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May 2008
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| May 2008 at
TENRI |
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6 (Tue.) - JAPANESE
SCHOOL: Free Sample Lesson
for Beginners |
7:10
PM
FREE
ADMISSION
Tenri School of Japanese Language accommodates students from
beginning to advanced levels. Utilizing a unique method which was
developed many years ago at the prestigious Tenri University, our
courses are structured with a special focus on the individual needs
of the students in a program that will allow each of them to meet
his/her study goal.
The school facility includes a student library and lounge. Students
may borrow various books and audio / visual materials to supplement
classwork and texts.
We encourage you to visit the school and observe a class for FREE.
Call ahead to make an appointment (212)
645-2800. |
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7 (Wed.) ~ 5/31 - ART
EXHIBITION: Jane Ingram
Allen & Marcia Widenor
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Ongoing May 7 ~ 31
Opening Reception March 8 (Thu.), 6-8pm
Jane Ingram Allen & Marcia
Widenor
STILL WATERS
Jane Ingram Allen is an American sculptor/installation artist and
hand papermaker. She is originally from Alabama and has been living
in New York State since 1988. In 2004 she received a Fulbright
Scholar Award for a six-month research project on hand papermaking
in Taiwan. Her Fulbright grant was extended through July 2005 with
sponsorship by the Taiwan Council for Cultural Affairs/National
Endowment for Culture and Art.
Jane has been an art teacher and professor of art for many years.
She was the art instructor at the State University of New York in
Morrisville, NY, from 1988 – 2001 and an adjunct art
professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, 2001-04. Jane
is also an art critic and writer for SCULPTURE magazine and other
art magazines as well as an independent curator. She has taught art
classes and papermaking workshops at many universities, colleges,
public schools, museums and art centers. Jane has had solo
exhibitions of her paper artworks at galleries and museums in New
York and throughout the USA as well as internationally. She has
done outdoor environmental installations using handmade paper at
many public parks, sculpture gardens and in public buildings,
plazas and other public spaces.
Marcia Widenor's Biographical Statement:
"In their simplest form, a length of linen cloth from a Pharaoh's
tomb, the linen bed sheets of my great grandmother, a sheet of
tough translucent flax paper made in a New York City loft and a
curtain of hand spun flax string are all related. They come
directly from organic materials, they have their own wonderful
colorless color, and they bear the marks of the hand that made
them.
For me, these materials have shaped the slow emergence of a body of
work that has moved from wall sculpture to free hanging units and
finally to installation. The forms are born from the structure and
texture of these materials. The picture formed in the mind's eye
gradually becomes a place, an enterable sculpture, a tent, a
shelter, a hallow tree or cupboard. The installations emerge from
childhood memories, from the experience of working with seriously
ill children in hospitals and from a yearning for safety and calm.
The world is not safe or calm
anymore."
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ARTS AT
TENRI featured performance!
9 (Fri.) - CONCERT: Yoko Reikano Kimura (shamisen and
koto)
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8:00
PM
$20
general, $12 students/seniors in advance at
brownpapertickets.com,
1-800-838-3006.
$25
general, $15 students/seniors at the door.
Yoko Reikano
Kimura
CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC FOR JAPANESE INSTRUMENTS
ARTS AT TENRI will continue its 2007-2008 season with a performance
by Yoko Reikano Kimura, Yamada school Koto and Shamisen virtuoso.
This program reveals the complexity, versatility and range of
traditional Japanese instruments and features contemporary
compositions as well as works from the Edo period. Reikano, whose
vocal style is both forceful and dramatic, was trained in the
Yamada School. The program includes guest artists Cathleen Ayakano
Read on koto and voice (from the same school), and James Nyoraku
Schlefer on shakuhachi. This concert is part of the monthly concert
series presented by Arts at Tenri showcasing the chamber music
traditions of Japan and the West.
Yoko Reikano Kimura, Koto, Shamisen, and Voice
Cathleen Ayakano Read, Koto and Voice
James Nyoraku Schlefer, Shakuhachi
1 Yasou-kyoku / Nocturne (Takeshi Sasamoto)
1990
2 Kagerou-no-Odori (Kinichi Nakanoshima)
1925
3 Duo No.1 (James Nyoraku Schlefer) 2004
4 Suite for Sangen (Lou Harrison) 1996
5 Sarashi (Hukakusa Kengyo) Edo period
6 Miyako-no-haru (Yamase Shoin) Edo period
7 Mutsura-boshi / The Pleiades (Katsutoshi
Nagasawa) 1978
Yoko Reikano Kimura graduated from Tokyo University ofFine Arts and
Music. After, she was elected as a trainee by the Agency of
Cultural Affairs. And also, she was award first prize at National
Koto Competition in 2003. Since 2004 she has joined the world tour
of the musical theatre. She is currently taking part in a wide
range of activities including recording traditional and
contemporary music. She hopes to diffuse traditional Japanese music
and cross-culture music to people of all ages, all
nationalities.
The excellent acoustics and intimate gallery setting of the Tenri
Cultural Institute create a superb setting for listening to chamber
music, and ARTS AT TENRI offers audiences the rare opportunity to
hear both traditional and contemporary music from two cultures in a
setting similar to the music rooms of the courts and castles of
both Europe and Japan. Over 300 years of chamber music tradition
will be presented throughout this series. Piano trios and string
quartets from the great composers of Europe will alternate with
music from Japan’s Edo period written for the standard trio
of shamisen, koto and shakuhachi.
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10 (Sat.) - CONCERT: Play it by
Ear
(improvisational
opera) |
8:00
PM
ADMISSION: $25,
$15 Seniors/Students, $10 Children under
12
Play It By
Ear
IMPROVISATIONAL
OPERA
Play It By
Ear is a
unique, New York-based performance troupe specializing in musical
and theatrical improvisation based on audience suggestion.
With as little information as the location of the action, Play It
By Ear transforms a blank stage into an intensely dramatic musical
experience: sometimes serious, sometimes funny, always
engagin. Each Play It By Ear performance is as varied as its
audiences. Once given the gern of an idea, the group
immediately creates msuci, lyrics and drama before the eyes and
ears of the observer.
Play It By Ear had its genesis in world-renown director Rhoda
Levine's acting and improvisation classes at the Juilliard
School. When she left, several students asked her if she
would continue to tach the class privately, outside of an academic
structure. Over the newx few years, the classes grew and met
in several locations around New York City. IN 1994, a core
group of class members formed Play It By Ear and began performing
together.
In addition to public performances, the group has a deep commitment
to arts education for children and underserved communities.
Since 1997, Play It By Ear has presented workshops and school
residencies for students and teachers, sponsored by New York City
Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and the New Yory City school
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17 & 18
(Sat. & Sun.) - CONCERT: American Modern Ensemble (new
music) |
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8:00
PM
$20
general admission, $15 seniors/students
(online)
Food and
Music
The American Modern Ensemble is based in New York City and was
formed in 2005 with the goal of premiering, performing and
recording and commissioning the widest possible repertoire written
by American composers. The focus is to celebrate and showcase
American music and especially works written by living composers.
Each season, we choose one American composer to feature on a
program devoted to his or her music. AME is also dedicated to
education and outreach programs that expose communities to American
music, and particularly to new music written by living
composers.
PROGRAM
The Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine - Aaron Jay Kernis
Three Place Settings - Barbara Kolb
Fruity Pebbles - Marc Mellits
La Bonne Cuisine - Leonard Bernstein
Eating Variations* - Robert Paterson
The Gourmand's Lament - Yotam Haber
Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise - William Bolcom
Hors d'oeuvres** - Derrick Wang***
*World Premiere
**NYC Premiere
***Winner of AME's Third Annual Composition Competition
ARTISTS
Paul Sperry, narrator
Jacquelyn Familant, soprano
Robert Gardner, baritone
Sato Moughalian, flute
Meighan Stoops, clarinet
Robin Zeh, violin
Victoria Paterson, violin
Robert Burkhart, cello
Sean McClowry, double bass
Tom Kolor, percussion
Blair McMillen, piano
Robert Paterson, conductor
Food and wine reception to
follow.
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20 (Tue.) - CONCERT:
Friends & Enemies of New
Music (new
music) |
8:00
PM
SUGGESTED
DONATION: $15, $7
Students
Pianist Eric Huebner plays an
Elliott Carter
Centennial Celebration
Elliott Carter: Night Fantasies (1980)
Elliott Carter: 90+ (1994)
Mason Bates: White Lies for Lomax**
John Link: Silex Variations (2006)**
Caroline Mallonie: Pangrams**
Gyorgy Ligeti: Etudes book 1: no. 1, Desordre, no .2, Automne
ˆ Varsovie
Morris Rosenzweig: selections from Points and Tales**
also on the program is the world premiere of two new pieces by
Roger Reynolds: imagE/piano* and imAge/piano*
Reservations and info: (917) 507-1010
johnlink142@yahoo.com
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23 (Fri.) - CONCERT: Maya
Shiraishi & Kanae
Koshi (violin and
piano) |
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7:30
PM
ADMISSION: $20, $15 Seniors,
$10 Students
Maya Shiraishi, violin
Kanae Koshi, piano
with special guest Hiromi Kubo,
Koto
Program includes:
Miyagi: Haru no Umi (the Sea in Spring)
Ravel: Jaux d'eau
Debussy: Sonata for violin & piano
Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances for violin & piano
This concert is sponsored by Greenwich Kokusai
Gakuen.
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KOSHI
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24 & 25
(Sat. & Sun.) - CONCERT: Sachiyo Ito and Company (poetry
and dance) |
Saturday
May 24 at 8 pm
Sunday May 25 at 3 pm and 8pm
Tickets: $20 Advance Sale SmartTix: 212-868-4444; $25 at the
Door
Sachiyo Ito and Company
The 10th Year Anniversary Concert of Salon Series POETRY
& DANCE
This evening-length program will combine poetry and dance. The
dance drama is based on a short story, titled “Mimi-nashi
Hoichi” written by Lafcadio Hearn in his masterpiece
collection, Kwaidan (Ghost Stories). It is a re-telling of a folk
tale in which a blind biwa player, Hoichi, incompletely protected
by the Buddhist sutra, Prajñāpāramitā Heart
Sutra, loses his ears. Inspired by the teaching of
Prajñāpāramitā, the theme serves to recognize
that human perception is relative and in constant flux. Even though
a perception is the first step to imagination, our constant duality
and self-righteous attitudes lead to conflicts and even wars. Sound
of Emptiness asks the audience to understand these undeniable
aspects of human nature, and to think how we can find the resolve
to bring about a more peaceful world. The poems recited by the
chorus with live music will weave through the fantasic dance drama.
Audiences are invited to join in the walking meditation at the
closing of the dance
drama. |
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Tenri
Cultural Institute is located in Greenwich Village
at 43A West 13th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues
Our location is convenient to the PATH train and most subway
lines:
F, V and L trains stop at 14th St. and 6th Ave.
1, 2, and 3 trains stop at 14th St. and 7th Ave.
N, R, Q, W, 4, 5, and 6 trains stop at 14th St.-Union Square
station.
for more information, call (212) 645-2800 |
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