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1 month ago | 
musicalamerica.com | Laura Ellis
The North/South Chamber Orchestra will continue its 45th season on Thursday evening, March 27, 2025, with a free-admission concert featuring engaging and accessible works by Anna Cazurra from Barcelona and Stefania de Kenessey from New York. The evening will feature soloists including vocalist Anna Tonna, narrator Diana Solomon-Glover, as well as pianists Donna Weng Friedman and Alvar Rubio-Comino, with Max Lifchitz directing the orchestra.
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1 month ago | 
musicalamerica.com | Laura Ellis
North/South Consonance, Inc. will celebrate the arrival of spring on the evening of March 18 with a unique program featuring the premiere of four wind quintets by Robert Martin, a distinguished composer from New York. The featured works were inspired by various geographical locations and composed over nearly fifty years.
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1 month ago | 
musicalamerica.com | Laura Ellis
The North/South Chamber Orchestra will continue its 45th consecutive season on Monday, March 10, 2025, performing four recent works by women composers. The free-admission concert will start at 7 PM and end around 8:20 PM. It will be held at the intimate and acoustically superior auditorium of Christ & St Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St - between Broadway and Columbus) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. First come, first served. No registration or tickets are required.
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2 months ago | 
musicalamerica.com | Laura Ellis
All material found in the Press Releases section is provided by parties entirely independent of Musical America, which is not responsible for content. The North/South Chamber Orchestra continues its 45th consecutive season on Thursday evening, February 20 when it performs a free admission event highlighting the works of Max Lifchitz, its founder and director. Soloists joining the ensemble for the evening include violinist Dylan Hamme, violist Colin Brookes, and cellist Sam deCaprio.
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2 months ago | 
slj.com | Laura Ellis |Jennifer Swanson |Irene Latham |Matt Forrest
. Apr. 2025. 32p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9780593525463. COPY ISBN Gr 2-4–Olympic ice dancing medalists and siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani team up again to highlight Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have changed and are changing the world by breaking down barriers and being an inspiration to others. Most individuals featured have a short paragraph that shares where they are from and their contributions and accomplishments.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
musicalamerica.com | Laura Ellis
The program will feature Franz Liszt's prophetic Bagatelle Without Tonality written in 1885, as well as Arnold Schoenberg's early atonal essay, the Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 published in 1913. The enlightening event will also bring to life eight recent works by composers from Canada, Europe and throughout the US.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
musicalamerica.com | Laura Ellis
On Sunday evening November 10, 2024, Max Lifchitz will perform a recital devoted entirely to his own piano music. The event will be held at Manhattan's Klavierhaus (790 11TH Avenue; New York, NY 10019). It will start at 7 PM and conclude around 8:30 PM. Admission to the event is free. No tickets required. The concert will provide a panoramic view of Mr. Lifchitz's evolution as a composer. It will feature seven compositions written over a period of sixty years.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
musicalamerica.com | Laura Ellis
On Sunday evening October 6 North/South Consonance, Inc celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with a concert featuring the beauty, magic and diversity of the Latin American Art Song. Latinx vocalists Maria Brea, Eugenia Forteza, Edgar Migel Abreu and Mario Arevalo will join pianist Max Lifchitz in performances of a fascinating array of art songs from throughout the Americas.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Laura Ellis |Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn |Helena Haraštová
PreS-Gr 2–Veronica’s parents host a party as they are expecting twins. It’s a time of great celebration. Veronica looks and sees all the people who have come to express their happiness for her family; she has all types of feelings, but happiness is not one of them. She looks around; some of the people she knows, and some she doesn’t. She notices that there are families that are not like hers. Most of all, Veronica has a lot of questions that she isn’t sure how to ask.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
slj.com | Emily Inouye Huey |Laura Ellis |Chelsea Clinton |Carole Weatherford
. Mar. 2024. 32p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9781639932085. COPY ISBN PreS-Gr 3–Young basketball enthusiasts today may not connect the history of the game to Japan or World War II. A Japanese American man named Wat Misaka served in WWII and broke the color line of what would become the National Basketball Association (NBA). Misaka, the son of immigrant parents from Japan, was born in America and loved being Japanese and American. Sadly, he often did not feel America loved him back.
