BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Presents:
The Hudson River Quadricentennial Concert
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 @ 7:30 PM
$35 orch, $25 mezz, Students and seniors save $10, BMCC Alumni save $15
Commissioned by The Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center
Music by Mark O’Connor, Don Byron + Daniel Bernard Roumain
Poetry by David Gonzalez
Films by The Old School, Ltd., Ben Long + Bill Morrison
Paintings by James Gurney, Ellen Perantoni + Jamie Williams Grossman
Support provided by The New York State Music Fund established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
(New York, NY) In celebration of the Hudson River Quadricenntenial, BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center (www.TribecaPAC.org), with support from The New York State Music Fund, proudly presents The Hudson River Quadricentennial Concert, featuring newly commissioned compositions from three of New York’s most eminent composers/musicians, Mark O’Connor, Don Byron and Daniel Bernard Roumain. This multi-media event, including poetry/spoken word by David Gonzalez, films by The Old School, Ltd., Ben Long and Bill Morrison, and paintings by James Gurney, Ellen Perantoni and Jamie Williams Grossman, will celebrate and honor the beauty, the vast cultural history, and the future of the Hudson River Valley.
Violinist Mark O’Connor, whose work is inspired by American folk music traditions reflects on the natural beauty of the river, its discovery by Henry Hudson, and the early European settlement with a string quartet titled “Old Time.”
Clarinetist Don Byron, whose work fuses jazz, classical and soul music will focus on the Industrial Revolution and its effect on the River, the beauty and historical importance of Hyde Park and his own home in the Hudson River Valley with a work for strings, piano and clarinet in a suite called “Tide,” accompanied by a film by Ben Long.
Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, who utilizes classical and hip-hop music as a basis for his compositions has composed a science-fiction cautionary tale for what could happen along the Hudson in the future with “Soundtrack to a Shared Dream” - a work for amplified strings, percussion and electronic instruments, accompanied by a film by Bill Morrison.
David Gonzalez is a storyteller, poet, musician, and actor whose has been featured at Lincoln Center's Out-of-Doors Festival, Bill Moyers' documentary “Fooling with Words” on PBS, as well as NPR's All Things Considered. He has collaborated with percussionist Bobby Sanabria on the Latin-jazz/spoken-word project “City of Dreams”, and was nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience for his production of “The Frog Bride” at Broadway’s New Victory Theater. His work “Double Crossed: The Saga of the St. Louis”, was commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution’s Discovery Theater and has toured nationally, including a run at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. David was the host of New York Kids on WNYC for eight seasons and is a commentator for Studio 360, on NPR. He has lived near the Hudson River his entire life, first in the Bronx, and currently in Nyack.
Ben Long (Filmmaker) is a freelance writer, photographer and videographer based in San Francisco. In addition to shooting and teaching around the world, he has written many books on photography, including Complete Digital Photography, now in its fourth edition. He previously worked with Don Byron on the Bug Music for Juniors project.
Bill Morrison (Filmmaker) has eight titles in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His films have been screened at cinematheques, museums and concert halls worldwide, including BAM, Carnegie Hall, the Hirshhorn Museum, Lincoln Center, MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Tate Modern, and Royal Festival Hall. They have accompanied live performances by The American Composers Orchestra, The Bang On A Can All-Stars, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Bill Frisell, The London Sinfonietta, and Wilco. Mr. Morrison has received an Alpert Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, as well as production grants from Creative Capital, New York Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Old School, LTD. is a Brooklyn based production company founded in 1996 by Josh Kletzkin and Sascha Paladino, while the two were still undergraduates at Wesleyan University. Since then, Josh and Sascha have produced a number of award winning feature length films and short subject documentaries including “Burn Baby Burn” and most recently, “Throw Down Your Heart”.
The Hudson River Quadricentennial Concert
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 @ 7:30 PM
$35 orch, $25 mezz, Students and seniors save $10, BMCC Alumni save $15
Commissioned by The Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center
Music by Mark O’Connor, Don Byron + Daniel Bernard Roumain
Poetry by David Gonzalez
Films by The Old School, Ltd., Ben Long + Bill Morrison
Paintings by James Gurney, Ellen Perantoni + Jamie Williams Grossman
Support provided by The New York State Music Fund established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
(New York, NY) In celebration of the Hudson River Quadricenntenial, BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center (www.TribecaPAC.org), with support from The New York State Music Fund, proudly presents The Hudson River Quadricentennial Concert, featuring newly commissioned compositions from three of New York’s most eminent composers/musicians, Mark O’Connor, Don Byron and Daniel Bernard Roumain. This multi-media event, including poetry/spoken word by David Gonzalez, films by The Old School, Ltd., Ben Long and Bill Morrison, and paintings by James Gurney, Ellen Perantoni and Jamie Williams Grossman, will celebrate and honor the beauty, the vast cultural history, and the future of the Hudson River Valley.
Violinist Mark O’Connor, whose work is inspired by American folk music traditions reflects on the natural beauty of the river, its discovery by Henry Hudson, and the early European settlement with a string quartet titled “Old Time.”
Clarinetist Don Byron, whose work fuses jazz, classical and soul music will focus on the Industrial Revolution and its effect on the River, the beauty and historical importance of Hyde Park and his own home in the Hudson River Valley with a work for strings, piano and clarinet in a suite called “Tide,” accompanied by a film by Ben Long.
Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, who utilizes classical and hip-hop music as a basis for his compositions has composed a science-fiction cautionary tale for what could happen along the Hudson in the future with “Soundtrack to a Shared Dream” - a work for amplified strings, percussion and electronic instruments, accompanied by a film by Bill Morrison.
David Gonzalez is a storyteller, poet, musician, and actor whose has been featured at Lincoln Center's Out-of-Doors Festival, Bill Moyers' documentary “Fooling with Words” on PBS, as well as NPR's All Things Considered. He has collaborated with percussionist Bobby Sanabria on the Latin-jazz/spoken-word project “City of Dreams”, and was nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience for his production of “The Frog Bride” at Broadway’s New Victory Theater. His work “Double Crossed: The Saga of the St. Louis”, was commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution’s Discovery Theater and has toured nationally, including a run at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. David was the host of New York Kids on WNYC for eight seasons and is a commentator for Studio 360, on NPR. He has lived near the Hudson River his entire life, first in the Bronx, and currently in Nyack.
Ben Long (Filmmaker) is a freelance writer, photographer and videographer based in San Francisco. In addition to shooting and teaching around the world, he has written many books on photography, including Complete Digital Photography, now in its fourth edition. He previously worked with Don Byron on the Bug Music for Juniors project.
Bill Morrison (Filmmaker) has eight titles in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His films have been screened at cinematheques, museums and concert halls worldwide, including BAM, Carnegie Hall, the Hirshhorn Museum, Lincoln Center, MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Tate Modern, and Royal Festival Hall. They have accompanied live performances by The American Composers Orchestra, The Bang On A Can All-Stars, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Bill Frisell, The London Sinfonietta, and Wilco. Mr. Morrison has received an Alpert Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, as well as production grants from Creative Capital, New York Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Old School, LTD. is a Brooklyn based production company founded in 1996 by Josh Kletzkin and Sascha Paladino, while the two were still undergraduates at Wesleyan University. Since then, Josh and Sascha have produced a number of award winning feature length films and short subject documentaries including “Burn Baby Burn” and most recently, “Throw Down Your Heart”.
For more information contact Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity.
