 The 7th Avenue Hub
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REGISTER FOR
SPRING SEMESTER
The 2012 Spring Semester offers lessons, classes, and ensembles through June 10. Join us for exciting and engaging classes for all ages. Register now at BQCM.org or speak with a registrar at 718-622-3300.
EVENTS
March Business After Hours
Thur, Mar 15 at 5:30 -7 pm
Conservatory Concert Hall
BCM is pleased to sponsor the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's March Business After Hours. Meet new business contacts, as well as familiar ones, and enjoy great live performances. Register here
SIM's "Meet Jazz Luminaries" Series Steve Coleman Interviews Milford Graves
Fri, Mar 16 at 8:00 pm
Conservatory Concert Hall $20 The School for Improvisational Music and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music host an interview with legendary drummer, composer, and educator, Milford Graves. Improvisation innovator, saxophonist Steve Coleman, will interview Mr. Graves.
Canciones - Music from Latin America and Spain
Sat, Mar 17 at 8:00 pm
Conservatory Concert Hall $10 suggested donation
A journey through the musical landscapes of Argentina, Brazil, and Spain, this program of songs runs the emotional gamut - from love and whimsy to jealousy and despair. Works by Ginastera, Guastavino, Megias, Turina, and Villalobos.
Jazz Improvisation for Brass
Sat, Mar 17 at 3:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Conservatory Concert Hall Free This Master Class demonstrates practice and performance techniques that assist brass players in mastering the jazz art form. Featuring Duane Eubanks.
Workshop for Guitarists:
Let's Start a Band!
Fri, Mar 23 at 6:30 pm
Conservatory Concert Hall Free
Do you want to make music with your friends but don't know how to make it fit together? Ron Jackson and Michele Temple will show you how to make the music in an ensemble happen. Bring your guitars and let's start a band! All styles and levels welcome!
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Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra performs at Plymouth Church
Sat, Mar 24 at 7:30 pm
Conservatory Concert Hall $15/$10 students/seniors
Featuring Christoph Denoth on guitar, join us for an exciting repertoire including Beethoven: Symphony #7, opus 92, A Major (1811), Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra (1939), and Gershwin: Cuban Overture (1932).
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Pete Robbins Reactance Quartet
Sat, Mar 24 at 8:00 pm
Conservatory Concert Hall
$10/$8 seniors, students, and BCM Faculty
"Mr. Robbins, an industrious and venturesome alto saxophonist and clarinetist, leads...an ambitious ensemble that combines spacious avant-gardism with the melodic punch of rock" (The New York Times).
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CONTACT: enewsletter@bqcm.org
Yvette Perry
Director of Marketing and Communications yvette.perry@bqcm.org
VISIT:
bqcm.org
CALL:
718-622-3300 |
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From the Executive Director, Karen Geer
Welcome to the 7th Avenue Hub - your resource for music education and concerts in the heart of Park Slope on 7th Avenue. The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is a thriving community center with diverse programming: private lessons, classes, and ensembles, the Community Orchestra, Chorale, and Jazz and Gospel Choir. Our Music Therapy Program will show you how music can positively and powerfully affect your body and mind. Our Music Partners Program provides music education to 4,000 students in our public schools. And our teachers lead master classes, educational workshops, and perform in our Concert Hall. Building community through music education - that's our mission. Keeping you informed - that's the 7th Avenue Hub! |
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Community Partner News
Girls Night Out Packs the House
On March 3 at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, female members of the BCM faculty and staff performed in celebration of Women's History Month. Ladies came from all over - Brooklyn, sure, but also Manhattan, the Bronx, New Jersey, and Long Island - to partake of this Brooklyn community's great music, food, and wine. A standing room only crowd was treated to a captivating concert by Renee Manning, our Voice Chair, and her all-star BCM band.
Press Release
MetLife Foundation & National Guild Award BCM Creative Aging Grant
Professionally-led arts education programs can have extremely positive effects on the general and mental health of older adults. Accepting this grant, Executive Director Karen Geer stated, "As a member of the National Guild ... it will enable us to expand our free senior choral program for older adults at Prospect Hill Senior Services Center and at the Park Slope Seniors Center."
Press Release
BCM Goes to Albany
At the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's "Brooklyn Night in Albany" on March 5, elected officials mingled with Brooklyn's celebrated merchants - a taste fest that featured a special performance by BCM faculty. The jazz ensemble, led by Earl McIntyre on bass trombone, included Pete Robbins on alto sax, Ron Jackson on guitar, Trifon Dimitrov on acoustic bass, and Dion Parson on drums, playing music by Brooklyn composers.
 
BCM and Noel Pointer Foundation Concert
On March 10, BCM's Teen Jazz Ensemble and the Noel Pointer Foundation's Youth Orchestra performed together in their first collaborative concert. It featured students in BCM's Teen Jazz program, some of whom have scholarships from the Brooklyn Community Foundation which helps support both organizations. The concert illustrated what both organizations value - community music education and access to the arts for everyone.
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Pete's Program Pick
The Art of Improvisation - Thursdays 7-8:30 pm
Have you ever wanted to learn how to improvise? Improvisation is an important part of musicianship that spans all cultures and styles of music, including jazz, blues, rock, and even classical! Take this course and the mysteries behind the craft will be exposed as you learn how to create music on the spot. Open to all instruments and styles. (Instructor: Eliot Krimsky)
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Teacher Tip
After each lesson, ask your child's instructor what they did that day and what your child should be practicing at home during the week. Do this with your child listening, so he/she knows that you're invested and informed! |
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Music Therapy Corner
Feel like you can't get your child's attention?
Is it driving you batty? Try singing your requests. Really. Your child is more likely to pay attention to you if you sing "It's tiiimmmeee to do your homework now....and then you can have time for Wii" to the tune of The Phantom of the Opera. The act of singing stimulates endorphin release and raises the anti-stress hormone, hydrocortisone. Research also shows that singing boosts the immune system by increasing concentrations of immunoglobin. Your child might do his homework and you might jolt yourself out of nightly stress and into a relaxing evening.
-Toby Williams, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, Director of Music Therapy Division |
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Music Partner Highlights
Notes from a Traveling Music Teacher
"I load my cart up with glockenspiels, xylophones, drums, guitar, and various small percussion instruments. As I roll it down the corridor and toward my first class of the day, I'm excited in anticipation of the reaction my Kindergarten class will have to a new song I wrote about March just for them. The door opens and as I wheel in my cart, the class greets me by singing one of our favorite songs, Open the Circle."
- Sheri Gottlieb, Assoc. Dir. Music Partners Program and Music Specialist at Arts & Letters in Fort Greene |
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Resource Center
Digital Tuners
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We Recommend
IndieClassical: Why not?
Describing an "unforgettably strange concert at Le Poisson Rouge with Andrew W.K., party-rock force of nature and living animated .gif of a David Lee Roth jump-kick, sharing the stage, or jostled maniacally for it, with the Calder Quartet," Pitchfork contributor Jayson Greene witnessed "the emergence of IndieClassical." Sure, rock groups have incorporated classical music. 70's stalwarts PDQ Bach, Moody Blues, Yes, Procol Harum, ELO and ELP, come to mind. But what Jayson discovered is a new sensibility. "...When Andrew W.K. ... conscripted the Calder Quartet to provide back-up arrangements to several of his songs ... was the idea to let loose a fire hose of bad manners on the modern-classical crowd?" In fact, there is an indie-classical scene with collaborations emerging between up and coming artists and well-established bands. "Lately, it's become hard to even tell an indie rock musician and a composer apart."
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People at The 7th Avenue Hub
Sara Holtzschue, piano faculty member, received a Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC) grant to provide arts programming at The Fort Greene Albany Senior Center in Crown Heights. The program is just getting off the ground, but already has an attentive and appreciative audience of fifty.
The Australian Guitar Duo, featuring faculty member Rupert Boyd, has performed around the world including the NY Guitar Duo Festival in NYC, Project Canción Española in Spain, and the Festival de Musique Classique in France. Songs from the Forest is their debut recording and features works by Australian composers, Granados, Falla, Scarlatti and The Beatles. |
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A Donor's Difference
The Achelis Foundation
Support from our funders transforms the lives of thousands of children through music. The Achelis Foundation has supported Brooklyn-based organizations that promote and sustain artistic excellence for over fifty years. It was founded by fellow Brooklynite Elisabeth Achelis, daughter of Fritz Achelis, President of the American Hard Rubber Company. In the wake of citywide budget cuts, it helped BCM reinstate music programming at Title One public schools in our Music Partners outreach program. "In these first few years of the Music Partners program," explains Deanna Marco, Principal of PS 295 in Brooklyn, a school supported by The Achelis Foundation, "we have found that the program reached beyond supporting core musical knowledge. It provided us ways to ... ensure students' optimal learning through physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and listening skills." |
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Programs at the Conservatory are supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Achelis Foundation, ACMP-The Chamber Music Network, Amy Bloch/Gregory Horowitz Fund, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Bacardi USA, Bank of America, Barclays/Nets Community Alliance, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Brown Rudnick, CMS, ConEdison, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Chamber Music America, Fund for the City of New York/Open Society Foundations' Performing Arts Recovery Initiative, Hearst Foundations, Hyde and Watson Foundation, Houlihan Lokey, Johnson String Instrument, Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund, Kennedy Jennik and Murray P.C., Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, Meyer Creativity Associates, The Milton and Beatrice Wind Foundation, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Impact Funding Trust, National Guild for Community Arts Education/MetLife Foundation, Neighborhood Improvement Association, Newman's Own Foundation, NPower's Community Corps Program, OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program, Park Slope 5th Avenue BID, Park Slope Civic Council, Sam Ash Music, RDI Solutions, The Rudin Foundation, Swiss Post Solutions, Taproot Foundation, Terra CRG, Wells Fargo Bank, and Youth, I.N.C., as well as numerous individual donors. Programs at the Conservatory are also supported in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, The Offices of New York City Council Members Mathieu Eugene, Vincent Gentile, Brad Lander and Stephen Levin, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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