NPR War Correspondents Neal Conan & Anne Garrels Honor The 100th Year Of Veterans Day With Ensemble Galilei
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- National Public Radio war correspondents Neal Conan and Anne Garrels team up with Ensemble Galilei for Between War and Here, http://www.egmusic.com/between-war-and-here/. In honor of the 100th Year of Veterans Day, Ensemble Galilei tours a powerful new collaboration between journalists and musicians exploring honor, courage, loss and hope as top-tier war correspondents' experiences are intertwined with music, poetry and memoir, inspired by Veterans. U.S. tour: California, Utah, Idaho and Montana, benefiting Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
The tour's companion poetry book and also The Flowers of the Forest CD is available for purchase at http://www.music.egmusic.com/music/the-flowers-of-the-forest.
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Founder of Ensemble Galilei Carolyn Surrick says, "Neal and Anne have spent years covering wars. They know clearly the things that only the people who have been in battle will ever understand.The Flowers of the Forest, which opens the show was written for the thousands of Scottish soldiers who died in battle on September 9, 1513."
- Ensemble Galilei musicians: Carolyn Surrick / viola da gamba; Sue Richards / Celtic harp; Kathryn Montoya / recorders, whistlee; Jackie Moran / percussion; Ryan McKasson / fiddle; and Isaac Alderson / uillian pipes, Irish flute.
- Neal Conan (NPR's All Things Considered; NPR's Talk of the Nation) During the Gulf War, Neal was captured and detained for a week by the Iraqi Republican Guard. Conan currently produces & hosts Truth, Politics and Power, a podcast for public radio.
- Anne Garrels (NPR, ABC News, NBC News) is a George Polk Award winner for Radio Reporting in Iraq and she has published the memoir, Naked in Baghdad and a second book, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.
TOUR SCHEDULE:
http://www.egmusic.com/calendar/
Between War & Here ? Ensemble Galilei in concert?Featuring NPR's Neal Conan & Anne Garrels
November 2 / 8:00pm: Aliso Viejo, CA ? Soka University Performing Arts Center
November 3/ 8:00 pm: Pasadena, CA ? Boston Court
November 4 / 7:30pm: Salt Lake City, UT ? Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
November 7 / 7:30pm: Moscow, ID ? University of Idaho
November 9 / 8:00pm: Bozeman, MT ? The Ellen Theatre
November 11 / 7:00pm: Berkeley, CA ? Freight and Salvage
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