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SUMMARY:Other:Wesley Arai plays the Baird Carillon: “Music by Emma Lou Diemer & Contemporaries”
DESCRIPTION:California carillonist Wesley Arai performs music by Emma Lou Diemer and in memory of carillon professor emerita Margo Halsted (1938–2023) on Burton Memorial Tower\, as part of our “2023: A Century of Women and the Carillon” summer concert series. All concerts are free and family-friendly!\nThis year’s series features performers from across the country playing the great 53-bell Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Tower. The carillon is an outdoor instrument\, and attendees are encouraged to bring picnic blankets\, chairs\, and anything else they’d like to feel comfortable. Concert programs and a carillon coloring book for kids are available from concert staff at or near the tower door. Restrooms are available in the Michigan League.\nThe nearest municipal parking structures are at 324 Maynard and at 510 E Washington. Street parking is limited.\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nWesley Arai serves as University Carillonist at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where he performs regularly on the 61-bell Storke Tower carillon and maintains an active carillon studio. He studied carillon with Jeff Davis at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he received BA degrees in Mathematics and Statistics with a minor in Music. While earning an MA degree in Mathematics at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, Wesley continued to play the carillon and subsequently passed the advancement examination of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.\n\nAn active recitalist\, Wesley has performed extensively across the United States and abroad. He completed a recital tour of Europe in summer 2022\, performing in England\, Ireland\, France\, and Spain\, including the 20th Perpignan International Carillon Festival and the 29th Barcelona International Carillon Festival. Other recent performances include recitals in Australia\, the dedicatory recital for the carillon at the University of Washington\, and performances at the 8th Berkeley Carillon Festival\, the 76th Congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America\, and the Springfield International Carillon Festival. Wesley is also an annual recitalist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane\, Washington and is a frequent recitalist at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove\, California.\n\nIn addition to the carillon\, Wesley has studied piano\, trombone\, and voice\, and has performed in a number of different concert bands\, marching bands\, jazz bands\, orchestras\, and choral groups. He enjoys arranging music and occasionally performs some of his own arrangements on the carillon. Wesley’s day job is as an actuary.
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SUMMARY:Performance:Holly Near
DESCRIPTION:After 50 years of bold work\, Holly Near is still one of the most consistent and well-informed voices for change. Her work is loving\, challenging\, funny\, thought-provoking\, and remains rooted in the global community. As an outspoken singer and ambassador for peace\, Holly brings a unique integration of world consciousness and self-evaluation\, always growing and sharing experiences humbly and boldly.\n\nHolly discovered her unique and recognizable voice at an early age\, learning to sing along with recordings of some of the world’s great singers. After graduating high school\, Holly attended UCLA but her academic journey ended after just a few months when she was spotted by agents and drawn into the world of film and television. She did guest spots on TV shows like The Partridge Family\, Room 222\, All in the Family\, and played supporting roles in films like John Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz and George Roy Hill’s Slaughterhouse-Five. She moved to New York and performed for a short run in Hair on Broadway but soon turned to singing full\ntime\, as a soloist as well as sharing the stage with her sisters Laurel and Timothy. Throughout her career she has enjoyed collaborations with such artists as Mercedes Sosa\, Ronnie Gilbert\, Inti Illimani\, Emma’s Revolution\, and her long-time songwriting partner\, the late Jeff Langley.\n\nIn her early twenties\, Near traveled with the Free The Army Show and the Indochina Peace Campaign\; an experience that enabled her to learn about the function and consequences of the military-industrial complex. While on the FTA tour in 1971\, Holly was first introduced to the concept of global feminism. By 1974 she was crossing paths and sharing songs with the wave of new lesbian feminist performers such as Meg Christian\, Cris Williamson\, Linda Tillery\, Mary Watkins\, and Alive! Near dove into the feminist movement\, trying to understand the depth of sexism and homophobia by turning those lessons into song.\n\nHolly is known for the anthemic quality of some of her songs. As a songwriter she takes up the challenge of turning big concepts into small\, personal stories. In response to the slaughter of the students at Kent State\, she wrote It Could Have Been Me. And following the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in San Francisco\, she penned Singing For Our Lives\, which has become an anthem for the LGBTQ community and appears in the Unitarian\nChurch hymnal. The chilling disappearance of people in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship brought forth Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida to commemorate the women who had “been disappeared.”\n\nIn 2019\, Near began a website project called Because of a Song\, an online historic archive that documents some of the influential artists that rose from the feminist lesbian music scene in Oakland\, California. The site can be viewed at www.becauseofasong.com. \n\nA recipient of dozens of awards from organizations such as the ACLU and the National Organization of Women\, Holly was one of Ms. Magazine’s Women of the Year recipients and has been nominated for Grammys as well as the Legends of Women’s Music Award.\n\n\nPlease visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/3869/3870 for more detail.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/104277
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