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Title: |
Gala Classical Concert |
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at The Jewish Community Center of West Hempstead |
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Date: |
October 28, 2012 |
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Time: |
2:00 PM
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| Admission: | Admission: $20.00 per person; $15.00 for students. If you would like to be a patron, for $100.00 you will get 4 tickets for reserved seating and also have your name in the program. |
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Location: |
The Jewish Community Center of West Hempstead |
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Street Address: |
711 Dogwood Avenue |
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West Hempstead, NY 11552 |
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Description: |
The Jewish Community Center of West Hempstead will be hosting a Gala Classical Concert featuring pianists, Arbie Orenstein and Audrey Schneider as well as distinguished guest artist, flutist Keith Underwood.
The program will consist of piano compositions by Chopin, Schubert, Debussy and Ravel, as well as flute works by Barber, Rachmaninov, Bloch and Schulhoff. A rarely-heard, beautiful Sonata, for Flute and Piano, by Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942), will be featured. Schuloff was a Czechoslavakian Jew who was a prolific and multi-faceted composer, whose work embraced a full range of styles and influences. Despite being an internationally well-established pianist and composer, with successful engagements in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice and Salzburg, he was deported to a concentration camp in Wultzburg, Bavaria where he died in August, 1942.
Arbie Orenstein and Audrey Schneider have performed as duo-pianists for the past 33 years, at Queens College, the libraries at Bethpage, Shelter Rock and Massapequa, and the Nassau County Celebration of the Arts.
Dr. Arbie Orenstein, a Professor of Music at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College where he has taught for the past 45 years, has accompanied many outstanding cantors and concert artists and has recorded the world premieres of several works by Maurice Ravel which he discovered in France while studying in Paris on a Fulbright grant. He attended Columbia University Graduate School where he received his doctorate in Musicology. Dr. Orenstein is the author of several books as well as editor of Musica Judaica, a scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of Jewish music. In 1998 Dr. Orenstein was knighted by the French government, receiving the medal of Chevailer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Audrey Schneider received the Master of Arts degree in solo performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where she also completed the Bachelor of arts degree, Summa Cum Laude. A guest performance with the CBS-TV Concert Orchestra, under the baton of Alfredo Antonini led to an invitation to create and perform four televised programs for children, exploring classical music and dance. She performs regularly in solo and duo piano recitals, as well in collaboration with singers and instrumentalists at Queens College, Brandeis University, Williams College, Princeton University and at Steinway Hall in New York. Ms. Schneider is a faculty member of the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University and maintains her private teaching studio in West Hempstead.
Keith Underwood has enjoyed a diverse career as flutist for more than 3 decades. He has performed with most of the major musical groups in the New York Area, including the NY Philharmonic, the American Composers’ Orchestra and the Orpheus Ensemble and has appeared as soloist with Anthony Newman, Bobby McFerrin, Kathleen Battle and Celine Dion. He has recorded for motion pictures and television in NY and Los Angeles.
Mr. Underwood is a well-known flute teacher who teaches general techniques for wind players and singers at the Mannes College of Music, NYU, and Aaron Copland School of Music and the CUNY graduate center. His Master Classses have taken him all over the world, from the Eastman School, the Julliard School and the New England Conservatory to New Mexico, California, Brazil, Italy London, and Tokyo to teach and perform. His students play in major orchestras throughout the United States and abroad.
There will be a collation following the concert and all concert ticket holders are invited. |
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Contact: |
516-481-7448 |
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