Grammy award winning composer and conductor Joel Thome and Phil Moffa’s world premier of selections from their album “Event Horizon”, a work that explores time and existence, “Perla Stone”, a study of the body immersed in natural spaces by Vero Santiago and Mike Amacio, “Noavaran ensemble” music with a Persian attitude by Homayoon Beigi, Ara Beigi, Nicholas Chbat, and Nai Chbat, “Stellar Space” drone soundscapes and electric guitar improvisations by Deborah Thurlow and Clive Smith, A reading of “The Humble Pebble and Lofty Hermit” by Padmaja Ganapathy.

About the Performance:
The performance is a journey through 4 continents. We begin in Asia, in Iran, with the music of a few master composers, featuring mostly the work of Gholamhossein Darvish (Darvish Khan), with works of other composers such as Morteza Neydavood and Mohammad-Reza Lotfi. The first performance of the main song was 99 years ago.
We then continue to France and the work of Romantic-Modern transitional composer, Gabriel Fauré, Pavane, which is a 17th century ceremonial dance piece, written in 1887.
Finally, we arrive at the cross roads of America and Africa in the soul of Jazz, through the piece composed by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt in 1931, and performed in the same year, by the name of "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
All the pieces have been rearranged by Homayoon Beigi to be in similar keys and to fit the instrumental make-up of the ensemble, sometimes with major modifications.

In Asia: Iran
11 days after our performance, on November 22, it will be exactly 97 years since the passing of Gholamhossein Darvish (aka Darvish Khan, lived form 1872 to 11/22/1926) who died in Tehran in an automobile accident. He was one of the most influencial composers of Preludes known as "Pish Daramad" and Dance Pieces known as "Reng".
The Song, Morghe Sahar, was performed in 1924, exactly 99 years ago by Ghamarolmolook Vaziri at a Tehran hotel, with lyrics by Malakoshoara Bahar, one of the prominent poets of the constitutional revolution in Iran.

In Europe: France
It would have been 99 years, exactly one week before our performace that Gabriel Fauré passed away in Paris. He was known as one of the highest acclaimed composer of his era and is considered in the transitional period of romantic and modern music eras. During the beginning of his life still Chopin was composing and toward the end of his life the second Viennese school had formed, which introduced atonality and intentional dissonance to western compositions.

In the Americas: The United States
Dream a Little Dream of Me was composed in 1931 by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt with lyrcs by Gus Kahn and was recorded on February 16, 1931 by Ozzie Nelson and later sung by many others including Louis Armstrong.