Highlights for Families at Carnegie Hall (recommended for children ages 5–12)
- Time for Three—violinists Zachary De Pue and Nicolas Kendall and double bassist Ranaan Meyer—performs their unique mix of classical, jazz, gypsy, country, and pop in a Carnegie Hall Family Concert in Zankel Hall on Saturday, March 27 at 1:00 p.m. Click here to see the group perform. Tickets for Carnegie Hall Family Concerts, all priced at $9, also include a pre-concert activity beginning one hour prior to the concert. Charlotte Blake Alston—storyteller, narrator, and singer—will perform during this pre-concert activity.
- On Saturday, May 15 at 1:00 p.m. Polygraph Lounge, the zany artists who performed during The McGraw Hill Companies CarnegieKids programs this season, return to Zankel Hall for a Carnegie Hall Family Concert. This musical duo, made up of Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer, will help the audience answer the big musical question of the concert: “What is a sound maker?” Pre-concert activities, led by Polygraph Lounge, will begin one hour prior to the concert.
- Musicians from Ensemble ACJW will perform a Carnegie Hall Family Concert on Saturday, June 5 at 1:00 p.m. Charlotte Blake Alston—storyteller, narrator, and singer—will host the concert and some musicians from Ensemble ACJW will lead a pre-concert activity one hour prior to the concert. For a full schedule of Carnegie Hall Family Concerts, visit www.carnegiehall.org/familyconcerts.
Highlights of Carnegie Hall’s Public Programs in the Community:
(For a full list of Spring 2010 Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, see the listings below.)
- On Friday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m., the Moët Trio will perform a free Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert at the Garden School in Queens. The trio will also perform a second free Neighborhood Concert at the Central Library of the Brooklyn Public Library on Sunday, April 18 at 4:00 p.m. In demand equally as concert soloists and recitalists, Yuri Namkung, Yves Dharamraj, and Michael Mizrahi formed the Moët Trio in 2005 and have performed throughout the US extensively ever since.
- The Ben Allison Band performs a free Neighborhood Concert on Sunday, April 11 at 3:00 p.m. at the Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement. With his groups—the Ben Allison Band, Man Size Safe, Peace Pipe, and Medicine Wheel—Ben, along with his band mates have toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Brazil, building a wide international following. This group, made up of Ben Allison (bass), Steve Cardenas (guitar), Jenny Scheinman (violin), Shane Endsley (trumpet), and Rudy Royston (drums), was featured on Ben’s latest album, Think Free, released in October 2009.
- On Thursday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m., WMI presents a “Community Sing” led by Lila Downs at the Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education in the Bronx. Acclaimed for her performance of “Burn It Blue” on the soundtrack to the motion picture Frida, Lila Downs draws on her Mexican heritage by filling her music with rarely heard sounds of Mextec, Zapotec, Maya, and Nahueti cultures. Come join her and her band for this free “Community Sing” event! All ages and levels welcome. (Family Friendly)
- Virtuosic balafon (xylophone) player Famoro Dioubate and his West African band Kakande perform two free Neighborhood Concerts in Queens this season. On Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 p.m., they appear at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center of the Queens Library, and on Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. the group performs at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center. Beginning in the courts of West Africa in 1235, the balafon has electrified popular music. Kakande has updated this tradition and added its own groove.
- Percussion quartet So Percussion (Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting) comes to the Performance Project @ University Settlement on Wednesday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. to perform a free Neighborhood Concert. Since coming together at the Yale School of Music in 1999, So Percussion has been creating music that is both raucous and touching, barbarous, and refined. This concert features a collaborative work with video artist Jenise Treuting called “Imaginary City,” which the group describes as a “meditation on urban life and its sounds, architecture, light, and color.” The group’s latest collaboration with the electronic duo Matmos will culminate in a new album to be released on Cantaloupe Records in summer 2010.
- Celso Duarte Sextet performs on Friday, May 7 at 8:00 p.m. at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island. The sextet will also bring their Latin American roots and folkloric music to El Museo del Barrio on Saturday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. Celso Duarte, a Mexican virtuoso harpist, with a sextet of traditional, classically trained musicians and jazz players will play traditional music from Veracruz with jazz & African-rhythm influences.
- The Fisk Jubilee Singers return to lead their second “Community Sing” event in Harlem at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse on Tuesday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. The Fisk Jubilee Singers are vocal artists and students at Fisk University in Nashville who perform worldwide. In 1871, the original Jubilee Singers introduced “slave songs” to the world and were instrumental in preserving this unique American musical tradition known today as Negro spirituals. The Singers will also perform a free Neighborhood Concert on Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn. (Family Friendly)
The Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series is sponsored by Target.
For a complete schedule of Carnegie Hall Community Events throughout the season, please visit: www.carnegiehall.org/communityprograms.
The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall
The Weill Music Institute creates broad-reaching music education and community programs that play a central role in Carnegie Hall’s commitment to making great music accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Woven into the fabric of the Carnegie Hall concert season, these programs occur at Carnegie Hall as well as in schools and throughout neighborhoods, providing musical opportunities for everyone, from preschoolers to adults, new listeners to emerging professionals. With access to the world’s greatest artists and latest technologies, the Weill Music Institute is uniquely positioned to inspire the next generation of music lovers, to nurture tomorrow’s musical talent, and to shape the evolution of musical learning itself. The Weill Music Institute’s school and community programs annually serve over 115,000 children, students, teachers, parents, young music professionals, and adults in the New York metropolitan area and across the US, as well as 65,000 people around the world through its online and distance learning initiatives.
For more information, please visit: www.carnegiehall.org/exploreandlearn.
Program Information
Saturday, March 27 at 1:00 p.m. (*Family-friendly)
CARNEGIE HALL FAMILY CONCERT: TIME FOR THREE
Zankel Hall
Time for Three
Zachary De Pue, Violin
Nicolas Kendall, Violin
Ranaan Meyer, Double Bass
Time for Three is a young, dynamic trio of string musicians who transcend traditional performance genres, offering its own arrangements of both shorter classical works and popular hits from Brahms to the Beatles. Come listen to this classically trained garage band perform their unique mix of classical, jazz, gypsy, bluegrass, country, pop and hip hop!
Pre-concert activities will take place one hour before each performance and are free to all ticket holders.
Carnegie Hall Family Concerts are made possible, in part, by generous endowment gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse Jr., and the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund.
Tickets: $9
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Thursday, April 1 at 2:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: THE HARLEM QUARTET, A SPHINX ENSEMBLE
Kings Highway Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library
Auditorium
2115 Ocean Avenue (near Kings Highway)
Brooklyn, NY 11229
Public Phone: 718-375-3037
Tickets: Free
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Friday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MOËT TRIO
Garden School
33-16 79th Street
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Public Phone: 718-335-6363
Tickets: Free
Special thanks to the New York City Council for making this concert possible
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Saturday, April 10 at 3:00 p.m. (*Family-friendly)
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: FALU
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Public Phone: 718-638-5000
Tickets: Free
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Sunday, April 11 at 3:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: BEN ALLISON BAND
Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement
Playhouse
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
Public Phone: 212-598-0400
Tickets: Free
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Thursday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m. (*Family-friendly)
COMMUNITY SING: LILA DOWNS
Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education
928 Simpson Street
Bronx, NY 10459
Public Phone: 718-589-2230
Tickets: Free
The Carnegie Hall Community Partnership Program is supported by Ameriprise Financial.
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Sunday, April 18 at 4:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MOËT TRIO
Central Library of the Brooklyn Public Library
Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Public Phone: 718-230-2100
Tickets: Free
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Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: KAKANDE
Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center of the Queens Library
100-01 Northern Boulevard
Corona, NY 11368
Public Phone: 718-651-1100
Tickets: Free
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Tuesday, April 27 at 3:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: LIDIA KAMINSKA TRIO
Brighton Beach Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library
16 Brighton 1st Road
Brooklyn, NY 11235
Public Phone 718-946-2917
Tickets: Free
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Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: KAKANDE
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
153-10 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, NY 11432
Public Phone 718-658-7400 ext.100 Tickets: Free, but RSVP required by April 16 to 718-658-7400 ext.100 or info@jcal.org.
Special thanks to Council Member Leroy G. Comrie for making this concert possible.
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Saturday, May 1 at 2:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street
New York, NY 10037
Public Phone 212-491-2040
Tickets: Free, but RSVP is required. Limit 4 per person. (Accepting reservations beginning April 1)
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Wednesday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SO PERCUSSION
The Performance Project @ University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street (located at the corner of Eldridge Street and Rivington Street)
New York, NY 10002
Public Phone 212-453-4532
Tickets: Free, but RSVP is required.
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Friday, May 7 at 8:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: CELSO DUARTE SEXTET
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301
Public Phone 718-815-SNUG
Tickets: Free
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Saturday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: CELSO DUARTE SEXTET
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York, NY 10029
Public Phone 212-831-7272
Tickets: Free
Special thanks to New York State Senator José M. Serrano for making this concert possible.
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Thursday, May 13 at 8:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ETHEL
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center at LaGuardia Community College
The Little Theater
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
Public Phone 718-482-5151
Tickets: Free, but RSVP is required.
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Saturday, May 15 at 1:00 p.m. (*Family-friendly)
CARNEGIE HALL FAMILY CONCERT: POLYGRAPH LOUNGE
Zankel Hall
Polygraph Lounge
Mark Stewart
Rob Schwimmer
Join us for a concert filled with zany instruments as Polygraph Lounge inspires your whole family through virtuosic improvisation and song.
Pre-concert activities will take place one hour before each performance and are free to all ticket holders.
Carnegie Hall Family Concerts are made possible, in part, by generous endowment gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse Jr., and the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund.
Tickets: $9
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Tuesday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. (*Family-friendly)
COMMUNITY SING: FISK JUBILEE SINGERS
Harlem Stage Gatehouse
150 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street
New York, NY 10031
Public Phone 212-281-9240
Tickets: Free, but RSVP is required. Limit 2 tickets per person.
The Carnegie Hall Community Partnership Program is supported by Ameriprise Financial.
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Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m. (*Family-friendly)
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: FISK JUBILEE SINGERS
Emmanuel Baptist Church
279 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Public Phone 718-622-1107
Tickets: Free
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Saturday, June 5 at 1:00 p.m. (*Family-friendly)
CARNEGIE HALL FAMILY CONCERT: ENSEMBLE ACJW
Zankel Hall
Ensemble ACJW
Featuring musicians of The Academy — a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education
Explore the wide and wonderful world of music with Ensemble ACJW – made up of musicians of The Academy who inspire the music students of the NYC public schools.
Pre-concert activities will take place one hour before each performance and are free to all ticket holders.
Carnegie Hall Family Concerts are made possible, in part, by generous endowment gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse Jr., and the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund.
Tickets: $9
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Saturday, June 5 at 2:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MOËT TRIO
Flushing Branch of the Queens Library
41-17 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355
Public Phone 718-661-1200
Tickets: Free
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Sunday, June 6 at 5:00 p.m.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ENSEMBLE ACJW
Music at Our Saviour's Atonement (MOSA)
178 Bennett Avenue (one block west of Broadway & 189th St.)
New York, NY 10040
Public Phone 212-923-5757
Tickets: Free
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The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education—is made possible by a leadership gift from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Major funding has also been provided by Mercedes and Sid Bass, The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, The Irving Harris Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Kovner Foundation, Martha and Bob Lipp, Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse Jr., Judith and Burton Resnick, Susan and Elihu Rose, and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, with additional support from Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation, Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, Susan and Ed Forst, Mrs. Nancy A. Marks, Edward John Noble Foundation, The William Petschek Family, and Suki Sandler.
The Academy School Partnerships benefitting NYC public school students are made possible, in part, by Bank of America.
The Academy and Ensemble ACJW are made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Recovery Act, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.
Images from release (top to bottom): Photo by Stefan Cohen, Photo by Jack Vartoogian, and Photo by Stefan Cohen