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UPCOMING EVENTS:

Chamber Concert
SPIRITUALS, RAGS & STRINGS

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
7:00 pm
Dweck Center at Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
FREE

In 1892, H.T. Burleigh became one of the first African-American students admitted into the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. The spirituals he sang inspired the Conservatory’s visiting director, Antonín Dvořák, to write several masterpieces based on American themes, and to envision a rich and unique future for American music.

Now, the Brooklyn Phil Chamber Players team up with poet Tyehimba Jess in a concert that imagines these artists’ lives and stories, spinning out the legacy of this first link between African-American music and the symphonic tradition.

Special Event
2012 BENEFIT GALA

Thursday, May 24, 2012
6:30 pm
Steiner Studios, Stage 6
15 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Brooklyn Philharmonic Annual Gala, Musically Ever After, is delighted to honor Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and Gideon Gartner, two notable personalities in the worlds of music, culture and philanthropy. The Annual Gala plays an essential role in helping Brooklyn Phil continue to present a unique concert season and educational programming throughout the Brooklyn community. The evening will feature inspired cocktails, a delectable seated dinner featuring a special performance by Igudesman & Joo, and our inaugural after-party sponsored by The L Magazine and featuring a unique DJ set by Chris Keating (Yeasayer). This event will be hosted by John Schaefer, host of WNYC’s popular New Sounds and WQXR’s Soundcheck.

Please join us for this extraordinary one time only event!

 

For full details, please click here.

Family Workshop
EMCEE ME

Saturday, June 2, 2012
10 am
Restoration Plaza Community
1368 Fulton Street
FREE

The Brooklyn Phil Chamber Players and Readnex Poetry Squad team up for a workshop that introduces a new generation to the social power and cultural legacy of hip-hop and spoken word poetry. Participants will learn how to express themselves through this rich medium, and discover its extraordinary impact.

Children must be accompanied by an adult age 18 or older.

Full Orchestra Concert
YASIIN BEY (MOS DEF), LENA HORNE AND THE BED-STUY TRADITION

Saturday, June 9, 2012
8 pm
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza
1368 Fulton Street
FRE

A profound and authentic lover of language, renowned Bed-Stuy artist Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) is one of the most influential hip-hop stars of all time. He joins Artistic Director Alan Pierson and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in bringing together the aggressive energy and charged lyrics of American hip-hop, the classic ballads of legendary Bed-Stuy singer and activist Lena Horne, and the revolutionary music of Beethoven, remixed anew by emerging artists living and working in East Brooklyn today (more info about the Brooklyn Philharmonic Beethoven Remix Project is here).

This concert is presented in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

Featuring:
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), rapper
Leslie Uggams, voice
String players from the Noel Pointer Foundation Youth String Orchestra
Alan Pierson and Linda Twine, conductors
Brooklyn Philharmonic

Program:
Beethoven Symphony no. 3, Finale
Two Beethoven remixes, arr. Andrew Norman
Lena Horne Tribute
Cole Porter, From this Moment On written for Out of This World (1951)
Fats Waller and Andy Razaf, Honeysuckle Rose (1928)
Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, Lady is a Tramp from Babes in Arms (1937)
Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, Stormy Weather (1933)
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) arr. Derek Bermel, Life in Marvelous Times (2008) and other songs

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Chamber Concert
RESTORATION ROCKS

Saturday, October 8, 2011
12:30 pm
Bed-Stuy Restoration
1368 Fulton Street
FREE

To read a New York Times review of this concert, click here.

Hip-hop legend and critically-acclaimed actor Mos Def joins members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic at Restoration Rocks, a concert hosted by Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, one of the Philharmonic’s closest partners.

Featuring: Mos Def, rapper Brooklyn Phil Chamber Players; Alan Pierson, conductor Program: Mos Def arr. Derek Bermel,Life in Marvelous Times (2008) and other songs including Frederick Rzewski’s Coming Together (1972).

Chamber Concert
WNYC NEW SOUNDS LIVE

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
7 pm
The Winter Garden at the World Financial Center
FREE

Listen to this concert live on the WQXR Q2 webcast by clicking here.

Hip-hop legend and critically-acclaimed actor Mos Def, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, songstress Mellissa Hughes, Corey Dargel, and other special guests join members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic in this lively sampling of things to come in 2011-2012. The program will feature small ensemble versions of music the full orchestra will play later in the season, including Derek Bermel’s arrangements of Mos Def’s original songs, 19th century Shape Note singing, and works by David T. Little and Lev Zhurbin.

In addition, the concert will feature a special reprise of What Might Have Been, a piece composed by the Philharmonic’s 2010-11 Composer Fellow Corey Dargel, who will perform his own work on the concert.

Program:
Shape Note Singing David T. Little, excerpt from Am I Born (2011); Lev Zhurbin, excerpt from Only Love (2008); Frederick Rzewski, Coming Together (1972); Corey Dargel, What Might Have Been (2010); Mos Def arr. Derek Bermel, Life in Marvelous Times (2008) and other songs.

Chamber Concert
RUSSIAN CHAMBER MUSIC

Sunday, October 16, 2011
4 pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Dweck Center at the Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
FREE

The Brooklyn Philharmonic is delighted to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library for this special chamber music concert featuring beloved Russian composers.

Program:
Alfred Schnittke: Musica Nostalgia for Cello & Piano; Arvo Part: Fratres for Cello & Piano; Sergei Prokofiev: 5 Melodies, Op. 35  for violin and piano; Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67.

Full Orchestra Concert
ANNUAL INTERFAITH CONCERT OF REMEMBRANCE

Saturday, October 22, 2011
8 pm
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
FREE

Arkady Leytush conducts the Brooklyn Philharmonic in an emotionally sweeping concert that will include Felix Mendelssohn’s Cappricio Brilliante (opus 22), Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrows (Alison Bates, Soprano), Zlata Bazdolina’s Song of the Murdered Jewish People (Fritz Weavern Narrator) and Ofer Ben-Amots’s Klezmer Concerto (Moran Katz, Clarinet). Maurice Edwards will serve as Master of Ceremonies.

Family Workshop
CARTOONING AND 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

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. This program will be conducted in Russian.

Full Orchestra Concert
RUSSIAN CARTOON MUSIC

Thursday, November 3, 2011
8:00pm
Millennium Theater
1029 Brighton Beach Avenue
(Subway B, Q to Brighton Beach station)
or Valet Parking at theater
$10-$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)

Full Orchestra Concert
NEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT: A JOYFUL NOISE

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
8:00 pm
Carnegie Hall
$30 – 80

Tickets available on the Carnegie Hall Website. 

New York Choral Society conductor John Daly Goodwin leads both the choir and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in Franz Joseph Haydn’s ebullient Te Deum, Francis Poulen’s spectacular Gloria, Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece for double chorus Te Deum as well as Giacomo Puccini’s Messa di Gloria (Kyrie and Gloria) which lay dormant for over 70 years until it was rediscovered in 1952. Anita Johnson will sing soprano.

This concert is produced by the New York Choral Society.

Chamber Concert
BROOKLYN PHIL PRESENTS DEBORAH BUCK

Sunday, January 29, 2012
2 pm
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
$15, $10 for Brooklyn Museum members

The Brooklyn Phil’s concertmaster, Deborah Buck, violin; Molly Morkoski, piano

Family Workshop
SHAPE NOTE SING-A-LONG

Sunday, February 26, 2012
1 pm
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy
179 Pacific Street
FREE

Audiences are invited to perform with the Brooklyn Philharmonic! David T. Little’s Am I Born takes one back in time to the Brooklyn of the 1820s, when the great tradition of American shape note singing was the rage in New York. In a single afternoon, shape note singing expert Aldo Ceresa will immerse participants of all ages in this impassioned, deeply communal American tradition. No experience is necessary, and everyone who participates is invited to sing with the Brooklyn Philharmonic in its later March 24 and March 25 performances

Chamber Concert
PHILLIP LOPATE: LIVING IN BROOKLYN

Two Performances to choose from:

Thursday, March 1, 2012
6:30 pm
Brooklyn Heights Public Library
280 Cadman Plaza West
FREE

Sunday, March 4, 2012
4 pm
Dweck Center of the Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
FREE

Brooklyn-born master writer Phillip Lopate joins Brooklyn Phil Concertmaster Deborah Buck, violin, and Molly Morkoski, piano  for a concert that explores the Borough’s development over the past 200 years, from a bedroom community to a major city of its own. Music will include repertoire by great Brooklyn composers such as Gershwin and Copland (who was born and raised in Prospect Heights), as well as composers living in the Borough today.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic is honored to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present these performances.

School Time Concert
THE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT: A CENTURY OF BLACK MUSIC IN AMERICA

Two performances to choose from:

Friday, March 16, 2012
10:15 am & 12:00 pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Campus Road
$6

The Brooklyn Philharmonic and charismatic guest conductor Wayne DuMaine highlight the music of Sam Cooke, Duke Ellington, Otis Redding, and William Grant Still.

Featuring the Edward R. Murrow High School Gospel Choir singing Respect and A Change is Gonna Come and the renowned tap dancers from Divine Rhythm Productions, the Brooklyn Phil will explore nearly a century of music by black composers. Take the express train through Still’s Lenox Avenue, then relax to the sounds of Ellington’s River Suite. Students, teachers, and parents will be wowed by the sounds of this exciting program showcasing choir, tap dancers, and our acclaimed orchestra!

Attention teachers: For every 15 students you bring you receive one (1) free chaperone ticket!

Please call our Education Department at 718.488.7012 to purchase tickets, or to receive  more details on this event.

Program:
Otis Redding, Respect (featuring Edward R. Murrow High School Gospel Choir); Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come (featuring Edward R. Murrow High School Gospel Choir); William Grant Still, Lenox Avenue for speaker, chorus and orchestra (featuring Jason Samuels Smith, Divine Rhythm Productions); Ellington, The River Suite.