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SUN has a 30 year record of successful, high-quality concerts, festivals, and “concert/seminars” which have frequently raised substantial funds for refugees, war orphans, hunger, and other causes.
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2008/09 |
Lectures, articles and concerts planned for Paris, San Francisco and New York for
the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
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2006/07 |
Nationwide book signings, concerts and lecture tours of cities, universities and religious institutions. Conducting in Orlando, Univ. N. Texas and Univ. of Oklahoma SUN Asheville branch concert debut Keynotes -- 3-day conference at Texas Lutheran University (1500 students and professors) discussing EINSTEIN'S VIOLIN |
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2005
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Eger's book, EINSTEIN'S
VIOLIN:
A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics and Social
Change, released by Penguin Publishers. |
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2004 |
Concerts
and lecture tours
of universities in Florida and N. Carolina. |
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2003 |
Concerts, lectures, workshops on peace, music, physics |
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2002 |
SUN Youth Music Program |
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2001 |
NY Madison Square Garden
concert for
UN Summit, 170 Nations |
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2000 |
Concerts in Shanghai, Beijing,
China |
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1999-2000 |
Bucharest
concert for 100 Nations.
Millennium Concerts. SUN opens Florida Branch |
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1997-1998 |
Series of exhibitions, NY and
Florida concerts for peace, to benefit child victims of Chernobyl and other catastrophes. |
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1995-1996 |
Cultural/music events to encourage
peace in Northern Ireland. |
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1994 |
Pretoria, South Africa celebrating
Mandela, end of apartheid. Maestro Eger wins
Eleanor Roosevelt "Man of Vision Award" (only
two worldwide). |
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1993 |
Carnegie Hall benefit Bosnian
children refugees, Marvin Hamlisch's Anatomy of Peace.
Bianca Jagger, Tony Randall, other
celebrities. |
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1992 |
Moscow State Symphony "Environment
for Peace" concerts. Oxfam's "Hunger Banquet"
at UNICEF. 3-day Mideast Festival at Lincoln Center. |
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1991 |
Gala honors UN Secretary-General
and Kurt Masur. NY Philharmonic. |
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1988 |
Film project "The
9th." |
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1987 |
Concert for UNICEF,
featuring Peter Gabriel, with 1,000 performers at the UN. |
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1986 |
Lincoln
Center 3-Day Mid-East
Festival. Progressive
Judaism at UN. Cuba National Symphony |
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1984 |
Lincoln Center Concert for Eleanor
Roosevelt Centennial. Guest artists Zoe
Caldwell and Beatrice Straight.
International Games for the Disabled concert, Ellen Burstyn. |
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1983 |
Kennedy Center Benefit, Danny
Thomas, MC. $350,000 for war orphans; SUN
Youth Orchestra debut at Avery Fisher Hall with Anne Jackson, Tony
Randall, Eli Wallach,
Michael Moriarty and Andre Gregory. |
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1982 |
UN Special Session on Disarmament
concert at St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY. |
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1981 |
Three-day concerts and symposia
at Philadelphia Museum of Art and Franklin Institute. Concert
for UN Year of the Disabled, Ellen Burstyn. Concert
at UN with famed Middle-East artist, Fayrouz. |
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1980 |
Two weeks of Concerts/Seminars
in Salzburg, Austria on "The Power of Music and the
Arts, Instruments of Individual and Social Change." |
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1979 |
Power of Music- Concert/Seminars-
Woodrow Wilson International Center and Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. |
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1978 |
SUN initiates TV shows for UN
"Year of the Child" on CBS and NBC |
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1976 |
Peace Gala- awards: Stevie
Wonder, Cat Stevens (Beverly Sills - in absentia) |
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1975 |
SUN Debut concert, opening sessions
UN General Assembly, Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Commissioned
"One Is the Spirit of Man." |
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1974 |
Founding of SUN as 501c3 not
for profit corporation. Bette Midler benefit concert in New York. |