On January 1st, the Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition present the "Concert for Peace" at the Studio Around the Corner to a sold out audience! The event was held as part of our popular Concerts Around the Corner Series.
The program opened with Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah" with Jeffrey Marano. "Peace Poem for World Day Against Racism" by Demetrios Trifiatis was beautifully read by Judith Marano.
Award winning author Gail Carson Levine read the Emily Dickinson poem, "The cricket sang, And set the sun" followed by Nathan Brewster performing "The cricket sang, And the sun set" by Blake Tyson for solo marimba.
Robert Zubrycki, violin; Adria Benjamin, viola; and Anik Oulianine, cello. Jennifer Tao, piano, performed in trios by Max Bruch and Cecile Chaminade
Brewster Theater Company president, Stacy Dumont read "Jane Addams and the Peace Movement" written by Amy Campanaro.
The program featured the beautiful quintet for strings in g minor, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Robert Zubrycki, violin; Lori Miller Abbott, violin; Adria Benjamin, viola; Adam Kramer, viola and Anik Oulianine, cello.
Future Concerts Around the Corner include American Celebration (June 24 at SPACE at Ryder Farm); Women Composers and 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage (July 9); Concerts Around the Corner, Next Generation (Date TBD); Bard College Conservatory(Date TBD) and New Year’s Day Concert for Peace (Jan 1 2018).
For more information on this and other Cultural Arts Coalition events, visit: www.oththeater.org or on Facebook at “Old Town Hall, Brewster, NY”.
Concerts Around The Corner is made possible in part by the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature. In Putnam County, this grant program is administered and monitored by the Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY.