Tom Clowes, Crossing Borders Music
Collective founder and president: 520-331-8270
tclowes@gmail.com

Crossing Borders Music Collective presents its debut event, “Beyond the Headlines: Haiti in Music,” a concert of string quartets by Haitian composers on the third anniversary of Haiti’s earthquake. While commemorating the tragedy, the concert will also explore the untold stories of the richness of Haitian culture. The first of the concert’s three sections will feature Werner Jaegerhuber’s Suite Folklorique (“Folkloric Suite”). Jaegerhuber, a German-Haitian composer of the early 20th century, researched and collected Haitian folk songs from around the country and used these songs in his compositions. In Suite Folklorique, the work’s movements correspond to vodou deities and the folk music associated with them.  The second section will feature the quartets of Haitian-born composers Claude Dauphin and Rudy Perrault, who emigrated to Canada and the US, respectively. Their quartets explore the theme of “exile” from their homeland in a modern style that, in the first, evokes nostalgia, and in the second, irreparable separation and loss. Continue reading →