Family Workshop
CARTOONING & MUSIC MAKING

Sunday, October 30, 2011
10 am
Shorefront Y
3300 Coney Island Avenue
FREE

Art and music teachers with the Brooklyn Phil Chamber Players lead children through this exciting and creative workshop for families.

A week before the Brooklyn Phil and members of the local Brighton Beach community bring to life the famous 1969 Russian cartoon, families at this workshop will read the original Brothers Grimm story, The Bremen Town Musicians. Participants will learn how to draw cartoons and compose original music using this classic folktale as inspiration. A quartet of Brooklyn Phil musicians finishes off the afternoon with a performance of the children’s work.

Chamber Concert
DOVLATOV’S DAYS IN NY: A LIFE IS TOO SHORT

Sunday, October 30, 2011
5 pm
Shorefront Y
3300 Coney Island Avenue
$13 & $15
Note: This program will be conducted entirely in Russian.

A co-production of the Shorefront Y: Irina Volkovich, Artistic Director, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic: Alan Pierson, Artistic Director. Script by Irina Volkovich.

The cultural center at the Shorefront YM-YWHA and Brooklyn Philharmonic will join the celebration of iconic Soviet émigré writer Sergei Dovlatov’s 70-year anniversary by co-producing a special event titled A Life is too Short. This will be an evening of literature, music, and documentary images dedicated to Sergei Dovlatov.

The program will take place at the Shorefront YM-YWHA on October 30, 2011 and will weave together readings of Dovlatov’s prose, personal recollections from his widow, fellow writers and journalists, and music by Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. The evening will also include a visual arts presentation and photo exhibit.

Full Orchestra Concert
RUSSIAN CARTOON MUSIC

Thursday, November 3, 2011
8 pm
Millennium Theater
1029 Brighton Beach Avenue
(Subway B, Q to Brighton Beach station)
or Valet Parking at theater
$20-$55

The Brooklyn Philharmonic launches its yearlong journey through the diverse neighborhoods of New York’s largest and most vibrant borough in Brighton Beach. The Brooklyn Phil, local Russian artists, and legendary Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm team up to bring 70 years of great Russian animation back to the big screen and onto the concert stage for the first time.

With great scores by Shostakovich and Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian actors voicing much loved Soviet era cartoon characters, and an award-winning new Russian cartoon, Only Love, taking a tongue-in-cheek look back at the Soviet era, the first orchestral performance of the Brooklyn Phil’s relaunch season promises an entertaining and wholly original concert experience.

Advisory: These are adult-themed cartoons; parental guidance suggested.

Featuring:
Alan Pierson, conductor

Program:
Gennady Gladkov arr. Zhurbin, One Destiny to Share from The Bremen Musicians (film by Inessa Kovalevskaya) (1969)
Dmitri Shostakovich, The Silly Little Mouse (film by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky) (1939)
Beethoven, Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 3 (with Akop Kirakosyan’s film Doom) (1804)
Vyacheslav Artyomov arr. Zhurbin, Boy is a Boy (film by Natasha Golovanova) (1986)
Moisei Vainberg arr. Zhurbin, Winnie Pooh Goes Visiting (film by Fyodor Khitruk) (1971)
Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, Only Love (film by Lev Polyakov) (2008)
Gennady Gladkov arr. Zhurbin, suite from The Bremen Musicians (film by Inessa Kovalevskaya) (1969)

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