A Labor Day Weekend Literary Feast
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. —Victor Hugo
Kick off your Labor Day Weekend like never before as Three Rooms Press presents "Fruits of Labor: A Labor Day Weekend Literary Feast of Labor Movements, Labor Pains and Labors of Love," the latest installment of The Monthly at Cornelia Street Cafe, Friday, August 30, 6pm. The event features a wide ranging group of literary artists and cultural icons, including New York Times best selling novelist Danielle Trussoni (Angelopolis, Angelology, Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir), poet/editor Laura McCullough (Rigger Death & Hoist Another, What Men Want), poet/essayist Tana Wojczuk (published in The New York Times, The Believer, Tin House), award-winning actor and movement choreographer Amanda Boekelheide, and cultural critic Ryan C. Daley. Additional special guest to be announced. Three Rooms Press co-directors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.
Featured guests will provce that L-A-B-O-R is NOT a four-letter word! In a perfect world the fruits of labor are sweet indeed, from the beauty of birth following labor pains, to the beauty of fairness resulting from a successful labor movement. And a labor of love, in a perfect world, would always infer success.
$ 8 includes a drink
$8 includes a drink http://www.gander.tv/event/cornelia-street-cafe-monthly-labor-day-edition-830-6pm-8pm
$10 cover plus $10 minimum
$10 cover plus $10 minimum http://www.amandaruzza.com
Here with the 'After Bossa-Nova' project, Rogerio leads a stellar quartet through some of the lesser-known pieces by the greatest among the post-Bossa Nova generation of composers, such as Toninho Horta, Egberto Gismonti, Milton Nascinento, Edu Lobo. This group gives these songs a unique treatment, infused with improvisation. The idea revolves around openness and interaction, using the motifs of each song as a springboard for instant group compositions. It is a fresh and ever-changing approach to Post-Bossa Nova music.
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Mezzo-soprano Stephanie McGuire and pianist Noby Ishida will explore beauty in music, through art songs set to poems of Langston Hughes, and some arias from rarely performed operas of Handel and Tchaikovsky. Of music and art, we rightly expect beauty, but could chemists aspire to loveliness in molecules? Chemist Roald Hoffmann will reflect on the native aesthetics of his tribe. Join us for a contemplation of beauty in music and science.
$15.00 includes a drink
For reservations call 212 989 9319. $15.00 includes a drink http://www.mcguiremezzo.com
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was "Macumbia" with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to the U.S. in Miami where he began work as an arranger. In 1987 he produced "Morning Ride" for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded with many musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Erik Friedlander and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.
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40twenty is a throwback to the age when a band could find its own sound through night after night of experimentation and interaction. In January 2011, amidst a world of “one-nighters”, 40twenty sought out a New York City space where they could set up camp and forge their identity. After 10 nights and 20 sets at Brooklyn’s Ibeam, they headed to the studio to capture the energy they created. Released in November 2012, the group's debut album is available now at 40twenty.bandcamp.com, and from the band at their 2013 Winter Jazz Fest performance. "Loose and assured, it [40twenty's eponymous debut] sounds like the casually sturdy product of a steady-working band"- Nate Chinen, the New York Times "The music, like the name, has a vintage sound, an homage to the period of highball glasses and cigarette cases that is neither rote recreation nor snide irony" -Sean Fitzell, New York City Jazz Record "Dry, controlled radicalism...a smeary version of chamber jazz"-- Ben Ratliff, NY Times
Curated by Bang on a Can All-Stars pianist Vicky Chow, Contagious Sounds is a monthly series launched in 2010 at the Gershwin Hotel. It has presented premieres by composers such as Lukas Ligeti, Tristan Perich, and Sean Friar, and performers including Florent Ghys, Concert Black, Ashley Bathgate, Del Sol String Quartet, BUILD, Andy Akiho, and TIGUE, among many others. For its inaugural concert at Cornelia Street Café on September 4, Contagious Sounds will present two sets featuring many titans of the New York new music scene. Iktus Percussion (Chris Graham, Justin Wolf, Josh Perry, Piero Guirmaraes and Cory Bracken) will perform a program of works by Cory Bracken, Ron Ford Cole, Elliot Cooper, Levy Lorenzo, and Steart Saunders Smith at the 9pm set; t8ts
Curated by Bang on a Can All-Stars pianist Vicky Chow, Contagious Sounds is a monthly series launched in 2010 at the Gershwin Hotel. It has presented premieres by composers such as Lukas Ligeti, Tristan Perich, and Sean Friar, and performers including Florent Ghys, Concert Black, Ashley Bathgate, Del Sol String Quartet, BUILD, Andy Akiho, and TIGUE, among many others.
For its inaugural concert at Cornelia Street Café on September 4, Contagious Sounds will present two sets featuring many titans of the New York new music scene. Iktus Percussion will perform a program of works by Cory Bracken, Ron Ford Cole, Elliot Cooper, Levy Lorenzo, and Steart Saunders Smith at the 9pm set; t8ts will present works by John Luther Adams, Dan Cooper, Stephen Feigenbaum, Brooks Frederickson, David Lang, and Liza White at 10pm. Lisa Dowling will also perform two of her own compositions for bass, voice and electronics.
Finger food on us, drinks available. All are welcome. 0
“I’m thinking of Greg Ward, whose long and searching alto saxophone solo in ‘Third Option’ is one of the best things I’ve heard on record this year.”-- Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
$10 cover plus $10 minimum http://www.gregward.org , http://www.joesandersbass.com
$ 8 includes a drink $8 includes a drink http://www.gander.tv/event/cornelia-street-cafe-personal-remembrances-911-96-6pm-8pm
"Righteous" ...NY Times "Superb"...Wall Street Journal
"****1/2"...Downbeat
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Cover is given where known Many spoken words events are free There is always a one-drink minimum per set; times are door opening times
