NEWSLETTER NEWS:
Deadline for the December newsletter is Nov. 25. Please send your news and events to editor@oberlinclubnyc.org.
CONTENTS:
CLUB NEWS
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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
Nov. 10 - Oberlin Alumni Night on Broadway: Hair the Musical
Nov. 11 - Brooklyn Alumni Gathering (RSVP by Nov. 6)
Nov. 18 - November Obie Happy Hour
OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
Nov. 3 - Huang Ruo '00 celebrates album release with show at Le Poisson Rouge
Nov. 3 to 28 - Frances Roberts '69 shows work in Soho Photo Gallery's Fifth Annual Alternative Processes Competition Show
Nov. 9 - Flutist Carol Wincenc '71 celebrates her 40th anniversary on the concert stage
Nov 10 & 12 - Joanna Smith Rakoff, OC '94, reads from her new novel about Oberlin grads
Nov. 19 - World premiere of "A Gershwin Mosaic" by Henry Martin '72
GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nancy Garniez ('58) hosts informal a cappella group
Current Oberlin senior interested in art and/or fashion marketing
Oberlin Club of NYC is looking for venues for events
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CLUB NEWS
Stay in touch with fellow New York-area Obies all month long through our new Facebook group and Twitter feed!
*Visit Facebook.com, search for the group "The Oberlin Alumni of NYC," and click to join.
*Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oberlin_nyc. Have an Oberlin-related message you'd like us to repost? Tweet to @Oberlin_NYC.
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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
Tuesday, November 10
Oberlin Alumni Night on Broadway: Hair the Musical
6 p.m. at Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Join President Marvin Krislov and fellow NYC Obies for a riveting performance of HAIR and a behind the scenes discussion with Jenny Gersten ’91, associate producer of The Public Theater. As part of that position, Jenny serves as the associate producer for the revival of HAIR, first in Central Park and now on Broadway. Prior to the show, she will speak with Oberlin alumni about producing a musical on Broadway, and discuss why HAIR is back in the zeitgeist.
Discussion with Jenny Gersten '91 at 6 p.m.
Performance of HAIR at 7 p.m.
**NOTE: The tickets set aside for Obies for this performance are sold out. You are encouraged to buy tickets to this performance by calling the theater directly. Call the alumni office (440-775-8692) to let them know you will be joining the pre-show discussion!
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
302 West 45th Street
New York, New York
212-239-6200
Wednesday, Nov. 11
Brooklyn Alumni Gathering
7 p.m., at the home of Carolyn Kubitschek '70
Please join Ben Jones ’96, Vice President of Communications, and Danielle Young, Executive Director of the Alumni Association, for a Brooklyn alumni gathering! Ben will provide a brief update on communication initiatives and the Oberlin Stories Project, and Danielle will highlight some alumni projects that are underway. Come and have a great evening with fellow alumni!
Middle Eastern fare will be served; please bring a beverage for yourself and to share with others.
When:
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Time:
7:00 p.m.
Location:
Home of Carolyn Kubitschek ’70
411 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Travel directions: Take the F train to the Seventh Avenue stop. Exit at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street (rear of train if you are coming from Manhattan). Walk 100 yards downhill to 411 Ninth Street. Or take the R train to the Ninth Street stop. You'll exit at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street. Walk two and a half blocks uphill to 411 Ninth Street. You can also take the B67 or B75 bus to the corner of Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue. If you drive, parking is theoretically available on the street -- good luck.
RSVP:
Please register online at www.alumni.oberlin.edu/eventregistration by November 6, 2009.
Wednesday, Nov. 18
November Obie Happy Hour
5 to 9 p.m. at Soda Bar in Prospect Heights
Join fellow Oberlin alumni for Happy Hour at Soda Bar on Vanderbilt Ave in Prospect Heights Brooklyn on Wednesday November 18! Happy Hour is going to be extended just for Obies until 9 PM, so that we can keep drinking great drafts at $3 and wells at $5.
Soda Bar is located at 629 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY. It is very close to Grand Army Plaza (2/3 trains) and the 7th ave stop (B/Q trains).
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OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
Nov. 3
Huang Ruo '00 celebrates album release with show at Le Poisson Rouge
On Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.), the ensemble Future in REverse (FIRE) and Pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen perform music from Huang Ruo's new CD “To The Four Corners” on Naxos Records (http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559653).
Program to include:
String Quartet No. 1: The Three Tenses
Drama Theater III: Written on the Wind
Four Fragments
Drama Theater II: Shifting Shades
“The last release by Naxos of Huang Ruo’s Chamber Concertos Nos. 1–4 was hailed as ‘a bold debut’ (Gramophone) which ‘shows a major compositional voice emerging’ (The Juilliard Journal Online). This disc, To The Four Corners, presents three of his Drama Theaters for various combinations of Eastern and Western instruments—including 18 beer bottles—the elusive subtitle of each strikingly suggesting a musical/cultural/philosophical idea. Similarly, The Three Tenses explores a paradoxically integrated notion of time, where past, present and future create ‘a seamless entity called timelessness’. Huang Ruo won the 2008 International Composition Prize of the Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music and has been cited by the New Yorker as ‘one of the most intriguing of the new crop of Asian-American composers.”
Le Poisson Rouge is located at 158 Bleecker St. For more information, visit: http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/604
*Later in the month, on Nov. 30, Ruo receives a New York premiere of his work "Leaving Sao" with the American Composers Orchestra:
Orchestra Underground: Traditions and Transmigrations
Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at 7:30pm.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th St. &7th Ave., NYC)
For more information, visit: http://www.americancomposers.org/rel2009_10.html
Nov. 3 to 28
Frances Roberts '69 shows work in Soho Photo Gallery's Fifth Annual Alternative Processes Competition Show
My photo "Doll's Head" was accepted for the Soho Photo Gallery's Fifth Annual Alternative Processes Competition Show November 3-28. (The picture was shot with a pinhole camera and transferred onto a porcelain tile that I made.)
The opening is Tuesday evening, November 3, from 6 to 8 p.m. Hope to see you there!
Hours for the gallery are: Wednesday through Sunday 1-6 p.m.
The gallery is located at 15 White street in Tribeca. The gallery phone number is 212 226 8571. It's website is www.sohophoto.com
The gallery is located three blocks south of Canal Street between West Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Subways: #1 to Franklin
Street or the A, C, E, W, N, R or #6 to Canal Street will get you there.
Nov. 9
Flutist Carol Wincenc '71 celebrates her 40th anniversary on the concert stage with a four-concert series in New York in the 2009-2010 season
Flutist Carol Wincenc '71 celebrates her 40th anniversary on the concert stage with a concert series featuring six world premieres; new works written for Carol Wincenc and the anniversary celebration by composers Jonathan Berger, Shih-Hui Chen, Andrea Clearfield, Jake Heggie, Thea Musgrave, and Joan Tower – many of whom will attend the premieres. The programs will also feature additional works written for Ms. Wincenc over her career, including those by David Del Tredici, Lukas Foss, Jake Heggie, and Paul Schoenfield; the seminal 20th-century flute piece Voice of the Whale by George Crumb, in honor of the composer’s 80th birthday year; and touchstone works by Bach, Debussy, and Vivaldi. The Shi-Hui Chen, Jake Heggie, Thea Musgrave, and Joan Tower works were commissioned by Backshore Artists Projects, Inc. and funded by a generous grant from Linda and Stuart Nelson.
"When Joan Tower approached me ten years ago to write a work for her 60th birthday celebration, I was moved to consider doing something similar upon reflection of this magnificent career that I have been enjoying since 1969,” says Wincenc. “Now that I have reached 40th anniversary milestone, there is nothing I want more than to bring new works into the world, while reveling in the magnificence of the classics written for the flute, and celebrate with revered and dear colleagues, friends, and students. The planning of this series, through the staggering generosity of Stuart and Linda Nelson, fills me with endless joy, gratitude and inspiration – and sets me off into my next decade!"
Monday, November 9, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Merkin Concert Hall
Carol Wincenc Ruby Anniversary, Concert 1: “Deepest Desires”
The world premiere of a commissioned work by Jake Heggie, Fury of Light for flute and piano, as well as Heggie’s song cycle The Deepest Desire, settings of texts by Sister Helen Prejean (a protagonist in Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking) for voice, flute, and piano, highlight this program. Fury of Light is inspired by the poem “Sunrise” by Mary Oliver. The program also features Lukas Foss’s Three American Pieces arranged for flute and piano, Paul Schoenfield’s Six Chassidic Songs (written for Ms. Wincenc), and George Crumb’s famous 1971 work Voice of the Whale for electric flute, electric piano, and electric cello, in commemoration of Crumb’s 80th birthday year. Jake Heggie and Stephen Gosling are the program’s pianists; soprano Elise Quagliata sings The Deepest Desire, and cellist Rafael Figueroa is featured in Voice of the Whale.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit http://kaufman-center.org/merkin-concert-hall/buy-tickets.
Carol Wincenc is one of the most respected and acclaimed flutists performing today. She appears with orchestras worldwide and has premiered works written for her by numerous prominent composers. Ms. Wincenc's musicianship is matched by a deep commitment to expanding the flute repertoire. With the Detroit Symphony, she gave the world premiere of a flute concerto written for her by Pulitzer-Prize winner Christopher Rouse. Ms. Wincenc also gave the world premiere of Henryk Gorecki's Concerto-Cantata at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the U.S. premiere with the Chicago Symphony. She is in demand for her interpretation Lukas Foss's Renaissance Concerto for Flute and Orchestra-a work written for her, and has premiered concerti by Peter Schickele, Joan Tower, Paul Schoenfield and Tobias Picker, who composed The Rain In the Trees, a double concerto for her and soprano Barbara Hendricks inspired by the rainforest poems of W.S. Merwin. In a Naumburg Foundation Valentine's Day recital in New York's Merkin Concert Hall in 1998, she premiered ten short "valentines" written for her by Gorecki, Sierra, and Michael Torke, among others.
Other concerts in the series:
Monday, February 22, 2010, at 7:30 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum, www.themorgan.org
Concert 2: “Les Amies”
Carol Wincenc, Flute
Nancy Allen, Harp
Cynthia Phelps, Viola
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, at 8:00 PM
Peter J. Sharp Auditorium, The Juilliard School
www.juilliard.edu
Concert 3: “Carol Wincenc Celebration”
Carol Wincenc, Flute
Juilliard String Quartet
Stephen Gosling, Piano
Students of The Juilliard School
Additional artists to be announced
Nov. 10 & 12
Joanna Smith Rakoff '94 reads from her new novel about Oberlin grads
Joanna Smith Rakoff's novel, A Fortunate Age, was released this spring on Scribner. The novel follows six Oberlin grads as they move to New York during the tech boom of the late 1990s and try to make their way in typically Oberlin-ish fields--theater, music, publishing, academia--and eventually find themselves living rather more bourgeois lives than they expected. The New York Times called it a "piquant view of her evolving generation" that "deserves a room of its own." The Los Angeles Times described it as "compulsively readable." The Daily News called it "“[A] richly drawn narrative…Smith Rakoff's social commentary remains both engaging and satisfying in its breadth and depth…A FORTUNATE AGE provides an expansive and elegantly executed time capsule of the dot.com generation finding its feet during a critical moment in history.”
November 10
Pen Parentis Reading Series
The Libertine
Gild Hall Hotel
15 Gold Street
New York NY 10038
212.785.5950
With Stewart Lewis (Rockstarlet)
6:00pm
November 12
Brooklyn Industries -- Park Slope
206 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 789-2764
Cocktails and snacks
6:30-8:30
Nov. 19
World premiere of "A Gershwin Mosaic" by Henry Martin '72
The world premiere of "A Gershwin Mosaic" for flute and string quartet, by composer Henry Martin '72, will be performed Thursday, Nov. 19, 12:30 pm at the Paul Robeson Gallery at Rutgers University, Newark, where Martin is professor of music. The concert will also feature music by Varese, Hindemith, and Gershwin. Admission is free to the concert and a postconcert reception.
Foe more information, visit: http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/events/index.php?sId=eventDetail&eventId=2673
Maps and directions at www.newark.rutgers.edu/maps
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GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nancy Garniez '58 hosts informal a cappella group
For good readers with eclectic taste and a certain fearlessness: one or two on a part informal a cappella singing the third Saturday of every month, 7:30 PM, Upper West Side. Telephone 212-749-4035 or email nancygarniez@tonalrefraction.com for more information and to test the waters. Byrd, Brahms and Beyond. Mostly a young-ish group hosted by Nancy Garniez '58.
Graduating Oberlin senior interested in art and/or fashion marketing
Current student Amanda Turner wrote: "Hello I am a current senior at Oberlin and will be graduating in May. I am very interested in entering the fashion marketing and or arts management fields. I would like to talk to anyone regarding this and would appreciate any advice that can be given. My email is amanda.turner@oberlin.edu Thank you very much."
Oberlin Club of NYC is looking for venues for events
The Oberlin Club of NYC is looking for Obies in the NYC area that own restaurants, bars, coffee shops, theatres, etc. that would be willing to host special alumni events. If you're one of these Obies and you're looking to promote your business and Oberlin College by bringing in fellow Obies and their friends and colleagues please contact Katherine Kornblau '90 at kjk11b@aol.com.
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