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    • Scheherazade Initiative turns Carnegie Hall “Orange”

      October 10, 2015 by admin
      Scheherazade Initiative turns Carnegie Hall “Orange”

      Carnegie Hall Stage to be turned “Orange” during Concert as part of a global United Nations Campaign to End Violence Against Women At the Scheherazade Initiative concert, Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium /Perelman Stage will be turned “orange” as part of an international campaign by the United Nations Secretary-General’s UNiTE Campaign to End Violence Against Women. The world’s most prestigious concert stage will join a notable list of iconic landmarks around the world that have already been illuminated in orange in solidarity with the global effort to end violence against women and girls, including The Empire State Building, United Nations Headquarters, the Administration Building of Panama Canal, and the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza.

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Music for Life International & UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women  

PRESENTS

 

The Scheherazade Initiative

Celebrating the Resilience of Women & Girls in the Face of Violence

 

 

PHOTO: By permission UN TRUST FUND/Phil Borges

   

Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade

Monday, October 19, 2015, 8 PM 

 

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall

Net proceeds to benefit the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women

Opening Remarks by Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

(Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of UN Women) 

George Mathew, Conductor

Elmira Darvarova, Concertmaster

Susanne Mentzer, Mezzo-soprano

Sarah Kay, Spoken Word Poet

Musicians from the MET Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, 

Buffalo Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and others

 

 

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