May 2001 Program Biographies

ANNE BABSON CARTER

Poet, author of a collection of poetry, STRIKE ROOT, published by Fourway Books, an award winning of collection of poems.  Her poems have appeared in The Nation and Paris Review.

THOMAS BERRY

Thomas Berry founded the History of Religions Program at Fordham University and the Riverdale Center of Religious Research.  He won a Lannan Foundation Award for The Dream of the Earth.  Together with scientist Brian Swimme, he wrote The Universe Story:  Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos.  His most recent book, The Great Work, Our Way Into the Future, demonstrates Father Thomas Berry’s concern with the well-being of the natural world as the dwelling place of all life.

AL CARMINES

A fellow of ARC, Al Carmines is a pastor, writer, composer, and performer.  He was the former pastor of the Judson Memorial Church and now pastor of the Rauschenbusch Church in New York City.  He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and earned his Divinity Degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York.  He has taught at Union Theological. Seminary and has received the Vernon Rice Award for his performance and the Drama Desk Award for Lyrics and Music and was awarded the Obie for Life Time Achievements.  He has composed ten plays and musicals.  Today’s performance taken from his opera Martyrs and Lullabies includes three characters:  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Gertrude Stein and Bessie Smith.

CARMAN MOORE

Moore’s music spans many worlds of sound including symphony, opera, choral, blues gospel and chamber.  He has created dance scores for such choreographers as Alvin Ailey, Anna Sokolov, Garth Fagan and Donald Byrd. His symphonic works have been performed by such ensembles as the Cleveland, the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center recently premiered his THE MYSTERY OF TAO on its Millennial Great Day. Moore’s Mass for the 21st Century was commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and has been performed many times around the globe since its 1994 debut at Lincoln Center. He is presently creating a work for a March 2002 premiere in Costa Rica sponsored by the University for Peace.

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