 REQUIEM FOR DARFUR:
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE OF REQUIEM OF GIUSEPPE VERDI
CARNEGIE HALL, JANUARY 22, 2007
This benefit performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is a historic musical event that will serve to raise funds and highlight the plight of the victims and the efforts to alleviate the suffering in Darfur. Recipients will include UNICEF, American Jewish World Service and the National Council of Churches. A VIP reception will follow the concert.
Over 300,000 people have perished in Darfur, 3.5 million severely affected survivors, including 1.8 million children. The UN estimates the emergency humanitarian requirements for Darfur in 2006 alone to be approximately $799,000,000. An additional $2,000,000 is required for recovery and development for displaced persons. The situation on the ground continues to deteriorate. Over 250,000 persons have been newly displaced over the last four months alone. Ironically, in the face of the dire situation, UNICEF, World Food Program, and other aid agencies are cutting back their programs owing to a shortfall of funds.
 Requiem for Darfur brings together many of the world’s finest orchestral musicians from the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, MET Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and other major international orchestras; students, graduates and faculty of The Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes College; members of major chamber ensembles including the Emerson String Quartet; a chorus of 150 assembled from the major choirs in New York City; and a quartet of vocal soloists combining both veteran stars and younger virtuoso singers performing the Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi.
Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, will serve as concertmaster. George Mathew will conduct the concert. Verdi’s great Requiem is simultaneously music of mourning, consolation and a stern, urgent reminder of accountability and responsibility that each of us bears for the wellbeing of our fellow creature. The Requiem, below its religious surface, is a desperate cry for safety and redemption in the direst of ultimate circumstances – eternity itself – as universal and urgent a plea as was ever fashioned in words or music.
There is no more fitting way for the musical and entertainment community to give voice to the acute need, fear, suffering, and hope, of the victims, survivors and refugees of this man-made catastrophe. Verdi’s magisterial music and the ancient text speak with a sternness and immediacy that is utterly central to the responsibility that we, as a global community, must heed today. Tomorrow will be too late.
Contact: James Prince, (310) 479-2441, jprince@democracycouncil.org.
Contributions to the Democracy Council are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
REQUIEM FOR DARFUR:
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Glenn Dicterow
Concertmaster, NY Philharmonic
Mia Farrow
UN Goodwill Ambassador, Actress
Kenneth H. Bacon
President, Refugees International
Lawrence S. Bacow
President, Tufts University
Sir Colin Davis
Principal Conductor London Symphony
Robert Edgar
General Secretary,
National Council of Churches
JoAnn Falletta
Music Director/Conductor,
Buffalo Philharmonic
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
CEO, American Society for Muslim
Advancement
Rev. Dr. James Forbes
Riverside Church, New York
Prof. Walter Frisch
Columbia University
Jeremy Geffen
Vice President
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Hollander
Concert pianist and educator
Kenneth Kiesler
Music Director/Conductor,
New Hampshire Symphony
Kenneth M. Kramer Esq.
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Christopher Lydon
National Public Radio
George Manahan
Conductor, NY City Opera
Robert Mann
Founder Violinist,
Juilliard String Quartet
Anthony Marx
President, Amherst College
Zarin Mehta
President & Executive Director,
New York Philharmonic
Sir Roger Norrington
Chief Conductor,
Stuttgart Radio Symphony
James Prince
President, Democracy Council
Gunther Schuller
Pulitzer Prize winner,
Composer, Conductor
Robert Sirota
President,
Manhattan School of Music
Prof. Lewis Spratlan
Pulitzer Prize winner, Amherst College
Sreenath Sreenivasan
School of Journalism
Columbia University
Robert W. van Zwieten
Singapore Stock Exchange
Kashif Zafar
Managing Director,
Barclays Capital
REQUIEM FOR DARFUR: January 22, 2007 Carnegie Hall
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
DIAMOND BENEFACTOR $50,000: 3 First Tier Boxes (24 seats VIP seating) and the post-concert benefit reception with the artists and donors. Prime visibility in all printed and electronic PR materials, including the Carnegie Hall program, press release, concert posters, electronic promotional materials.
PLATINUM SPONSOR member $25,000: 2 First Tier Boxes (16 seats) (VIP seating) and the exclusive post-concert benefit reception with the artists and donors. Premium listing in all printed and electronic PR materials, including the Carnegie Hall program, press release, listing as a Chair on all RFD materials.
GOLD SPONSOR - $15,000: 1 First Tier Box (8 seats) for the concert (VIP seating) and the exclusive post-concert reception with the artists and donors. Prominent listing in all printed PR materials including the Carnegie Hall program,
SILVER SPONSOR $10,000: 1 second tier box (8 seats) for the concert and the exclusive post-concert reception with the artists and donors. Special listing in the program and posters and flyers.
BRONZE SPONSOR $5,000: 5 tickets for the concert and the post-concert reception. Listing in the concert program.
SPONSOR $1,500: 2 tickets for the concert and post-concert reception. Listing in the concert program.
SILENT AUCTION: Donations to the silent auction will be listed in a separate program as appropriate.
Contact: Paul Findley (310) 479-2441, pfindley@democracycouncil.org.
George Matthew (646) 345-2786
Cheques may be made out to
Requiem C/O Democracy Council,
11040 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 320,
Los Angeles, CA 90025
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Requiem for Darfur