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Brooklyn Music Beat

Friday, November 16, 2012

Conservatory News

An Afternoon of Music and Mystery at the Museum

On Saturday, November 17 at 4:00pm, our very own Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra will host a very special event with our friends at the Brooklyn Museum. For an afternoon of family music, the Orchestra will give a performance of The Composer is Dead, a piece that mixes world-class orchestration with a murder mystery! Released in 2009, the piece was written by composer Nathaniel Stookey and writer Lemony Snicket. Joining the BCCO to narrate the tale is Broadway's own Gannon McHale. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. For tickets to this incredible event, visit www.zerve.com/BQCMusic/Orchest.

An Exciting Partnership on the Horizon

The Conservatory is very proud to bring news of our new partnership with one of jazz's finest, vocalist Nicole Henry. Already an established voice in the jazz community, Henry has received praise everywhere from New York to Russia and Japan. She has recently, however, set her sights on the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music! Nicole will be taking time this winter to teach some lucky Conservatory students the secrets behind her stunning jazz performances. Also, On November 27, you can join Nicole at the famous Joe's Pub in the East Village for a very special night of entertainment, with a portion of the proceeds going directly to the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Click here for tickets.

Give the Gift of Jazz to a Conservatory Student

On December 2, the Brooklyn Jazz Orchestra will give a performance of the famed Nutcracker Suite by legendary composers Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. The concert will feature such artists as the Grammy-nominated vocalist Carla Cook, and Jazz at Lincoln Center's Vincent Gardner on trombone. As an added bonus to an already great show, BJO bandleader Paul Francis, in conjunction with our Music Partners program, is giving his audience the opportunity to give a little extra. Each person buying a ticket in advance has the option to pay an added fee that would not only get the buyer into the show, but would also admit one student from the Conservatory. Give students in your community a special, musical experience they otherwise couldn't afford. Click here for tickets and look for the "Holiday Gift Ticket" option.

It's Babar Like You've Never Seen Him Before

What do you get when you put together an elephant, cabaret theatre and a theramin? Find out this Tuesday, 7:00 at P.S. 321, for a cutting-edge production of The Story of Babar the Elephant. In 1940, when the daughter of French composer Francis Poulenc expressed dislike for her father's own music, she put a copy of a Babar the Elephant book upside down on his music stand and asked him to play it. Here is the result. Featuring the talents of pianist Simone Dinnerstein, thereminist Pamelia Kurstin, and actor Alvin Epstein, this is sure to be an evening of unforgettable, surprising entertainment. The event is curated by Neighborhood Classics, a group of parents, teachers and musicians who bring fun, quality music to schools like P.S. 321. The Conservatory is very proud to have provided P.S. 321 over the years with band, violin and early childhood music programs through our Music Partners division. Many of our own Conservatory students are also alumni of the school, and some are even current students. Please click here for more information on Neighborhood Classics, and don't forget to buy a ticket to what is sure to be a fun-filled evening.

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, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Impact Funding Trust, Music for Youth Fund of UJA-Federation of New York, National Guild for Community Arts Education/MetLife Foundation, Neighborhood Improvement Association, New York Community Trust, 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 New York City Department for the Aging, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, The Offices of New York City Council Members Mathieu Eugene, Vincent Gentile, Sara González, Daniel Halloran, Peter Koo, Brad Lander, Stephen Levin, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.