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Performed as part of Don Conreaux's Peace Concert in 2001

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Talibanned Buddhas was composed by Johnny Reinhard for a Mysterious Tremendum concert on May 7, 2001 in The Church of St. Luke in New York’s Greenwich Village. Mysterious Tremendum, directed by Don Conreaux, dedicated the annual Artists For Humanity Concert to benefit the Peace Bell Project for NYC Park, currently pending with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. World Peace Bell Gardens are dedicated to a world without violence for the Children of our future, recycling weapons into bells and gongs of peace, linking profound sites and their peoples with each other

Regarding the work in the composer’s words, “I envisioned a piece that would speak and sing to the pain of the abominable disintegration of 2 (two) giant Buddhas carved out of mountains in Afghanistan by antiquity. Now, we see that the 2 giant Buddhas towering over Afghanistan’s most traveled roads, were effigies for the Twin Towers. The contrabassoon represents the repressed sounds at Afghanistan’s betrayal. The cello imbibes the willfulness to destroy, and to witness. The gong is a personalization of time, fate, and direction. The metal bowls sing for the women that have been silenced by the Talibann.”

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from Johnny Reinhard SPECIALS - Talibanned Buddhas, Samson and Delilah, Atlantis, Zelig Mood Ring, Raven, Concerto for Fretless Guitar, Entourage, Sing Hey: AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC, released February 26, 2019
Johnny Reinhard, contrabassoon
Dave Eggar, cello
Randee Ragin, metal bowls and bells
Don Conreaux, gong

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