Roberto’s Winds and Michiko Studiosis (149 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) are happy to present Tai Chi classes with Sifu Calum Douglas-Reid.
Tai Chi Chuan will relieve stress, calm your mind, improve posture and balance, increase muscle tone, enhance flexibility, and increase concentration.
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Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene Street,between Canal and Grand Streets)
Tickets: $15 (reservations: 212.219.8242)
Brandon Ross: Blazing Beauty
Wed Feb 16 – 8:30 PM
Guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter Brandon Ross has worked with everyone from Muhal Richard Abrams, Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, Arto Lindsay, to Joan Osborne, Henry Threadgill, and many others. Self described as “Future-folk music”, Ross’ music is at once pastoral, dissonant, intimate and avant-garde. Tonight at Roulette, Ross presents Blazing Beauty, his acoustic-based ensemble with Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar), JT Lewis (drums), and Brandon Ross (guitar/banjo/vocal) – extending his expressive field into “folk”-oriented musics and compositional approaches while communicating his dedication to fresh musical experience.
INTERPRETATIONS: David Wessel / Roscoe Mitchell 70th Birthday
Thu Feb 17 – 8:00 PM
Two contrasting settings featuring innovative woodwind virtuoso and Art Ensemble of Chicago founder Roscoe Mitchell. Electronic music pioneer David Wessel and Roscoe Mitchell, long time collaborators, play a set of duo improvisations, followed by the Roscoe Mitchell Quartet featuring Dave Burrell (piano), Henry Grimes (bass), and Tani Tabbal (drums).
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
No green, no blue, no red, no black…………but all colors: get together and focus on one thing: your freedom!………….Keep Zabane Atesh all the time with you when you’re on the streets!!! Take your tar, dombak, guitar, sax – anything that can make the sound of freedom – with you. No gun can kill you when you’re flying on and with the sound of freedom. Ostad Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, please join the people on the streets and be the power of music!
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: the University of the Streets (130 east 7th street. 2nd floor. NY)
Ticket: $20
Genre: Jazz
A night of challanging Jazz: Andrew Lamb – saxophones, flutes, woodwinds, Tom Abbs – bass, tuba, Michael Wimberley – percussion.
This educational documentary, which is directed by the Iranian film maker and photographer Majeed Beenteha,
is about the life and times of Omar Khayyam, the famed 11th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer. It reexamines Khayyam’s life, work and poetry, and attempts to identify the reasons behind our intellectual preoccupation with his poetry and message.
