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DBR NEWSLETTER
09.03.10
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EVENTS
SEP 10-11
Dixon Place
New York, NY
SEP 20-21
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
SEP 22-26
New World Symphony
Miami, FL
SEP 27
Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra
Boston, MA
OCT 7-9
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
OCT 10
August Wilson Center
Pittsburgh, PA
OCT 12
Boston Pops
Boston, MA
OCT 13-15
Belmont High School Belmont, MA
OCT 21
Triple Door
Seattle, WA
OCT 22
Alliance of Artists Communities 2010 Annual Conference
Providence, RI
OCT 30
Macau International Music Festival
Macau
PRESS
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FILM
SEP 7 Off And Running PBS Premiere & DVD Release
"An
amazing story about adoption, families, love and perseverance...
beautiful, honest and inspiring. I recommend that everybody sees it." -Rosie O'Donnell
" Beautiful! Packs an emotional wallop." -New York Daily News
"CRITICS' PICK! Fascinating and intimate." -New York Magazine
 Off And Running
Directed by Nicole Opper
Music by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)
PBS POV Broadcast
SEP 7, 2010
Check local listings
Available on DVD now!
Click here to order
ORCHESTRA
SEP 25 & 26 New World Symphony premieres Dancers, Dreamers and Presidents
"On October 29, 2007,
Senator Barack Obama appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show. Every guest
of the show is invited to dance with Degeneres, and as Obama made his
way downstage to meet her, she met him halfway, and together, they
danced...But months later, while the debates on race, religion, identity
and sexual orientation raged on, I thought back to those few moments
and realized just how special and meaningful their dance was.
Here was a young, mixed race, heterosexual man
dancing with a young, white, lesbian woman, all on national television.
Could this scene have happened in the 1960's, 1970's, or even 1980's?
As a composer, I was inspired by the total relevance of it all, that our
future president had found yet another way to communicate the sharp wit
of his intellectual prowess: through the comfortable ease of his hips
and body...and if he could dance with anyone, what else could he do?
Isn't dancing with someone just another way of talking with someone?
Doesn't a great dance partner make for a great conversationalist?" -DBR
The 21-second dance is what inspired DBR's creation of his new, 21-minute work for orchestra, DANCERS, DREAMERS & PRESIDENTS,
commissioned by The Sphinx Consortium. A musical portrait of our
ever-evolving sense of morality and social justice, this new work
examines our responsibility towards our shared, but ever-elusive
attempts at equality.
The Sphinx Consortium
is comprised of Sphinx Organization, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, New Jersey Symphony
Orchestra, New World Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Richmond Symphony
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
Don't miss the world premiere performances by
the New World Symphony later this month, and by many other orchestras
around the nation this season.
2010 Premiere Dates
New World Symphony (Miami, FL)
SEP 25 @ 7:30pm | Free Tickets
SEP 26 @ 3:00pm | Free Tickets
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Cincinnati OH)
OCT 8 @ 8:00pm | Buy Tickets
OCT 9 @ 8:00pm | Buy Tickets
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