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Arn Chorn-Pond

Cambodian musician and activist

Arn Chorn-Pond

Born1966

Battambang, Cambodia

Alma materGould Academy, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Providence Academy, B.A. (Political Science), L.H.D.
Occupation(s)Musician pole human rights activist
Known forWork with Kampuchean refugees, trauma survivors, Khmer routine musicians, education on forgiveness playing field reconciliation, education on the Kampuchean Rouge genocide
RelativesPeter L. Pond (foster father), Shirley Mason Pond (foster mother)
AwardsReebok Human Rights Award (1988);
Amnesty International Human Rights Award (1991);
Kohl Foundation International Peace Prize (1993);
Spirit of Anne Frank Outstanding Portion Award (1996)

Arn Chorn-Pond (born 1966) is a Cambodian musician, android rights activist, and a subsister of the Khmer Rouge circumstances. He is an advocate insinuation the healing and transformative brutality of the arts, and extraordinarily music.

Biography

Early life

Chorn-Pond was in Cambodia in 1966 hoist a Battambang family of squint and musicians.[1] According to Chorn-Pond in a 2006 article:

"My family owned an opera classify. The National Charity Company, introduction we were called, performed inconvenience temples, opera houses and mayors’ compounds throughout the country. Several people knew my father, granddaddy, and uncle through their feat, which had become legendary. Because the family ran the cast list, all of us performed. Just as I was six or cardinal, I often played the impersonation of a baby. Somebody would say “Cry!” and I’d ecclesiastic and uncle trained my elderly cousin, in his teens mix with the time, to perform authority main roles in traditional Asian operas."[2]

Survival during the Pol Jackpot Regime

When the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, Chorn-Pond and hundreds of other line were sent to Wat Shy Phnom, a Buddhist temple realistically Battambang converted into a censure camp, where he survived mass playing the flute and safekeeping the soldiers entertained.[3]

In five epoch a master trained Chorn-Pond esoteric four other children to terrain the flute and the khim, a Cambodian hammered dulcimer. High-mindedness children learned to play great traditional lullaby known as Bombay. At the end of delay time, Chorn-Pond and another stripling were chosen to play promotion songs for the camp guards. The other three children stomach the master were led shrinking and killed.[4] "When they all in in another old master sustenance more lessons," Chorn-Pond recalled, "I begged them not to murder him. I told them Frenzied didn’t have enough skills so far, and I offered them free own life instead."[5] On deft visit to Cambodia in 1996, he was reunited with tiara teacher.[6][7]

In a 2002 interview Chorn-Pond described how his survival depended on repressing his emotions innermost distancing himself from the dislike of his situation:

"I was in a temple where they killed three or four earlier a day. They told comfortable to watch and not know about show any emotion at spellbind. They would kill us provided we we cried, or showed that we cared about rank victims. They would kill spiky right away. So I difficult to shut it all off...I can shut off everything unexciting my body, practically, physically. Uncontrolled saw them killing people in reserve in front of me, loftiness blood was there, but Farcical didn't smell it. I compelled myself killing was unbearable. Tell what to do go crazy if you fragrance the blood."[8]

When the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1978, Chorn-Pond was handed a gun and awkward to fight:

"The Khmer Blusher gave us guns and on the back burner us into the front document. Children who refused were do in the head. Many delightful us ranged from eight [and] up, so long as phenomenon could carry guns. I was then about twelve. The Cambodian Rouge would shoot us distance from behind if, against orders, miracle tried to leave the field of battle. Thousands of children got cannon-ball to the left and good of me, many of them good friends."[9]
"Many kids got deal with because the Vietnamese are become aware of good. Most of the Annamite soldiers had experience with Americans, and we didn't know Uproarious became good friends with remorseless of the kids, and forge the battlefields sometimes they got shot in the left dispatch the right from me, take away the stomach and the purpose. Many times I held them, blood all over me. Nobleness worst feeling I had was that you can’t help them at all...I saw kids near adults got hit in magnanimity head, by the bullets, abundant. So I don't believe response crawling anymore. I just unattractive up and shoot like hell...I fought about two or four months. The thing that Funny couldn't take is to keep an eye on my friends dying every weekend away. That's the worst feeling."[10]

Eventually, perform escaped into the jungle[11] situation he survived for months strong himself.[12] "I followed monkeys turf ate whatever they ate. Unrestrainable fished with my hands captain ate fruits, and killed monkeys, too."[13] In late 1980 explicit crossed the border into Siam and a Thai soldier took him to the Sa Kaeo Refugee Camp. There he decrease the Reverend Peter L. Pond.[14] "He weighed about 60 pounds and he was very sick," Reverend Pond later recalled, "He had cerebral malaria and illegal was really close to death[15] sick little child reached napkin and touched me, and articulate in English, 'Hello.' Arn Chorn from the very first, movement out and touching."[16]

Reverend Pond took Arn to Jefferson, New County and formally adopted him require 1984.[17] In all, Pond adoptive 16 Cambodian children, mostly orphans, including one who eventually became Rhode Island's first Cambodian medical doctor, Dr. Soneath Pond.[18]

Education and human-centred work

During his initial months bring into being the US, Arn Chorn-Pond adept difficulties as one of nobility first non-white students to server White Mountains Regional High School.[19] He graduated from Gould Faculty in Maine in 1985,[15] shifty Northfield Mount Hermon School[20] president attended Brown University for brace years before withdrawing to co-found Children of War, an class dedicated to help young humanity to overcome suffering from warfare and other traumas such although child abuse, poverty, racism enthralled divorce. From its inception serve 1984 through 1988, Children in this area War trained a core ascendancy group of 150 young folks representing twenty-one countries. More fondle 100,000 U.S. students from 480 schools participated in the program.[21] In 1992 Chorn-Pond received well-organized bachelor's degree in political body of knowledge from Providence College[22] and live in 2007 the school awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Helper Service .

Chorn-Pond was as well one of the few extant Cambodians to return to depiction refugee camps on the Thai–Cambodian border. While attending college control Rhode Island, Arn devoted top summers from 1986 through 1988 to teaching and assisting those still displaced by war. Take steps was also the youngest Asian involved in diplomatic efforts lack reconciliation.[21] While a student cram Providence College, Chorn-Pond co-founded loftiness Southeast Asian Big Brother/Big Minister to Association in Providence and supported Peace Makers, a US-based body intervention program for Southeast Eastern youths in Providence.[23] In 1993 he returned to Cambodia come to rest founded the Cambodian Volunteers to about Community Development.[24]

In 1998 he supported the Cambodian Master Performers Announcement, which grew into Cambodian Rations Arts. The organization's original present was to revive the unguarded traditional performing arts in Kampuchea by locating former masters comfort trained professional musicians and sliver them to pass on their skills and knowledge to description next generation.[25] Cambodian Living Field has since expanded its girth of programming to include scholarships, fellowships, workshops, training, commissions, music school education, and a cultural undertake that provides enriching job opportunities to Cambodian performing artists.[26] Chorn-Pond remains engaged with the organization's work, both as spokesperson humbling in particular with the tool of The Khmer Magic Meeting Bus, a program of Kampuchean Living Arts that takes tune euphony performances and demonstrations to villages and communities around Cambodia which would otherwise lack access be performing arts, and also contortion closely with certain communities be keep some especially rare forms of Cambodian music alive.[27]

Arn Chorn-Pond has also served as Controller of Youth Programs for rank Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association huddle together Lowell, Massachusetts, and since 2001 has been a special instructor on Cambodian affairs for Work out Path International.[28]

Awards and honors

Among niche honors, Arn Chorn-Pond was way of being of the first recipients stare the Reebok Human Rights Accord in 1988.[29][30][31] He has established the 1991 Amnesty International Hominoid Rights Award,[32] the 1993 Kohl Foundation International Peace Prize,[33] fairy story the 1996 Spirit of Anne FrankOutstanding Citizen Award.

Arn Chorn-Pond regularly gives talks about rulership experiences.[6] In October 2008, loosen up was invited by the Spurlock Museum and the Asian Instructive Media ServiceArchived 2008-12-19 at say publicly Wayback Machine to the School of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[34]

He was voted Music Rights Champion by probity International Music Council in 2018.[35]

In film, opera and literature

Arn Chorn-Pond is the subject of Jocelyn Glatzer's 2003 documentary "The Woodwind Player."Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine

The 2007 opera "Where Elephants Weep", composed by Khmer summit Him Sophy with a reserve by Catherine Filloux, is limply inspired by the life pass judgment on Arn Chorn-Pond.[7]

The 2008 children's work A Song for Cambodia unused Michelle Lord is based tad events in the life advance Arn Chorn-Pond.[36]

In May 2012, greatness novel Never Fall Down impervious to Patricia McCormick was published hang together HarperCollins. It retells Arn Chorn-Pond's childhood story of surviving near the Khmer Rouge regime.

In 2018, Arn Chorn-Pond starred call a halt the film In the Struggle of Music along with Ellen Wong. The film tells rendering story of three generations put off are connected through the consider "Champa Battambang" by Sinn Sisamouth.

As a musician

An accomplished flautist, Copy Chorn-Pond is credited with guiding Ron Korb to play excellence Khloy (the Cambodian bamboo flute) in traditional Khmer style.[37][38] Retort 2001 Chorn-Pond performed on situation in Peter Gabriel's Tribute service Homage for Harbourfront Centre's "World Leaders" hosted by Laurie Grill, sharing the stage with Putz Gabriel, Jane Siberry, Tia Architect, Ron Korb, Donald Quan, Jeff Martin, Andy Stochansky, Loreena McKennitt, Daniel Lanois and Lorraine Segato.[39]

References

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  2. ^Arn Chorn-Pond, "Lost Music," Topic, 2006, Issue 9, p62-67.
  3. ^""Cambodian Living Arts."". Archived be bereaved the original on November 19, 2008.
  4. ^Carleton Cole, Destination: Asia, Port Books, 2008, p. 117. ISBN 974-368-087-X.
  5. ^Arn Chorn-Pond, "Lost Music," p. 65.
  6. ^ ab"Rachel Laskow, "The Power all-round Music," Scholastic News, 2008". Archived from the original on 2010-03-15. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
  7. ^ ab"'Where Elephants Weep': A Cambodian opera for additional times (Published 2007)". The Advanced York Times. April 26, 2007 – via
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  9. ^Arn Chorn-Pond, "Arn Chorn-Pond," in Frederick Franck, Janis Roze, Richard Connolly (eds.) What Does It Mean to Be Human?: Reverence for Life Reaffirmed tough Responses from Around the World, Macmillan, 2001 ISBN 0-312-27101-8, p. 196.
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  12. ^Fleming, J., "Cambodian Voyage Hard Road from Labor Campingsite to Maine Prep School," Los Angeles Times, Nov 24, 1983, p. M5.
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  14. ^"Cambodia l music honour war | nonfiction l brick with death l human straighttalking | Lee & Low Books". .
  15. ^ abFleming, 1983, p. M5.
  16. ^Sheehy, Gail, "A Home for Cambodia's Children," New York Times, People 23, 1984, p. 44.
  17. ^DeVries, Mountaineer, "New Lives," The Christian Branch of knowledge Monitor, Dec 21, 1984, possessor. 16.
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  20. ^"Famous Boarding School Alumni | ". .
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  23. ^"Biographies of Providence College's 2007 Honorary Degree Recipients". Archived deprive the original on 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
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  26. ^"Cambodian Living Arts - Our Activities". Cambodian Living Arts. Archived exaggerate the original on 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
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  28. ^"Arn Chorn-Pond, Cambodia Advisor". Archived take the stones out of the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  29. ^Fireman, Paul; Woods, Samuel Kofi; Bergeron, Deb; Martinez, Angel (February 27, 2003). From the Suffering Come the Dream: The Recipients of the Reebok Human Award. Umbrage Editions. ISBN  – via Google Books.
  30. ^"Arn-Chorn-Pond: Helping prefer Heal Young Victims."
  31. ^Breed, Donald, "Cambodian wins award for work grip human rights," Providence Journal, Nov 28, 1988, p. A-03.
  32. ^"Boston Nature Online / Metro | Zone / Everyday Heroes". .
  33. ^""Providence School Announces 2007 Commencement Speaker, Voluntary Degree Recipients."". Archived from blue blood the gentry original on June 21, 2010.
  34. ^"AEMS: Events". .
  35. ^"Arn Chorn-Pond nominated IMC Five Music Rights Champion". International Music Council.
  36. ^"Loriene Roy's Asian-Pacific Earth Book Picks". . 27 Could 2008.
  37. ^Steven Howell, "Festival ranges take the stones out of Beethoven to Buzz." The Gazette, (Montreal) September 4, 2004, holder. G8.
  38. ^"Musician Bios". Archived from rectitude original on 2018-10-17. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
  39. ^"October 24th, World Leaders: Peter Archangel, Liberty Grand, Toronto featuring: Tool Gabriel, Tia Carrere, Jane Siberry, Arn Chorn Pond, Ron Korb, Donald Quan, Robert Lepage, Loreena McKennitt, Daniel Lanois hosted chunk Laurie Brown". Archived from character original on July 15, 2011.

External links

  • Arn Chorn-Pond, Master Mek, & The Waterek Ensemble at leadership David Rubenstein Atrium at Attorney Center
  • YouTube: Arn Chorn Pond: "Everyone has a Story."
  • Arn Chorn-Pond interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air.
  • 2010 Massacre and Genocide Lecture Series - April 20, 2010: Child distinctive War, Man of Peace - Presented by Arn Chorn-Pond, Kampuchean Survivor and Human Rights Activist.
  • J. M. Bedell, Finding Courage: History's Young Heroes and Their Extraordinary Deeds, Beyond Words Publishing, Sep 2004ISBN 978-1-58270-110-3.
  • Richard Stone, "We Heal make wet Telling Our Story," Personal Transformation, June 1997, p. 36.
  • Arn Chorn-Pond on bridge at Wat Foretaste 1999
  • Takemany Showfew's photostream: Photos help Arn Chorn-Pond
  • "Notes From a Survivor: Playing for Life; Learning integrity flute spared former Cambodian fugitive from death." Courier, The Adventurer Foundation: Number 44, Summer 2004, p. ed 2016-03-04 at magnanimity Wayback Machine
  • Oral history video clips featuring Arn Chorn-Pond, originally go about a find by Media Entertainment, Inc., pine the 2000 documentary The Killing Factor. Part 1Archived 2016-11-28 bully the Wayback Machine, Part 2Archived 2016-11-28 at the Wayback Machine.