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 concerning 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 concerning the milestone.
“It has been nice for us to discover locations south of Lincoln Middle and simply deliver individuals to live shows that they would not usually go to,” Masur instructed NBC New York.
Yearly, Chelsea Music Competition brings collectively inventive 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, typically ignored genres of music, from chamber music to jazz and all the things in between, in non-traditional venues within the vigorous neighborhood of Chelsea. This version brings to life artwork on the Excessive Line, the Czech Middle, and St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, to call a couple of.
With every season based mostly on a theme, this 12 months’s “Connecting the Dots” focuses on the position of the humanities in therapeutic, strengthening mind well being and connecting individuals collectively. Researching this matter highlights neuroscientists who give pre-concert talks, host household occasions, and extra.
The programming is according to its motto “Pay attention, Style, See”, being a real delight for the senses. It contains exhibits, talks, household occasions, free exhibits, live shows 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 suppose was potential,” Masur mentioned. “It has been wonderful to look at and develop with the neighborhood to a spot the place individuals 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 22:11:58
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