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SUMMARY:Whirling (Sufi Dance) Practice with Live Music by Tomchess & Dan Kurfirst
DESCRIPTION:At long last we invite you back to join our Sufi Dance community for meditative whirling known as Samâ (spiritual listening) with live music by Tomchess and Dan Kurfirst of American Sufi Project. \nTogether\, we create a sacred space for you to free your mind\, transcend your limits\, and share your light. By receiving the divinely inspired vibration of the music and developing our control of the body while surrendering the mind’s worries\, let’s share the ecstasy that arises with repeated whirling. \nPREVIOUS WHIRLING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED \nThis is not a class (i.e. there is no instruction) but an open space where we can come together to practice and is open to people of all backgrounds who whirl and follow the path of oneness. Our instructor\, Sufi dance artist Paola García\, and other experienced whirlers will be present. \nRSVP REQUIRED\nFee: $25 via Venmo to @Christopher-Pelham-1 or cash at the door\nEmail chris@crsny.org to RSVP \nIf you have not already learned whirling from a Sufi dance teacher\, please first attend one of our Sufi Dance classes to learn the basics. Private instruction is also available by appointment. Please contact us for details. \nPlease remember that whirling commonly induces dizziness or nausea. Avoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class. Over time\, through whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control\, allowing us to whirl for longer periods. You do not have to whirl for the entire time\, but you are encouraged to explore whether your perceived limits are immutable or only self-imposed. \nPlease wear comfortable clothing (white\, gray or black color is preferable\, avoiding prints and shiny material which might distract the eye while whirling) safe for dancing in (for women your tops should have straps or cover your shoulders and you should not wear short skirts) and wear socks or soft soled shoes. If you have a whirling skirt\, please feel free to bring it. \nAbout American Sufi Project \nBased in New York City\, the American Sufi Project seeks to transmit through music and art\, a taste of divine love. The term ‘Sufism’ encapsulates hundreds of communities across the globe all united by a simple intention – to elevate consciousness\, purify the heart and connect people with a greater love and higher power.\n‎American Sufi Project on Apple Music \nAbout Musician Tomchess \nTomchess (oud\, ney\, morsing) is a New York City–based multi-instrumentalist\, improviser\, and composer who has played and recorded with some of the most esteemed players in the improvisational scene (Dewey Redman\, Butch Morris\, Pharoah Sanders\, Drew Gress\, Ronald Shannon Jackson) as well as Moroccan sintarist Hassan Hakmoun. He has performed around the world and at New York City venues like Lincoln Center\, the Turkish and Pakistani embassies\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and the United Nations He has played on Grammy-nominated recordings and was awarded grants from the Turkish American Society and the Maryland Council for the Arts. In 2012 he was nominated for an Independent Music Award.\nhttps://tomchess.bandcamp.com/ \nAbout Musician Dan Kurfirst \nDan Kurfirst is an NYC based percussionist\, composer and improviser. Born and raised in Brooklyn\, NY\, his music is a product of his good fortune to have been brought up amongst people of all different cultures and master practitioners of varying musical styles. \nHe has performed extensively in the New York City world music and improvised music scenes for years and has performed with various groups throughout Europe\, India and the Middle East. Venues performed at include The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, The Stone\, OkeeChobee Festival\, Roulette\, Alwan for the Arts\, Nublu\, Rabindra Sadan Cultural Center of Kolkata\, Barbes and The Vision Festival.\nhttp://dankurfirstmusic.com/bio/
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SUMMARY:INTERWOVEN Ensemble:  Ami Concert Series Vol. 1
DESCRIPTION:CRS is pleased to present the first of three concerts of AMI\, a new series of chamber concerts by the international ensemble INTERWOVEN in the award-winning White Room at CRS. The first concert will take place on Saturday\, September 24 at 7:30 pm and will feature Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto/shamisen) with Keiko Tokunaga (violin) and Hikaru Tamaki (cello) performing compositions by Japanese and western composers: \n\n\nDaron Hagen: “Cavatina\,” the second movement of “Cantabile”\nElizabeth Brown: “The Secret Life of Birds”\nKen Ueno: “Tsuki no Uta” (Song of the Moon)\nMichael Ippolito: “Strange Loops: IV. The Stonecutter”\nSeihō Kineya: “Tsuki no En” from the Noh play Mii-dera Temple\nThomas Osborne: Tumbling From the Ninth Height of Heaven\n\n\nFounded by Grammy-winner Keiko Tokunaga\, INTERWOVEN is a chamber ensemble whose mission is to bring together the sounds from different places and time. The ensemble name derives from the idea that music making is like creating a tapestry\, woven together with threads that represent and celebrate diverse origins\, traditions and materials. \nAmi means “to knit” in Japanese and “friend” in many Romance languages. By bringing together musicians from different cultural backgrounds to play western and non-western music\, traditional and contemporary\, side by side\, we likewise hope to introduce patrons of different backgrounds to the wonders and commonalities to be found in unfamiliar traditions\, to inspire new friendships\, and to strengthen our cross-cultural connections. \nTickets are $30 and are available online through eventbrite.com and at the door for cash only\, if not sold out. Seating is limited and includes floor seating on blankets. All patrons must show proof of vaccination at the door in order to be admitted\, no exceptions. In addition\, masks must be worn throughout. \nDeep listening forms the foundation of the practice and programming of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). Free from distractions such as food and drink service\, we share these opportunities to listen deeply with you\, that we may let go of what we know or think\, and simply experience. \nThe second concert in the series will take place on October 8 and will feature the Korean wind player gamin with two violins and viola performing the music of Ki Young Kim\, Theodore Wiprud\, William Cooper\, and gamin. The third concert will occur on October 29 and will feature Andy Lin (erhu/viola)\, performing Chen Yi’s Fiddle Suite for String Quartet and other compositions. \nABOUT THE PROGRAM \nDaron Hagen‘s “Catavina” is the second movement of “Cantabile\,” a portrait of the historical figure\, Taira no Tokuko’s years as a recluse and Buddhist nun. “Cantabile” is one of a long song cycle\, “Heike Quinto” which was composed by Daron Hagen and commissioned by Duo YUMENO in 2015 – 2022. The recording of Heike Quinto will be released from Naxos in 2022-23. \nElizabeth Brown‘s “The Secret Life of Birds” (1992) was commissioned by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs for Shirley Yamamoto\, flute\, and Yoko Awaya\, koto\, and is inspired by Brown’s love of the different ways birds use their voices: the ‘song’\, the ‘call’\, the ‘note.’ The koto part uses a traditional tuning\, though offset by a half step for the upper half of the strings. \nKen Ueno‘s “Tsuki no Uta” was composed for koto and voice and premiered in 2010. \nMichael Ippolito‘s “Strange Loops” (2018)\, for violin and cello\, takes its title from the concept developed by Douglas Hofstadter in his books Gödel\, Escher\, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop. Strange loops arise when one moves through a system in one direction\, yet somehow ends up back at the beginning. \nSeihō Kineya‘s “Tsuki no En” (1959) is a contemporary Hôgaku\, which is a composition written in the post-war era after the style and/or instrumentation of Japanese traditional music but influenced by western music\, composed for the Noh play Mii-dera Temple. \nThomas Osborne‘s Tumbling From the Ninth Height of Heaven (2007) takes its title from a poem by Li Bai (c. 700-762)\, a Chinese poet from the Tang dynasty. The poem\, “Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu\,” describes an enormous waterfall at Mount Lu in Jiangsi province. Osborne’s composition also draws inspiration from Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai woodcut depicting Li Bai at the edge of a cliff gazing upon the immense falls while his two young attendants try to keep the inebriated poet from tumbling over the edge. \nTICKET LINK:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/interwoven-ami-1-tickets-403776054047\n \nCOVID POLICY: \nProof of full vaccination is required to enter\, no exceptions. Masks must be worn throughout. Seating is limited and includes seating on the floor. Please do not come if you are symptomatic. Ask for a refund instead or donate your ticket. \nVENUE LOCATION:\nThe White Room at CRS\n123 4th Ave FL3\nNew York\, NY 10003\n212-677-862 \nDIRECTIONS:\nCRS is located on the 3rd floor of a walk-up building above Think Coffee\, between 12th & 13th streets\, one block east of The Strand Bookstore. There is no elevator or wheelchair access. \nNEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:  \n4/5/6\, N/R/Q\, L trains to 14th St / Union Square \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nHIKARU TAMAKI concertizes regularly as a soloist\, chamber musician and orchestral player in the US and Japan. He served as the principal cellist of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and was a member of the Freimann String Quartet from 2001 until 2013. Solo performances with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic have included numerous major concertos in the cello repertoire. Tamaki was a prizewinner in the prestigious All Japan Viva Hall Cello Competition in 2000. \nTamaki is the founder of Duo YUMENO and regularly collaborates with koto/shamisen player\, Yoko Reikano Kimura. The duo was awarded the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program grant in 2014\, and received the Aoyama Baroque Saal Award in the following year. \nFrom 2016\, he has served as the principal cellist of the Berkshire Opera Festival and is also a member of the Albany Symphony Orchestra and the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall\, Symphony Space\, Town Hall and Fisher Performing Arts Center. \nBorn in Kyoto\, Tamaki’s studies in Japan were with Noboru Kamimura and Peter Seidenberg. Studies in the United States began at the Eastman School of Music\, where he was named a George Eastman Scholar\, and continued at Rice University and Northwestern University for his graduate degree. His teachers were Paul Katz and Hans Jorgen Jensen.\nhikarucello.com | duoyumeno.com \nWinner of the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance\, violinist KEIKO TOKUNAGA spends most of her days touring and performing globally as a soloist and chamber musician. Keiko has performed\, toured and recorded extensively with the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet from 2005 to 2019\, and has been praised by the Strings Magazine for possessing a sound “with probing quality that is supple and airborne” and for her “pure\, pellucid bow strokes”. She has soloed with various orchestras including the Spanish National Orchestra\, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra. \nIn 2021\, Keiko founded an online concert series\, Jukebox Concerts\, in order to provide artistic outlets for musicians who lost their engagements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The performances were made available not only to the subscribers\, but also to residents of nursing homes\, hospitals and assisted living facilities across the country. Later in the year\, she created INTERWOVEN\, a multi-cultural ensemble whose mission is to eliminate discrimination against the AAAPI (Asians\, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) community by integrating the musical traditions of the East and West. \nWhile Keiko played the Attacca Quartet\, the ensemble won numerous prestigious awards including the GRAMMY Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance\, First Prize of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011; the Third Prize and the Australian Broadcast Corporation Classic FM Listener’s Choice Award of the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011. The Attacca Quartet served as the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at The Juilliard School from 2011 till 2013\, and as artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2014-15 season. \nWhen she is not on the road\, Keiko enjoys her career as an educator. She is currently on faculty at Fordham University. In the past\, she taught at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division; the Hunter College of New York; New York University; the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival; and Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute.\ninterwovenmusic.org \nYOKO REIKANO KIMURA is a distinguished virtuoso of Japanese koto\, shamisen performer and singer in both traditional and contemporary music. Kimura has concertized in about 20 countries around the world based in New York and Japan. Following her studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts\, she studied at Institute of Traditional Japanese Music\, an affiliate of Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan. Kimura was awarded a scholarship from the Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan. Her teachers include Kono Kameyama\, Akiko Nishigata and Senko Yamabiko\, a Living National Treasure. Awards include the First prize at the prestigious 10th Kenjun Memorial National Koto Competition and the First prize at the 4th Great Wall International Music Competition. Kimura performed at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo\, accompanying Danjuro Ichikawa XII. Her performances have been broadcasted on NHK-FM’s Hogaku no Hitotoki\, NPR’s Performance Today and WKCR. As a koto soloist\, Kimura has performed Daron Hagen’s Koto Concerto: Genji with the Wintergreen Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Mei-Ann Chen and several string quartets. As a shamisen soloist\, she performed Kin’ichi Nakanoshima’s Shamisen Concerto at the National Olympic Memorial Youth Center. \nHer performances have been featured at many opera and theater works\, such as Michi Wiancko’s Murasaki’s Moon at Metropolitan Museum\, Piestro Mascagni’s Iris by American Symphony Orchestra\, Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi\, Yasuko Yokoshi’s Bell and many others. \nKimura is a founder of Duo YUMENO\, with cellist Hikaru Tamaki. The duo received the Kyoto Aoyama Barock Saal Award in 2015\, and featured at Chamber Music America’s 2016 National Conference\, and performed at the John F. Kennedy Center in 2017. In 2019\, the duo had its ten-year anniversary recital at Carnegie Hall.\nyokoreikanokimura.com | duoyumeno.com \nABOUT THE PRESENTER \nCRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently\, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians)\, a platform created to empower\, elevate\, normalize and give visibility to women\, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race\, sexuality\, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide\, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.\ncrsny.org
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The ensemble name derives from the idea that music making is like creating a tapestry woven together with threads that represent and celebrate diverse origins traditions and materials. \nAmi means “to knit” in Japanese and “friend” in many Romance languages. By bringing together musicians from different cultural backgrounds to play western and non-western music traditional and contemporary side by side we likewise hope to introduce patrons of different backgrounds to the wonders and commonalities to be found in unfamiliar traditions to inspire new friendships and to strengthen our cross-cultural connections. \nTickets are $30 and are available online through eventbrite.com and at the door for cash only if not sold out. Seating is limited and includes floor seating on blankets. All patrons must show proof of vaccination at the door in order to be admitted no exceptions. In addition masks must be worn throughout. \nDeep listening forms the foundation of the practice and programming of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). Free from distractions such as food and drink service we share these opportunities to listen deeply with you that we may let go of what we know or think and simply experience. \nThe second concert in the series will take place on October 8 and will feature the Korean wind player gamin with two violins and viola performing the music of Ki Young Kim Theodore Wiprud William Cooper and gamin. The third concert will occur on October 29 and will feature Andy Lin (erhu/viola) performing Chen Yi’s Fiddle Suite for String Quartet and other compositions. \nABOUT THE PROGRAM \nDaron Hagen‘s “Catavina” is the second movement of “Cantabile” a portrait of the historical figure Taira no Tokuko’s years as a recluse and Buddhist nun. “Cantabile” is one of a long song cycle “Heike Quinto” which was composed by Daron Hagen and commissioned by Duo YUMENO in 2015 – 2022. The recording of Heike Quinto will be released from Naxos in 2022-23. \nElizabeth Brown‘s “The Secret Life of Birds” (1992) was commissioned by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs for Shirley Yamamoto flute and Yoko Awaya koto and is inspired by Brown’s love of the different ways birds use their voices: the ‘song’ the ‘call’ the ‘note.’ The koto part uses a traditional tuning though offset by a half step for the upper half of the strings. \nKen Ueno‘s “Tsuki no Uta” was composed for koto and voice and premiered in 2010. \nMichael Ippolito‘s “Strange Loops” (2018) for violin and cello takes its title from the concept developed by Douglas Hofstadter in his books Gödel Escher Bach and I Am a Strange Loop. Strange loops arise when one moves through a system in one direction yet somehow ends up back at the beginning. \nSeihō Kineya‘s “Tsuki no En” (1959) is a contemporary Hôgaku which is a composition written in the post-war era after the style and/or instrumentation of Japanese traditional music but influenced by western music composed for the Noh play Mii-dera Temple. \nThomas Osborne‘s Tumbling From the Ninth Height of Heaven (2007) takes its title from a poem by Li Bai (c. 700-762) a Chinese poet from the Tang dynasty. The poem “Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu” describes an enormous waterfall at Mount Lu in Jiangsi province. Osborne’s composition also draws inspiration from Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai woodcut depicting Li Bai at the edge of a cliff gazing upon the immense falls while his two young attendants try to keep the inebriated poet from tumbling over the edge. \nTICKET LINK:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/interwoven-ami-1-tickets-403776054047\n \nCOVID POLICY: \nProof of full vaccination is required to enter no exceptions. Masks must be worn throughout. Seating is limited and includes seating on the floor. Please do not come if you are symptomatic. Ask for a refund instead or donate your ticket. \nVENUE \nThe White Room at CRS\n123 4th Ave FL3\nNew York NY 10003\n212-677-862 \nDIRECTIONS:\nCRS is located on the 3rd floor of a walk-up building above Think Coffee between 12th & 13th streets one block east of The Strand Bookstore. There is no elevator or wheelchair access. \nNEAREST SUBWAY STATIONS:  \n4/5/6 N/R/Q L trains to 14th St / Union Square \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nHIKARU TAMAKI concertizes regularly as a soloist chamber musician and orchestral player in the US and Japan. He served as the principal cellist of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and was a member of the Freimann String Quartet from 2001 until 2013. Solo performances with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic have included numerous major concertos in the cello repertoire. Tamaki was a prizewinner in the prestigious All Japan Viva Hall Cello Competition in 2000. \nTamaki is the founder of Duo YUMENO and regularly collaborates with koto/shamisen player Yoko Reikano Kimura. The duo was awarded the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program grant in 2014 and received the Aoyama Baroque Saal Award in the following year. \nFrom 2016 he has served as the principal cellist of the Berkshire Opera Festival and is also a member of the Albany Symphony Orchestra and the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall Symphony Space Town Hall and Fisher Performing Arts Center. \nBorn in Kyoto Tamaki’s studies in Japan were with Noboru Kamimura and Peter Seidenberg. Studies in the United States began at the Eastman School of Music where he was named a George Eastman Scholar and continued at Rice University and Northwestern University for his graduate degree. His teachers were Paul Katz and Hans Jorgen Jensen.\nhikarucello.com | duoyumeno.com \nWinner of the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance violinist KEIKO TOKUNAGA spends most of her days touring and performing globally as a soloist and chamber musician. Keiko has performed toured and recorded extensively with the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet from 2005 to 2019 and has been praised by the Strings Magazine for possessing a sound “with probing quality that is supple and airborne” and for her “pure pellucid bow strokes”. She has soloed with various orchestras including the Spanish National Orchestra Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra. \nIn 2021 Keiko founded an online concert series Jukebox Concerts in order to provide artistic outlets for musicians who lost their engagements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The performances were made available not only to the subscribers but also to residents of nursing homes hospitals and assisted living facilities across the country. Later in the year she created INTERWOVEN a multi-cultural ensemble whose mission is to eliminate discrimination against the AAAPI (Asians Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) community by integrating the musical traditions of the East and West. \nWhile Keiko played the Attacca Quartet the ensemble won numerous prestigious awards including the GRAMMY Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance First Prize of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011; the Third Prize and the Australian Broadcast Corporation Classic FM Listener’s Choice Award of the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011. The Attacca Quartet served as the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at The Juilliard School from 2011 till 2013 and as artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2014-15 season. \nWhen she is not on the road Keiko enjoys her career as an educator. She is currently on faculty at Fordham University. In the past she taught at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division; the Hunter College of New York; New York University; the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival; and Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute.\ninterwovenmusic.org \nYOKO REIKANO KIMURA is a distinguished virtuoso of Japanese koto shamisen performer and singer in both traditional and contemporary music. Kimura has concertized in about 20 countries around the world based in New York and Japan. Following her studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts she studied at Institute of Traditional Japanese Music an affiliate of Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan. Kimura was awarded a scholarship from the Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan. Her teachers include Kono Kameyama Akiko Nishigata and Senko Yamabiko a Living National Treasure. Awards include the First prize at the prestigious 10th Kenjun Memorial National Koto Competition and the First prize at the 4th Great Wall International Music Competition. Kimura performed at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo accompanying Danjuro Ichikawa XII. Her performances have been broadcasted on NHK-FM’s Hogaku no Hitotoki NPR’s Performance Today and WKCR. As a koto soloist Kimura has performed Daron Hagen’s Koto Concerto: Genji with the Wintergreen Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Mei-Ann Chen and several string quartets. 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