Concert for Hope
Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, September 6, 2007
The Center celebrated the official launch of inequality.com at a Concert for Hope in the Stanford University Memorial Church on Thursday September 6, 2007 at 7:00 in the evening.
This unforgettable event, featured a welcome by Dean Saller, a keynote address by the Center Director - Professor David Grusky, and the presentation of our In Harmony With Hope awards as well as not one but TWO world premieres,
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A new major composition, La Povertà by Stanford composer / professor
Giancarlo Aquilanti and performed by the
Elfenworks Festival String Ensemble (members of Symphony Silicon Valley) with sopranos Shawnette Sulker and
Rebecca Plack, under the baton of maestro Mitchell Sardou Klein of the Peninsula
Symphony. Set to music: a quote from Mother Teresa (Serve the poorest of the poor,
do not wait for leaders...) and from Deuteronomy (for the poor shall never cease out of the land, therefore I command thee...)
- Presentation of The Elfenworks Foundation's In Harmony With Hope Awards to Paul Minorini, CEO
of Boys Hope Girls Hope
and Joyce Dattner, Founder and Director of the Bay Area All Stars
- Special gospel music I Shall Not Be Moved and a second original composition, In Harmony With Hope
celebrating the opening of the center, written by pianist / composer / arranger Tammy Lynne Hall
featuring Ms. Hall conducting and at the piano, with
Rhonda Benin,
Valerie Joi Fiddmont, and
La Tonya Reed vocals,
Michaelle Goerlitz, percussion and Don Kane, Bass.
