first off thanks everybody for coming
out sticking around and the organizers
and all the acts before us so let’s get
around applause for everyone that did it
thank you
as Sebastian said my name is Martin go
Hari I’m actually born and raised right
here in Worcester Massachusetts a lovely
little town that we have here growing up
for me personally was kind of
interesting my father is from Iran
my mother is born right here so when I
was a young kid you know I didn’t really
look like everyone else if you know what
I mean I went to school with primarily
all-white students basic names something
you could find right out of the Bible
New Testament everyone name was like
Peter or Paul John Irish background and
I was a kid my name is goo Hari and of
course being in elementary school you
make fun of each other so me being a
little Persian boy with hairy arms my
name was go Harry
you know basic stuff like that you know
go over the friends house their dads
outside playing baseball with them I go
home when we played soccer okay so I had
an interesting childhood I used to think
I was strange
the whole time I was like something’s
weird something’s not right with me I’m
just a little bit different so was until
I became a musician and gone to like the
whole performing arts field that I
started really kind of reflect and
figure out who I truly was being an art
especially when you first start you’re
always trying to emulate your heroes
right copy what they do and then it gets
to a point where you do so much of it
you know wait Who am I actually and I’ve
reached that point maybe about four
years ago you know studying jazz as I
knew in conservatory I was traveling us
playing a lot but then you know I wasn’t
one of the students like my classmates
who started piano really early or went
to all the camps and practice a bunch
for me I started piano late I was 17
years old I just woke up one day I was
gonna play piano and then you know my
parents me supportive like yeah sure so
they gave me lessons they paid for and
all that and I started playing and then
I said to them like my senior of high
school like I’m gonna be a musician and
they said you’re crazy you’ve only been
playing for six months yeah maybe do
something else you know maybe try going
to this field that but out
I kept working at it and I practice and
I practice and I practice now I’m like
25 I’m playing jazz I love it
gave me the freedom to improvise right
but it’s something just not connecting
because once again I wasn’t like one of
those students who were had that ability
that played at a young age played
classical had a technique had all the
ability that goes along with it so I had
to figure something out right I had to
play to my strengths so I started
looking within and I realize okay wait a
minute maybe I should start looking at
music from other cultures this is right
around time I started traveling more and
more you know so I’m listening to this
music I’m listening to the music of
South America
I’m listening music that’s coming out of
New York and I’m also revisiting the
music that heard growing up so in
addition to like American rock music and
British rock music for my parents
generation I’m also hearing a lot of
Persian music Persian classical music
traditional music and finding that when
I was very beginning learning piano I
was running music that I thought was it
make sense to simplistic actually was
drawing from this tradition without even
realizing it so I started going further
deeper deeper into it it led me to
compose to John Zorn who’s based out of
New York City John Zorn is an American
composer with Jewish background he goes
deeper into his Jewish background and
created this whole breadth of literature
of music like insane amount of music
guys put out on maybe like 1,100
different pieces of music which is
unheard of right Bach pardalis music but
you don’t really hear composers today
putting out this massive massive work so
he had a thing called radical Jewish
culture in which he was diving back into
his culture growing up and then playing
it interpreting it so that’s why you
know thinking to myself well maybe I
can’t do the same right because I’m Who
am I as a person I’m half you know I’m
half Persian half American right so I
started going to this music diving
deeper deeper deeper deeper into it
until I kind of came this point of like
hey I really love this music I really
love avantgarde jazz and I really love
music of South America even though
there’s no South American blood in me I
just really love this type of music I
came across the music of Astor Piazzolla
one evening I was actually New Year’s
Eve and this song came on and it just
like took me by I literally stopped
there’s one of the few moments in life
that you hear about like we’re yet
stop everything what you’re doing and
just like zoning and listen to it so
today what I would like to do is kind of
show you a couple songs play three songs
for you two that were huge influences on
me and then one piece of mind that kind
of combines these elements so the first
piece I’m going to start with is called
oblivion
it’s a tango piece by Astor Piazzolla
from Argentina then from there I’m gonna
go to piece by John Zorn called curette
and then at the end of that I’m gonna
play my song called prayer at dawn that
kind of combines two elements off
America with my Persian background at
this time I’d like to bring up my
partner here and the music Kathleen
she’s gonna be playing violin with me so
she’s gonna come on up
I’m gonna take my seat at the piano and
we’re gonna play for you to these three
songs so thank you for listening thanks
again for coming out
[Music]
so that was a little tease from the
radical Jewish culture so correct
actually strong older Hebrew literature
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
thank you so much I wrote this song
originally at a frustration reading a
lot so this one’s kind of contemplative
you know you read these things about how
we have essentially you know our just
killing innocent people
basically lying about it and threatening
other people there and getting away so
this is kind of I was really angry but
this one things we can actually reflect
on and think how we can be better people
what’s gonna stop Brad on this our last one thank you so much
out sticking around and the organizers
and all the acts before us so let’s get
around applause for everyone that did it
thank you
as Sebastian said my name is Martin go
Hari I’m actually born and raised right
here in Worcester Massachusetts a lovely
little town that we have here growing up
for me personally was kind of
interesting my father is from Iran
my mother is born right here so when I
was a young kid you know I didn’t really
look like everyone else if you know what
I mean I went to school with primarily
all-white students basic names something
you could find right out of the Bible
New Testament everyone name was like
Peter or Paul John Irish background and
I was a kid my name is goo Hari and of
course being in elementary school you
make fun of each other so me being a
little Persian boy with hairy arms my
name was go Harry
you know basic stuff like that you know
go over the friends house their dads
outside playing baseball with them I go
home when we played soccer okay so I had
an interesting childhood I used to think
I was strange
the whole time I was like something’s
weird something’s not right with me I’m
just a little bit different so was until
I became a musician and gone to like the
whole performing arts field that I
started really kind of reflect and
figure out who I truly was being an art
especially when you first start you’re
always trying to emulate your heroes
right copy what they do and then it gets
to a point where you do so much of it
you know wait Who am I actually and I’ve
reached that point maybe about four
years ago you know studying jazz as I
knew in conservatory I was traveling us
playing a lot but then you know I wasn’t
one of the students like my classmates
who started piano really early or went
to all the camps and practice a bunch
for me I started piano late I was 17
years old I just woke up one day I was
gonna play piano and then you know my
parents me supportive like yeah sure so
they gave me lessons they paid for and
all that and I started playing and then
I said to them like my senior of high
school like I’m gonna be a musician and
they said you’re crazy you’ve only been
playing for six months yeah maybe do
something else you know maybe try going
to this field that but out
I kept working at it and I practice and
I practice and I practice now I’m like
25 I’m playing jazz I love it
gave me the freedom to improvise right
but it’s something just not connecting
because once again I wasn’t like one of
those students who were had that ability
that played at a young age played
classical had a technique had all the
ability that goes along with it so I had
to figure something out right I had to
play to my strengths so I started
looking within and I realize okay wait a
minute maybe I should start looking at
music from other cultures this is right
around time I started traveling more and
more you know so I’m listening to this
music I’m listening to the music of
South America
I’m listening music that’s coming out of
New York and I’m also revisiting the
music that heard growing up so in
addition to like American rock music and
British rock music for my parents
generation I’m also hearing a lot of
Persian music Persian classical music
traditional music and finding that when
I was very beginning learning piano I
was running music that I thought was it
make sense to simplistic actually was
drawing from this tradition without even
realizing it so I started going further
deeper deeper into it it led me to
compose to John Zorn who’s based out of
New York City John Zorn is an American
composer with Jewish background he goes
deeper into his Jewish background and
created this whole breadth of literature
of music like insane amount of music
guys put out on maybe like 1,100
different pieces of music which is
unheard of right Bach pardalis music but
you don’t really hear composers today
putting out this massive massive work so
he had a thing called radical Jewish
culture in which he was diving back into
his culture growing up and then playing
it interpreting it so that’s why you
know thinking to myself well maybe I
can’t do the same right because I’m Who
am I as a person I’m half you know I’m
half Persian half American right so I
started going to this music diving
deeper deeper deeper deeper into it
until I kind of came this point of like
hey I really love this music I really
love avantgarde jazz and I really love
music of South America even though
there’s no South American blood in me I
just really love this type of music I
came across the music of Astor Piazzolla
one evening I was actually New Year’s
Eve and this song came on and it just
like took me by I literally stopped
there’s one of the few moments in life
that you hear about like we’re yet
stop everything what you’re doing and
just like zoning and listen to it so
today what I would like to do is kind of
show you a couple songs play three songs
for you two that were huge influences on
me and then one piece of mind that kind
of combines these elements so the first
piece I’m going to start with is called
oblivion
it’s a tango piece by Astor Piazzolla
from Argentina then from there I’m gonna
go to piece by John Zorn called curette
and then at the end of that I’m gonna
play my song called prayer at dawn that
kind of combines two elements off
America with my Persian background at
this time I’d like to bring up my
partner here and the music Kathleen
she’s gonna be playing violin with me so
she’s gonna come on up
I’m gonna take my seat at the piano and
we’re gonna play for you to these three
songs so thank you for listening thanks
again for coming out
[Music]
so that was a little tease from the
radical Jewish culture so correct
actually strong older Hebrew literature
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
thank you so much I wrote this song
originally at a frustration reading a
lot so this one’s kind of contemplative
you know you read these things about how
we have essentially you know our just
killing innocent people
basically lying about it and threatening
other people there and getting away so
this is kind of I was really angry but
this one things we can actually reflect
on and think how we can be better people
what’s gonna stop Brad on this our last one thank you so much
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