UpBeat NYC students will present their final concert of the spring session this Friday, June 16th! Come enjoy performances by our Children's Orchestra, Youth Orchestra and Jazz and Latin Big Band including the music of Anton Arensky, Count Basie, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Antonin Dvorak, Duke Ellington, Chano Pozo, Tito Puente, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert and Sergio Siaba.
WHERE: Metropolitan College of NY (149th Street and Brook Ave) WHEN: Friday, June 16th, 5:30pm
Where: Metropolitan College of New York 463 E. 149th, Bronx, NY
Come in from the heat and join us in celebrating our Choirs, Drum Line, Beginner Ensembles and Children's Orchestra as they present the music they've worked so hard on this semester!
WHERE: The St. Jerome School, 222 Alexander Ave WHEN: Tuesday, June 13th, 5:30pm
Where: St. Jerome School 222 Alexander Avenue, Bronx, NY
RAISE YOUR HAND draws attention to the school-to-prison-pipeline: the increasingly widespread trend of pushing children of color out of schools and into the penal and criminal justice systems.
Performing works by Le Chevalier de St-Georges, Teresa Carreño, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, George Walker, and a world premiere by Evan Williams.
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Please join the Corona Youth Orchestra on a side-by-side concert with the UpBeatNYC Youth Orchestra, from the Bronx!
Our two orchestras have shared repertoire and many hours of work, which have resulted in a close friendship between the two organizations and its young members. This will be the first time they both present a side-by-side concert in Queens, and their second concert together ever (come to our first concert on May 20th in the Bronx! more information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/258486217952881
The program includes original music by Samuel Coleride-Taylor, Copand, and Beethoven and joint performances of music by Rossini, Bizet and Arturo Márquez' Conga del Fuego Nuevo, and many more.
2017’s festival theme is Immigration where we’ll be recognizing and celebrating the Im/migrant experience in the Lower East Side – The Gateway to America, and celebrating the Latin American Immigrant and their contributions to this community, city and country.
