Sacred Arts Festival 2009, Related Resources

Ron Hansen

• Ron Hansen’s books are available at UST libraries VIEW.
• Or read his biography in Contemporary Authors VIEW.

Yasmin Levy

• For background information on the Jews in the Middle Ages, take a look at this essay from the Companion to the Medieval World in Blackwell Reference Online VIEW
• The concert will feature, among other instruments,  a darbuka.  Learn more about it from Oxford Music Online VIEW
• Or listen to it being played, along with other Turkish instruments,  from Smithsonian Global Sound VIEW
• For those unfamiliar with  Sephardim, the Encyclopedia Judaica offers a nice essay. 
• Or find articles on Ladino, Sephardim or medieval Spain in either the International Medieval Bibliography or ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance VIEW.  

 “Hidden Yearning” 

• Background information on Rumi in the Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an VIEW
• and in the Encyclopedia of Religion VIEW. 
• To help understand the Iranian Revolution, check out this brief article from the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences VIEW

Canadian organist and composer Rachel Laurin 

• See a beautiful pipe organ VIEW. 
• Before you engage in a discussion with Ms. Laurin, you might want to learn something about the history and construction of the organ from Oxford Music Online VIEW
• and check out the Key- and stop-mechanism of a single-manual organ with suspended action VIEW

Film: "The Message" 

• The movie The Message, known also as Mohammed, the messenger of God was highly controversial back in the 70’s, despite the fact that the director is a Moslem and made every effort never to show Mohammed.  Read about the controversy in the New York Times of 1977 VIEW
• Akkad, died in 2005 in a bombing in Jordan. VIEW
• For the story of the making of the movie:VIEW

Crèches

• Compare 18th century Neopolitan crèches from CAMIO VIEW
• and the Bridgeman Art Library Archive VIEW.