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All Things Project Presents THE GUSTAVUS JAZZ LAB BAND
THE ALL THINGS PROJECT
in association with
MUSIC CELEBRATIONS INTERNATIONAL
Presents
THE GUSTAVUS JAZZ LAB BAND
Dr. Steve Wright, Director
The nationally renowned Lab Band will perform a program featuring the works of Billy Strayhorn, Jobim, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Thad Jones and more
Come enjoy a big band sound in our intimate space
Where?
NCGV, 269 Bleecker Street, New York, NY (b'twn 6th and 7th Aves)
When?
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 7:30pm
How much?
This concert is presented free to the public
Please contact us for more information:
The Gustavus Jazz Lab Band
The Gustavus Jazz Lab Band has been an ensemble with academic credit at Gustavus for over 30 years and provides a strong performance experience in big band jazz, jazz improvisation and related styles. The band has toured the Midwest extensively, as well as extended tours to the West Coast and a southern tour to New Orleans.
The 2001 Spring Tour took the Jazz Lab Band to the East Coast, performing in areas of New England, Boston, New York and Washington, D. C. In 2003, the band flew to Seattle and toured Washington State. Following their return, they were chosen to appear on a live broadcast of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion radio show.
Over the years, guest artists have performed with the jazz ensembles, including Marvin Stamm, Dick Oatts, John Fedchock, Denis DeBlasio, Frank Mantooth, Allen Vizzutti and a number of Twin Cities jazz musicians. The Jazz Lab Band has recorded in studios in St. Paul, Nashville and Minneapolis. Their CD - Taking Off - was released in 2007.
Also
The installation JIMMY MIRACLE: NEW BIRDS remains up until April 3. Gallery hours: Wednesday through Friday, 12 - 5; Saturday, 10 - 4. Visits available by appointment as well.
The Devil Wears an Ascot
C. S. Lewis Off-Broadway
Join the Culture Club on Saturday, April 17, for a special arts outing - with an extra-large group from Redeemer - to support one of our own!
After a hit tour to Chicago and Washington DC, Redeemerite Max McLean returns to NYC for this encore off-Broadway production of The Screwtape Letters, adapted from the book by C. S. Lewis. The show is produced by Redeemer Arts Affiliate, Fellowship for the Performing Arts. Appropriate for ages 13 and up.
More info and purchase tickets here.
Save the date! (and some money) Also in April, the Culture Club will attend the New York Philharmonic with special guest, violinist Joshua Bell. Saturday, April 10. More info to come.
Questions?
Contact Luann Jennings, luann@redeemer.com, (212) 808-4460 x1343
Art and the Religious Sense, March 8
Art and the Religious Sense
Man’s aspiration toward beauty: A yearning for the ideal
Speakers:
Fr. Thierry DE ROUCY—Founder of Heart’s Home
Mr. Makoto FUJIMURA—Painter, founder of International Arts Movement
Dr. Francis GREENE— Art Historian
Mr. Etsuro SOTOO—Sculptor at the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
The discussion will be preceded by a piano concert by Hisako HISEKI
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 6:30 pm
The American Bible Society
1865 Broadway (corner of 61st Street), New York
Sponsored by
Crossroads Cultural Center / The American Bible Society / Hearts Home USA
Event free and open to the public
Crossroads Cultural Center
www.crossroadsculturalcenter .org
125 Maiden Lane, Suite 15E, New York, NY 10038. Tel: (347) 713-5146. E-mail: info@crossroadsculturalcenter.org
Douglas Witmer Opening Mar 4, Chelsea
March 4-27, 2010
Reception, Thursday March 4, 6-8pm
Blank Space Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Suite 204
New York, New York, 10001
www.blankspaceart.com
Blank Space Gallery is pleased to present Ring The Bells Anew, an exhibition of recent paintings by Douglas Witmer. This is the artist’s third solo show in New York, and his first with the gallery.
Over the past decade, Witmer has gained increasing attention for his uniquely distilled sensibility related to his paintings’ surface and color. His recent canvases feature one or two rectangles of solid color on top of and interacting with varied gray washes that cascade down the painting’s surface. Though reductive in their attitude and appearance, the resulting works are anything but “minimal.”
Contrary to first impressions, Witmer’s compositions are not planned or diagrammed. For the artist, painting is a process of inquiry; each piece is an individual result of decisions made intuitively and directly.
The critic and art historian Vittorio Colaizzi has written, “Witmer paints the inheritance of modernist abstraction, and perhaps, metaphorically, the more ecumenical spirituality of today, in the openness of his compositions, their perpetual almost-ness, and their refusal of closure or perfection.”
About the title for this exhibition the artist states, “I am trying to underscore the idea that my paintings embody new acts of declaration using long-existing means. Taken further, it communicates a hope in the continued relevance of abstract painting.”
Douglas Witmer holds a B.A. from Goshen College and an M.F.A. from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In New York his work has recently appeared at P.S.1/MoMA in the group exhibition “Minus Space,” as well as The Painting Center and M55 Art in Long Island City. Other recent venues include: Pharmaka in Los Angeles, Gallery Siano in Philadelphia, The University of Maryland, The University of Dayton in Ohio, Sydney Non-Objective in Australia, and Bus-Dori Project Space in Tokyo, Japan. He lives and works in Philadelphia.
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Music and the Iraq War
365 Fifth Avenue
Concerts & Conversations:
Music and the Iraq War
Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm
This special evening of performances and discussion explores the role of music in combat and in soldiers' other experiences in Iraq.
Participants feature:
Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic
Jonathan Pieslak, author of Sound Targets
Colby Buzzell, former Army SPC and best-selling author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Jason Sagebiel, guitarist, composer, and former Marine sergeant
Tickets $25, $10 students
tickets online at
or by phone at 212-868-4444 no surcharge and get 20% off with discount code CANDC ( Tickets $20, $8 students)
The Use and Uselessness of Art - Prof. Nicholas Wolterstorff in NYC Feb. 23
The University of Virginia Club of New York City
The Yale Club of New York City
&
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVA
Invite you to a lecture and discussion on
"The Use and Uselessness of Art"
Professor Nicholas Wolterstorff
February 23, 2010
6:30 pm – Cocktails (cash bar)
7:00 – 8:00 pm – Talk and Discussion
The Library, 4
What is the purpose of art? Does it have to do with community experience, individual enjoyment, or pure contemplation? Or does art in fact possess no intrinsic value and purpose? How have Westerners traditionally viewed their relationship to aesthetics, and where do we stand in the early twenty-first century?
Professor Wolterstorff will chronicle the development of the artistic imagination, highlight competing narratives about the role of art in the public square, and locate the role of art in a global context.
Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Emeritus Professor of Religious Philosophy at Yale University and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. Over the course of his career, Wolterstorff has published extensively on the philosophies of art, religion and politics. He is interested in both theory and practice, having participated in not only academic treatises on justice but also within the realm of civil rights and reconciliation. Wolterstorff was educated at Calvin College and Harvard University and has held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard Universities.
Piano Concert to Benefit Heart's Home
“The youngest winner ever of Salon De Virtuosi in the past twenty-one years”
Tiffany Poon, a 12 year old pianist born in Hong Kong and presently attending her 3rd year at Juilliard, has won innumerable awards for her talent and performance.
This Benefit Concert in honor of the 20th Anniversary of Heart’s Home will be held on January 12, at 7 p.m. at the American Bible Society, 1865 Broadway at 61st Street, Manhattan, NY 10023 (one block of Columbus Circle). Tickets start at $35.00Program:
Haydn Sonata No. 39 in D Major, Hoboken XVI:24
Mozart Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310
Chopin Andante Spianato und Grand Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22
Beethoven Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2, “Tempest”
Ravel Sonatine
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor
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