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28666: Hermantin(News)Making music to aid Haiti (fwd)
From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>
Posted on Fri, Jul. 21, 2006
BENEFIT CONCERT
Making music to aid Haiti
By ROBIN M. PEGUERO
rpeguero@MiamiHerald.com
Enceau Fatal learned how to strike drums as a poor kid on the streets of Petit
Gove, Haiti. One folkish beat, one hollow pound -- and he was hooked. Worlds
away, an 8-year-old, upper-class Italian, Claudia Cagnassone, first fingered
the violin, honing her skill at a Turin music academy.
The two have never spoken -- with words, anyway. They let the music do the
talking.
Come Saturday, the unlikely pair will share a stage, fusing classical melodies
with island rhythm at the Friends of Haiti Benefit Concert in Fort Lauderdale.
The Symphony of the Americas will host a Milan orchestra for the event, as they
play classical tunes, an Argentine tango and two Haitian pieces at the Broward
Center for the Performing Arts.
''Music is a universal language -- whether you speak Creole or not,'' said
Sandy Riblett, a Pompano Beach violinist who will play with the orchestra this
weekend.
The concert's proceeds will fund a computer learning center, a math and science
program for junior high school students and a portable water project in Fort
Lauderdale's sister city, Cap Haitien.
Fatal, 38, and his four-member band, Sosyete Koukouy, will take their
hard-hitting beats from the streets to the theater, performing with the
orchestra for the two Haitian songs.
The Symphony of the Americas grew interested in Haiti after its performers
visited the beleaguered nation last year. The group conducted a series of
concerts for Haitian youth there, and decided to bring that eclectic mix to
South Florida Haitians.