Friday, January 21, 2005

THE ORFEO DUO ANNOUNCES THE 2005

Subject: What a Neighborhood! festival
Date: 1/21/2005 10:06:32 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: theorfeoduo@hotmail.com
To: reysmont@aol.com
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Dear Chair Reyes-Montblanc, thank you so much for your interest in these
concerts--and for your ongoing good work...
21 January 2005
Ishmael Wallace (212) 222-2101

THE ORFEO DUO ANNOUNCES THE
2005
WHAT A NEIGHBORHOOD! FESTIVAL

The Orfeo Duo’s What a Neighborhood! festival celebrates the community
around Morningside Park in Manhattan and its composers, bringing together
creative and community-minded neighbors. In the past two years, the festival
has featured programs of music by neighborhood composers and programs
illuminating creative communities of the nineteenth century. The concerts
have a special warm atmosphere and are imaginatively programmed, with a
profusion of artists, especially singers, and an abundance of music by
neighborhood composers.

The following is the 2005 calendar of events for the What a Neighborhood!
festival. For more information, please call (212) 222-2101, visit
www.orfeoduo.com, or email vita@orfeoduo.com.

Concert and reception, Saturday, February 5 at 8:30 pm, at El Taller
Latino Americano, 2710 Broadway, between 103rd and 104th Streets, 3rd floor
(unfortunately there is no elevator.) Admission $10. The closest subway stop
is at 103rd Street on the 1 or 9 lines. A co-production with El Taller
Latino Americano, a Spanish language school and cultural center, including
works by neighborhood composers working in both classical and
Latin American popular and folkloric traditions;

Concert and reception, Saturday, February 12 at 3 pm, at the Bloomingdale
School of Music, 323 West 108th Street, between Broadway and Riverside.

$10 suggested donation.

Closest subway: 110th Street on the 1 or 9 line.

A recreation of an evening in the1870’s at the Parisian salon of
Pauline Viardot, including a Mazurka by Chopin arranged for voices by
Viardot and music by Fauré written for Viardot’s children;

Concert and reception, Saturday February 26 at 3 pm, at the Bloomingdale
School of Music, 323 West 108th Street, between Broadway and Riverside.

$10 suggested donation.

Closest subway: 110 Street on the 1 or 9 line.

A concert featuring music by neighborhood composers including
fifteen-year-old Kate Ettinger and her father, Mark Ettinger, and
singer/songwriter Rachelle Garniez performing with her mother, Nancy
Garniez; and

Sunday, February 27, at 1 pm at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, NW corner
of 126th Street and Amsterdam.

Closest subway is at 125th Street on the 1 or 9 line; the uptown M104 bus stops
on St. Mary’s corner.

FREE.

An extravaganza celebrating Black History Month, with St. Mary’s Gospel
Choir, storytelling about life in the neighborhood, and neighborhood poets,
as well as music by composers from the neighborhood;

Friday, May 20,at 7 pm; Saturday, May 21, at 3 pm; and Sunday, May 22,
at 1 pm, at St. Mary’s Church, NW corner of 126th Street and Amsterdam.
Closest subway is at 125th Street on the 1 or 9 line; the uptown M104 bus
stops on St. Mary’s corner.

$10 suggested donation.

A co-production with Teatro Corleone of a double-bill of The Stranger, a short
chamber opera by Ishmael Wallace, and the World Premiere of Mark Ettinger’s
operetta, The Triangle.
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Ishmael Wallace
Pianist of the Orfeo Duo
http://www.orfeoduo.com

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