Pearl concert

28 seasons

Remembering
Daniel Pearl

A Celebration in Music

Guest of Honor: Dr. Judea Pearl

Friday, April 30, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

Photo credits: all pictures by Nancy Loch

Adron Ming conducts the 261 voices of the combined choirs of the five Lewisville ISD high schools and the string section of the Lewisville Lake Symphony. They performed Timothy Brown's "There are Stars Whose Radiance is Visible on Earth." (The Texas premiere of a work for chorus and chamber orchestra commissioned by the Daniel Pearl Foundation.)

Dr. Judea Pearl, Daniel's father, congratulates Adron Ming at the end of the concert.

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R Neil Ferguson reads a stanza from Lord Byron's "Prometheus." The text later figures in "There are Stars Whose Radiance is Visible on Earth."

Left. Mayor Pro-tem Lathan Watts reads a Proclamation signed by the Mayor declaring April 30 to be Daniel Pearl Day.

Right. Composer Timothy Brown talks to the audience

Front row: Jean and R Neil Ferguson, Dr. Pearl, Timothy and MiWon Brown.

Second row: Linda and Robert McClellan, Ginny Witte

Dr. Judea Pearl

A postscript
A few days after the concert, Dr. Pearl and his family were invited to the White House to watch President Obama sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act.

The Pearl family — from left, Adam Daniel, Mariane, Judea, Ruth, Tamara and Michelle — and Sen. Chris Dodd.

Pictures of some of the other 5,000 Daniel Pearl concerts performed across 101 countries over the last eight years including Sir Elton John in Moscow and the Dave Matthews Band & Willie Nelson in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Slides

The combined choirs of the LISD high schools - Lewisville, Hebron, The Colony, Marcus, Flower Mound

Flower Mound High School Jaguar Chorale

Mark Rohwer, Director

Hebron High School A Cappella Choir

Rachel Forester, Director

The Colony High School Tempo Varsity Choir

Margaret Miller, Director

Marcus High School Varsity Mixed Choir

Jason Dove, Director

Lewisville High School Cantori Choir and the Main Street Singers

Terri Jarvis, Director