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Songs by Brahms, Schubert, Spirituals
Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano
Webern Six Bagatelles for String Quartet
Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon
Original poetry by Gramercy Arts High School Students
Jasmine Lin and Sharon Roffman, violins
Max Mandel, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
Melvin Chen, piano
Charles Mays, Jr. bass-baritone
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Please join Class Notes and Gramercy Arts High School on December 12th at 7:00 pm for a beautiful evening of chamber music and poetry featuring works by Brahms, Ravel, Schoenberg and Webern and original poetry by Gramercy Arts Students.
This concert is the culmination of a residency at Gramercy Arts High School, where ClassNotes artists will have spent the preceding week leading students in an exploration of the relationship between music and poetry.
Three topics will be covered: the poetry of Langston Hughes as it relates to the blues, the music of Anton Webern and its commonality with the Haiku, and an examination of how composers set poems to music.
Students will create their own original poetry; selections of their work will be presented, along with chamber music pieces performed by ClassNotes' artists at the final concert on December 12th.
We are very proud of our partnership with Gramercy Arts High School and look forward to what will surely be a moving evening. Please come -- general admission tickets are only $10!
ClassNotes relies on donations to provide these outstanding programs to students. If you can, please consider supporting ClassNotes. Your donation directly makes it possible for public school children across America to experience high quality live performances and innovative music education. Any amount is much appreciated. Sponsor a workshop ($250) a half day of workshops ($500) or a full day of workshops ($1000) and join us for a VIP champagne reception with the artists following the December 12 concert. To donate or buy tickets to the concert, please send checks to the PO Box address below, with your name, contact info, and number of tickets requested. (All donations $250 and up include 2 concert tickets.) General admission tickets will also be available at the door.
Check out our website for videos, musicians' bios and more info about ClassNotes. http://www.classnotesinfo.org/
We hope to see you at the concert!
All best,
Sharon Roffman
founder/artistic director ClassNotes
ClassNotes
PO Box 1753
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
info@classnotesinfo.org
216-759-0095
ClassNotes is a non-profit organization committed to introducing public school students to classical music through interactive workshops and concerts led by critically acclaimed young musicians.
By presenting teaching musicians who are exemplary artists, articulate speakers, and charismatic personalities, ClassNotes seeks to inspire enthusiastic and engaged new listeners.
Among the many speakers, Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller recalled what it was like to be brought up in a loving house with parents who were performers.
Snezhana Chernova, a brilliant actress, acting teacher, and member of the staff, and her husband Aleksey Burago, who teaches directing, both of whom were trained in Russia (not at HB with Hagen & Berghof), are among the new generation at HB Studio. With his unique energy and style, Aleksey renews the tradition of passion for theater!
Julia and Denusia are members of a new generation of actors studying at HB and working with the HB Playwrights Foundation. At the Gala, Denusia presented an excerpt from the one-woman show she is developing at HB, about the immigrant experience.
Posters of productions with legendary directors, actors and playwrights line the walls of the Playwrights Foundation Theatre next door to the studio. Continuously operating through the years, recent productions have included a new adaptation of Chekhov's stories by Aleksey Burago, and work directed by Tony Award winning Jack Hofsiss, who also, currently, teaches directing at HB.
The re-assertion of the values of Hagen and Bergof and their passion for acting and theater were the spirit of the remarks by Stiller and Meara, and were then echoed in the comments of their children, Ben and Amy. As this Benefit Gala is a link to the past, it is the next generation... it is the evolution of HB into the future that will benefit!
(Note: If you have a problem running the embedded video, the stand-alone video interview may be found at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4271803644382065104&ei=bXDXSrLNLJHUqwLsgL3HCg&q=qporit# )
CREDITS: The Guitar
Direction- Amy Redford
Screenplay- Amos Poe
Cinematography- Bobby Bukowski
Editing- David Leonard
Music- David Mansfield
Released by Lightning Media.
Melody Wilder- Saffron Burrows
Roscoe Wasz- Isaach de Bankolé
Cookie Clemente- Paz de la Huerta.
Transcript of the QAQ ( that's QPORIT Asked Questions -- pronounced, "quack")
Please see the video interview for Amy's responses to these questions!
1- Saffron Burrows is a striking presence in The Guitar, the first feature film by director Amy Redford.
2- This is Eric from QPORIT with a video report from the Hampton’s film festival where I had a chance to sit down with Amy for a conversation about her film.
3- I asked her how she came to make the film.
4- The film is rather stylized; she’d say metaphorical. Not to be taken absolutely literally. It is front loaded: in the first few minutes of the film, Melody is fired from her job, dumped by her boyfriend, and learns she has terminal cancer with just a month or so to live.
5- There have been several films recently with similar starting points: The Bucket List, and Last Holiday come to mind. I asked Amy what is unique about her film.
6- I mentioned that the film is stylized. It is beautifully and inventively shot by Bobby Bukowski Although most of the action takes place in one large loft, it never feels confined. Bukowski deserves attention at awards time. I asked Amy about the style and the cinematographer.
7- There is one very special shot. Melody is silhouetted… sitting on a wndow sill with her guitar. I asked… Who set up the shot?
8- I recently wrote a theatrical script in which the central character is a woman trying to figure out how to present sex in a play. The Guitar has several scenes with nudity and sex and I was very interested in Amy’s approach as a director to shooting such scenes.
9- Amy is a first time feature film director. She is the daughter of Robert Redford and Lola Van Wagenen. I asked about how she learned the technical aspects of film making, and what role her family played in her life.
10- Many thanks to Amy for this conversation. For more stories about the Hamptons Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, and many other interesting things, please check us out at QPORIT – Quick Previews Of Random Interesting Things -- … For links to more information about The Guitar, visit us at QPORIT and check the post entitled, THE GUITAR & AMY REDFORD posted on Friday, November 7.2008. Visit us at QPORIT often; browse; subscribe! Post a comment! Hope to see and hear from you there (here!), soon!