called Bir Demetli Asaman, a bouquet of flower, a flower of jasmine. And also in Italian, 00:06:47.712 --> 00:06:52.990 - as well as in Persian, that we would like it. You would like it. 00:06:53.314 --> 00:06:55.102 - So, here they might use them. 00:19:05.378 --> 00:19:14.707 - in 1960s, but they made a Tajik movie. In that movie, there was a girl who had a black mole on her face, 00:19:14.707 --> 00:19:23.680 - and this is how the song became known. And we also had Persian lyrics here with the translation that 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:33.186 - you look at. So before we continue, I'd like to say, introduce the member of the ensemble. It's a pleasure 00:19:33.186 --> 00:19:34.430 - to share this 00:19:34.754 --> 00:19:40.991 - stage with these wonderful people. We have Mehran Fanous, who is in the School of Music, and we are 00:19:40.991 --> 00:19:47.228 - delighted to have him here. It's been a pleasure working with him. His family, his brother, father, 00:19:47.228 --> 00:19:53.652 - they have their own ensemble. They have given concerts at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, you just name 00:19:53.652 --> 00:19:59.889 - it. They have been all over. So we are very pleased to have him. Originally, he's from Afghanistan, 00:19:59.889 --> 00:20:03.070 - so we are happy to have him here. Next to me is... 00:20:07.298 --> 00:20:14.746 - Next to me is Christian James. He just joined us a couple of months ago. We are very happy to have him 00:20:14.746 --> 00:20:22.338 - here because our pianist, Jack Shchuka, right now is in London at the School of North African and Middle 00:20:22.338 --> 00:20:29.569 - Eastern Studies there. He's pursuing a degree, a master's degree in music, particularly in Mugam of 00:20:29.569 --> 00:20:36.222 - that part of the world, working with great artists there. So we are very happy that we will 00:20:36.322 --> 00:20:44.619 - able to have this gentleman who studied music, graduate from different prominent schools here, and he 00:20:44.619 --> 00:20:52.753 - played organ. So come from a family of musicians, and we are happy to have him here. And he's a PhD 00:20:52.753 --> 00:21:01.050 - student. At the end of his writing, he has interesting topic that he's working on. It is in the paper 00:21:01.050 --> 00:21:06.174 - that you could read about him what he does. And to my right is 00:21:07.298 --> 00:21:13.538 - Jermaine Butler, who has been working with us, or given us the honor to be working with us. He plays 00:21:13.538 --> 00:21:19.901 - oud and guitar and percussions, drum sets. He is really in demand. We are happy that we could have him 00:21:19.901 --> 00:21:26.202 - here summertime. He was traveling, he was in Europe for two months, traveling all over Europe. We are 00:21:26.202 --> 00:21:32.936 - happy to have him here. He plays oud. He's also a student in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. 00:21:32.936 --> 00:21:36.766 - He's also working on music of the East. He's looking into the 00:21:36.930 --> 00:21:44.581 - music of the Oman in the Persian Gulf region, so that's his area of expertise. We are very happy to 00:21:44.581 --> 00:21:52.538 - have him with us. Thank you. And then we have Elijah Casilla, who's a percussionist, he's in the School 00:21:52.538 --> 00:22:00.419 - of Music, plays in various groups and ensembles, and we have been working together for two years prior 00:22:00.419 --> 00:22:06.846 - to him. We had his girlfriend who worked with us and finished, so we are happy that 00:22:07.202 --> 00:22:14.600 - Sophia introduced him to us because we needed to have a percussionist, particularly the one who could 00:22:14.600 --> 00:22:21.998 - play Middle Eastern as well as Latin American music for us. So we're going to move on. Thank you. Our 00:22:21.998 --> 00:22:29.613 - next piece is, again, all the information is there for those who know the languages. We have a few lines 00:22:29.613 --> 00:22:36.286 - there in Arabic, in Ladino, and in Turkish, so you could follow that to see what they mean. 00:22:36.738 --> 00:22:43.808 - So it's called la rosa in florescent. That means the rose blooms in May. We hope that you like it. And 00:22:43.808 --> 00:22:50.878 - it is in three languages, again in Ladino, in Arabic, as well as in Turkish. We hope that you like it. 00:27:34.210 --> 00:27:42.444 - The goal is to play the music of the Mediterranean, Southern Mediterranean music with the Central Asian, 00:27:42.444 --> 00:27:50.600 - Middle Eastern music. And some of these pieces have become so popular despite the fact that there might 00:27:50.600 --> 00:27:58.442 - be conflicts, regional political conflicts. But yes, you see that the Turks, they sing Greek songs. 00:27:58.442 --> 00:28:03.774 - Greeks sing the Turks songs. That's a very positive thing that they 00:28:04.194 --> 00:28:12.016 - together and they say, you know, the past is past. What we all enjoy is nice music, traveling around, 00:28:12.016 --> 00:28:19.762 - good food. Who cares who makes it? As long as it tastes good and as long as the sound is good to our 00:28:19.762 --> 00:28:27.661 - ears, that's what we care. So this song was composed by a Greek artist. It's called Kaiksi. That means 00:28:27.661 --> 00:28:33.566 - boatman. And it is in Greek as well as in Turkish. We hope that you like it. 00:28:36.738 --> 00:28:43.870 - Kayak comes from the kayak, so then the Middle Easterners and others, they borrowed that kayak chip. 00:33:24.002 --> 00:33:31.507 - piece dedicated to a beautiful blue lake in the country and was composed by a very prominent Azerbaijani 00:33:31.507 --> 00:33:38.869 - composer, Fikret Amirov, whose work you will be hearing in the West, in America. They played his Kurde 00:33:38.869 --> 00:33:46.088 - Afshari and Shur, very famous, prominent artist. So we hope that you like it. Again, the translation 00:33:46.088 --> 00:33:51.806 - of the words are here, so that way we will save time. We hope that you like it. 00:37:19.906 --> 00:37:28.157 - these great artists here. Of course, what do you expect to study at one of the greatest school of music 00:37:28.157 --> 00:37:36.408 - in the world? So the quality has to be good, otherwise you don't get in. So I'm very happy to have them 00:37:36.408 --> 00:37:44.421 - here. So we have two more songs. We want to sing a song in Uyghur, the song of the Uyghur people. It 00:37:44.421 --> 00:37:47.198 - is called Senutun, because of you. 00:37:49.154 --> 00:37:52.190 - Again, the translation is there, you could follow. 00:42:34.818 --> 00:42:42.691 - target. So one more time, I would like to thank the organizer of the symposium, Dean John Shishkari, 00:42:42.691 --> 00:42:51.187 - for having us here, and the guests who came out of town. We have some friends from Cincinnati, Indianapolis, 00:42:51.187 --> 00:42:58.982 - and Columbus, Indiana, to come and join us here, and Indianapolis, of course. We are very delighted 00:42:58.982 --> 00:43:04.126 - to have everyone here. We really like being part of this academic 00:43:04.354 --> 00:43:11.118 - symposium. And I keep telling people that when you study global studies, it's not only in the history 00:43:11.118 --> 00:43:17.883 - books. It is a language that we study, because the language expresses the feelings of the people. And 00:43:17.883 --> 00:43:24.780 - this is the best opportunity for our students to listen to songs in different languages that they study 00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:31.611 - here. So the songs become life for them. So they realize that music is performed and composed in these 00:43:31.611 --> 00:43:33.534 - languages that we all enjoy. 00:43:33.698 --> 00:43:41.704 - One more time, thank you for coming. I'd like to thank Heather. I'd like to thank Jason and Josh, Kelly. 00:43:41.704 --> 00:43:49.710 - All of them, they work very hard. And I would like to thank the Bloomington Cable Access TV crew. Please 00:43:49.710 --> 00:43:57.411 - give them a hand. We have recorded the program, and it was live streamed around the world. We have a 00:43:57.411 --> 00:44:03.358 - friend watching us in Iran, in Turkey, in Europe, in China, different places. 00:44:03.714 --> 00:44:13.570 - So it's amazing what the technology can do. So we are very happy to share this music with the rest of 00:44:13.570 --> 00:44:23.330 - the world. And also I would like to thank Zach and Nathan for providing the sound support for us. We 00:44:23.330 --> 00:44:32.510 - really thank you. Okay, our last piece is, this piece became very popular in the 60s in Spain. 00:44:33.442 --> 00:44:40.790 - It is called prom-pum-pum. So it is just non-sense. Prom-pum-pum. Anyways, the information is there. 00:44:40.790 --> 00:44:48.211 - And it was such a big hit that it just caught the fire. And a very famous Lebanese artist by the name 00:44:48.211 --> 00:44:55.778 - Fayrouz, she started singing that. And a group of Iranian artists who happened to be in Egypt, and they 00:44:55.778 --> 00:45:00.798 - listened to this song, said, whoa, what a nice song. They came back. 00:45:01.058 --> 00:45:08.374 - They ask a poet to write words for it. So we have in Arabic, in Spanish, and also in Azerbaijani here. 00:45:08.374 --> 00:45:15.618 - We hope that you like that. So thank you for coming out here. We wish you a wonderful evening. And we 00:45:15.618 --> 00:45:22.863 - hope that you come back tomorrow to attend the rest of the symposium here. That is very important for 00:45:22.863 --> 00:45:25.278 - us. Thank you so much. Thank you.