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.
In addition to the colorful Spring season described below, on
Saturday May 9th we will lead a workshop for adult amateur musicians
with extraordinary cellist and viola-da-gambist Lisa Terry (whose
quartet Parthenia is in residence at Corpus Christi Church) in
which we will delve together into a variety of chamber music by
local composers. Please join us! Give us a call at 212-222-2101
to discuss it further!
The summer and Fall will be equally exciting, with the beginning
of a long-term project to map our neighborhood in music, inspired
by the Australian Aborigines' Songlines, and the premiere of a
luminous new violin sonata by Matthew Barnson!
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! 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.
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Saturday February 21st
(2009) at 5 pm at the Roerich Museum (319 West 107th
Street, near Riverside Drive) Free!
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Music by Beethoven and his circle,
with readings from their letters and memoirs. The
Orfeo Duo will perform music by Beethoven's friends
and students Archduke Rudolf and Ferdinand Ries as
well as Beethoven's Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119, and
Sonata No. 10 in G for violin and piano, Op. 96. Brother
and sister Ishmael Wallace, pianist, and Vita Wallace,
violinist, have performed together as the Orfeo Duo
since childhood. Reviewers have praised their "magnificent
performances," saying "this kind of rapport
is rare indeed."
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| Sunday
March 22nd at 1:30 pm at St. Mary's Episcopal
Church (521 West 126th Street, 1/2 block west of Amsterdam)
$10 suggested donation |
Love
songs by composers from West Harlem, Morningside Heights,
and the Manhattan Valley.
Hayden DeWitt and Cathy Venable, mezzo sopranos, Mark
Ettinger, guitar, the St. Mary's Gospel Choir, and the
Orfeo Duo will perform sweet, tender, and whimsical songs
by Todd Tarantino, Joelle Wallach, Peter Homans, Ishmael
Wallace, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Ross, Mark Ettinger,
and Helene Henderson. |
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Cathy
Venable, mezzo soprano |
Helene
Henderson |
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| Sunday March 29th
at 4 pm in the Broadway Presbyterian Church Parish Hall
(601 West 114th Street, just west of Broadway, up a few
steps) $10 suggested donation. Bilingual: English &
Spanish |
Music and drama by
neighborhood composers.
Hayden DeWitt, mezzo soprano, the Orfeo Duo, Katie Schlaikjer,
cellist, children from the Ascension Church Cultural Center,
and others will perform music by the children, Emalyn
Caliva, Rebecca Clarke, Elisabeth Le Guin, Alice Shields,
and Marcos de Jesus. This concert includes the children's
Skipping Songs and the heroic piano trio by Rebecca Clarke,
a celebrated British composer and violist who settled
in the neighborhood after her marriage, as well as a short
opera based on an apocalyptic comic book! |
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Children
from the Ascension Church Cultural Center,
with Vita (left) and their ballet teacher Maria Espona
in the back row. |
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For
more information, please call 212-222-2101 or email
orfeoduo@gmail.com
More exciting events will unfold later on! |
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What
a Neighborhood! 2009 is made
possible by the generosity of friends and neighbors: artists,
volunteers, supporters, arts and community organizations
and businesses, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/DCA,
and the sponsorship of the 102-103 Streets Block Association
and The Field. Made possible in part by public funds from
the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New
York State Council on the Arts and administered by the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
The May 9 workshop is supported in part by Chamber Music
America with support from the JPMorgan Chase Residency
Re-Grant Program, a program of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation,
and the Chamber Music America Residency Endowment Fund.
The Orfeo Duo is a member of Chamber Music America. This
program has been made possible through the generosity
of ACMP- The Chamber Music Network, and the Clinton B.
Ford Fund of its ACMP Foundation, an organization that
promotes chamber music activities for amateur musicians. |
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The
Orfeo Duo
615 West 113 Street #46
New York NY 10025
Phone: 212-222-2101
Email:
orfeoduo@gmail.com
©
The OrfeoDuo 2009
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