7th Avenue Hub Enewsletter

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SUMMER SEMESTER

The 2012 Summer session offers lessons, classes, ensembles, and our exciting new workshop and festival series in July and August. Join us for engaging classes for all ages. Register now or speak with a registrar at 718-622-3300. Register by April 15 and receive a 20% discount on tuition.

EVENTS

Musical Exploratorium

with David Herman

Tues, April 17 at 7-9:00 pm

$25

Conservatory Concert Hall

Do you dream about playing the drums or an electric guitar? Join us for a fun workshop. Explore different musical instruments, engage in a drum circle, and end the evening with a guided music and relaxation session. Register here.

Terrence McManus' Trancetempo Quartet

Wed, April 18 at 8:00 pm

$12/$10 students & BCM faculty

Conservatory Concert Hall

Trancetempo combines elements of modern classical composition, minimalism, and electronica into shifting steady states with simultaneous improvised strains.

Brooklyn New Music Collective

Fri, April 20 at 8:00 pm

$15, $10 students/seniors

Conservatory Concert Hall

BCM's Mary Kay McGarvey leads an ensemble of soprano, bass, piano, and saw(!) in "The Winchester Widow." Brooklyn avant-jazz bass clarinetist Andrew D'Angelo presents his new composition for 12 clarinets, "Clarinet Party." Mezzo-soprano Joanna Dionis sings Stefan Weisman's "Nonfiction" cycle. BCM's Theresa Rosas will premiere a set of piano miniatures by Howey Kenty.

Cello Etudes Master Class

Sat, April 21 at 4:00 pm

Conservatory Concert Hall Free

Explore ways to expand and improve cello technique through the study of etudes by Dotzauer, Popper, and Mooney, focusing on shifting, fingerboard geography, and bow technique.

Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open presents Chamberworks: Three World Premieres for WORKS with Chamber Orchestra

Sat, April 21 at 8:00 pm

Conservatory Concert Hall $10

Featuring Michel Gentile (flute), Michael McGinnis (clarinet), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), David Smith (trumpet), Mazz Smith (violin), Tim McCarthy (French horn), Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola), and Marika Hughes (cello).

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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!

Community News

BCC's Biz Night at BCM!

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's March Business After Hours event was a hubbub of friendly mingling, eating and drinking, and even some shop talk. Most of all, it was a chance to catch up with old friends, make new business contacts, and see familiar faces. And, of course, being hosted by the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, everyone in the Concert Hall enjoyed some great musical performances. Borough President Marty Markowitz dropped by to remind us that, as a community working together, we can make Brooklyn a vital business center. And all reveled in the wonderful Erica's most excellent rugelach and chocolate treats. On the whole, not bad for a quiet Thursday evening in the heart of Brooklyn. (Pictured: Karen Geer, Marty Markowitz, and Rick Russo; Michele Temple on guitar and Marni Rice on accordion.)

Pete's Program Pick

Music Adventures
This innovative program encourages creative expression through music, dance and related arts. Children play instruments and use props in an engaging and progressive setting while they explore musical traditions from around the world. Along with music theory, chanting, and singing, your young musician up to 5 years old will start a life-long love of music.

-Pete Robbins, Dean of Programs

Teacher Tip

Leave your instrument out of the case in a room that you spend a lot of time in. Then any time you have a free moment, play! Some of the best breakthroughs happen in short practice sessions.

-Roger Lent, Piano Faculty

Music Therapy Corner

Playing is instinctive in childhood. We develop and mature through play, so why do we put the merits of play aside as we become filled with adult worries and responsibilities? Playing with others connects us to our innate ability to grow, to explore, and to thrive. Music Therapy for Wellness is a monthly series for adults at any skill level to play music and gain relief from stressors. Learn to play music in a non-traditional way. Ready, set, play!

-Toby Williams, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, Director of Music Therapy Division

We Recommend

Watch A Broadway Musical's Recording Session!

Once: A New Musical is the new Broadway show based on the Academy Award®-winning film and features the Oscar®-winning hit "Falling Slowly." Here is a special look into this unique cast recording session where the 13 cast members act, sing, and play all of the instruments: there is no orchestra or separate band. The distinctive aspect to the cast album is that it was produced allowing these actors/musicians to record the music in the same style and environment as their stage show. This unusual recording process captures the live essence of the ensemble. Watch how the music supervisor, Martin Lowe, and the producer, Steve Epstein, made this unique session work.

Music Partner Highlights

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In the heart of Greenpoint lies one of NYC's oldest public school buildings. A visitor could easily get lost trying to find his/her way through the labyrinthine layout of classrooms. Not that that ever happens to me. Last week I visited our afterschool programs supported by funds from Councilmember Steven Levin's office. Ten 5th graders were learning to read music and play the B and E strings on guitar. Twenty 3rd graders were dancing and singing Another Op'nin', Another Show. And twenty kindergartners were taking a break from singing and playing about nature to draw pictures of flowers. An old building with new minds eager to learn.

-Dorothy Savitch, Director of Music Partners Division

Resource Center

The International Music Score Library Project, also known as Petrucci, is a wonderful and convenient resource for musicians of all ability levels and instruments. It hosts a large database (over 170,000!) of free downloadable scores and public domain recordings, from beginning piano etudes to full orchestral scores. Visit Petrucci and browse their amazing variety of works. Site members can also upload and share scores and recordings.

Make a Gift to BCM

If you'd like to make a donation to help support BCM's commitment to community arts education, click here, or send a check to BCM at 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11217. Contributions to BCM, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, are 100% tax deductible.

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.