Events http://www.york.cuny.edu These are the search results for the query, showing results 31 to 45. Storytelling Day http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/storytelling-day La soberbia culebra comes to York College. Performers:
  • Emely Grisanty
  • Xiomara Cintrón
  • Aída Alvarez
  • Sully Bonnelly

Live Music by: Carlos David Bernales

This event is organized by Prof. Margarita Drago and the students of Span 230 (Literature for Children and Adolescents)

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanities Current Student 2012-11-19T18:53:34Z Event Stomp The Yard York College Edition http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/stomp-the-yard Step and Roll Competition Come and Stomp the Yard with the finest Sororities and Fraternities in the tri-state area.

This event is Free, Free, Free!!!

Call for your Free tickets.

Vince: 917-318-1070 

Jernelle: 917-413-3245

Sheineka: 516-633-6410       

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance 2007-04-11T17:16:45Z Event Stefon Harris- Vibraphone & Jacky Terrasson - Piano http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/stefon-harris-vibraphone-jacky-terrasson-piano The collaboration of these two dynamic young musicians is sure to provide a night of Jazz experience to be relished and remembered. sharris

Vibraphonist-composer Stefon Harris is heralded as "one of the most important young artists in Jazz (The Los Angeles Times)." Stefon Harris' passionate artistry, energetic stage presence, and astonishing virtuosity have propelled him into the forefront of the current jazz scene. Widely recognized and lauded by both his peers and Jazz critics alike, Harris is committed to both exploring the rich potential of Jazz composition and blazing new trails on the vibraphone.

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Jacky Terrasson was born in Berlin to a French father and an American mother, he was raised in Paris and began studying classical piano at the age of five. Terrasson first drew widespread attention after winning the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition in 1993, where his performance was judged by such luminaries as Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, and Marian McPartland. By the mid-90's, pianist Jacky Terrasson was being hailed as one of the bright young lions on the traditional jazz scene. His self-titled 1995 debut for Blue Note Records drew high praise from all corners of the jazz world.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Performing Arts Public 2009-08-26T21:05:00Z Event Speak Out - Dec 9th http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/speak-out4 The York College Theatre Presents, Speak Out. Speak Out brings to life the impassioned words of extraordinary Americans from our country's history.  Hear them fight for dignity, justice, and freedom, as they create for us a truer understanding of patriotism and a deeper meaning of the American flag that represents us all.

Speak Out
]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Current Student 2008-07-23T21:35:00Z Event Speak Out http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/copy_of_speak-out4 A very special, culminating Black History Month Event, Sponsored by the Cultural Diversity Program. Speak Out features the impassioned words of extraordinary Americans: Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sojourner Truth, Barbara Jordan, Bobby Seale, Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer and many other American activist voices that have spoken out in order to establish a more perfect union.

Speak Out, performed by the students of York College, makes a triumphant return to York after an appearance at Manhattan's prestigious Bowery Poetry Club.  Speak Out is adapted and directed by Tom Marion with musical direction by Jonathan Quash

Speak Out

 It is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.
]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Current Student Public 2008-07-23T21:35:00Z Event Salt Chocolate 8PM http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/salt-chocolate A Musical Drama General Admission: $20

Students & Seniors: $10

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]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Performing Arts Public 2007-08-28T16:55:00Z Event Salt Chocolate 2PM http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/salt-chocolate-2pm A Musical Drama General Admission: $20

Students & Seniors: $10

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]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Performing Arts Public 2007-08-28T16:55:00Z Event Robert Sims & Alison Buchanan – An Evening of Opera http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/robert-sims-alison-buchanan British soprano Alison Buchanan has been praised for her musical versatility and enjoys a busy international career singing opera, recitals, chamber music, oratorio and orchestral concerts. Robert Sims, Gold Medal winner of the American Traditions Competition, has been hailed by critics for his rich tone, energetic performances, and convincing stage presence. alison b

Alison has performed with New York City Opera (Bess in Porgy & Bess and Elvira in Don Giovanni), Opera company of Philadelphia, Michigan Opera, and Wexford Opera, she has performed under the batons of Sir. Simon Rattle, Sir. Colin Davis, Donald Runnicles, and David Agler to name but a few, with orchestra’s such as the Royal Philharmonic, the Philippines Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra.

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Mr. Sims has been highly praised for his moving interpretations of African American spirituals, and has given numerous recitals of them throughout the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has appeared with many orchestras in the U.S., and toured Japan with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra where he was featured in a nationally televised performance of Bernstein's Opening Prayer. In 2005, Sims made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall and was invited by Jessye Norman to participate in Honor!

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Performing Arts Public 2009-08-24T16:05:00Z Event Reflections of Monk http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/reflections-of-monk A Black History Month Musical Celebration of the Life and Music of Thelonious Monk. Come see the Epistrophy Quintet featuring Soprano Saxophonist Sean Juan, Narrative by Ameera.

Monk

Thelonious Monk

This is Free and open to the public.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Performance Performing Arts Public 2010-01-29T16:20:00Z Event Reel Masters http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/events/reel-masters A LIVE TV Studio Broadcast. The best student projects will be voted on LIVE and someone will walk away the REEL Master!

Watch at yorkcommtech.net

VOTE by: Text, Twitter and Facebook

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance School of Arts and Sciences Current Student 2012-05-09T20:17:57Z Event Quintet of the Americas - Orchestra http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/quintet-of-the-americas-orchestra The Quintet of the Americas is one of the Western Hemisphere's finest chamber ensembles. The Washington Post has called their performances, "Musical dialogue at the highest level" and Japan's InTune Magazine has written about them. "Their virtuosity, balances, articulation and intonation mark them as one of the world's top wind quintets. I have never heard finer playing." The Quintet is in residence in the Department of Music and Performing Arts in the Steinhardt School at New York University. Long recognized as   leading interpreters of folk and contemporary wind quintet music of North and South America, this season the Quintet celebrates the 27th anniversary of its founding. The group's mission is to broaden the knowledge and appreciation of woodwind chamber music from the Western Hemisphere by performing contemporary, classical and folk-derived music from the diverse cultural traditions of the Americas, and the performance, commissioning and recording of woodwind quintets and related chamber music. They were one of only two groups nationwide to receive a 2002 NEA/Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant for Judith St. Croix who wrote a piece for the Quintet's native American instrument collection. 

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Edward R. Gilmore, Clarinetist  
Sato Moughalian, Flutist
Barbara Oldham, Horn Player
Matt Sullivan, Oboist
Laura Koepke, Bassoonist
]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Performance Performing Arts Public 2009-08-24T15:15:00Z Event Poetry reading by John A. WIlliams http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/poetry-reading-by-john-a.-williams Celebrate National Poetry Month by coming to hear historian and poet John A. Williams read from his recent poetry collection, Skipping Stones: Lyric Essays and Poems. Mr. Williams is Professor Emeritus of History at The State University of New York at Stony Brook.

]]> No publisher James Papa Current Student English Performance 2011-03-24T18:25:00Z Event Poetry Reading http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/poetry-reading-1 Celebrate the end of National Poetry Month with English Department Faculty as they read their poetry. No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student English Performance Student Development 2011-04-12T16:51:56Z Event Play: Tribulaciones de una Negrita Acomplejá http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/play-tribulaciones-de-una-negrita-acompleja Tribulaciones de una Negrita Acomplejá is an exploration of African identity in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. An original excerpt of this play was experimentally presented as a work in progress as part of a performance panel of Latina solo performers for the Latino Artists Round Table (LART) conference celebrated in New York in 2003. It was fully developed into its actual version thanks to the Instituto de Arte y Teatro Internacional playwriting workshop. Lágrimas Negras delves into the traditions of melodrama, radio soap operas, tabloids, and gossip shows to look at a life of tribulation as experienced by a young black woman, unknowingly the product of an interracial marriage. Play in Spanish. Synopsis in English.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Performance 2007-03-07T14:16:51Z Event Pianist Vanessa Perez http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/pianist-vanessa-perez Venezuelan-American pianist Vanessa Perez  

Vanessa Perez

This event is Free! and open to the public.

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