Full Orchestra Concert
CELEBRATE BROOKLYN!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
8 pm
Prospect Park Bandshell
95 Prospect Park West
Suggested Donation $3
The Brooklyn Philharmonic brings Richard Rodgers 1939 classic Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Jacques Ibert’s Divertissement and Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria in D to life with the help of the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Brooklyn Interdenominational Choir and all new costumes by Isaac Mizrahi.
Chamber Concert
RESTORATION ROCKS
Saturday, October 8, 2011
12:30 pm
Bed-Stuy Restoration
1368 Fulton Street
FREE
To read a New York Times review of this concert, click here.
Hip-hop legend and critically-acclaimed actor Mos Def joins members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic at Restoration Rocks, a concert hosted by Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, one of the Philharmonic’s closest partners.
Featuring: Mos Def, rapper Brooklyn Phil Chamber Players; Alan Pierson, conductor Program: Mos Def arr. Derek Bermel, Life in Marvelous Times (2008) and other songs including Frederick Rzewski’s Coming Together (1972).
Chamber Concert
WNYC NEW SOUNDS LIVE
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
7 pm
The Winter Garden at the World Financial Center
FREE
Listen to this concert live on the WQXR Q2 Webcast by clicking here.
Hip-hop legend and critically-acclaimed actor Mos Def, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, songstress Mellissa Hughes, Corey Dargel, and other special guests join members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic in this lively sampling of things to come in 2011-2012. The program will feature small ensemble versions of music the full orchestra will play later in the season, including Derek Bermel’s arrangements of Mos Def’s original songs, 19th century Shape Note singing, and works by David T. Little and Lev Zhurbin.
In addition, the concert will feature a special reprise of What Might Have Been, a piece composed by the Philharmonic’s 2010-11 Composer Fellow Corey Dargel, who will perform his own work on the concert.
Program:
Shape Note Singing David T. Little, excerpt from Am I Born (2011); Lev Zhurbin, excerpt from Only Love (2008); Frederick Rzewski, Coming Together (1972); Corey Dargel, What Might Have Been (2010); Mos Def arr. Derek Bermel, Life in Marvelous Times (2008) and other songs.
Chamber Concert
RUSSIAN CHAMBER MUSIC
Sunday, October 16, 2011
4 pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Dweck Center at the Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
FREE
The Brooklyn Philharmonic is delighted to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library for this special chamber music concert featuring beloved Russian composers.
Program:
Alfred Schnittke: Musica Nostalgia for Cello & Piano; Arvo Part: Fratres for Cello & Piano; Sergei Prokofiev: 5 Melodies, Op. 35 for violin and piano; Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67
The Brooklyn Philharmonic is honored to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present these performances.
Full Orchestra Concert
ANNUAL INTERFAITH CONCERT OF REMEMBRANCE
Saturday, October 22, 2011
8 pm
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
FREE
Arkady Leytush conducts the Brooklyn Philharmonic in an emotionally sweeping concert that will include Felix Mendelssohn’s Cappricio Brilliante (opus 22), Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrows (Alison Bates, Soprano), Zlata Bazdolina’s Song of the Murdered Jewish People (Fritz Weavern Narrator) and Ofer Ben-Amots’s Klezmer Concerto (Moran Katz, Clarinet). Maurice Edwards will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
Full Orchestra Concert
A JOYFUL NOISE
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
8 pm
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
$30 – 80
Tickets available on the Carnegie Hall website.
New York Choral Society conductor John Daly Goodwin leads both the choir and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in Franz Joseph Haydn’s ebullient Te Deum, Francis Poulen’s spectacular Gloria, Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece for double chorus Te Deum as well as Giacomo Puccini’s Messa di Gloria (Kyrie and Gloria) which lay dormant for over 70 years until it was rediscovered in 1952. Anita Johnson will sing soprano.
This concert is produced by the New York Choral Society.
Chamber Concert
BROOKLYN PHIL PRESENTS DEBORAH BUCK
Sunday, January 29, 2012
2 pm
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
$15, $10 for Brooklyn Museum members
The Brooklyn Phil’s concertmaster, Deborah Buck, violin; Molly Morkoski, piano
Program:
Johannes Brahms:
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, “Rain Sonata”, Op. 78, 1878 – 1879
Karol Szymanowski:
from Mythes (Myths), Op. 30, 1915
La Fontaine d’Aréthuse (The Fountain of Arethusa)
Edvard Grieg:
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45, 1887
School Time Concert
THE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT: A CENTURY OF BLACK MUSIC IN AMERICA
Two concerts to choose from:
Friday, March 16, 2012
10:15 am & 12:00 pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Campus Road
$6
The Brooklyn Philharmonic and charismatic guest conductor Wayne DuMaine highlight the music of Sam Cooke, Duke Ellington, Otis Redding, and William Grant Still.
Featuring the Edward R. Murrow High School Gospel Choir singing Respect and A Change is Gonna Come and the renowned tap dancers from Divine Rhythm Productions, the Brooklyn Phil will explore nearly a century of music by black composers. Take the express train through Still’s Lenox Avenue, then relax to the sounds of Ellington’s River Suite. Students, teachers, and parents will be wowed by the sounds of this exciting program showcasing choir, tap dancers, and our acclaimed orchestra!
Attention teachers: For every 15 students you bring you receive one (1) free chaperone ticket!
Please call our Education Department at 718.488.7012 to purchase tickets, or to receive more details on this event.
Program:
Otis Redding, Respect (featuring Edward R. Murrow High School Gospel Choir); Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come (featuring Edward R. Murrow High School Gospel Choir); William Grant Still, Lenox Avenue for speaker, chorus and orchestra (featuring Jason Samuels Smith, Divine Rhythm Productions); Ellington, The River Suite.
Full Orchestra Concert
AMERICAN REFLECTIONS
Friday, April 20, 2012
7:30 pm
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
$30 – $80
American choral music takes center stage as John Daly Goodwin conducts the New York Choral Society and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in five works that have figured prominently in the history of the NYCS: Stephen Paulus’s Whitman’s New York, Robert De Cormier’s Legacy, Morton Gould’s Quotations, Morten Lauridsen’s haunting Lux Aeterna and Charles Ives’ transcendent masterpiece Psalm 90.
This concert will serve as the final season for maestro Goodwin who has served for twenty-five-year tenure at the helm of the NYCS.
This concert is produced by the New York Choral Society.
Chamber Concert
OUTSIDE-IN ANNUAL CONCERT
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
8 pm
Galapagos Art Space
DUMBO
$15
The Brooklyn Philharmonic is looking for Brooklyn’s great musical wizards. Each year, the Phil’s Outside-In program (formerly called the Composer Mentorship Program) recruits exciting Brooklyn music-makers who work outside the classical music world, pairing them with renowned composer Randall Woolf, who will mentor them as they articulate their musical imaginations through orchestral instruments. The Brooklyn Phil is excited to present what this year’s crop of Outside-In fellows has dreamt up.
The program will include all new works by Tim Fite, Charlie Looker and Natalie Elizabeth Weiss.
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