| October 25, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Emilio Teubal and Fernando Otero at Galapagos in Brooklyn. More information and tickets here.
Emilio Teubal and Fernando Otero at Galapagos
September 18th, 2009 by Peter McDowell No comments »Opening concert (October 1) of Golden Key Salon Series at Bechstein
September 17th, 2009 by Peter McDowell No comments »| October 1, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Featuring Pavel Gintov, Piano; Abbe Rose Krieger, Flute; Susan Buffington, Piano; Gary Kosloski, Violin; Emmanuel Vukovich, Violin; and John McDowell, Piano performing works by Fauré, Hüe, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and McDowell/Vukovich (NY Premiere).
These concerts on the first Thursday of the month, October through May, feature new and distinguished performers, wine receptions and premiere performances.
Held at the Bechstein Piano Centre
207 West 58th Street, New York
All Concerts begin at 7:00 pm
Suggested donation: $20 general admission; $10 for students with ID
Seating is limited, reservations are required.
For more information, or for reservations, call 212-581-5550
The Golden Key Salon Series at the Bechstein Piano Centre aims to foster artistic development by bringing artists and audience together in an intimate setting for uplifting musical evenings. Held on the first Thursday of the month from October to May, the Salon Series features new and distinguished artists, premiere performances, and post-concert “meet the artists” wine receptions. The concerts are presented in partnership with the Golden Key Music Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging and educating musicians to perform with ease and communicative power.
Douglass Street Music Collective presents Frank Carlberg’s Tivoli Trio
September 17th, 2009 by Peter McDowell No comments »| September 22, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Featuring Frank Carlberg-piano, John Hebert-bass, Gerald Cleaver-drums
Tuesday, September 22nd,2009 at 8:00 PM
@ The Douglass Street Music Collective
295 Douglass St., Brooklyn, New York 11217 (between 3rd and 4th Ave)
Suggested donation $10
Although a classic jazz piano trio instrumentation, consisting of piano, bass and drums, the music of Tivoli Trio is an eclectic mix. Carlberg’s compositions for the group mainly draw from cinematic and circus inspirations. The Tivoli Trio with John Hebert and Gerald Cleaver is going in to the studio in September to record a new CD which is to be released by Red Piano Records around the New Year. In preparation for the recording the trio performs at Douglass Street Music Collective, in Brooklyn, on Tuesday September 22nd.
Music for Farms
September 7th, 2009 by Peter McDowell No comments »
John McDowell and Emmanuel Vukovich. Photo by Janet Maya.
OK here’s my disclaimer right off the bat – YES!, composer and musician John McDowell is my brother. But much more than that, he’s the composer of the original soundtrack to the Academy Award winning documentary Born into Brothels and in his various guises and bands, he’s been heard at Lincoln Center, the UN, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and at many music, dance and theater festivals throughout Europe and North America. He has performed and recorded with artists ranging from Sting, Carlos Santana, and Krishna Das to Rusted Root.
John has been an organic, biodynamic farmer in Rockland County, NY for many years. Now, he brings his interest in music and farming together, thanks to a duo project with Canadian violin virtuoso (and also farmer!) Emmanuel Vukovich, winner of Canada’s first Golden Violin award. Operating under the name Music for Farms, the group has a mission to revive and sustain local organic agriculture and farming communities through the arts.
The duo will weave an evening of music inspired by an exploration of connecting opposites – such as in their original work based on Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parcifal legend, the meeting of Eastern and Western classical music in their own transcription of Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin’s Swara Kakali, in their personal backgrounds of jazz and classical music, and finally in their own lives of practicing music and farming side by side.
Upcoming performances in New York and Canada include:
September 18 at the Heliconian Club in Toronto, Canada (As a tie-in to the Toronto International Film Festival’s premiere of documentary film Stolen)
September 20 at Novalis Hall, Angus, Ontario, Canada
October 1 at the Golden Key Society in New York City
The performers will also share some of their experience as farmers and present an excerpt from a film about music and farming entitled Bach in a Barn. Violinist Vukovich states “Originally, music, dance, and artistic culture in general were strongly inter-connected to, and a part of, our human civilization’s relationship to nature. This was expressed in traditional agrarian society through rituals in rhythm with the seasons – such as harvest festivals. As people have migrated more and more to large urban centres, artistic cultural life has tended to separate from agricultural life. We go to concerts in the city, and we get our food from farms in the country. This has often created a void and famine of culture and arts in rural farming communities, and a corresponding disconnect/abstraction in the arts.” To this end, the proceeds from this event will go towards the creation of a foundation which works to connect world-class music-making and artistic culture with local sustainable agriculture and farming communities.
Music for Farms: An intimate evening of music in Toronto
September 5th, 2009 by Peter McDowell 1 comment »| September 18, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
As a tie-in to the Toronto International Film Festival’s premiere of documentary film Stolen, this unique concert featuring musicians, composers, and farmers John McDowell (piano and African drums), and Emmanuel Vukovich (violin and African drums) will be held at Toronto’s Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Avenue, on Friday, September 18 at 8pm.
McDowell is best known as composer of the score to Oscar winning documentary Born Into Brothels and has toured with platinum selling rock/world music band Rusted Root and with singer Krishna Das. His world music band Mamma Tongue has performed at venues and festivals internationally. Juilliard and McGill trained Vukovich is the recipient of Canada’s first Golden Violin Award, as well as the Canada Council for the Arts Orford String Quartet Scholarship. As a member of the former Lloyd Carr-Harris String Quartet, which won the prestigious Fischoff Competition, he has toured throughout North America and Europe. Both musicians have collaborated on the sound track to the film Stolen which is premiering at this year’s TIFF.
“Music for Farms” is an international initiative which works to revive and sustain local organic agriculture and farming communities through the arts. The duo will weave an evening of music inspired by an exploration of connecting opposites – such as in their original work based on Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parcifal legend, the meeting of Eastern and Western classical music in their own transcription of Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin’s Swara Kakali, in their personal backgrounds of jazz and classical music, and finally in their own lives of practicing music and farming side by side.
Program will include: -Parcifal by Emmanuel Vukovich and John McDowell -Beethoven Sonata, Op. 8, second movement -Argentinian Tango pieces and Black Orpheus – arranged by McDowell/Vukovich -Swara Kakali by Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuin – arranged by Vukovich/McDowell -Selections from film scores by John McDowell
The performers will also share some of their experience as farmers and present an excerpt from a film about music and farming entitled Bach in a Barn. Violinist Vukovich states: “Traditionally, music (and all artistic culture in general) was inter-connected with our relationship to nature. In agrarian society this was expressed most strongly in the various seasonal rituals – such as harvest festivals. As we began to migrate to large urban centres, artistic-cultural life began to separate from agricultural life. Today, we go to concerts in the city, and we get most of our food from farms out side of the city. This has often created a void and famine of culture and arts in rural farming communities, and a corresponding disconnect and abstraction in the arts.” To this end, the proceeds from this event will go towards the creation of a foundation which works to connect world-class music-making and artistic culture with local sustainable agriculture and farming communities.
Tickets are $15 (students/seniors) and $20 (adult) in advance (check back shortly for more information on how to purchase), and $20 (students/seniors) and $25 (adults) at the door. For more information, call 416 922 3618 or 773 484 8811.
