Most of us became managers with a dream and an ideal. Our ideas have come true because we believed in them with integrity and sincerity. That is how we were able to find donors to make our work possible.
We’re all here at the 92Y to learn how to become more skilled and professional in the organizations many of us run in our home countries. We are also here to learn how to better change the world for our beneficiaries.
New York wasn’t on my travel agenda—rather, I had dreams about Bhutan, Costa Rica, or Madagascar. However, this program has made me throw away all of my prejudices about this city (which I developed from far away over the last 25 years).
92Y Q&A with Bill Charlap, Artistic Director of Jazz in July Series
In 1985, the 92nd Street Y introduced a premiere summer music festival to New York City audiences. Twenty-five years later, Jazz in July scintillates with one-of-a-kind performances featuring the brightest stars in jazz. We sat down with Bill Charlap (pictured above), series artistic director and one of the world’s premier jazz pianists, to get his insight on this year’s programs.
92Y: What makes Jazz in July unique in New York?
Bill Charlap: First of all, there’s 92nd Street Y’s concert hall, which is one of the most beautiful halls in New York City.
Another element are the brilliant musicians who come together in such unique combinations, like the masterful American saxophonist Phil Woods with Brazilian drummer Duduka da Fonseca, or singer Freddy Cole with a great organ trio. These sorts of pairings just don’t happen every day in New York.
And Jazz in July is a real New York festival. In New York you have a certain energy. The audience is very savvy, and our artists are the cream of the crop of New York musicians.
92Y: Tell us about your first appearance at Jazz in July.
BC: I was 20 years old, it was 1987, and I was one of four pianists: then-artistic director Dick Hyman, Roger Kellaway, Marian McPartland and myself. Boy, I was terrified. I was in awe of these people, and I still am. But it was such a dream to play in such a beautiful hall with people that I admired and respected so much.
92Y: How do you assemble your Jazz in July programming?
BC: It’s all about creating a balance that makes all six concerts work together, yet lets each one of them represent something singular: perhaps a different composer or a different way of approaching this music, or celebrating a very special musician, like in the case of Jimmy Heath this year. It’s also a matter of letting the musicians be themselves. One of the joys of programming Jazz in July is getting to play with and listen to some of my favorite musicians in the world.
The slideshow above was originally showcased with other historic and current materials that encompassed a look at the Harkness Dance Center in the Past, Future, and Now exhibit. This comprehensive and wonderful exhibit now lives online with other galleries and videos that feature amazing photographs from dance history at 92Y and in turn, of New York City.
The photography showcased in the video at top is by Julie Lemberger and the music, Arpeggios Doubled, was gratefully composed by Amir Khosrowpour.
Related: Coming up this weekend on Saturday, June 26, is the Vintage Summer Ball. This is your chance to really experience dance like they did in the Roaring 20s and the Jazz Age.
On June 3, Gayle King, editor-at-large of O, The Oprah Magazine, sat down with Jonathan Tisch, chairman/CEO of Loews Hotels and author of Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World, to discuss her extraordinary career, her vision for the future and the people who have influenced her to be the best citizen she can be. Together, drawing on their own life experiences, they talked about how individuals can be motivated to make a difference. You can watch the full program above.
Find Your Perfect Colors with Rosa Rodriguez. Dress to impress by enhancing your skin tone with the perfect clothing colors and discover the secrets of professional stylists.
Photo Album: In the Fullness of Time: Women Writers on Life After 50
92YTribeca’s Flickr page is hosting an album of photos from Wednesday’s panel discussion: In the Fullness of Time: Women Writers on Life After 50, featuring Erica Jong, Ntozake Shange, Tina Howe, Carolyn See and Abigail Thomas, with Emily Upham and Linda Gravenson as moderators.
Moved on to Bromance in Concert, the world-premiere concert of songs from Bromance: The Dudesical at 92YTribeca.
The video still at top comes from a sneak peak of songs from the musical performed at 92YTribeca in March; shown above is Adam Chanler-Berat, from Next to Normal and Kevin Greene from A Tale of Two Cities.
Preservers of The High Line Park, everybody’s favorite new park located in the Meatpacking District, were presented with the 2010 Doris C. Freedman award, “for its dedication to preserving an essential piece of New York’s industrial history and for transforming the High Line into an innovative public space.” Read the press release here (PDF).
The park is wildly popular, attracting people from all over New York City, and not just for leisurely strolls.
For Huang and her students, they can paint, rain or shine, because the High Line has various structures that can shield them from bad weather. New Yorkers take a gentle stroll on the High Line, which is lined with various wild grasses and flowers.
Huang said the High Line is also a great place to paint the street because the elevated structure gives painters a panoramic view of what is going on down below. She also added, “A lot of my students are discovering that the best part of the High Line is, of course, the nature. So you have everything. You’re right in the middle of a whole hodge-podge of urban architecture, old, new, whatever. Also, tons of people walk by. You have all different kinds of shapes and sizes of people you can draw.”
Sound fantastic, doesn’t it? Summer watercolor classes at 92YTribeca have already begun, but stay tuned for the fall schedule soon.
And you can always head down to The High Line to visit the park any day you want; you definitely should if you have not yet!
Londoners recently found out when The Guardian asked: “Who is he?” then proceeded to answer their own question. He is, they informed:
“A 26-year-old bedroom balladeer known as Mike Genius, whose intimate, crackle-laden piano pieces sound like Anthony Hegarty getting a glo-fi makeover. As far as trivia is concerned: he lives with his mum in Seattle, was championed early on by Los Campesinos! and likes to appear in press shots covered in colourful bruises (because he’s not just damaged inside).”
“One of the most honest and tender streams of art and music we’ve witnessed coming from any single person all year,” NME proclaimed.
Perfume Genius only has five live shows scheduled; In Paris (sold out), Berlin, London, and New York City. On July 20 at 92YTribeca, you can catch Perfume Genius during his limited scheduled appearances, in an intimate venue for what is sure to be a special show. He won’t be in such intimate rooms for long.
UPDATE: In a serendipitous coincidence seeing as his show is next Tuesday, Pitchfork reviewed his album today. They gave him an 8.2.
Last year’s arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., for attempting to break into his own home illuminates the additional steps needed to achieve racial and legal equality for all Americans. On June 30, Harvarrd Law Professor Charles Ogletree and CNN host Soledad O’Brien will hold a panel discussion exploring the tensions between black and white, police and civilians and the privileged and less privileged.
We’re giving you the opportunity to submit your questions now. Any questions submitted online that are asked during the Q&A—as we’ve done on past occasions—will give the submitter glorious recognition as well as two free tickets to an upcoming lecture of your choice*, pending availability.
Read the full article Feministing.com
Upcoming Daytime Talks at 92YTribeca: The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind (Jun 17); Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: The Hollywood Years (Jun 24); Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia (Jun 30)
RISK! Podcasts: True Tales Taped Live at 92YTribeca!!
The good people at RISK!, who produce a fantastic live stage comedy show at 92YTribeca where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to tell in public, create equally as awesome podcasts of each show. They are featured online, and you can download them on iTunes.
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92Y Video: From the Poetry Center Archive: Derek Walcott: The Perpetual Ideal is Astonishment
“I’m gonna read some new poems, so you can mark the decline.” This is how Derek Walcott—poet, playwright, Nobel Laureate—introduced his reading here at the Poetry Center in September of 2007. In April, those new poems were published as White Egrets, Mr. Walcott’s fourteenth collection. To mark the occasion, we offer a recording of his reading from the then-unpublished manuscript.
Reviewing the book recently for The New York Times, Karl Kirchwey, poet and former Poetry Center director, wrote:
Walcott has deliberately avoided the confessional path pioneered by his early friend and supporter Robert Lowell, choosing instead a post-Romantic voice, closely allied with landscape, in which the particulars of a life are incidental to a larger poetic vision, one in which the self is not the overt subject.
[White Egrets] is both visionary, in the best sense of that word, and intensely personal, even autobiographical. It is an old man’s book, craving one more day of light and warmth; and it is a book of stoic reckoning.
In an ongoing effort to share with our readers some of the great literary moments which the Poetry Center has presented across the decades, this blog has begun to feature regular postings of archival recordings. For access to other recordings, please click here.
Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.
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