What
a Neighborhood! 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 nurture a strong community that includes all the diversity of our area.
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!
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Love, Vita and Ishmael |
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Thursday September 15 at 7 pm
The Marseilles Community Room
(230 West 103rd Street, just west of Broadway)
Free
UPPER WEST SIDE COMPOSERS PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE
Sponsored by the Park West Neighborhood History Group and the Columbus Amsterdam Business Improvement District.
Vivid stories of the famous and the unknown, with musical and photographic illustrations
Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violin and accordion; Ishmael Wallace, piano and baritone) |
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Gershwin |
Saturday September 24 at 3 pm
El Taller Latino Americano
(2710 Broadway at 104th Street, 3rd floor.
Unfortunately there is no elevator.)
Call 212-665-9460 for admission fee
A FAMILY CONCERT OF MUSIC BY NEIGHBORHOOD COMPOSERS
Sponsored by El Taller
Delicious songs by Jerome Kern, accordion solos by Vita, tidbits and surprises.Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violin and accordion; Ishmael Wallace, piano and baritone)
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Saturday October 15 at 4 pm (Rain date October 29)
Meet outside Notre Dame Church (114th Street and Morningside Drive)
Free
SINGING WALK north to St Mary’s on 126th Street and back south to about 116th and Broadway. We will sing and teach newly composed songlines written by neighbors including Margaret Dabney, Emalyn Caliva, Demian Palombo, Ishmael Wallace, and the 4th and 5th graders at Corpus Christi School. |
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Vita and Ishmael Wallace |
Wednesday November 2 at 12:15 pm
Columbia Faculty House
(Enter via the courtyard on the north side of 116th Street between Amsterdam & Morningside Drive; follow the signs. NB: Not main entrance to the Columbia campus, but further east, between the law school & Morningside Park.)
Free
HARVEST TASTING
Songs by Nailah Nombeko and Ishmael, accordion pieces by Vita, songs by Jerome Kern.Shannon Roberts, soprano; Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, accordion, Ishmael Wallace, piano & baritone) |
Sunday November 6 at 1:30 pm
St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Manhattanville
(521 West 126th Street, ½ block west of Amsterdam)
$10 suggested donation
A HARVEST OF NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC
An extravaganza of music by Marcos de Jesús, Nailah Nombeko, Todd Tarantino, Paul Jared Newman, John Coltrane, Sarah Dawson, Lysander Puccio, and the St Mary’s Gospel Choir.
Shannon Roberts and Leanna Hieber, sopranos; Christa van Alstine, clarinet; Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violin, Ishmael Wallace, piano); St. Mary’s Gospel Choir; Neighborhood Composers Chorus |
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| 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. |
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