Date: Monday, November 2, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Carnegie Hall – Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (57th Street and Seventh Ave, New York, New York 10019)
Ticket: $25 – $90
Genre: classical music
Performers:
Oratorio Society of New York
Susanna Phillips, Soprano
Matthew Plenk, Tenor
John Moore, Baritone
Oratorio Society of New York Chorus and Orchestra
Kent Tritle, Conductor
Author: David Byrne
Title: How Music Works
Publisher: McSweeny’s Books
Buy: Amazon
Recommended by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
This is a book every musician should or must read. HOW MUSIC WORKS tells musicians what they should know about their metier. Here is a man who wants to share his knowledge and experience with us musicians. He writes very comprehensive. No doubt: he loves music and enjoys being a musician.
Artist: Elikeh
Title: Kondona
Label: Ropeadope Records
Genre: Afropop
New Life in an Old Ceremony: Elikeh Experiences Its Kondona
Music can change everything. As the poet wrote, it has charms to soothe the savage breast. And it can also bring a band back from the dead, giving it a new spark of energy and creativity. For Washington, DC-based Afropop band Elikeh, the results of that musical resurrection are proudly displayed on the EP Kondona (released November 20, 2015).
Text by Richard Bennett
At first glance, a dance class for people with Parkinson’s disease seems like a contradiction in terms. Parkinson’s is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system whose most obvious symptoms are movement related. Yet Olie Westheimer, who was facilitating a Parkinson’s support group in Brooklyn, had a hunch that rigorous dance training with world-class dancers and live music was exactly what her members needed.
Olie Westheimer at Gel Health 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
Date: Monday, October 26, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: folk-rock-jazz-world
7pm – Zolaband is a super-comfy folk-rock-jazz tea party. They’re led by vocalist, songwriter, catlover, and self-proclaimed culinary genius, Rebecca Felice Zola. Born and raised in the super-patriotic town of Lexington, Massachusetts, Rebecca is currently a working musician and student in New York City.
Rebecca Zola – voice
Coleman Hughes – trombone
Joe Vilardi – guitar
Nick Dunston – bass
Connor Parks – drums
8pm – Guy Mintus Trio. Guy Mintus, Israeli rising pianist, improvisor & composer. At 23, Guy has performed on stages such as the Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, Symphony Space, Red Sea Jazz Festival and the Israel Festival with Grammy winning artists such as Howard Levy, Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra as well as Jazz legends Sheila Jordan, Jon Hendricks, Jimmy Owens and more. Guy’s Interest and passion to world music and to connecting people through cultural understanding has led him to interact with masters of several musical traditions: Persian Santur Master Qui Hagigi, Turkish Neyzen Volkan Incüvez, Greek Bouzouki master Yannis Loulourgas African Kora Icon Yacouba Sissoko, Azerbeijani Kemança Master Arslan Hazreti, Pandit Samir Chatterjee and many more.
Guy Mintus – piano
Tamir Shmerling – bass
Philippe Lemm – drums
