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SUMMARY:Sandy Tolan - "Children of the Stone" - with Philip Bohlman
DESCRIPTION:ILLINOIS\n\nCo-sponsored by the University of Chicago Music Dep
 artment.\n\nAbout the book: From Sandy Tolan\, author of the now classic T
 he Lemon Tree\, comes a moving story of music as a means of empowerment an
 d healing. CHILDREN OF THE STONE: The Power of Music in a Hard Land is the
  incredible story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan\, a child of Palestinian refu
 gee camps who was caught by a photographer hurling a rock at Israeli soldi
 ers in 1988 in the West Bank. The snapshot\, which appeared around the wor
 ld\, showed a fragile 8-year-old with fear and anger in his eyes. The imag
 e came to symbolize the rage and frustration of the intifada. Ten years la
 ter\, Ramzi laid down the stones when he discovered the viola—he was awe
 d by the power of music to lift himself and others out of despair.\n\nAbou
 t the author: SANDY TOLAN is the author of Me &amp\; Hank and The Lemon Tr
 ee. As cofounder of Homelands Productions\, Tolan has produced dozens of r
 adio documentaries for NPR and PRI. He has also written for more than fort
 y magazines and newspapers. His work has won numerous awards\, and he was 
 a 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an I. F. Stone Fellow at th
 e UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He is an associate professor 
 at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University
  of Southern California in Los Angeles.\n\nAbout the interlocutor: Philip 
 Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and t
 he Humanities at the University of Chicago and a visiting professor at the
  Hochschule für Musik und Theater(Hannover). At Chicago\, Bohlman is on t
 he resource faculty of the Germanic Studies Department\, the Mary Marty Ce
 nter for the Advanced Study of Religion\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, 
 the Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies\, the Divinity School
 \, and the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture.\n\n&nbsp\;
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