Events http://www.york.cuny.edu These are the search results for the query, showing results 51 to 65. Clifton Anderson Quintet http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/clifton-anderson-quintet Clifton Anderson received his first trombone at age 7, a gift from his uncle, Sonny Rollins. He attended the prestigious Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, studied with Simon Karasick and Dave Schechter at Stony Brook University, and graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in 1978.

Clifton’s career reflects work with a “who’s who” of diverse musical giants including Frank Foster, McCoy Tyner, Clifford Jordan, Stevie Wonder, Dizzy Gillespie, Merv Griffin, The Mighty Sparrow, Lester Bowie, Paul Simon, Muhal Richard Abrams, WyClef Jean, and Dionne Warwick among others. Clifton’s Broadway credits include Dreamgirls and Nine.

Saturday, April 28, 2012 • 7:00 pm $20.00 Adults / $10.00 Students & Seniors

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]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Performing Arts Current Student Performance Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T18:55:00Z Event Jaleel Shaw Quartet http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/jaleel-shaw-quartet Jaleel Shaw sees his experiences of growing up in Philadelphia, attending the Berklee School of Music, and breaking out on the New York Jazz scene as all essential to shaping his music. Whether performing live or recording in the studio these influences resonate throughout his work.

Shaw provides a wonderful example of how jazz is done right. Critics say he is “the real deal”. The Philadelphia-based and Grammy nominated alto saxophonist delivers a level of maturity and awareness inspired by his long tenure with the Mingus Big Band and most recently, the Roy Haynes Quartet.

Friday, February 3, 2012 • 7:00 pm $20.00 Adults / $10.00 Students & Seniors

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]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Performing Arts Current Student Performance Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T18:05:00Z Event The Steve Kroon Sextet http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/the-steve-kroon-sextet Steve Kroon, studied Afro-Cuban percussion with Tommy López, Sr. and.. later Brazilian rhythms with Dom Um Romão and became a first-call percussionist for such diverse artists as Diana Krall, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, and many other distinguished artists His two decade-long professional association with R&B crooner Luther Vandross underscores Kroon’s reputation as one of the world’s most versatile and respected percussionists.

CUNYMonth]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Current Student Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T17:50:00Z Event Bobby Sanabria Big Band http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/bobby-sanabria-big-band Multiple Grammy nominated Bobby Sanabria Big Band with special guest NEA Jazz master Candido returns to York College!  It doesn't get any better than this!!!   Sanabria - drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, recording artist, producer, filmmaker, conductor, educator, multi-cultural warrior and multiple Grammy nominee – has performed with a veritable Who's Who in the world of jazz and Latin music, as well as with his own critically acclaimed ensembles.

His diverse recording and performing experience includes work with such legendary figures as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Charles McPherson, Mongo Santamaría, Ray Barretto, Marco Rizo, Arturo Sandoval, Roswell Rudd, Chico O'Farrill, Candido, Yomo Toro, Francisco Aguabella, Larry Harlow, Henry Threadgill, and the Godfather of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mario Bauzá. 

]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Current Student Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T17:15:00Z Event ZORA Returns To Harlem http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/zora-returns-to-harlem A one woman show about the life and times of Zora Neale Hurston starring NAACP Award Winner Antonia Badón In 1925 Zora Neale Hurston moved to Harlem and became the first black woman to study at Barnard College and attend Columbia University. Zora gained fame as a writer, pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance literary movement, and secured a Guggenheim Fellowship Award to study in Haiti, Jamaica and the Gulf Coast. Ultimately Zora became one of the world’s greatest literary figures.

NAACP winner and New Orleans-actress’ Antoniá Badón, brings Zora to life in this unique one-woman production which transcends time and place with fifteen character portrayals, music and song.

 

Saturday, February 11, 2012 • 3:00pm & 7:00pm $20.00 Adults / $10.00 Students & Seniors

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]]> No publisher Rafael Nunez Performing Arts Current Student Performance Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T16:25:00Z Event L'Aprile Concentrate http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/laprile-concentrate Hailed by the New York Times as a “flash of beauty and inspiration”, Dr. April Lynn James is a lyric mezzo-soprano with a PhD in Music from Harvard University. Her exhibit for the Loeb Music Library, In Her Own Hand: Operas Composed by Women 1625–1913, was the first in an American library on this subject. She specializes in 18th-century music, and spent a year in Germany, courtesy of a DAAD Annual Grant, researching the music and life of Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony.

April always wanted to grow up to be Errol Flynn. No surprise, then, that she now enjoys playing the gallant young men featured in 18th- century Italian opera, characters such as Cherubino, Idamante and Orfeo. Her performance awards include an Urban Artists Initiative/NYC Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant. In addition to the article in the Times, articles featuring her have appeared in the New York Daily News, Time Out New York and other publications.

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]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Performing Arts Current Student Performance Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T16:25:00Z Event Avalon String Quartet http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/avalon-string-quartet Described by the Chicago Tribune as “an ensemble that invites your ears, mind, and spirit into its music”, the Avalon String Quartet has established itself as one of the country's leading Chamber ensembles. Formed in 1995 at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Quartet came to the fore after participating in The Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall. In 1997 Stern invited the Avalon String Quartet to perform at The Chamber Music Encounters in Jerusalem and later presented the ensemble's Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall.

The quartet captured first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York in1999, and top prize at the ARD Competition in Munich in 2000.

]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Performing Arts Current Student Performance Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T15:55:00Z Event Adonis Gonzalez & Ilmar Gavilon http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/adonis-gonzalez-ilmar-gavilon Adonis Gonzalez (Pianist), whose playing has been described as of “inimitable elegance and of the highest virtuosity”, made his official debut with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Of Adonis Gonzalez, Mr Elterman of the German newspaper Esslingen Zeitung wrote: “(This) Cuban pianist can be described only in superlatives... (he) made the hall tremble with thunderous applause.” Violinist Ilmar Gavilon is a native of Cuba, where began his studies at the Havana Conservatory

of Music, studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and further advanced his training at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Spain, and the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Mr. Gavilán is currently a

Doctor of Music candidate at Rutgers University and is the first violin of the Harlem Quartet.

]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Current Student Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T15:25:04Z Event ZORA Returns To Harlem http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/zora-returns-to-harlem-evening A one woman show about the life and times of Zora Neale Hurston starring NAACP Award Winner Antonia Badón In 1925 Zora Neale Hurston moved to Harlem and became the first black woman to study at Barnard College and attend Columbia University. Zora gained fame as a writer, pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance literary movement, and secured a Guggenheim Fellowship Award to study in Haiti, Jamaica and the Gulf Coast. Ultimately Zora became one of the world’s greatest literary figures.

NAACP winner and New Orleans-actress’ Antoniá Badón, brings Zora to life in this unique one-woman production which transcends time and place with fifteen character portrayals, music and song.

 

Saturday, February 11, 2012 • 3:00pm & 7:00pm $20.00 Adults / $10.00 Students & Seniors

]]> No publisher Rafael Nunez Current Student Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T15:10:00Z Event The Lynching Of Emmett Till http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/the-lynching-of-emmett-till Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago Il, on July 25, 1941. Shortly after his birth, his parents Louis and Mamie separated leaving Mamie as the sole parent. In 1955, Emmett and his cousin went to visit family in Mississippi. His mother, conscious of the prejudice and racism rampant in Mississippi, instructed Emmett to “mind his manners” around white people. According to some, Emmett whistled at a white woman. Others say he grabbed her hand and asked for a date. Still others claim he said, “Bye, baby” as he left the store. What followed remains as one of the most brutal and senseless accounts of American racial violence in our history. The Lynching of Emmett Till explores the tragic death of this innocent and well-loved young boy and the powerful impact it had upon the emerging American Civil Rights movement.

 

Saturday, November 5, 2011 • 3:00pm & 7:00pm $20.00 Adults / $10.00 Students & Seniors

]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Current Student Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-22T14:50:00Z Event Vissi Dance Theater NYC Presents: THE HOARDE http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/vissi-dance-theater-nyc-presents-the-hoarde Come, see, hear and feel, with Vissi as they present The Hoarde, a visceral story about love, betrayal, death, vengeance, and redemption. This is a marriage of dance and theater at its finest. Choreographer Courtney Ffrench returns to York College with his company of highly-skilled dancers for a performance featuring his signature style that blends Modern, West African, Caribbean, Jazz and Ballet. Saturday, September 24, 2011 • 7:00pm $20.00 Adults / $10.00 Students & Seniors

Come, see, hear and feel, with Vissi as they present The Hoarde, a visceral story about love, betrayal, death, vengeance, and redemption. This is a marriage of dance and theater at its finest. Choreographer Courtney Ffrench returns to York College with his company of highly-skilled dancers for a performance featuring his signature style that blends Modern, West African, Caribbean, Jazz and Ballet.

Mission: The Vissi Dance Theater is committed to art and artists that use the gift of dance and drama to explore moral and social issues.Through art, the Vissi Dance Theater seeks to speak to the human condition, lift the spirit, ask questions, celebrate the joy of life, and reflect the truths of human nature.

Saturday, September 24, 2011 • 7:00pm $20.00 Adults / $10.00 Students & Seniors]]> No publisher Victor Lopez Current Student Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-08-17T14:05:00Z Event York College Big Band Spring Concert http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/york-college-big-band-spring-concert-1 Live music by York College students! No publisher Thomas Zlabinger Alumni Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Prospective Student Visitors 2011-05-09T19:37:10Z Event Arts at the Intersections: Social Science, Expression, & How to Create a Difference! http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/arts-at-the-intersections-social-science-expression-how-to-create-a-difference-1 York College Theatre TD Bank Leadership Outreach Series Intersections International Presents: Arts at the Intersections: Social Science, Expression, and How to Create a Difference! Moderator: Asst. Prof. of Theatre Tom Marion

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Tom Marion holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts (with Bill Esper), a Certificate of Vocal Coaching from The National Theatre Conservatory (with Tony Church), and an internship with The Royal Shakespeare Company (with Cecily Berry and Andrew Wade.) He is a Designated Teacher of Linklater Voice, a founding member of the Linklater Center for Voice and Language, and an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. He has taught at several studios and professional actor programs in NYC, including NYU, The Actors’ Center, Marymount Manhattan College, The New School, and Columbia University.

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Kim Schultz: Intersections International Arts Partner, she is an NYC based actress and playwright. Her latest play No Place Called Home, is based on her experience as the leading artist on a team sent to Syria, Lebanon & Jordan to meet with Iraqi refugees. The play had a nomadic run off-Broadway last year with Wild Project, 3LD and The Cell earned her a feature article in The New York Times: “Hope lay not in the arc of the play,but in the fact of it.”

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Fred Johnson: Arts Initiatives Fellow at Intersections International, he has spent the past 16 years presenting international seminars on the power of creative expression as a tool for personal wellbeing and healing. As a student for 9 years of a master teacher from the West African natural healing indigenous music traditions, he brings to the contemporary world a fusion of ancient sound traditions coupled with 21st century science on the power of the vibration universe.

Intersections International is a multi-cultural, multifaith,Manhattan-based non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting justice, reconciliation and peace.

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]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Performing and Fine Arts Student Development 2011-05-02T22:35:00Z Event Korea 21 Workshop and Performance http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/korea-21-workshop-performance Visiting musicians from Korea conduct workshop and give performance. KOREA 21: Music Here & Now

A Special Concert of 21st Century Korean Contemporary Traditional Music

Admissions is FREE!

Korean music that embraces the traditional and the modern, music that comes to life before your eyes!

The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism proudly presents the 4th annual concert, Korea 21: Music Here & Now in collaboration with Gugak FM Broadcasting System in Seoul and the Korean Performing Arts Center of NY [KTPAA]. A highlight of this event will be the select group of outstanding Korean traditional and popular music artists directly from Korea, which ranked in the top ten at the 2010 "21C Korean Music Project Competition," one of the most prestigious new music competitions in South Korea. AUX will present pumba, achieving great balance between Korean traditional music and popular music. 

SILK ROAD will present the blending of traditional Korean and old Silk Road music classics.

SILK ROAD invites the listeners to come along for the transmission and flow of invented space in an epic musical journey. A creative music group that brings continental Asian music roots and Korean music together.

AUX offers more of Korea, keeping a close contact with its audience. A free sould that crosses music's limits - Korean world music band.

For more information on Korea 21 and upcoming performance at Symphony Space on Wednesday, 5/4:

http://www.koreanculture.org/?document_srl=7902

]]> No publisher Thomas Zlabinger Performance Performing and Fine Arts Public 2011-04-29T15:40:00Z Event York College Music Club Dance '11 http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/york-college-music-club-dance-11 Live music by the York College Big Band!!! Food. Masks! DANCING!!! No publisher Thomas Zlabinger Alumni Performance Performing Arts Performing and Fine Arts Public Student Government Visitors 2011-04-28T12:17:39Z Event