Member News
Camerata Pacifica recently announced its 2013/2014 chamber music season. Please visit www.cameratapacifica.org for information on programs, musicians, dates, and venues.
Flutist Peter H. Bloom reports that Noteworthy Sheet Music has published his flute transcription of Fantaisie Opus 124 by Camille Saint-Saëns. The piece, originally for violin & harp, is frequently performed by Bloom and harpist Mary Jane Rupert in thier global tours as the duo "2".
Zachary Preucil, our 2013 festival intern, has literally grown up with Midsummer's Music. Read his reminiscences in today's Peninsula Pulse: http://www.ppulse.com/Articles-Performances-c-2013-06-05-108574.114136-Growing-Up-with-Midsummers-Music.html
Noteworthy Sheet Music is delighted to welcome the newest contributor to our online sheet music catalog – Mary Jane Rupert, pianist & harpist. We've recently published Dr. Rupert's outstanding arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Suite Op.71a, The Nutcracker for flute & piano.
New Music Express posted our outdoor MUZIKALISHER TANGO clip (we play Music at Abe Lebewohl Park again 6/20) & Protest Music blogged bandleader Eve Sicular's essay on Triangle Fire Yiddish ballads, plus our video: http://www.protestmusic.org/tag/metropolitan-klezmer/
We've mixed down wonderful concert tracks from April's Metropolitan Klezmer set at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. Thanks to recording engineer David Merrill, our next CD is on the way!
Grantee Spotlight, LowerManhattanCulturalCouncil!
http://www.lmcc.net/news/grantee_spotlight/spotlight_june_grantee_spotlight/
TimeOut NY Pick:
http://timeout.com/newyork/gay-lesbian/isle-of-klezbos-15th-annual-klezbigay-pride-show
On Thursday 6/26 Isle of Klezbos plays two boroughs: daytime for the Brooklyn Public Library's wonderful Central Branch "Lunchapalooza" outdoor series at Grand Army Plaza; and evening at an avant garde music salon on Manhattan's Lower East Side -- Spectrum is a post-modern listening venue in a former synagogue loft.
Double headers & exciting outdoor concerts in June: Two shows next week! Isle of Klezbos debuts at The Jewish Museum for Museum Mile Festival on Tuesday 6/11; then we celebrate our fifteenth annual KlezBiGay Pride show, with Tony-nominated MC Lisa Kron at El Sol Brillante Garden (rain location JCC Manhattan), Wednesday 6/12.
We have just finished recording a Concertante for Piano, Violin & Strings with the Orchestra of the Swan & conductor, Kenneth Woods. This will form part of another relase on Nimbus records towards the end of the year.
