CARNEGIE HALL COMMUNITY AND FAMILY PROGRAMS
FEBRUARY–MARCH 2018
On March 11, 2018, celebrated artists will join young people and community members from across New York City for A Time Like This: Music for Change, a special concert in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage showcasing original songs inspired by the 1960s and rooted in the issues and challenges of today. Part of Carnegie Hall’s The 60’s: The Years that Changed America festival, the event will mark the culmination of a citywide creative learning project.
Free Neighborhood Concerts also continue this spring, with a vocal recital and blues music in Manhattan, percussion and Greek music in the Bronx, Japanese taiko drumming in Queens, and chamber music in Brooklyn. The series, now in its 42nd year, brings established mainstage artists as well as rising stars of jazz, pop, and world music to communities throughout New York City.
AT CARNEGIE HALL
A TIME LIKE THIS: MUSIC FOR CHANGE
Sunday, March 11 at 3:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
In the ’60s, young people started movements focused on equal rights, economic empowerment, peace, and their own place in the world. Today, the next generation continues to use music to bring people together and fight for change. In this concert, young performers from the Weill Music Institute’s education and social impact programs share the stage with celebrated artists to perform music that empowers, encourages, and inspires. The program will include songs from the ’60s alongside new works written by New Yorkers of all ages.
Support for The 60’s: The Years that Changed America is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
A Time Like This: Music for Change is part of the culminating forum of Create Justice.
Create Justice is part of Musical Connections, a program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
Create Justice is supported, in part, by an Anonymous donor.
Lead support for Musical Connections is provided by Nicola and Beatrice Bulgari.
Major funding for Musical Connections is provided by MetLife Foundation and United Airlines®.
Additional support has been provided by Ameriprise Financial and JMCMRJ Sorrell Foundation.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MANTRA PERCUSSION
Wednesday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Pregones Theater
575 Walton Avenue (at 149th Street) | Bronx
Mantra Percussion’s mission is to honor the past and expand the future of percussion music. “Forward thinking” (Time Out New York) and “a fresh source of energy” (The New York Times), Mantra Percussion has headlined internationally with notable appearances at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Ecstatic Music Festival, and Right Now Music in South Korea. Passionately devoted to music by living composers, the ensemble has commissioned and premiered more than 40 new works in the past eight years.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: IAN KOZIARA
DIMITRI DOVER
Saturday, March 10 at 5:00 p.m.
St. Michael’s Church
225 West 99th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue) | Manhattan
Tenor Ian Koziara’s portfolio includes the title roles in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Idomeneo, as well as unforgettable performances in operas by Bizet, Britten, Monteverdi, and Humperdinck. He has participated in numerous young-artist programs, including Carnegie Hall’s The Song Continues and The Glimmerglass Festival. Pianist Dimitri Dover is a member of the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera, and has performed in such venues as New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Weill Recital Hall. For this recital, the pair performs a versatile European program with songs by Vaughan Williams, Pizzetti, Poulenc, Schubert, and others.
This concert is part of the Marilyn Horne legacy at Carnegie Hall.
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