What you need to know
- The Chelsea Music Competition kicks off its fifteenth season on Friday, making it New York Metropolis’s longest-running pageant celebrating music, artwork and meals.
- Co-founders and co-artistic administrators Ken-David Masur and Melinda Lee Masur, each skilled musicians, spoke to our sister community NBC New York in regards to the milestone.
- Chelsea Music Competition runs till Saturday.
NEW YORK – The Chelsea Music Competition kicks off its fifteenth season on Friday, making it the longest-running pageant celebrating music, artwork and meals in New York Metropolis.
Co-founders and co-artistic administrators Ken-David Masur and Melinda Lee Masur, each skilled musicians, spoke to our sister community NBC New York in regards to the milestone.
“It has been nice for us to discover locations south of Lincoln Heart and simply carry folks to concert events that they would not usually go to,” Masur instructed NBC New York.
Yearly, Chelsea Music Competition brings collectively creative fields and brings collectively leaders from the performing, visible and culinary worlds. In doing so, it creates a cross-cultural platform for each collaboration and enjoyable experimentation.
This pageant showcases totally different, usually missed genres of music, from chamber music to jazz and the whole lot in between, in non-traditional venues within the energetic neighborhood of Chelsea. This version brings to life artwork on the Excessive Line, the Czech Heart, and St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, to call just a few.
With every season primarily based on a theme, this yr’s “Connecting the Dots” focuses on the function of the humanities in therapeutic, strengthening mind well being and connecting folks collectively. Researching this matter highlights neuroscientists who give pre-concert talks, host household occasions, and extra.
The programming is in keeping with its motto “Hear, Style, See”, being a real delight for the senses. It contains reveals, talks, household occasions, free reveals, concert events and even a particular dinner.
Among the most well-known occasions of the pageant embody the opening night time with Aizuri Quartet and WindSync and “Festa Junina” which is totally free and open to the general public and the place famend musicians from Brazil will current music conventional Brazilian Forró at Pier 57.
“The fifteenth season is one thing we did not assume was doable,” Masur stated. “It has been wonderful to observe and develop with the group to a spot the place folks having fun with music, having fun with the humanities, and most significantly, having fun with one another.”
Chelsea Music Competition runs till Saturday.
2024-06-27 21:32:23
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