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Greetings!
We're pleased to present you with CTMD's
Global Beat
of the Boroughs eNewsletter featuring
news
from
New York's traditional music scene, artist
profiles and
information on CTMD-related events. Each month
we'll provide
information on
events around town and highlight the people
working
to preserve the rich cultural heritage of New
York's
immigrant communities.
Master Artist Profile & New York World Festival September 16
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Amalia Papastefanou Live at New York World Festival
CTMD, World Music Institute and Central Park
SummerStage are pleased to
present the upcoming
New
York World Festival: Music Around the
Mediterranean
on Sunday, September
16th
from
1:30PM-7:00PM at Central Park's SummerStage. The
New York World Festival brings top
international
performing artists together with New York-based
artists for a meeting of cultures from around
the
Mediterranean.
This spectacular event
will
showcase the rich traditions of Morocco,
Greece and
Spain with an extraordinary line-up of artists:
Hassan Hakmoun, the premier exponent of
Moroccan Gnawa music in America performing
ecstatic music and dance from Gnawa trance
ceremonies; Orchestra of Tangier, a
leading
Moroccan ensemble specializing in Andalusian
music; legendary Greek island singer Amalia
Papastefanou with master clarinetist
Lefteris
Bournias; Pontic lyra player
Christos
Tiktapanidis; and the masked Dimonis
d'Albopas from the Balearic Islands of
Spain, who
will open the concert portion of the show with a festive
and
colorful parade of
masked "demons," drummers and
bagpipers.
The day begins with Special
Workshops in Gnawan devotional
music (by Hassan Hakmoun) and Greek Island
Dance (led by Demetri
Tashie along with Anastasia Tsantes, Nikos
Mavromihalis and Vaya Alayianis
from the Greek American Folklore Society). Central
Park
SummerStage is at the Rumsey Playfield,
mid-park at
69th Street. Suggested donation is $10.
The Schedule for the Festival is as
follows:
1:30-
2:10 Gnawa Devotional Music Workshop with Hassan
Hakmoun 2:15-
2:55 Greek Dance Workshop 2:00-
3:00
Procession with Dimonis d'Albopas 3:00-3:15
Concert: Dimonis d'Albopas 3:30-4:15 Concert:
Orchestra of Tangier 4:30-4:45 Concert:
Christos
Tiktapanidis 4:45-5:30 Concert: Amalia
Papastefanou 5:45-6:45 Concert: Hassan
Hakmoun
Our
Master Artist Profile for this
month is of
Amalia Papastefanou, a Greek Island
singer
whose recordings and radio performances in
Greece
have been hugely influential since they were
released
in the 1960s. We are pleased and honored that
this
distinguished artist will be performing at
the New
York World Festival, which will coincide
with the
release of her first new recording in
forty-five years. To
learn more about Amalia, please click on the
link
below for an article by CTMD's Eileen Condon,
Ph.D.:
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Upcoming Events
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We hope to see you at some of these exciting presentations:
Saturday, September 15: CTMD Touring
Artists
McCollough Sons of Thunder perform shout
gospel
with their brass band ensemble as part of the
One
World Arts and Culture Festival, Paramount
Center for
the Arts, Peekskill, NY. For more information
see the
Paramount
Center for the Arts website. (12noon-6:00PM)
Sunday, September 16: New York World
Festival — Music around the Mediterranean
A collaboration with World Music
Institute and
Central Park SummerStage featuring Moroccan
Gnawa singer Hassan
Hakmoun, Orchestra of
Tangier, legendary Greek island singer Amalia
Papastefanou, Greek clarinetist Lefteris
Bournias,
Pontic Greek lyra player Chris
Tiktapanidis and
Dimonis
d'Albopas from the Balearic Islands of
Spain. Central Park SummerStage (1:30-7:00PM)
Thursday, September 20: CTMD Touring
Artists
Retumba present Afro-Caribbean music and
dance at
University of
Wisconsin in Eau Claire. For
more information see University
website
Friday, September 21: Mariachi
Workshop/Lecture/Demonstration with members
of
Sol De Mexico and Real de Mexico. Bring your
instrument! At Hunter College Lang Auditorium
(695
Park Ave., 4th floor, North at 68th and
Lexington). Free
admission. (6PM)
Saturday, September 22: Mariachi
Festival
at Town Hall (123 w 43rd St. between
Broadway
and 6th Ave.) featuring Jose Hernandez and
Mariachi
Sol de Mexico with special guests Mariachi
Real de
Mexico, Mariachi Oro de Mexico, Mariachi
Instrumental
de Mexico, Raices de Mexico dance group and
students of the Mariachi Academy of New York.
Tickets
available through Ticketmaster. For more
information
go to the Festival
website (8PM)
Saturday, September 22: CTMD
Touring Artists La Cumbiamba eNeYe
perform in
the Latin Fiesta Hispanic Music Festival at the
Pennsylvania Convention Center Auditorium in
Philadelphia for more information go to the Festival
website(performances at 2:30pm and
7:30pm).
Wednesday, September 26th: Opening
reception for the photographic exhibition
Voices
and Images from Bulgaria 1966. An exhibit of
historic photographs taken by CTMD co-founder
Martin Koenig that was recently shown in Sofia,
Bulgaria. Presented by CTMD in collaboration
with the
Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria.
At the
Bulgarian Consulate General, 121 E 62nd St.
(between Lexington and Park Ave.). (5:00PM to
8:00PM)
Friday, September 28: Special Concert to
launch the
fourth
year of Pachamama Peruvian Arts featuring
demonstrations of Peru's performing arts by
master
teachers at PS 212, 34-25 82nd Street, Jackson
Heights, Queens (7:00-10:00PM)
Saturday, September 29:
Vechornytsi
(Ukrainian village social dance), a program
of CTMD's
new Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural
Initiative.
Join dance leader Tamara Chernyakhovska in
learning Ukrainian folk dances. Music by Andriy
Milavsky and Cheres at Ukrainian East Village
Restaurant, 140 Second Ave. between 8th and 9th
Streets in Manhattan. (Instruction
7:30-8:15PM; Dance
party 8:30-11:00PM).
Sunday, September 30: Yiddish Dance
Classes begin in
collaboration with
the 92nd Street Y. Eight, three-hour
intensive sessions
will be
taught by Walter Zev Feldman and other master
dance
leaders on the following Sundays:
September
30, October 21, November 18, January 20,
February
17, March 30, April 27, and June 1.
For more information and registration see the 92nd St. Y website.
Friday, October 7: Pachamama Peruvian
Arts fall semester of classes in a
variety of music
and dance forms begin weekly at PS 212
(3:30-6:30PM)
Thursday, October 11: First monthly
Tantshoyz (Dance House) in
collaboration with
the JCC in Manhattan & Workmen's Circle. Yiddish
dance led by Zev Feldman with live klezmer
music.
Dancers of all skill levels welcome. At
the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at
76th
Street (7:00-10:00PM)
Saturday, October 13: CTMD
Touring Artists
EastRiver Ensemble perform at the
University of
Albany Performing Arts Center, Albany NY. For
more
information see the University
website (8:00pm).
Friday, October 19: CTMD Ukrainian
Wave
presents a Canadian-Ukrainian Prairie
Band
Music Concert featuring tsymbaly
(hammered
dulcimer)
player/ethnomusicologist Brian
Cherwick at the Ukrainian Museum (222 E 6th St
between 2nd and 3rd Ave) (7:30PM).
Saturday, October 20: CTMD Ukrainian
Wave presents a special Vechornytsi
(Ukrainian Village Social Dance) featuring
Canadian-Ukrainian
Prairie music from Alberta. Led by
tsymbaly
(hammered dulcimer) player/ethnomusicologist
Brian
Cherwick and folk dance scholar/dance master
Andriy
Nahachewsky. Ukrainian East Village
Restaurant, 140 Second Ave. between 8th and 9th
Streets in Manhattan. (Instruction
7:30-8:15PM; Dance
party 8:30-11:00PM).
Monday, October 22: CTMD Ukrainian
Wave presents a lecture/presentation on
Canadian-Ukrainian prairie music hosted by the
Columbia University Ukrainian Studies Program
(noon).
Thursday, November
1: Second monthly
Tantshoyz (Dance House) in
collaboration with
the JCC in Manhattan & Workmen's Circle. Yiddish
dance led by Zev Feldman with live klezmer
music.
Dancers of all skill levels welcome. At
the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at
76th
Street (7:00-10:00PM)
Friday, November 9: CTMD Ukrainian
Wave
presents an Armistice Day Concert
featuring Ukranian songs and poetry
reflecting on the
First World War at the Ukrainian Museum (222
E 6th St
between 2nd and 3rd Ave) (7:30PM).
Friday, November 9: CTMD Touring
Artists Vodou Drums of Haiti perform at
Bergen
Community College's Anna Maria Ciccone
Theater in
Paramus, NJ. For more information see the College website
(7:30pm)
Wednesday, November 14: CTMD Touring
Artists
Thunderbird Dancers at the Hostos Center
for Arts
and Culture in the Bronx. For more
information see the
Hostos Center website
Thursday, December 6: Third monthly
Tantshoyz (Dance House) in
collaboration with
the JCC in Manhattan & Workmen's Circle. Yiddish
dance led by Zev Feldman with live klezmer
music.
Dancers of all skill levels welcome. At
the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at
76th
Street (7:00-10:00PM)
Sunday, December 9: Yiddish Dance
Research Symposium A day-long session at
New York University featuring leading
researchers and practitioners of traditional
Yiddish
dance
along with scholars of Yiddish culture and
related
dance genres. In the evening prior to the
event, a
participatory
dance workshop will take place featuring leading
dance
teachers and a live klezmer band.
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New CTMD Yiddish Dance Classes at the 92St Y
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Workshops led by Walter Zev Feldman
CTMD announces a new partnership with
Manhattan's
92 St Y
to offer a series of Yiddish dance classes
beginning in
September led by Walter Zev Feldman.
Building on our hugely
successful monthly Tantshoyz
(dance
house)
series at the JCC in Manhattan, the 92 St. Y
classes
will provide intermediate and advanced
dancers with a
more in-depth
opportunity to explore classic Yiddish dances
such as
the sher, hora, freylekhs
and
bulgar. Special focus will also be
given to the
expressive power and gestures of solo dance.
Classes will feature live klezmer music
performed by
Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete
Rushefsky on
tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).
Eight,
three-hour
sessions
will be held from 2pm-5pm on the following
Sundays: September
30, October 21, November 18, January 20,
February
17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. To
register or for
more information, go to the 92nd
St. Y website
or call
Pete
Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36 or email
[email protected].
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Martin Koenig: Voices and Images from Bulgaria 1966
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Photo Exhibition at the Bulgarian Consulate
Forty-one years ago, CTMD co-founder Martin
Koenig, then in his mid-20s, went to
Bulgaria with
a letter from anthropologist Margaret Mead
introducing
him as an instructor of folk dance at Columbia
University/Barnard College and someone
interested in
observing and documenting Bulgarian traditions.
Martin worked in villages throughout the country
filming and recording different aspects of the
traditional culture.
CTMD is pleased to partner
with the Bulgarian Consultate General to
present an
exhibition of beautiful photographs resulting
from
Martin's travels. Entitled Voices and
Images
from Bulgaria 1966, the exhibit was
presented
in Sofia
by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture earlier
this year.
The show is about the fortuitous capturing of a
moment in time at the end of Balkan traditional
society - the transition to a modern society
was just
beginning, and he captured what no one
realized at
the time would be the final moments of that
millenia-
old society and way of life.
All are
invited to an opening reception on
Wednesday, September 26th at the Bulgarian
Consulate, 121 East 62nd St. (between
Lexington and
Park Avenues). The exhibition will continue
to be
shown by appointment at the Consulate through
October 17.
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Pachamama Open House September 28
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Free Concert and Start of Classes
CTMD's Pachamama Peruvian
Arts program is thrilled to offer free
classes of
traditional Peruvian music and dance at PS
212 in
Jackson Heights, Queens. On Friday,
September
28th from 7:30-10pm we are pleased hold
our fifth
Open House at PS 212 where we cordially
invite families to enjoy live music and dance
and all
new and returning students to register for
weekly
classes. This wonderful event will feature
our Master
Instructors demonstrating the artistic forms
we offer,
including: Luz Pereira, marinera
Lime�a and
resbaloza; Hector Morales,
caj�n; Rosa
Carhuallanqui, marinera norte�a and
Carapachos; Peter Apaza, marinera
Pune�a
and pandilla and Patricio Paucar, Andean
music.
Classes are open to children ages 7-14,
from all backgrounds and any neighborhood.
Children can meet with our instructors and
apply for
the class they are most interested in. This
event is
free and open to families with interested
children.
Pachamama's classes will begin on Friday,
October 5, 2007, from 3:30-6:30pm at PS 212,
Jackson Heights, New York. Fall classes
include:
caj�n (Afro-Peruvian box drum),
marinera
Lime�a (a flirtatious couples' dance from
Lima)
and marinera norte�a (a similar
couples dance
with faster footwork), and Andean music
(including
panpipes, flutes and Andean guitar). These
classes
will continue to meet on Fridays until
February 1, 2008,
when Pachamama students will offer
their first
presentation.
Spring classes begin
February
8, 2008 and will include: Advanced Andean
music and
caj�n, marinera Pune�a and
pandilla
(the elegant marinera from
southern Peru)
and carapachos (a ritual dance from the
Amazon). The Pachamama program will
conclude with a major student presentation on
June
20, 2008.
Last year's Pachamama
Peruvian
Arts students played to full houses at PS
212, as
well
as at the Queens Theater in the Park and
appeared
regularly on Channel 57, Queens.
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Ukrainian Vechornytsi Saturday September 29
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Presented by CTMD's Ukrainian Wave
CTMD's new Ukrainian Wave Community
Cultural
Initiative is pleased to present its
second
season of
monthly Vechornytsi (Ukrainian
village
social dances) at the Ukrainian East
Village
Restaurant (140 Second Ave. between 8th &
9th). The next Vechornytsi takes place
on
Saturday, September 29. Instruction in Ukrainian
social dances begins at 7:30PM until 8:15PM
followed by a dance party from 8:30-11PM.
Tamara
Chernyakhovska is our fabulous dance
instructor. Dancers of all ages (including
kids) and skill
levels are welcome. CTMD Touring Artists
Andriy
Milavsky
and the Cheres Ensemble provide the
music. And
if you liked the restaurant's varenyky
(dumplings), try the kasha varnishkas
(buckwheat groats with bowtie noodles)!
And
stay tuned... In October,
CTMD's Ukrainian Wave will be
presenting a series of events with western
Canadian-Ukrainian prairie polka music
and
dancing,
with special guests from Edmonton, Alberta:
tsymbaly (hammered dulcimer)
player and scholar Brian Cherwick, and Canadian-
Ukrainian folk dance scholar/dance master Andriy
Nahachewsky.
The brand new CTMD Ukrainian Wave
is
led by co-Artistic Directors Andriy Milavsky
and Julian
Kytasty and we're
still looking for volunteers interested in
helping with
programs!
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Mariachi Festival Saturday September 22nd
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Presented by the Mariachi Academy of New York
We're proud to announce that the Mariachi
Academy of New York, which was
founded by
CTMD through its Mexican Community Cultural
Initiative in 2002, is presenting New
York's first
Mariachi Festival in
partnership with
the Mexican Cultural Institute. A special
concert at
Town Hall (123 W 43rd St. between Broadway
and 6th
Ave.) at 8PM on Saturday, September 22nd will
feature
the legendary mariachi ensemble Sol de
Mexico�, directed by the "King of Mariachi"
Jos�
Hernandez in the New York debut of
�Mariachi!
The
Passion of Mexico which presents a
history of the
Mexican mariachi tradition from its
roots in rural
Jalisco to its transformation as the music of
the
Mexican Revolution and finally as the
national music of
Mexico.
This original presentation
will be
augmented
by at least 20 mariachi musicians from
three
New
York-based groups: Mariachi Real de Mexico,
Mariachi
Oro de Mexico, and Mariachi Instrumental de
Mexico
along with Raices de Mexico ballet folklorico
dance
group and a special guest appearance by
students of
the Mariachi Academy of New York , the
first
mariachi school on the east coast. All
proceeds from
the concert will go to support the East
Harlem-based
Mariachi Academy of New York, which
offers
free classes to youth ages 8-17. Tickets for
the concert
are $35/$45/$55/$65 and are available through
Ticketmaster.
Additionally, in a special workshop at
6PM on
Friday
September 21st at Hunter College's Lang
Auditorium
(695 Park Avenue, 4th floor, North at 68th and
Lexington), Members of Sol de Mexico� and
Real de
Mexico will demonstrate and discuss mariachi
style, instrumentation, repertoire,
offering insights
into the world of the Mariachi in the
U.S. and
Mexico. Bring your instrument!! Admission is
free to
the workshop, which is sponsored by the Graduate
Program in Ethnomusicology at Hunter College.
For more information on these events, visit
the Mariachi
Festival
website or send an email to
[email protected].
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Other Happenings...
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Alcatraz, an innovative ensemble that
combines Afro-
Peruvian rhythms and jazz is holding a CD
release
party at Rose, 345 Grand St. in Brooklyn on
Saturday,
September 15th from 9PM to 11PM. Alcatraz
features
Pachamama Peruvian Arts
instructors
and master
percussionists Marcos Napa and Hector
Morales.
Admission free, for more information visit
the Alcatraz
website
or the Rose
website.
On Monday, September 17 at 6PM, John D. Calandra
Italian American Institute at Queens College,
CUNY
presents a symposium entitled "Folk Music and
Modernity in Southern Italy." This
seminar, with
accompanying music and video, explores the
social
changes occurring in contemporary Naples and
southern Italy as presented in the theatrical
performance of "A Global Dionysus in Napoli:
The (Un)
real story of Marcello Colasurdo" at
Manhattan's La
Mama Experimental Theatre (September 21st-23rd
and 28th-30th). Some of the issues to be
discussed
as part of the symposium are: the musical
biography
of artist Marcello Colasurdo; the creation and
background of the performance "A Global
Dionysus in
Napoli"; the uses and changing meanings of
Southern
Italian folk music, in particular
tammuriata; folk
music as cultural resistance and a form of
collective
memory; the adaptation of social and political
materials to dramatic performances, among other
topics. This event is free and open to the
public and
will be held at the John D. Calandra Italian
American
Institute 25 W. 43rd St., 17th floor (between
5th & 6th
Avenues). For more information visit the Calandra
Institute
website.
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