On Thursday, Oct. 14, Cornell will participate in Daniel Pearl Music Day, a global network of performances that uses the language of music to promote "Harmony for Humanity." The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Common Room of Alice Cook House, which is sponsoring Cornell's concert for this event.
People on all continents and in dozens of countries will unite through music on the third annual Daniel Pearl Music Day to stand up to the hatred and intolerance that took Daniel Pearl's life. Pearl was a Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered by terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, in early 2002, largely because he was Jewish. The event is a day to celebrate the ideals for which Pearl stood: cross-cultural understanding, mutual respect and tolerance. The Music Day is coordinated by the Daniel Pearl Foundation, http://www.danielpearl.org, which was created by family and friends to carry on Pearl's legacy, using music and words to help people better understand one another.
Cornell's concert for this event will feature an introduction by Ross Brann, dean of the Alice Cook House, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Also on the schedule are performances by Tarana, Cornell's Hindi a cappella group; a jazz ensemble; Cornell Middle East Music Ensemble; and a klezmer ensemble.
The event is free and open to everyone and will promote the theme of tolerance, understanding and global harmony. The Daniel Pearl Foundation requests that no fund raising be carried out at the event.
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