NEWSLETTER NEWS:
Deadline for the December newsletter is Nov. 25. Please send your news and events to editor@oberlinclubnyc.org.
CONTENTS:
CLUB NEWS
Join our Twitter feed and Facebook group!
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.
November 2, 2009
October 2009 - Oberlin Club of NYC Newsletter
October 2009 - Oberlin Club of NYC Alumni Newsletter
NEWSLETTER NEWS:
Deadline for the November newsletter is Oct. 25. Please send your news and events to editor@oberlinclubnyc.org.
CONTENTS:
OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
Oct. 15 - The Oberlin Authors Book Club
Oct. 17 - Volunteer with other Obies for New York Cares Day (RSVP by Oct. 9)
Oct. 19 - An Evening with Ishmael Beah and Dan Chaon (RSVP by Oct. 9)
FUTURE CLUB EVENTS
Nov. 10 - Oberlin Alumni Night on Broadway: Hair the Musical
OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
Oct. 1 to 17 - Carl Riehl, OC '90, contributes music to new musical theater piece, Laika Dog In Space
Through Oct. 11 - Obie-founded Epic Theatre Ensemble invites you to Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven
Oct. 5 and beyond - Peter Sciscioli, OC '96, performs in a collection of dance/music/theater events
Oct. 12 - Jeffrey Fracé, OC '90, performs at Joe's Pub
Oct. 12 and beyond - Trombonist Jason Jackson, OC '93, plays shows in NYC
Oct. 18 - Joanna Smith Rakoff reads from her novel about Oberlin grads
Oct. 27 - Alia Kate, OC '08, launches fair-trade business, Kantara Crafts
Nov. 9 -Flutist Carol Wincenc '71 celebrates her 40th anniversary on the concert stage
GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
Oberlin Club of NYC is looking for venues for events
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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
Thursday, October 15
The Oberlin Authors Book Club meets again!
6 p.m. at Guy and Gallard Cafe, 180 Madison Ave. (entrance on 34th St., between Madison and Fifth avenues)
Please join us as we welcome Les Leopold (Oberlin ’69), as our guest author. We will be reading his novel, The Looting of America.
In a book that pulls no punches, Les shows clearly shows that the crash was a result of our obscene distribution of income combined with financial deregulation, and not the result of consumers buying houses they couldn’t afford. This is one book that breaks it all down into everyday language, or as Les writes, “If I can understand this crap, so can you.”
The book and Les also point us toward concrete reforms that are necessary in order to prevent the next crash and to move us to a fairer, more stable economy. For example, he advocates a series of policies to reduce the outrageous gaps between the top and bottom of the income ladder, and to put a lid on sky-high Wall Street salaries.
Les is passionate about his work and ideas, and he promises that you won’t go to sleep or even get drowsy. The Oberlin of the 1960s runs right through him and he can’t wait to share it with you.
Here’s what some reviewers say:
"I loved this book. A worms'-eye dissection of the Wall Street crisis from a very sharp and very knowledgeable labor economist. Here's hoping that before the Washington consensus gets set in stone, policymakers will read it and reflect on the havoc the masters of the universe have wreaked on ordinary people."--Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash and Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen
“Les Leopold tells the story of our economic collapse so clearly, so broadly, so stylishly I didn’t get lost; in fact, to my great surprise, I kept going and going like Hansel and Gretel through the thick forest of mortgage finance, credit swaps, bubbles and bailouts. The Looting of America is a guided tour for people who wonder if the ups and downs of a free market are inevitable, or if we can’t make a few changes for a smoother ride.”--Robert Krulwich, NPR Science Correspondent and co-host of Radio Lab
“Les Leopold’s account of the economic crisis is the clearest and most accessible that I have seen. It gives a reader with little economics or financial background a riveting description of how Wall Street tore down our economy and what we can do about it. It’s a page turner we all should read.”--Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers
If you want to understand more about what caused the economic crisis and what’s happening right now, you may want to visit with Les Leopold, the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity and What we can do about it. (http://www.amazon.com/Looting-America-Destroyed-Pensions-Prosperity/dp/1603582053%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QZMGW0RRJC2PX87HDR2%26tag%3Dsalranexp-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1603582053)
I hope to see many of you at this meeting. What great material for lively discussion! Please read the book before the meeting if you are able.
RSVPs welcome, but not necessary. KJK11b@aol.com.
Best wishes,
Katherine J. Kornblau
Oberlin Alumni Regional Coordinator for NYC
Saturday, October 17
Volunteer with other Oberlin alumni for New York Cares Day
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., location TBA
WHAT: Oberlin College NYC Alumni are forming a team for New York Cares Day and we want you to participate! Be one of 8,000 New Yorkers to paint a brighter future for New York City students. In just one day, Team Oberlin will help perform vital tasks to create great learning environments for students. This event is planned and managed by New York Cares, New York City's leading volunteer organization.
WHEN: Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Please register by Friday, October 9, 2009!
We will be helping to complete hundreds of tasks including:
*paint colorful murals;
*add bright new line games to playgrounds;
*organize school libraries;
*plant flowers;
*perform other tasks that will directly impact over 88,000 NYC public school students.
WHERE: The location will be assigned to us by New York Cares closer to the day of the event.
HOW to join Team Oberlin:
1. Go to http://www.newyorkcaresday.org.
2. Click "Join an existing team"
3. Select our team name "Team OBERLIN" from the pull-down menu.
Please register by Friday, October 9, 2009!
COST: There is a $10 registration fee to participate. If you should be prompted for a code, use "NYCD008". If you would like to donate to New York Cares you will be given that opportunity during the sign-up process. You can also solicit others to donate, as the event is also a fund-raising event for NY Cares. If you have any questions, please contact Mei Song at meiysong@gmail.com
Even if you cannot come out and join us, please consider making a fiscal contribution to the team!
Monday, October 19
Celebrating the Oberlin College Tradition of Mentorship: An Evening with Ishmael Beah and Dan Chaon
7:30 p.m. at New York Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, 2 W. 64th St. at Central Park West
Featuring Ishmael Beah ’04, best-selling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, and Dan Chaon, Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing and Literature. Welcome by Sean Decatur, Dean of Arts and Sciences, followed by a candid conversation between Ishmael Beah and Dan Chaon.
RSVP by October 9 by visiting www.alumni.oberlin.edu/eventregistration or at public.programs@oberlin.edu or 440-775-6785.
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FUTURE 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
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OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
Oct. 1 to 17
Carl Riehl, OC '90, contributes music to new musical theater piece, Laika Dog In Space
The New York Neo-Futurists present Laika Dog In Space, a new musical theater piece produced in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator with music by Carl Riehl OC '90.
Laika Dog In Space is a Neo-Futurist play with music that asks: what if Laika, a little dog launched into space by a bunch of Russian scientists with big ambitions, hadn’t died but instead had somehow continued to live in space? What would she be like? Who would she meet? What would she do with all of her free time? And what does she have to do with us? The play uses music, fairy tales, television and, of course, the personal stories of the Neo-Futurists, to explore death, isolation, and adventure in a surprisingly upbeat and comic way.
Performances are Oct. 1-4, 6, 8-11, 13, and 15-17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue. Tickets are $17 General/$12 Student at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/683325
The New York Neo-Futurists are an ensemble of dynamic writer/performer/directors who present the critically acclaimed, energetic show of original short plays, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind -- a non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental, while embracing chance, change, and chaos. Developing out of the format that has been a success in Chicago since 1988, the New York Neo-Futurists have roots in New York City from the mid 90’s. Since opening Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind in New York five years ago, they have created over 1,500 plays and continue to present award-winning, new and vital work every weekend in the East Village. For more info on The New York Neo-Futurists: www.nynf.org
Laika Dog In Space is:
Directed by David Dalton
Created and performed by Eevin Hartsough, Jill Beckman and Rob Neill
Composed and Music Directed by Carl Riehl OC '90
Assistant Directed and Dramaturged by Christopher Diercksen
Technical Directed by Lauren Parrish
Music performed by Cake Monkey: Gene Caprioglio (guitar); Devlin Goldberg (drums/percussion); Carl Riehl OC '90 (accordion/keyboards); Scott Selig (bass).
Through Oct. 11
Obie-founded Epic Theatre Ensemble invites you to world premiere of Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven
EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE
(Zak Berkman OC '93, Melissa Friedman OC '93, Ron Russell OC '92, founding executive producers)
invites our fellow OBERLIN COLLEGE ALUMNI & STUDENTS to see the world premiere of:
MAHIDA’S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN by Russell Davis, Directed by Will Pomerantz
Written by 2008 Winner of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Russell Davis' Mahida's Extra Key To Heaven is a poetic, funny, and haunting story about crossing borders of all kinds. Thomas is visiting his mother's island home when he encounters Mahida, an Iranian college student stranded after an argument with her brother. The two strangers begin a beautifully awkward search for a common country, but discover that sometimes the smaller the world the bigger the invasions.
SEPTEMBER 16 – OCTOBER 11, 2009
@ Signature Theatre’s PETER NORTON SPACE, 555 West 42nd Street
ALL PERFORMANCES will be followed by a POST-SHOW DISCUSSION
For more information: www.epictheatreensemble.org
Oct. 5, 10, 11, 21-25
Peter Sciscioli, OC '96, performs in a collection of dance/music/theater events
Peter Sciscioli, OC '96, performs in a collection of dance/music/theater events this month. Details below. For more info, visit www.petersciscioli.com.
Monday, October 5, 8pm
Peter Sciscioli Performance Projects: new work-in-progress (15-20 min.)
With Deborah Black, Gideon Crevoshay (OC ‘04) and Mare Hieronimus
Movement Research at the Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South
More info: http://www.movementresearch.org/performancesevents/judsonchurch/schedule.php
Saturday, October 10, 6pm
Peter Sciscioli Performance Projects: new work-in-progress (10 min.)
With Deborah Black, Gideon Crevoshay (OC ‘04) and Mare Hieronimus
75th Anniversary of the Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue (at 92nd Street)
More info & tickets: http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-DP5ST10
Sunday, October 11, 3pm
Singing excerpt from Stockhausen’s “Stimmung” with choreography/performance by Daria Fain
75th Anniversary of the Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue (at 92nd Street)
More info & tickets: http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-DP5ST10
Wednesday, October 21 – Saturday, October 24, 7:30pm
Sunday, October 25, 3pm
Singing in chorus for Meredith Monk’s “Songs of Ascension”
BAM Harvey Theater
Corner of Fulton & Ashland, Brooklyn
More info & tickets: http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1261
Oct. 12
Jeffrey Fracé, OC '90, performs at Joe's Pub
Jeffrey Fracé (class of 1990) is performing with a company that over the past three years has become one of the hottest tickets in the downtown theatre scene in New York. Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant combines food, drink, song, dance and spectacle and does it all with a twist that defies any comparison to "dinner theater." After several sold-out performances in Brooklyn and at the Ohio Theatre in SoHo, the Conni's troupe has been invited to perform at Joe's Pub. Please join us for this uniquely entertaining event. A link to reserve tickets is below. Please note you would like to sit at the OBERLIN table!
Description from Joe's Pub: "Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant (a Village Voice Choice and Time Out New York favorite), is not a locale but a group of bold (if fictional) theatrical performers, devoted to the ongoing celebration of the work of Conni Convergence, the beloved (and still fictional) icon of stage and screen. Hailed as “devilish dinner theatre” by The New York Daily News, these unique theatrical-culinary events mix the ingredients of fine food and drink, brash Vegas-style song and dance spectacle, and a loving sendup of avant-garde pomposity."
The ensemble at Conni's teams up with the kitchen at Joe's Pub to bring you this cabaret- style retrospective of the life and work of the legendary Miss Conni Convergence. If only Joe were here to reminisce. One Night Only!
Monday, October 12@ Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan Doors open at 5:30; Curtain promptly at 6:00pm
$50 ticket price includes a three-course meal (and gratuity) graciously provided by Joe's Pub.
Miss Conni has selected the following accompaniments to the work: Arugula and Shaved Parmesan SaladBaby Arugula Dressed with Olive Oil and Fresh Lemon Ravioli Fresh Pasta Tossed in a Creamy Basil Pesto Sauce Topped with Plum Tomatoes Chocolate Divine Topped with Ganache
Tickets available here: http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4764
Oct. 12 and beyond
Trombonist Jason Jackson, OC '93, plays shows in NYC
Jason E. Jackson, trombonist, received his BA from Oberlin in 1993 and his MA from Manhattan School of Music in 1995. For more information on these and other shows, visit www.jasonjacksonmusic.com.
Oct. 12 & 19
VJO Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
178 7th Ave S
www.villagevanguard.com
Oct. 15-18
Charles Tolliver Big Band
Iridium Jazz Club
1650 Broadway (51st.)
www.iridiumjazzclub.com
Oct 18
Appearing with Rosena Hill
Unity Church of NY, Symphony Space NY @ 11AM
2537 Broadway @95th
mail@unityofnewyork.org
Oct 26-27
Roy Hargrove Big Band
The Jazz Gallery
290 Hudson St.
www.jazzgallery.org
Oct. 18
Joanna Smith Rakoff, OC '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.”
4 p.m. October 18
Sunday Salon
Jimmy’s 43, 43 East Seventh Street, New York NY 10003
212.982.3006
With Darin Strauss (More Than It Hurts You; Chang and Eng), Alix Strauss (Death Becomes Them), and Laura van den Berg (What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us)
Oct. 27
Alia Kate, OC '08, launches fair-trade business, Kantara Crafts
Kantara Crafts founder, Alia Kate ('08) is celebrating the launch of her fair-trade business that specializes in handwoven Moroccan carpets. The launch event will be held at New York's Zerza restaurant on October 27th from 5pm until 7pm. Alia, a recipient of Oberlin's Creativity and Leadership Fellowship just moved her business to New York and is exciting to meet fellow Obie alumni and share her stories from the artisans themselves. For more information, visit the website (www.kantaracrafts.com), or feel free to contact Alia directly, (akate@kantaracrafts.com).
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.
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
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