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<h1>Malhaar: A Requiem for Water</h1>
<h4>Choral Arts Northwest, Timothy Westerhaus, Artistic Director</h4><h4>Reena Esmail, Composer-in-Residence</h4>
<ul><li>Saturday, May 11, 2024, 7:30 PM Bastyr University Chapel@14500 Juanita Dr NE, Kenmore, WA 98028</li><li>Sunday, May 12, 2024, 3 PM Bellevue High School PAC, 10416 Wolverine Way, Bellevue, WA 98004</li></ul>
Choral Arts NW&nbsp;presents the PNW premiere of Los Angeles-based composer, Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water. A rising star in the choral world, Reena Esmail joins CANW for a two-day residency, helping us craft Malhaar but also leading masterclasses on her music with choirs from Bellevue HS and Bothell HS choirs, and Cantabile from the Columbia Choirs.
For our concert, we share the stage with our high school and community partners, following their opening performances with Ms. Esmail’s stunning new work, Malhaar.
Highlights include:
<ul><li>Northwest premiere of Malhaar: A Requiem for Water</li><li>Workshops/concerts with Reena Esmail, CANW’s 2024 Composer-in-Residence and rising star in the choral community</li><li>Saili Oak, Hindustani vocalist</li><li>Ravi Albright, Tabla artist</li><li>Andrew Angell, percussion</li><li>Special Guests: Columbia Choirs Cantabile, Katrina Turman, director; Bothell High School Chamber Choir, Mikaela Rink, director; Bellevue High School Concert Choir, Andrew Jacobson, director; Newport High School Concert Choir, Nancy Fisher, director</li></ul>
From the Composer (about Malhaar): “In Hindustani music, Malhaar refers to a family of raags that beckon rain. As the legend goes, the greatest musicians could cause a downpour from even the most severely parched skies by the power of their song.
This is the inspiration for Malhaar: A Requiem for Water. As the drought worsened in Southern California, I yearned for a way to process the rising panic. The work intertwines texts from the traditional Latin Requiem mass alongside the work of Wendell Berry and William O’Daly, along with interspersed Hindi. It traces a trajectory of beauty and awe of water, the fear and devastation around its loss, an answered plea of atonement, and eventually a promise of a new cycle of life, as the water returns to the skies.
This is a hopeful requiem. While the collective loss has been so tremendous, we can still hold out hope that if we change our relationship to the earth, we might beckon the rain back.”
– Reena Esmail

​Tickets at <a href="https://www.choralartsnw.org/season/#May2024" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.choralartsnw.org/</a> 
 
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Local Event: Reena Esmail's Malhaar: A Requiem for Water

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Reena Esmail's Malhaar: A Requiem for Water

Saturday May 11, 2024: 
Malhaar: A Requiem for Water
Choral Arts Northwest, Timothy Westerhaus, Artistic DirectorReena Esmail,...

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<h1>Malhaar: A Requiem for Water</h1>
<h4>Choral Arts Northwest, Timothy Westerhaus, Artistic Director</h4><h4>Reena Esmail, Composer-in-Residence</h4>
<ul><li>Saturday, May 11, 2024, 7:30 PM Bastyr University Chapel@14500 Juanita Dr NE, Kenmore, WA 98028</li><li>Sunday, May 12, 2024, 3 PM Bellevue High School PAC, 10416 Wolverine Way, Bellevue, WA 98004</li></ul>

Choral Arts NW&nbsp;presents the PNW premiere of Los Angeles-based composer, Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water. A rising star in the choral world, Reena Esmail joins CANW for a two-day residency, helping us craft Malhaar but also leading masterclasses on her music with choirs from Bellevue HS and Bothell HS choirs, and Cantabile from the Columbia Choirs.
For our concert, we share the stage with our high school and community partners, following their opening performances with Ms. Esmail’s stunning new work, Malhaar.
Highlights include:
<ul><li>Northwest premiere of Malhaar: A Requiem for Water</li><li>Workshops/concerts with Reena Esmail, CANW’s 2024 Composer-in-Residence and rising star in the choral community</li><li>Saili Oak, Hindustani vocalist</li><li>Ravi Albright, tabla artist</li><li>Andrew Angell, percussion</li><li>Special Guests: Columbia Choirs Cantabile, Katrina Turman, director; Bothell High School Chamber Choir, Mikaela Rink, director; Bellevue High School Concert Choir, Andrew Jacobson, director; Newport High School Concert Choir, Nancy Fisher, director</li></ul>
From the Composer (about Malhaar): “In Hindustani music, Malhaar refers to a family of raags that beckon rain. As the legend goes, the greatest musicians could cause a downpour from even the most severely parched skies by the power of their song.
This is the inspiration for Malhaar: A Requiem for Water. As the drought worsened in Southern California, I yearned for a way to process the rising panic. The work intertwines texts from the traditional Latin Requiem mass alongside the work of Wendell Berry and William O’Daly, along with interspersed Hindi. It traces a trajectory of beauty and awe of water, the fear and devastation around its loss, an answered plea of atonement, and eventually a promise of a new cycle of life, as the water returns to the skies.
This is a hopeful requiem. While the collective loss has been so tremendous, we can still hold out hope that if we change our relationship to the earth, we might beckon the rain back.”
– Reena Esmail
For tickets -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.choralartsnw.org/season/#May2024" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.choralartsnw.org</a>

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Learn how to build a food-secure future and promote economic security through climate-smart agriculture, innovation and research funding 
Join Grow Further Founder Dr. Peter Kelly and crop scientist Dr. Cedric Habiyaremye for an inspiring discussion on how to build a food-secure future and promote economic security through climate-smart agriculture, research funding, and innovation.
Dr. Habiyaremye will share his journey from a childhood marked by hunger in Rwanda and a Tanzanian refugee camp, to his current role as a distinguished crop scientist on a mission to end hunger—while Dr. Kelly will share an innovative mechanism to fund agricultural research in the Global South to address food insecurity and climate change.
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Before founding Grow Further, Dr. Peter Kelly was an assistant professor of economics at Renmin University in Beijing, where he taught and published on agriculture, international development, and the environment. Alongside his role at Grow Further, he serves on several boards, including as vice chair of Carbon Washington. Dr. Kelly holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, a BS in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis, and has completed the Global Leadership Forum by Global Washington. Check out the work Grow Further is doing in the video below.
<h1>About Grow Further:</h1>
At Grow Further, our mission is to empower farmers, scientists, and individuals worldwide to create a food-secure future. Grow Further funds agricultural innovation projects in developing countries that promote climate resilience, healthy families, and economic security.
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Calling all&nbsp;rising kindergarteners through graduated 5th graders of Mercer Island and beyond!&nbsp; Following Jesus gives us some amazing reasons to celebrate, and we will be focusing on each of these reasons throughout the week: 1. Friendship 2. Belonging 3. Forgiveness 4. Life 5. Purpose The greatest reason to party is the good news of God's love and salvation- that’s why we believe the Gospel of Jesus is the best news ever! ​
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