The Orfeo Duo - What a Neighborhood!

For 10 years, What a Neighborhood! has celebrated and nurtured the Creative Spirit in Morningside Heights, West Harlem, and the Manhattan Valley. Our goals are to inspire and encourage composers and other neighbors, to develop grassroots support for new American music, and to draw neighbors together, nurturing a strong sense of community that includes all of the diversity of our area. We are engaged in urban farming: cultivating music, the food of love.

We would love to get to know you. Please call us at 212-222-2101, or email us at orfeoduo@gmail.com, or better yet, introduce yourself at one of our events. See below for details.

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!

Thank you for the joy and support you have given us over What a Neighborhood!'s first 10 years! And thank you very much for your kind words!

“Such a cool experience... innovative... fun and relaxing... lovely and gracious... passionate and accomplished musicians... You bring many dimensions of ‘wonderfulness’ to so many people - on musical, spiritual, and experiential levels... creative and harmonious... unique and beautiful... a revelation.”

Love, Vita and Ishmael

What a Neighborhood! Spring 2013: Music, Art, Food, & Magic

Saturday February 9 at 2:30
Bloomingdale School of Music
(323 West 108th Street, between Broadway & Riverside Drive)
Suggested donation $10

EMBLEMS
An Extraordinary Birthday Party

The Orfeo Duo is full of surprises in this celebration of What a Neighborhood!’s 10th anniversary.

Miniatures by neighborhood composers Robert Cuckson, David Loeb, Alla Pavlova, Waddy Thompson, Ishmael Wallace, and neighborhood children will accompany small artworks on paper by Ana Traversa & in tin by Susan Dessel, as well as bite-sized edibles.

Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violin; Ishmael Wallace, piano & baritone) & a Mystery Guest

AnaTraversa

	Sunday March 10 at 1:30 St Mary’s Episcopal Church (521 West 126th Street, 1/2 block west of Amsterdam) Suggested Donation $10
	HOME Lost, Imagined, Found Experiences of home and homelessness are explored through neighborhood composers’ music at a church deeply involved with outreach to the homeless. The Orfeo Duo premieres a “siguirya” by Flamenco guitarist Paul Jared Newman and David Loeb’s Alluring Isles, and the St. Mary’s Gospel Choir joins them in a setting by Ishmael Wallace of the words of the late choir-member Charles Kelly, who was homeless for many years. Ishmael performs his own songs and music by Alla Pavlova. The concert ends with a "Salve Regina" by Thierry Lancino featuring the church's bell. Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violin; Ishmael Wallace, piano & baritone) & the St Mary’s Gospel Choir
Wednesday March 20 at 7:30 pm Union Theological Seminary (3041 Broadway, between 120 & 122 Streets) FREE, donations welcome ORPHEUS RETURNS Renaissance Florence & beyond Orpheus, Voice at the Heart of Reality, ancient Greek musician and hero, began to emerge in the West through the Florentine magus Marsilio Ficino, leading to the Renaissance and the development of opera. In the beautiful Burke Library, we will traverse the spheres of the planets with Ficino, encouraged by an unlikely Camerata spanning space and time, and find our true voice. Featuring Grant Herreid’s reconstructions of Ficino’s Orphic Hymns, as well as music by Claudio Monteverdi, Marco Uccellini, & others Beth Anne Hatton, soprano; Grant Herreid, lute & voice; Vita Wallace, lira da braccio & baroque violin

Grant Herreid	MarsilioFicino
In addition to our 2013 concerts, we warmly invite you to 10 convivial gatherings in neighbors' homes! We envision the gatherings as a cross between salons and barn-raisings, with music, laughter, and delicious food. Hosts and conspiring artists will pose a question at each gathering, creating a space for neighbors to explore, experiment, create, and collaborate. Please join us for a year full of joyful, stimulating, person-to-person experiences most of you can walk to, cultivating a rich new crop of food for the soul: new music, friendship, and inspiration! The gatherings will be on the 15th of most months at 7:30 pm. Just let us know you'd like to come (212-222-2101 or orfeoduo@gmail.com) & we’ll give you the details.

What a Neighborhood! is made possible by the generosity of friends and neighbors: artists, volunteers, supporters, arts and community organizations & businesses, and the sponsorship of the 102-103 Streets Block Association and The Field. What a Neighborhood! is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and 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. Made possible in part by a grant from the Harlem Community Arts Fund, a program of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, administered by the Harlem Arts Alliance.


The Orfeo Duo 615 West 113 Street #33 New York NY 10025 Phone: 212-666-0928 Email: orfeoduo@gmail.com