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REGISTER FOR
FALL SEMESTER
Be inspired! Join us for engaging classes for all ages. Register now or speak with a Registrar at 718.622.3300.
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 From the Executive Director, Karen Geer
Welcome to the 7th Avenue Hub - your resource for the latest news in the arts, music, education, and our Brooklyn community. This issue features opportunities to participate in upcoming programs at the Conservatory. Our Community Orchestra, as well as our Teen R&B Choir, will be grateful for the help! Stay updated on happenings at the Conservatory by following us on Facebook and Twitter and remember to stay inspired!
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Conservatory News
Music Partners/Community Orchestra Update
Thank you to everyone who has been able to support our KICKSTARTER PROJECT so far! With the help of our Conservatory Community, we've raised nearly $4,000 of the $6,000 needed to meet our goal! In the next few weeks we'll need to raise just $2,000 to bring this project -- which provides a great opportunity for NYC school kids, and some beautiful music for the BCCO -- to life. If you haven't yet pledged your support, now's the time! Just click on the link to watch our inspiring video, and then click on the BIG GREEN BUTTON that says "Back This Project." You can pledge any amount, and every amount will help us meet our goal!
-Dorothy Savitch, Director of the Music Partners Division and the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra
Nominate the Conservatory to "Make Good Art"
 The Conservatory recently entered our name into a Brooklyn-based competition through GOOD, a multi-purpose collective of advocates for anything, well, good. This particular incentive goes by the name of the "Make Good Art Challenge," the objective of which is to sponsor a program that inspires the community through art. The Conservatory has chosen to feature our Teen R&B choir as a community-driven program with a focus on enriching the lives of its younger members. The $5000 given by GOOD could provide 2-year scholarships to the Teen R&B Choir for 12 low-income students. The students will be chosen from schools involved in our Music Partners program, as well as the Achievement First Charter School Network and the Brooklyn High School for the Arts. We will be able to reach out to these schools and recruit talented and enthusiastic singers, regardless of financial situation.The winner is selected on a vote-based system. All you need to do is click on our program page and vote!
BEAT Festival: Supporting Theatre Arts in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is proud to be a participant of the first annual BEAT Festival, the flagship event of Brooklyn Emerging Artists in Theatre (BEAT). The borough-based organization has dedicated itself to promoting and presenting diverse, high-quality productions for Brooklyn artists and audiences alike. The festival, which goes from September 12-23, features performances of all kinds, from plays to dance performances. We at the Conservatory have offered our own Conservatory Concert Hall for use, and will be home to several events during the week-long festival. Events taking place at the Conservatory include theatre productions of Radha Blank's HappyFlowerNail (September 21), the Irondale Ensemble's Caesar Rendered (September 15), and Theatre Group Dzieci's Makbet (September 23), as well as choreography performances by Marshall Davis, Jr. (September 16), Kimberly Bartosik (September 13), and Courtney Giannone (September 18). We will also be featuring an opera performance produced by American Opera Projects and Brooklyn's own Opera on Tap (September 19). For more information and a full schedule for the festival, visit the BEAT website.
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A Body of Music: Resolve During the Olympics
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The Muses on Mt. Helicon. Just a 4-hour drive from Mt. Olympus
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During the Olympics, we saw a major spike in the near idolization of the human body. Does that mean the musicians of our time are being left out in the cold? Does the Olympic athlete leave any room for the Olympic musician?Turns out the two aren't so far apart, at least in the eyes of the Ancient Greeks, who created the games in the first place. One finds that what has become the world-famous cultural phenomenon of the Olympics, was really only one part of a sprawling, multi-disciplined cycle of events called the Panhellenic Games. Under this grouping of the Panhellenic Games was a subset called the Pythian Games, where contestants participated in competitions featuring the flute and the kithara, an ancient predecessor of the harp. The winners, though rewarded usually with no more than a laurel twig, were objects of the same glory that comes in such volumes for athletes today.
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Music Therapy Corner
Music Therapy has been shown to be a strong form of therapy for patients with Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia and other degenerative cognitive impairments involving memory. A youtube video showing an elderly man in a wheelchair coming alive at the sounds of his favorite music from an ipod has gone viral in the past few months. His response is beautiful to watch and speaks to the way the brain connects emotional memory with other brain function. Please read this article from Connie Tomaino which discusses the deeper process that can ensue when a trained music therapist is involved.
Toby Williams, Director of Music Therapy
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BCM Awards
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Receives Award to Experiment with Engaging Jazz Audiences
 The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music has been chosen as one of six organizations across the U.S. to implement data from the Jazz Audiences Initiative (JAI) study in their everyday practices of presenting and producing jazz. Theory-to-practice experiments will begin in the fall of 2012. Among some of the artists being presented as part of the Conservatory's experiment are Rudresh Mahanthappa on September 20th, and Vijay Iyer on October 22nd. Both artists are 2012 DownBeat Critics Poll Winners: Rudresh Mahanthappa for Alto Saxophone, and Vijay Iyer in a record-breaking five wins for Jazz Artist of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year ("Accelerando"), Jazz Group of the Year (for the Vijay Iyer Trio), Pianist of the Year, and Rising Star Composer. Vijay Iyer is also one of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's inaugural class of "Doris Duke Artists."
This award will allow the Conservatory the flexibility to experiment with the concert series by transforming our venue into an intimate jazz club setting, presenting cutting-edge jazz artists and offering related educational events in conjunction with the concerts. It is our hope that through these efforts that we will be able to engage new jazz audiences. The Conservatory is thankful to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Jazz Arts Group's Jazz Audiences Initiative for this exciting opportunity.
For more information on the experiments or to review the JAI data, visit
www.jazzartsgroup.org/jai. See the Conservatory's full press release here.
-Elly Erickson, Director of Institutional Giving
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Pete's Program Pick
Music Adventures Festival (August 20-24)
Children ages 18 months to four years will love this exciting week of music and other art forms and activities. This innovative program encourages children and parents to discover the joy of creative expression through music, dance, and related arts. Children play instruments and use props in an engaging and progressive setting while you and your child have fun exploring musical traditions from around the world. Rhythm, dance, rhymes and lots of instrument play engage you and your young musician on an exciting musical adventure. The week will culminate in a big family party!
-Pete Robbins, Dean of Programs
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Make a Gift to the Conservatory
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 the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music at 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Contributions to BCM, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, are tax deductible.
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Our Supporters
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, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Jazz Audiences
Initiative, 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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