Pax-salon Mailing List: Peace Concert Event

[patty (pattypax]

HI All,

I want to tell you all about an event that i originated and it will  
actually be performed toward the end of Nov.
I read the book "Joys and Sorrows" by Pablo Casals as told to Albert  
Kahn written in 1970, 3 years before Casals died.   If you don't know  
him, he was a famous cellist, but that isn't the reason i wanted to  
honor him.   His life was devoted not only to music but to bringing  
peace to the world.  After reading it, and seeing the poster on my  
wall from the 80's of the Concert for Survival by Musicians for  
Nuclear Disarmament at Orchestra Hall, i thought it was time for  
another concert for survival or at least one for peace.  So, we have  
been working on it for a long time.   There is even a cellist coming  
from NY City, James David Jacobs.   I had saved a letter i saw in  
Harper's Mag way last Feb. from him and in this letter he mentioned  
Pablo Casals, so i googled him and found that he was a cellist in NY.   
I emailed him, told him what we were doing, and he must have the same  
passion for Pablo that i have, because he wrote back saying he wanted  
to come and play in it, and he is.    It has all been quite a time  
with this whole thing, and i cannot believe it will ever happen.  The  
original committee met at a restaurant in Mpls. (AMASTE on Hennepin)  
and while we were talking ab. it, 2 young people came over and said  
they wanted to be a part of it and the one young man was a recent grad  
of Carlton and is a concert violinist and composer.  He will be  
playing a piece he is composing.  We met w/Philip Brunelle at Plymouth  
Cong. Church and he gave us the Sanctuary free and also his support  
and his confidence, which , to me, was astounding, as we really didn't  
know alot about what we were doing.  We didn't tell him that.
I am hoping that you can attend this marvelous event.  It is sponsored  
by WAMM.  I am also going to ask that if any of you want to help in  
some kind of a monetary way, it would be greatly appreciated.  We have  
no money, of course. We will have bills.  We will pay for the air fare  
for the cellist from NY, plus other things.  So, if you feel like you  
want to,  you can email me and let me know.  We can even put your name  
on the flyer like the donors who give to the Guthrie.   Or, maybe you  
know of a business who would like to be a monetary sponsor.  If we do  
make any money, it will go to WAMM.

The flyer will come next.

Thanks for listening.
Patty