The Orfeo Duo Vita notes

What a Neighborhood! 2008
What a Neighborhood! presents warm, intimate, exciting performances that celebrate Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, & the Manhattan Valley primarily through the music of living local composers. We founded the series in 2003 to encourage and inspire composers and draw neighbors together, helping to make manifest a strong community that includes all the diversity of our area. We are in New York City!

Our sixth season will feature music by twelve local composers including several premieres, fabulous sopranos and guest instrumentalists, local choirs, two exhibits of paintings and drawings, and readings of poetry by local poets. Neat neighbors and artists mingle at our concerts, most of which are followed by receptions.

We would love to get to know you. Please say hello at one of the receptions, call us at 212-222-2101, or email us at orfeoduo@gmail.com. Let us know of any composers of any age who might not yet be listed on our map of over 200 neighborhood composers or if you are interested in writing your own music!

Bring your friends and family! Meet your neighbors!

Love, Vita and Ishmael Wallace, the Orfeo Duo

What a Neighborhood! programs leave our audiences “flying out of the hall” “so inspired!”


Our CD “A Stroll Through Our Neighborhood” features music from the first five years of What a Neighborhood!
It is available for free at our concerts or order it for $5. You may call 212-222-2101 to order.
 

What a Neighborhood!, Broadway Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church & St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Manhattanville, cordially invite you to three free extravaganzas celebrating...

VOICES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
A wacky and wonderful program of three World Premieres:

The Green Project, a musical drama created by the Valley Lodge Players with the Orfeo Duo;

Madonna and Child, a cantata by Ishmael Wallace with words by local mothers and grandmothers;

The Garden Performance Project, a piece conceived by Elizabeth Adams and composed in collaboration with 12 other neighbors, for instruments made of recycled materials.

FREE – please bring your family!

Orfeo Duo; Beth Anne Hatton, soprano; Gilbert Mendoza, tenor; Liz Player, clarinet; Elizabeth Adams, Jacob Barton, & Margaret Willig Crane, various instruments; St. Mary’s Gospel Choir; Valley Lodge Players


Performance Schedule:
Sunday: September 28th at 1 pm at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Manhattanville
126th Street, 1/2 block west of Amsterdam

 
Friday: October 3 at 7 pm
Broadway Presbyterian Church
NW corner of 114th Street & Broadway

 
Sunday: October 5 at 2:30 pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
100th Street just east of Amsterdam

 
For more information, please call 212-222-2101 or email orfeoduo@gmail.com

Made possible by neighbors & local businesses, the Fund for Creative Communities & the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/LMCC, & Chamber Music America with support from the JPMorgan Chase Residency Re-Grant Program, a program of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation & the Chamber Music America Residency Endowment Fund. The Orfeo Duo is a member of Chamber Music America & sponsored by the 102-103 Streets Block Association & The Field. Workshops of The Garden Performance Project made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

The Orfeo Duo
615 West 113 Street #46
New York NY 10025
Phone: 212-222-2101
Email:
orfeoduo@gmail.com

© The OrfeoDuo 2008