St. John the Divine

St. John the Divine.  This will truly be sublime.

New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace, 2012

Monday, December 31 at 7:00PM 

at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine

1047 Amsterdam Avenue

at 112th Street

New York, NY 10025

New Year's Eve Concert for Peace

December 31, 2012 at 7pm

Cathedral Choir and Orchestra

Wolfgang Mozart, Coronation Mass

Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy

Felix Mendelssohn, Verleigh uns Frieden (Grant us Peace)

Anton Bruckner, motets

Harry Smith, host

Judy Collins, guest artist

Jamet Pittman, soprano

Kirsten Sollek, contralto

Steven Fox, tenor

Peter Stewart, baritone

Founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1984, the annual New Year's Eve Concert for Peace is a signature Cathedral event, gathering old friends and new for over a quarter of a century. The music, the candles, and the spirit of peace send audiences out into the chill January night feeling connected, uplifted, and ready to communicate and uphold that spirit.

Trinity Church

Well known for their concert series at Trinity Church, this will be a classic.


Parthenia a quartet of viols

"As It Fell on a Holie Eve- Music for an Elizabethan Christmas"

Thursday, Dec 27 7:30 pm

at Trinity Church 

89 Broadway New York, New York

Rosamud Morley, Treble Viol
Lawrence Lipnik, Tenor Viol
Beverly Au, Bass Viol
Lisa Terry, Bass Viol

Guest Artist 

Julianne Baird, Soprano

7:30pm Tickets $25-General Admission (212)-866-0468 

Gotham Early Music Scene and Trinity Wall Street Church present Parthenia and soprano Julianne Baird in a glittering array of songs, dances and carols from Elizabethan England. Along with music by Thomas Morley, Anthony Holborne, Thomas Ravenscroft, Dr. John Bull and Tobias Hume, this concert will feature a wide variety of music by the celebrated master composer of England’s Golden Age, William Byrd.

Our Lady of Pompei Church

If you are downtown and in the little Italy area, you can find a little respite in the hustle and bustle at this concert.


Memorare

Saturday, Dec 29th 7:30pm

at Our Lady of Pompei Church

25 Carmine St. New York, New York

 The Lorenzo Ruiz Choir of New York and the BNP New York Choir's bring New York city a concert tribute to the Blessed Mother and promises to be a joyous festival of Christmas carols and love songs. 

7:30 PM tickets are $20-$500 (718)-456-7314

Proceeds from the concert will go to BNP New York's project of sending seminarians to school in the Philippines. This project which started on 1988 has so far produced 4 seminarians who were ordained as priests. Currently, they have one seminarian who, with God's blessings, will be ordained on 2014.
Hopefully we can add more seminarians to this program. Donations start at $20 which are tax deductible.

Saint Peter's Lutheran Church

There are some amazing concerts this holiday season and we are posting several of our fav's.  I love the ethereal nature of the repertoire below and you can't beat the price.  A great lunch time treat.

Vox Fidelis- 

Christmas in the High Renaissance

Thursday, Dec 27th 2012 1:15pm

at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church

619 Lexington Ave. New York, New York

Timothy Smith, director

Vox Fidelis Early Music Ensemble

1:15pm Free Concert 

Vox Fidelis specializes in sacred Renaissance polyphony, its cultivation and promotion, and its place in traditional sacred liturgy. They will be singing festive selections by Praetorius, Palestrina, and more to celebrate Christmas Renaissance style!

Turntable Tuesday

by Ted Ganung

For this week I bring a very special debut release "Twisted Trees" from LA based artist, Tate Hall. Twisted Trees is an epic journey through time and space that marks an escape from reality. The album is meant to be listened to from start to finish as one seamless piece of music evolving from track to track. Tate Hall, an already accomplished Sound Engineer, shows his strength in his debut release with his signature clean and ultra refined production style. Below I have included a link to listen to the album, for more information on Tate Hall click here Tate Hall Music


 

Park Avenue Synagogue

We are winding our wedding season down as we groove into the holidays and get ready for tons of parties.  We have many more weddings to post and this one was pure joy performing with Azi Schwartz the music director & cantor at Park Avenue Synagogue.  Again, huge tip of the hat to Fête {feteny.com} for bringing us on board.  We were string quartet and piano.  Azi has a voice that will truly make you melt. You can hear him performing the most devine music on his CD "Ahavat Olam", a collection of Jewish romantic music with chamber orchestra.  http://pasyn.org/  Or better yet, catch an inspiring service at Park Avenue Synagogue.  

Processional:

"Ma Tovu" ~ Lewandoski

Grandparents & Mother of the bride

"Now We Are Free" ~ Hans Zimmer

Groom & Groomsmen

"Launch" ~ Trvor Rabin

"Caribbean Blue" ~ Enya

Bride

"Cavalleria Rusticana" Pietro Mascagni

Circling of the Bride

"Ani Chavatselet"

Before the breaking of the glass

"Im Eshkachech

Recessional

"Pride, In the Name of Love" ~ U2

Brooklyn Museum

We adore the Brooklyn Museum and the below are photos of us setting up.  Brian Dorsey was the photographer and we will be sure to share his photos when they come in. The bride & groom were chic hipsters from Brooklyn and they were classic with a bit of an edge.  The group were the usual suspects for quartet & piano {Ariana, Kate, Hannah, Lauren & myself, with Ted doing sound.}  The Museum was open to the public while we were soundchecking and we had a little fan {shown below} who I invited to play for us.  We released the bride around :60 to create that swirly crescendo for her entrance.  

Processional

"Make you feel my love" ~ Bob Dylan

"Stand by Me" ~ Roy Orbison

Bride

"Halo by Beyonce" with a "fake out" intro of here comes the bride

Recessional

"We Found Love" ~ Rihanna

 Halo with Bride intro by Musica Productions