Students in New York and Istanbul connected through a live concert broadcast

The Carnegie Hall's Cultural Exchange Program - Live Concert Broadcast

The Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Foundation's 2008 - 2009 Cultural Exchange program connected 400 high school students in Istanbul with 400 students in New York City for an exciting live concert broadcast designed to increase cultural interaction and to make it more meaningful through music, with the support of ECA and the CITI Foundation and facilitation by Bogazici University and PAS Istanbul.The world class musicians from both countries - New York- based trumpeter and composer Maurice Brown and Istanbul based clarinetist Selim Sesler shared the elements of both Turkish traditional music and American Jazz. The audiences focused and worked on the theme of the program that was the relationship between freedom and structure. Hundreds of students danced and sang songs along with the music and some shared their talents with their individual performances. The program moderators at each side allowed students to comment on each other's responses and music. The Consul General received cheers from Turkish students during her remarks before the broadcast.