January 2010 - Oberlin Club of NYC Alumni Newsletter
NEWSLETTER NEWS:
Deadline for the February newsletter is Jan. 25. Please send your news and events to editor@oberlinclubnyc.org.
CONTENTS:
CLUB NEWS
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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
Jan. 6 - Peter Flint '92 and The Avian Orchestra perform new music
Jan. 13 - Rafiq Bhatia '10 performs with his band, The Rafiq Bhatia Collective
Jan. 16 and 14 - Joe Hickerson '57 performs two NYC shows
GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
Host an Obertone during spring break
Obie Andrew Innes '92 launches game company
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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.
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OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
Thursday, Jan. 14
Oberlin Alumni January Happy Hour
6 to 8 p.m. at Common Ground Bar and Restaurant
Thursday, January 14 from 6:00 - 8:00pm
Common Ground Bar and Restaurant
206 Avenue A between 12th and 13th Streets
http://www.commongroundnyc.com
Join us for the first Oberlin Alumni Happy Hour of the decade at
Common Ground in the East Village! Eric Estes, Associate Dean of
Academic Diversity in the College of Arts and Sciences; Director of
the Multicultural Resource Center; faculty member in Comparative
American Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies,
will be in attendance. This is a great chance to find out what's
happening at Oberlin and meet up with fellow alumni.
Common Ground happy hour specials: **Buy One Get One Free Appetizers
and Panini * $5 Cosmos and Apple Martinis * $2 Pints of Yuengling and
Miller Lite**
We look forward to seeing you soon!
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OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
Jan. 6
Peter Flint '92 and The Avian Orchestra perform new music
"FANTASTIC MUSIC FOR A FABULOUS TIME!" - Chamber rock for the 21st Century
January 6, 2010
8 p.m.
@The Cell
338 W. 23rd Street (bet. 8th and 9th Avenues), NYC
General admission tickets $20/$10 with student ID
Seating is LIMITED!!! ADVANCE PURCHASE STRONGLY ADVISED!!!
Tickets available online at http://avianmusic.tix.com
(and with cash at the door, depending on availability.)
Peter Flint ('92) and the Avian Orchestra start 2010 with a concert of hard-hitting chamber music inspired by the world of rock-and-roll. The evening celebrates the release of our newest recording from which the Avian Orchestra will play selections including music by Flint and former Oberlin professor, Conrad Cummings. Come enjoy an evening of thrilling new music and hang out with the composers and performers at a post-concert reception!
The program includes:
• Cable Ready - Michael Gandolfi’s virtuosic trio quoting Bach, Brahms, bebop, and the blues.
• I Wish They All Could Be... - Conrad Cummings’ Beach Boys solo piano fantasy.
• Fantastic Music for a Fabulous Time - Peter Flint’s full band homage to musical excess.
• Smoke n’ Wid - Richard Belcastro’s slamming quartet for electric guitar and chamber power trio.
• The Vinyl Six - Jonathan Newman’s tribute to the theme and variations 1970’s style power ballad.
• Swells - David Laganella’s deconstruction of California surf guitar music.
Hear samples of this music at http://www.avianmusic.com/Upcoming.html
Performers include Oberlin Conservatory grads Blair McMillen '93, piano, and Cyrus Beroukhim '99,violin, in a septet of musicians playing strings, woodwinds, percussion, and electric guitar.
For more information, visit www.avianmusic.com or e-mail info@avianmusic.com.
Jan. 13
Rafiq Bhatia '10 performs with his band, The Rafiq Bhatia Collective
This is Rafiq Bhatia (OC'10), guitarist/composer, wrote to let us know about an event this month:
The performance, which features multiple Oberlin students/alumni, will be a part of our tour, funded by the Oberlin Creativity & Leadership Project's Conservatory Initiative Grants Supporting Imagination and Excellence (CIGSIE). We will be visiting several cities to research a social entrepreneurship model that combines performing within the existing infrastructure for creative music with outreach efforts to youth in schools and community centers.
Who:
The Rafiq Bhatia Collective
Rafiq Bhatia (OC'10): guitar/compositions
Jeremy Viner: saxophones
Corey King: trombone
Jackson Hill (OC'10): bass
Alex Ritz (OC'08): drums
This performance will be a part of our winter tour, funded by the Oberlin Creativity & Leadership Project's Conservatory Initiative Grants Supporting Imagination and Excellence (CIGSIE). We will be visiting several cities to research a social entrepreneurship model that combines performing within the existing infrastructure for creative music with outreach efforts to youth in schools and community centers.
Where:
Barbes
9th St and 6th Ave
Park Slope, Brooklyn.
www.barbesbrooklyn.com
When: January 13th, 2010 at 7 p.m.
How Much? $10
Biography:
"A contemporary mind with the true potential of the future, Rafiq Bhatia is definitely an artist to look forward to hearing."
—Billy Hart, legendary jazz drummer
Rafiq Bhatia is an East-African Indian American guitarist/composer seeking to synthesize a genre-bending musical lexicon informed by the traditions of his transmigratory heritage.
A first-generation American, Bhatia is currently completing an interdisciplinary honors degree in economics and cognitive science at Oberlin College. He is also associated with the world-renowned Oberlin Conservatory, where his concept quickly caught the attention of prolific drummer Billy Hart, who decided to include Bhatia in his new project, The Billy Hart Laboratory. Besides apprenticing under Hart, renowned percussionist Jamey Haddad, and Cleveland-based drummer Paul Samuels, Bhatia is the artist-in-residence at The Feve, an Oberlin mainstay, where his group has attracted a loyal fan-base and critical acclaim for their regular performances. He also frequently returns to New York to perform, and studies with Downbeat magazine's "Rising Star Jazz Pianist/Composer" Vijay Iyer.
Bhatia currently leads The Rafiq Bhatia Collective, co-leads the New York-based ensemble Chrysalis with trombonist/composer Corey King, and is a member of the Nina Moffitt Quintet.
Jan. 14 and 16
Joe Hickerson '57 performs two NYC-area shows
Greetings! I am delighted to inform you of two programs I am doing in New York City in January sponsored by the Folk Music Society of New York (www.folkmusicny.org).
House Concert
Hosts: John Ziv & Deborah Rubin
Thursday, January 14, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
243 W. 98th St., Apt. 6A (Near Broadway)
New York City, NY
Reservations required: 718/672-6399
Workshop/Lecture/Concert:
“Treasures of the Library of Congress Folk Archive”
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2:00 p.m.
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia St. (between. Hamilton & Woodhull)
Brooklyn, NY
Reservations required: 718/965-4074
'Twould be great to see a bunch of Obies there! I might even play excerpts from a Pete Seeger concert at Hall Auditorium in 4/55 and a folksing I led after Pete's concert at Oberlin on my 21st birthday 10/20/56!
Joe Hickerson, Oberlin class of 1957
www.joehickerson.com
GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
Host an Obertone!
Oberlin's one and only Obertones will be in town for Oberlin's Spring Break (March 26 - April 4th), and are looking for alumni hosts willing to donate sofa or floor space to a Tone for a night or two during their visit. Alum interested in hosting a Tone can contact the Obertones at obertone@oberlin.edu. For more information about the Obertones, please visit their website at http://www.oberlin.edu/stuorg/obertone/index.htm.
While here, the Obertones will "spread the word about Oberlin" by performing at local highschools, as well as doing some street busking and performing at some area colleges. The Obertones have expressed interest in doing an alumni performance as well, but are in need of a venue. Any alum with access to space that might accommodate such an event is encouraged to contact NY Regional coordinator Erin Herlihy (eherlihy@gmail.com) or Katherine Kornblau (kjk11b@aol.com) to discuss.
Obie Andrew Innes '92 launches game company
I launched my game company, Anomia Press, in the spring of 2009 to manufacture and distribute "Anomia," a card game I invented and have been refining over the last 5 years. I raised all the money I needed to pay for my start up costs and my 1st printing via an email/web/Facebook/Twitter campaign this summer. My first shipment of games arrived this November, and at the time of this writing I have sold about 900 copies! More info can be found here: http://www.anomiapress.com.
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