Opening Reception: 11/30 (Fri.) 6-8 pm
FREE

Beauty and the Beast
SOBIN PARK

Although Sobin Park has exhibited widely and globally, this show marks the first solo exhibition in the United States. Park’s imagery offsets the beautiful against the beastly into a symphony or perhaps a dissonance upon the two extremes. She juxtaposes the scaly darkness of a dragon against the delicate translucent skin of the female beauty embraced by his roughness. The resulting differences in color, texture, content, density, sparseness and the nuanced shades in-between them makes for a very sensuous yet complex oeuvre. Park plays with and engages in a dialogue about beauty and its beholder, or beauty and its perceived opposite; ugliness. Nevertheless, cultural notions of beauty may be relevant in the case of Park who earned her BA and MFA from South Korean universities and has been working there all her life although exhibiting globally. Beauty is after all in the eyes of the beholder and may have been a matter of taste for Kant but in Hegel’s theories of aesthetics taste is not an issue.  Perhaps in enumerating the criteria of standard discussions on beauty we need take note that our cultural notion of beauty is a cluster concept including the elements of order and flawlessness.

In Park’s work the beautiful and sublime mix to produce Kantian artistic beauty while because it has Hegelian content is spiritually imbued and gratifies the soul. Consequently, beauty is not a matter of taste alone if it’s deeply imbedded within the psyche of the individual as is the thematic uniformity of Park’s continuous leitmotif. Flawlessness as an idea promotes kitsch and acts within a cluster that when popularly applied is a dynamic of power that is ubiquitously operant and informs the idea of beauty. Thus, we must embrace a freer definition with which to rehabilitate beauty in order to divest it of its embedded moral implications. In other words, we need to recognize the need to separate taste from appreciation. Park’s installation of drawn and painted images is produced to surround the gallery walls stretching out and around the perimeter like the dragon/beast accompanying her beauty. The colors are limited to black, white and red therefore contrasting in hue as well as overall appearance and character. Her human, animal and nature combinations produce hybrids that are inviting in their sensuality but also in their moodiness.

8:00 PM
$15 Suggested Donation

Folk Inspired Classical Music from around the World

Oren Fader, guitar
Marco Granados, flute
Lauren Skuce, soprano

PROGRAM

Robert Beaser (b.1954) Mountain Songs: (USA)
The House Carpenter
Cindy

Bela Bartok (1881-1945) Rumanian Folk Dances (Hungary)
Jocul Cu Bata
Braul
Pe Loc
Buciumeana
Poarca Romaneasca
Manuntelul

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Folk songs (UK)
I will give my love an apple
Sailor Boy

Antonio Lauro (1917-1986) Three Venezuelan Waltzes (Venezuela)

Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960) Four French Folk Songs (Born Hungary, lived in England)
Réveillez-vous
J’ai descendu
Le Rossignol
Marguerite, elle est malade

Intermission

H. Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5  (Brazil)

Mario Calelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) Two movements from Sonatina Op. 205 (Italy)
1. Tempo di Siciliana
2. Scherzo-rondo: Allegretto con spirito

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Two songs (Vienna)
Die Zufriedenheit: Was Frag Ich Viel, K.349
Komm, Liebe Zither, Komm, K.351

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) Selection from History of the Tango (Argentina)
Nightclub 1960

Brian Coughlin (b.1973) America (USA)

Oren Fader is one of New York City's leading guitarists. His playing has been described as "Electrifying" (New York Times), "Excellent" (San Francisco Chronicle), "Fabulous" (Oakland Tribune), and "Technically superb and musically adventurous" (Maui News). He has performed hundreds of concerts in the U.S., the Americas, Europe and Asia with a wide range of classical and new music groups, including the Met Chamber Ensemble (directed by James Levine), New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Mark Morris Dance Group, New World Symphony, Absolute Ensemble, Cygnus, Glass Farm, and Speculum Musicae. A champion of contemporary music, Oren has premiered over 100 solo and chamber works with guitar, and can be heard on 25 commercial recordings, including film. He has two solo CDs, "Another's Fandango" (500 years of plucked music), and “First Flight” (a disc of ten premiere solos written for him by New York City composers). Oren received his undergraduate degree from SUNY Purchase and his Master of Music degree from Florida State University. His major teachers include David Starobin and Bruce Holzman. Since 1994 he has been on the guitar and chamber music faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.

A native of Venezuela, Marco Granados maintains an active international career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. His diverse repertoire spans from classical to folk, with an emphasis on Latin-American music as his specialty. He has been a member of many critically acclaimed ensembles, among them the Quintet of the Americas and Triangulo (Latin American Chamber Trio). As a founding member of the Amerigo Ensemble, The Camerata Latinoamericana and the Granados/Abend Duo, Mr. Granados’ collaborations also include those with The Cuarteto Latinoamericano, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with such distinguished artists as Paquito D'Rivera, flutist Ransom Wilson, harpist Nancy Allen, oboist Heinz Holliger, flutist William Bennett, as well as with soprano Renee Fleming and baritone Dwayne Croft. Recent performances include recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, tours of the US, Slovenia and South Africa. He has also performed at many summer music festivals including Moab, Chautauqua and the Colorado Music Festival in addition to the Caramoor International Music Festival. Mr. Granados is Music Advisor to Caramoor’s Latin American Music Initiative: Sonidos Latinos.

Lauren Skuce is noted for her versatility on both the opera and concert stage, and is acknowledged as one of today's rising young artists. She created the role of Heloise in the world premiere of Stephen Paulus' Heloise and Abelard with the Juilliard Opera Center and portrayed Ophelia in Hamlet with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to immense critical acclaim. As a 2007 fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, she sang Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte under James Levine. Of that appearance the New York Times observed, "Ms. Skuce gave a splendid performance, singing with warm, rich tone and endless agility."

4:30 PM
ADMISSION: $15

American Contemporary Music Ensemble

ACME is dedicated to the outstanding performance of contemporary masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. ACME programs are both avant-garde and archetypal and the dynamic ensemble's concerts are a unique blend of intelligent performance and passionate music making.

Time Out New York reports, "The ACME Ensemble is fast making a lasting impression on the New York new music landscape ...polished and playful, its programs are a broad-minded mix of rigor and eclecticism."
 
Since its founding in August 2004 by cellist Clarice Jensen and manager Christina Jensen, ACME has performed works by John Adams, John Cage, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Jacob Druckman, Charles Ives, Donald Martino, Olivier Messiaen, Nico Muhly, Maurice Ravel, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, Ryan Streber, Edgar Varese, Kevin Volans, and Charles Wuorinen.

PROGRAM

Steve Reich: Different Trains (1988)
Louis Andriessen: Workers' Union (1975)
Terry Riley: In C (1964)

8:00 PM
ADMISSION-- Online or at the door: $25, $15 Seniors/Students

Borromeo String Quartet

Considered "Simply the best there is" by the Boston Globe, the critically acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet is one of the most sought after string quartets in the world, performing over 100 concerts of classical and contemporary literature across three continents each season. The Quartet will perform Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130, and Steve Reich, Different Trains.

"This group's intimate Tenri concerts have become one of New York's best kept musical secrets" - Adam Baer, New York Sun

The Borromeo String Quartet
Nicholas Kitchen, Violin
Kristopher Tong, Vilolin
Mai Motobuchi, Viola
Yeesun Kim, Cello

Arts at Tenri offers audiences the rare opportunity to hear both traditional and contemporary music from two cultures in an atmosphere reminiscent of formal rooms at the courts and castles of both Europe and Japan. Over 300 years of tradition will be represented throughout this series. Chamber Music of the great composers of Europe will alternate with ensemble music from Japan’s Edo period written for the standard trio of shamisen, koto and shakuhachi. Contemporary and new music for both Western and Japanese instruments will be heard as well. The excellent acoustics and intimate gallery setting of Tenri Cultural Institute create a superb venue for listening to chamber music.

8:30 PM
ADMISSION: $10 at the door.

Talea Ensemble

8:00 PM
ADMISSION: Donation

Down and Dirty
ART MOB

The Art Mob, an uncommon a cappella chorus of 14 voices, has been slipping into the gutter for nearly three decades. This winter find us getting Down and Dirty via our eclectic mix of vaudeville songs, Sacred Harp hymns, 1920s radio gospel, and scary children’s ditties. Each performance concludes with an audience sing-along of favorite holiday carols.

The Art Mob is: Claudia Dumschat (music director), Connie Beckley, Aldo Ceresa, Gaynor Coté, Martin Donach, Frank Donno, Martha Giardina, Flavia Golden, Betty Harris, Dean Jens, Dean McNeil (on leave), Laura Parker, Dean Rainey, Nancy Moore Simpson, Kirsten Skrinde, Mark Wolff.

Mu Phi Epsilon
Founder's Day Concert

This recital will feature four of its artists (Soprano Susan Mozeson, and pianists Mary Ellen Burrescia, Robin Freund, and Paul Verona) and this year’s scholarship winners (Flutist Vinicio Haro and Violinist Edward Hardy), both students of The Bloomingdale School of Music (www.bsmny.org).

The program will consist of works by Albèniz, Bruch, Beethoven, Liszt, Mompou, Prokofieff and Rachmaninoff.

Mu Phi Epsilon is a coeducational, Professional Music Fraternity which was founded by Dr. Winthrop S. Sterling and Elizabeth Mathias Fuqua on November 13, 1903, at the Metropolitan College of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio.

The fraternity has as its purpose the advancement of music in America and throughout the world, the promotion of musicianship and scholarship, loyalty to the Alma Mater, and the development of a true bond of friendship.