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Classical Cool: Ich Bin Ein New Yorker – A Concert for Kids and Families
St Mark’s Church in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New YorkClassical Cool is the festival’s annual concert for children and families and this year, with Ich Bin Ein New Yorker, it honors the New York spirit and the East Village community at its heart. Hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons, the program features excerpts from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, and his "Ode to Freedom" from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, performed at his Christmas concert in Berlin in 1989, a year of hope and peaceful revolutions. Classical Cool also features premières by Shoko Suzuki, and William Kentner Anderson. Community African drummers under Amos Gabia and local choral ensembles join The Village Trip Festival Orchestra, conducted by Garrett Keast of the Berlin American Academy of Music. Featured soloists include the winner of our Concerto Competition, and soprano Curtlyn Ifill.
Notes from a Life: An Evening with Allen Shawn
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New YorkAn intimate evening in the company of Allen Shawn, author, pianist, and composer whose six-year sojourn in the West Village marked a creative turning point when – influenced by encounters with clarinetist Benny Goodman – he began blending classical music with elements of jazz. His lively music is characterized by emotional directness and an openness to a variety of idioms. “Notes from a Life” is a sonic diary featuring chamber pieces from across four decades by this multifaceted musician celebrated for his “distinctly urban energy.”
Village Voices
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New YorkEach year, The Village Trip brings together composers with deep ties to Greenwich Village and the East Village for an evening celebrating Village Voices. This year's program draws on an extraordinary range of voices — and histories – featuring premieres by Scott Wheeler, and Ella Milch-Sheriff, as well as new settings of Herman Melville by Akemi Naito and Kile Smith.