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SUMMARY:Classical Cool: Ich Bin Ein New Yorker –  A Concert for Kids and Families
DESCRIPTION:[Main image: Graffiti on the west side of the Berlin Wall. Top left: Amos Gabia. Bottom left: Garrett Keast\, Photo by Kiran West] \nClassical 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.\nThe premise of Ich Bin Ein New Yorker is that New York City is not the United States. It is an island\, literally and culturally\, as self-contained and singular as West Berlin once was — surrounded\, watched\, improbable; fiercely itself. At a legendary Christmas concert in 1989 celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall\, Leonard Bernstein changed just one word of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” — replacing Freude (joy) with Freiheit (freedom) — but it meant everything. Schiller’s original 1785 poem promises rescue from tyranny’s chains\, declaring that beggars will become brothers of princes — lines dropped from Beethoven’s version. Freedom was always there – but edited out. Bernstein put it back. \nTo perform Bernstein’s “Ode to Freedom” here — in this city\, in this moment\, in this anniversary year of American Independence — is to ask what “Freiheit” means when the wall is not made of concrete. Leading The Village Trip Festival Orchestra in a program rooted in the neighborhood’s immigrant experience is Garrett Keast\, Artistic Director of the Berlin Academy of American Music\, whose work between these two cities makes him the ideal conductor for today’s concert. We’ll hear excerpts from Bernstein’s West Side Story\, as well as Miracles Happen! by Shoko Suzuki / Amos Gabia\, which celebrates young Nigerian refugee and New York chess champion Tani Adewumi; William Kentner Anderson presents a fresh take on beloved American folk music. Community African drumming under Amos Gabia and local choral ensembles bring the neighborhood onstage. Soloists include our Concerto Competition winner and soprano Curtlyn Ifill. \nIch Bin Ein New Yorker is in the East Village tradition that democracy is a practice worked out night after night in clubs\, churches\, and community halls. A fitting finale to ten days of arts\, activism\, and ideas. \n\nNina Bernstein Simmons\, host\nGarrett Keast\, conductor\nAmos Kwaku Gabia\, community African drummers\nGene Pritsker\, composer and guitarist\nCurtlyn Ifill\, soprano\nReyna Cortez\, soprano\nNehemiah Luckett\, baritone\nJoan Forsyth\, piano\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n					\n			\n	\n\n\n \n\nClassical Cool International Concerto Competition for Musicians 21 and under\n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/classical-cool-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Children's Events,2026 Music,ASCAP,Neighborhood
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T170000
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SUMMARY:The East Village\, The Music and the Explosions of the 1960s\, ‘70s and ‘80s\, walking tour
DESCRIPTION:The edgy East Village has long led the way in cultural revolutions. This tour begins at the first place where Patti Smith read poetry\, beginning the journey that led to her breakthrough. Why did she and so many creatives come here? Follow Ann McDermott on a stroll back through East Village music venues of the 1960s and ‘70s and learn about the performing artists who helped shape our culture.\nMusic was abundant\, apartments cheap\, and the venues of the East Village gave artists a chance to play – and for some to become world famous. We’ll visit over ten sites where musical and artistic history was made\, see where some of your favorite album covers were shot. We’ll discuss how the “scene” in NYC in the mid-70s opened doors and allowed for an explosion of creative energy and drive. It wasn’t just the dingy clubs on the Bowery\, such as CBGBs\, that enabled this to happen – there were economic factors as well. Who were the music impresarios discovering the artists and helping catapult them to worldwide fame? It all happened here in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Explore the careers of the New York Dolls\, the Ramones\, Blondie\, Talking Heads\, Led Zeppelin\, the Who\, and Jimi Hendrix and discover how this neighborhood and these venues helped establish their artistic reputations and following. We’ll also hear about some of the many lesser-known figures who were no less talented but didn’t become quite as famous. \n\nAnn McDermott\n\nSTARTING LOCATION: St. Mark’s in the Bowery Church\, 131 East 10th Street/Second Avenue
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/the-east-village-the-music-and-the-explosions-of-the-1960s-70s-and-80s-walking-tour-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Tour
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T170000
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SUMMARY:East Village Underground: Two Centuries of Creativity and Rebellion\, walking tour
DESCRIPTION:Discover how German émigrés fleeing the 1848 revolutions in Europe sparked the US labor movement\, thus shaping the area’s identity as the epicenter of radical counter-cultural movements. With guide Marc Catapano\, you’ll visit Tompkins Square Park\, scene of the 1874 and 1987 riots and home to the mystical Hare Krishna Tree. Stroll down St Mark’s Place\, where free jazz\, acid rock\, and punk reshaped music. The tour will investigate the infamous 1967 “Groovy Murders” and visit CBGB’s\, the Fillmore East\, and the setting of Rent. We’ll also learn about luminaries such as Allen Ginsberg\, Yoko Ono\, Patti Smith\, and Charlie Parker. \n\nMarc Catapano\n\nStarting location: St Mark’s Church in the Bowery (outside)\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York 10003
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/east-village-underground-two-centuries-of-creativity-and-rebellion-walking-tour-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Art,2026 Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260927T173000
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SUMMARY:Let Freedom Sing: Paul Robeson – His Words\, His Music A Tribute\, with baritone James C Martin\, pianist Lynn Raley
DESCRIPTION:[image: Paul Robeson | James C Martin] \nPaul Robeson — singer\, athlete\, actor\, activist — embodied all the promise of America at its best. He used his art as a weapon of justice and\, as a global citizen\, he spoke truth to power\, heedless of the personal cost. “Artists are the gatekeepers of truth\,” he once said. “We are civilization’s radical voice.” Fifty years after his passing\, his magnificent voice still rings out\, entreating us all to fight the good fight. Baritone James C Martin\, with Lynn Raley at the piano\, celebrates a true American patriot with a program of Robeson’s best-loved songs and his bravest words\, spoken in a tumultuous time when many turned against him.\nThe program also features a world première by David Amram and other composers\, including Augusta Read Thomas\, Chen Shih-hui\, Erik Santos\, Robert Wellington Pound\, and Maria Thompson Corley setting words by Robeson’s friend and fellow activist Langston Hughes.\nJames C Martin and Lynn Raley. Photo: Sten Hartman\nPaul Robeson by Karsh 1941\nBy the time of his death in 1976\, Paul Robeson had been all but invisible for more than a decade\, persecuted and driven into internal exile by 1950s paranoia. Despite the FBI’s best attempts to erase him from the history books\, Robeson’s spirit and his voice live on. A renaissance man – a professional football player and lawyer as well as an actor and singer – he used his voice to speak out against injustice wherever he saw it\, and to sing out for the dispossessed\, whatever the personal cost. \nRobeson’s rise to stardom is rooted in the avant-garde and bohemian culture of 1920s Greenwich Village. In 1924\, he was cast as the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings at the Provincetown Playhouse\, a performance that launched his illustrious theatrical career. In 1925\, he gave the first concert dedicated to African-American songs at the Greenwich Village Theater on West 4th Street\, with George Gershwin among the audience. And in 1926\, he posed nude for sculptor Antonio Salemme in his studio on Washington Square North. \nIn a church which has long been a beacon of justice and civil rights\, acclaimed bass-baritone James C Martin celebrates the art and activism of a musical hero with a concert taking inspiration from his celebrated 1958 Carnegie Hall performance of songs and theatrical monologues.
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/let-freedom-sing-paul-robeson/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Music,ASCAP,Neighborhood
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T235900
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SUMMARY:Framing the Village Exhibition: Independent Thinkers!
DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Image credit: Kampin\, Whyland\, McNichol\, Schreier\, Rosenthal] \nThe fifth Village Trip Art Exhibition! Curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe\, it celebrates the Manhattan artists who are today’s Independent Thinkers! continuing to excite\, inform\, beautify\, and challenge the city and the world with their aesthetic innovations in figurative\, abstract\, and conceptual drawing painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and electronic art. \nCome see the festival’s always-stimulating display of painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and wall-mounted sculpture created by the many independent thinkers who live and work in and around Greenwich Village and the East Village / Lower East Side. \nOur host this year is the historic St Mark’s in the Bowery Parish Hall in the heart of the East Village. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. St Mark’s in the Bowery Parish Hall\, 131 E 10th Street\,  NY 10009\nThe gallery is open to the public most days until 3pm\nThe exhibition runs until September 30
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-independent-thinkers/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T183000
DTSTAMP:20250826T133122Z
CREATED:20250717T152643Z
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SUMMARY:Composers Concordance: Ciabatta Cantata
DESCRIPTION:[image:  Still Life with Musical Instruments by Pieter Claesz] \nComposers Concordance and friends explore themes of food and politics in new music for chorus\, guitar and theorbo. The program includes music by Gene Pritsker\, Dan Cooper\, and William Anderson. \nEnjoy fresh ciabatta from the Grandaisy Bakery during the performance. \n\n$20 in advance\n$30 at the door\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS FROM COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/composers-concordance-ciabatta-cantata/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 New Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T180000
DTSTAMP:20250822T151715Z
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SUMMARY:Habitat East Village with Damien Sneed and Friends
DESCRIPTION:Jimmy Carter’s first Habitat for Humanity project was in the East Village\, off Tompkins Square Park. Carter had a love for music and musicians of every ilk and\, as President\, he brought many of them to the White House\, from Leonard Bernstein and Dizzy Gillespie to the great pedagogical pioneer Shinichi Suzuki. He saw music as a healer and a bridge between diverse groups\, and recognized excellence in all genres. \nFollowing the gamelan concert\, join us inside the church as we revisit some of that music\, with Damien Sneed\, his jazz ensemble and gospel Chorale Le Chateau\, violinist David Fulmer\, soprano Sharon Harms and pianist Joan Forsyth performing favorites close to the President’s heart. \n\nDamien Sneed\nSharon Harms\nDavid Fulmer\nJoan Forsyth\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/habitat-east-village-with-damien-sneed-and-friends/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 New Music,ASCAP
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T160000
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SUMMARY:Looking East: Balinese Gamelan Ensemble Yowana Sari & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Gamelan Yowana Sari and guitarists Kyle Miller and Jack Lynch perform music by Michael Gordon\, Evan Ziporyn\, Kyle Miller\, Vivian Fung\, and I Gusde Widnyana. \nGamelan Yowana Sari plays new music written for Balinese instruments. The group is comprised of students and professional musicians dedicated to the presentation of both traditional and new works for gamelan. \n\nGamelan Yowana Sari\nKyle Miller\nJack Lynch\n\nThis concert will take place on the Portico of St Mark’s but will move inside in the event of rain. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/looking-east/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 New Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T130000
DTSTAMP:20250731T083313Z
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SUMMARY:The East Village\, The Music and the Explosions of the 1960s\, ‘70s and ‘80s\, Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:The edgy East Village has long led the way in cultural revolutions. This tour begins at the first place where Patti Smith read poetry\, beginning the journey that led to her breakthrough. Why did she and so many creatives come here? Follow Ann McDermott on a stroll back through East Village music venues of the 1960s and ‘70s and learn about the performing artists who helped shape our culture.\nMusic was abundant\, apartments cheap\, and the venues of the East Village gave artists a chance to play – and for some to become world famous. We’ll visit over ten sites where musical and artistic history was made\, see where some of your favorite album covers were shot. We’ll discuss how the “scene” in NYC in the mid-70s opened doors and allowed for an explosion of creative energy and drive. It wasn’t just the dingy clubs on the Bowery\, such as CBGBs\, that enabled this to happen – there were economic factors as well. Who were the music impresarios discovering the artists and helping catapult them to worldwide fame? It all happened here in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Explore the careers of the New York Dolls\, the Ramones\, Blondie\, Talking Heads\, Led Zeppelin\, the Who\, and Jimi Hendrix and discover how this neighborhood and these venues helped establish their artistic reputations and following. We’ll also hear about some of the many lesser-known figures who were no less talented but didn’t become quite as famous. \n\nAnn McDermott\n\nSTARTING LOCATION: St. Mark’s in the Bowery Church\, 131 East 10th Street/Second Avenue \n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/the-east-village-the-music-and-the-explosions-of-the-1960s-70s-and-80s-walking-tour/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240921T153000
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SUMMARY:Eliza Garth:  Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Pianist Eliza Garth performs Sonatas and Interludes\, John Cage’s 1947 masterpiece for prepared piano\, a composition regarded as a formative piano work of the 20th Century. St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery is known and loved as a gathering place for innovative musicians\, dancers\, and poets\, including Allen Ginsberg and Cage.\n“Sonatas and Interludes is absorbingly lovely when played with the commitment and delicacy that pianist Eliza Garth has devoted to her performance…Garth\, with a touch that allowed for almost ethereal transparency\, played the meditative mind game expertly… there was nary a cough\, a dropped program or even an audible rustle anywhere in the audience through the whole hour” – Washington Post \nThe concert is part of The Village Trip’s American Primitive and Inventors of Genius Weekend. \n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS FROM HUMANITIX
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/eliza-garth/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2024 New Music,ASCAP,The American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230924T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230924T180000
DTSTAMP:20230905T085355Z
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SUMMARY:Electric Circus: presented by Composers Concordance & Marsyas Productions
DESCRIPTION:The Electric Circus was a late 1960’s phenomenon. Mel Powell\, born 100 years ago\, was a force there. Powell started out writing music for kids for the Benny Goodman Orchestra\, but he gradually grew tired of that. One thing led to another and soon we see him circulating with Milton Babbitt and Bethany Beardsley. Take note of the soundscape Mel Powell created for a short Gumbie movie. \n“For the past 30 years\, Composers Concordance has been a booster for local composers\, through both its concerts across the city and a record label.” The Wall Street Journal \n“Enterprising new music organization” The New York Times \n“The Composers Concordance folks are unpredictable and at times refreshingly irreverent in a reverent sort of way….ingenious fun” Classical-Modern Music Review \n“Edgy…boisterous…demanding our attention”  San Diego Story \n“These men and women are creating exciting music with elements of jazz\, world music and many experimental techniques blended with equal parts classical tradition and playing techniques.” Music Notes: Classical music evolves by Carlton Wilkinson \nComposers \n\nWilliam Anderson\nBruce Arnold\nDan Cooper\nJane Getter\nPatrick Grant\nKyle Miller\nMel Powell\nGene Pritsker\nDave Soldier\n\nPerformers \nBodies Electric: \n\nWilliam Anderson\, John Chang\,\nAdam Negrin\, Kyle Miller – guitars\n\nMy Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama: \n\nBruce Arnold\, Greg Baker\, Jane Getter\,\nGene Pritsker – electric guitars\n\n\nAdriana Valdez\nJessica Bowers\n\nTICKETS\n$20 in advance via Eventbrite \n$30 at the door \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/electric-circus/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 New Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T190000
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SUMMARY:Simeon ten Holt: Canto Ostinato
DESCRIPTION:[Image: Kees Wieringa at the piano. Photo Ranjani Nirosha] \nCanto Ostinato is a ground-breaking minimalist piece by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt. Written in 1976 and first performed in 1979\, the work has acquired cult status. This two-hour version for two pianos marks the composer’s 100th birthday year\, and will be played by the formidable Dutch new-music specialist Kees Wieringa and the Trip’s resident pianist Joan Forsyth. The theme runs continuously through the piece\, with overlapping layers and subtle alterations as it hypnotically unfolds. \nKees Wieringa is a Dutch pianist\, composer\, writer and cultural entrepreneur. \nHe came to prominence for his performances of the Dutch composers Jakob van Domselaer\, Daniel Ruyneman and Simeon ten Holt. Kees Wieringa graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1986. He has built an international career over the years with his piano recitals and compositions. \nIn 2010\, Kees Wieringa premiered the opera Drebbel. The main character of the piece is the Alkmaar-educated inventor Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633) (performed by rock singer Thé Lau)\, who was interested in themes of alchemy and spiritualism. “Wieringa was inspired by the early Baroque music with its polyphonic while emotional musical lines. Composers such as Monteverdi and Handel sound along while today intervals\, chords and rhythms can be heard\, reminding the minimal music of Philip Glass.” \nKees Wieringa was museum director of the Kranenburgh Museum in Bergen\, and since 2016 has been the director of the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum in Qatar. Wieringa has also organised and curated an exhibition ‘The Majlis – Cultures in Dialogue’ together with UNESCO. It was featured all over the world. About his time in Qatar he published a bestseller ‘Inshallah’. At the moment he established his own cultural center in the neighborhood of Paris\, named YXIE – Manoir des Arts. \n\nKees Wieringa\nJoan Forsyth\n\nThis event is free to attend on the steps of St Mark’s Church in the Bowery.\n 
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/simeon-ten-holt-canto-ostinato/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 New Music
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SUMMARY:Killing the Silence: A Concert for Ukraine: Special Guests Chorus Dumka
DESCRIPTION:Concert to benefit Ukraine Children’s Action Project\, featuring Ukrainian composers and music that reflects the country’s very vibrant and vital culure. \nVasyl Barvinsky was one of the first Ukrainian composers to achieve international acclaim. As a member of the Ukrainian intelligentsia he was arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1948 and sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag. Many of his works were destroyed. Our program features the third movement of his dramatic “ Love “ cycle for solo piano\, entitled “Fight\, Pain the Victory of Love”. \nValentyn Sylvestrov writes in a post-modern musical style\, using traditional tonal and modal techniques to create a delicate fantasy-world with an intense emotional impact. He said of his art\, “I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists.” \n Leo Ornstein was born in Kremenchuk\, (now Ukraine) in 1895\, and came to the Lower East side as an 11 year old piano prodigy. His family were refugees from the pogroms incited by the antisemitic nationalistic organization\, “Union of the Russian People.” He grew up to be recognized as a world-class pianist and an adventurous and audacious composer\, pioneer of the tone-cluster. \nSergei Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkov in 1877\, but lost the family estate his mother and sister to the Bolsheviks and the Red Army invasion. He spent much of his life as a refugee\, later to the Nazis\, undergoing extreme hardships and financial difficulties. Nevertheless he produced a remarkable body of work\, writing in the grand romantic tradition of beautiful melodies and rich harmonies. \n The Bowers-Fader Duo explore Ukraine’s rich folk music tradition with a set of songs for mezzo and guitar. \nComposer and violinist Andrii Didorenko uses folk material in his “Postcards from Ukraine\,” performed with his wife the pianist Yuliya Basis. \nWe are proud to present the the members of Ukrainian Chorus Dumka\, fresh from performances in Carnegie Hall and on Saturday Night Live. \nThe Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York was established in 1949 as a male chorus by Ukrainians who escaped from the oppression and terror of the Soviet regime. The name comes from the Ukrainian word dumka\, which translates to thought\, and duma\, a form of epic folk song that originated in Ukraine in the 16th century. The founders of this vocal ensemble sought to preserve and cultivate the rich secular and sacred musical heritage of Ukraine. In 1959\, Dumka became a mixed chorus allowing them to expand their repertoire. Their musical library includes over 400 works from Ukrainian composers\, as well as many western composers. Since its inception\, the chorus has performed concerts at Alice Tully Hall\, Avery Fisher Hall\, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Dumka sings annual Christmas concerts at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC. The chorus has also performed across Ukraine and other European countries as well as in several cities in The United States. \nDumka  appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live\, in February 2022 singing Prayer for Ukraine. The chorus has been invited to dozens of venues to represent the culture of Ukraine through the performance of beautiful secular and sacred music\, while raising awareness and relief funds to support the people of Ukraine.  In August 2022\, Dumka performed at the opening ceremonies of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament at Arthur Ashe Stadium singing One Moment In Time. \nThe members of The Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of NY are honored to continue serving the community\, through broadening and cultivating the music from its native land. Since 1991\, Dumka has performed under the direction of Vasyl Hrechynsky. \n“As far as I am concerned\, romanticism is not the bloodless intellectual commitment to a program\, but the expression of my most profound mind and soul.” — Serii Bortkiewi \nComposers \n\nVasyl Barvinsky\nLeo Ornstein\nAndrii Didorenko\nSerii Bortkiewicz\n\nPerformers \n\nBowers-Fader Duo\nTony Lu\, piano\nAndrii Didorenko\nYuliya Basis\nEric Eaton\, cello\nVanessa Lee\, piano\nJoan Forsyth\, piano\nTeryn Kuzma\, soprano/bandurist\nThe Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/chamber-music-for-ukraine/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 Highlights,2023 New Music,2023 Ukraine Day
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SUMMARY:Playing for Change: a Play-a-Thon for Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Playing for Change\, a Play-a-Thon for Ukraine which will benefit Dr. Irwin Redlener’s Ukraine Children’s Action Project. \nThe Play-a-Thon will take place on September 10th\, 2023 from 1-5pm on the steps of St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street in the East Village of New York City. \nSteinway & Sons and the Music Teachers National Association are supporting the event\, kindly donating two grand pianos for our use that afternoon. \nAll instruments are welcome. The music will all be by Ukrainian composers as we celebrate the vibrant culture and wonderful artists that country has produced. A list of composers is provided below to help you select performance material. \nWe welcome performers of all ages and abilities\, from student to professional. There is a registration fee of $25 per player\, which will go to the Ukraine Children’s Action Project (UCAP). We also challenge performers to raise additional funds for UCAP from family\, friends\, and colleagues; the top three fundraisers will be recognized with The Village Trip T-shirts\, a  poster and letters from Dr Irwin and Karen Redlener\, the founders of UCAP. \nOn the registration form\, please indicate your chosen piece of music\, the timing of your piece and preferred time frame for your performance. A light snack will be provided by Veselka. \nTo register\, please click on the Register button to pay the non-refundable registration fee\, after which you will be taken to the registration form. \nCome play for Ukraine and compete with other musicians to raise the most money for the children of Ukraine! Let’s show the people of Ukraine how much we care. \nTo sponsor a player\nGo to www.thevillagetrip.com/donateukraine  or click on the Donate button below. Please give the name of the player you are sponsoring in the dedication box. \nIf you have any queries please contact playathon@thevillagetrip.com \n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			Registration for the Play-a-Thon is now closed		\n			\n	\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			Donate to the Play-a-Thon to support UCAP		\n			\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nUkraine Children’s Action Project\nUCAP was founded by pediatrician Irwin Redlener and children’s advocate Karen Redlener\, less than three months after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Its principal mission is to help address widespread psychological trauma and educational disruption experienced by the millions of children who were able to escape the extreme violence in eastern and southern Ukraine. In addition to addressing these major challenges\, UCAP has continued to respond to a host of humanitarian needs\, including purchasing back-up generators and winter clothes for children. The Redleners travel frequently to Ukraine and Poland to meet personally with every program that UCAP funds. \nTheir core commitment to donors? On the ground\, hands on\, transparent… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nList of Ukrainian Composers\nMany are available on imslp and various online sites \n\nIsaac Berkovich\nSergei Bortkievich\nMykolaiv Lysenko\nVasily Barvinsky\nRheinhold Gliere\nBorys Lystoshynsky\nValentin Sylvestrov\nSamuel Maykapar\nMykola Lysenko\nVictor Kosenko\nBohdana Filtz\n\nRussian composers born in Ukraine \n\nNikolai Kasputin\nSergei Prokofiev\nSamuel Maykapar\n\nUkrainian Folk Song arrangements are welcome \n\nBeethoven\nFaber\n\nPlease contact us for help in finding a piece if needed: playathon@thevillagetrip.com
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/play-a-thon/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 Highlights,2023 Music,2023 Ukraine Day
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SUMMARY:Diana Wege: Earth Requiem and Rebirth
DESCRIPTION:World Premiere Errolyn Wallen\nAn interdisciplinary performance and installation conceived by artist Diana Wege. It is a response to climate change\, pollution\, resource depletion\, and nuclear capability. The piece immerses the audience in a near-future where the degradation and extinction of nature is symbolized by a choir of languages from throughout the globe and the apparition of a landscape painting catching fire and restored by the reversal of humanity’s destructive ways. Earth Requiem joins multiple disciplines  to warn us of a clear and present danger. Mark Shapiro will conduct original music by Errollyn Wallen and Jeff Beal\, performed by a choir accompanied by piano. \n\nErrolyn Wallen\nJeff Beal\nDiana Wege\nMark Shapiro\n\nConductor: Mark Shapiro\nComposers: Errollyn Wallen and Jeff Beal \nThe Village Trip Singers \nZoe Allen\, soprano\nAine Hakamatsuka\, soprano\nMotomi Tanaka\, soprano \nHelen Karloski\, alto\nErica Koehring\, alto\nSuzanne Schwing\, alto \nEthan Fran\, tenor\nNathan Siler\, tenor\nMichael Steinberger\, tenor \nJames Gregory\, bass\nNicholas Hay\, bass\nSteven Moore\, bass \nPiano: Kyle Walker \nTickets: Pay-what-you-wish $20 recommended\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/diana-wege-earth-requiem/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 Art & Film,2023 New Music
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