2010-11 Ray Smith Symposium: “Music of Conflict and Reconciliation”

“Sounds of Tradition and Renewal” and features the following: Ethnomusicologist Gregory Barz screens his documentary “Inanga, A Song of Survival […]

“Sounds of Tradition and Renewal” and features the following: Ethnomusicologist Gregory Barz screens his documentary “Inanga, A Song of Survival in a Daughter’s Rwanda” (8 p.m.) Ken Meyer, SU guitar faculty, performs Kevin Ernste’s “Roses Don’t Need Perfume” (9 p.m.) Acclaimed Albanian music duo Merita Halili and Raif Hyseni present a night of folk and traditional Albanian songs (9:30 p.m.).

The 2010-11 Ray Smith Symposium examines the complex relationship between music and conflict with a series of thematic symposia, seminars, and concerts: “Power and Resistance in the Second World War” (Sept. 14-15), “The War in Iraq” (Nov. 14-16), “Refugees and Exile” (Feb. 17-18), and “Reconstruction and Reconciliation” March 24-25). The symposium is also part of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Conflict: Peace and War.”

2010-11 Ray Smith Symposium: “Music of Conflict and Reconciliation”, Syracuse University