TO CONNECT AND TO HEAL THROUGH MUSIC IN OUR CHANGING WORLD
TO CONNECT AND TO HEAL THROUGH MUSIC IN OUR CHANGING WORLD
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Dear Friends and Supporters,
Join us in putting Leonard Bernstein’s words into action, by making a meaningful difference in the lives of so many with the healing power of music. Music brings us together, calms our souls, engages our minds, and instills a sense of hope, especially when personal and worldly events can completely overwhelm us.
In 2023, Jazz & Classics for Change (JCfC) brought live music to our communities in Columbia and Berkshire counties with not only 5 public concerts but also 7 outreach concerts: “music in action” initiatives that bring the gift of live music to those unable to come to us. Presently, these outreach audiences include young adults and adults with special abilities, seniors in assistant living homes, and the children of incarcerated parents.
In 2024, our public concerts will be performed again at Tydeman Farm in May and September, with a stellar group of musicians including violinist Eugene Drucker (founder of the famed Emerson String Quartet), cellist Roberta Cooper, and members of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Grammy®-nominated clarinetist Anat Cohen and Marcello Gonçalves will join us in the Fall at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 2024 we also plan to offer as many as 12 outreach concerts, and hope to bring live concerts to those in correctional facilities.
The funding — and all of the associated costs for some of these programs — is the sole responsibility of JCfC and now we need you, our generous supporters, to partner with us so that these programs can continue and flourish.
A generous donor has offered us a matching grant of $7,500, a golden opportunity to help meet our fundraising goal! Your donation will have twice the impact towards making a major difference in the lives of those who are so deserving and appreciative of our music offerings.
I hope you will help us make it possible for more people to share in the experience and the lasting value of live music. When I meet you at concerts and events, I am filled with gratitude: the excitement you experience and the profound connection you feel towards the music and our world-class musicians is palpable and deeply gratifying.
As president and artistic director of Jazz and Classics for Change, join me in making it possible for more people to share in the experience and the lasting value of live music. Go to our Support Us page to make a donation, or, if you prefer, you can mail your donation (made payable to “Jazz and Classics for Change”) to 56 Fern Hill Rd., Ghent, NY 12075. With your help, we can put Bernstein’s words into action and make a meaningful difference in the lives of so many, with the healing power of music.
The board members of Jazz & Classics for Change and I are deeply grateful for your continuing and unwavering support. Your generosity makes it all possible!
Visual Representation of Beethoven Sonata for Cello and Piano, Opus 102, No.1
By Martina Angela Müller
Through synesthesia I have been able to “see” music as an inner visual experience of ever moving, radiant expressions of color and form, an unfolding world as the music gets performed. I listen to music with my eyes closed so that I can see it inwardly. Over the course of my artistic career, I have painted a good number of paintings that have been “snapshots”, or one particular “scene” from the music to represent the overall mood of the piece, or a visual expression from the music that was particularly striking. For many years I have thought about how to make this ongoing, colorful moving experience visible through a participatory process rather than just in still painting.
This project is an attempt to show a visual representation of the music as it comes to life while the sonata is being played. I worked with acrylic paint on plexiglass so that I could film the painting process from behind. What appears as simultaneous splendorous unfolding of color and form in the inner vision can still not be fully captured by this rather crude medium, but the video can let the viewer participate somewhat in the process of making a painting in the physical world, that tries to grasp the non-physical essence of the music.
The cross-pollination of one art form to another, like poetry expressed in music through song or dance, or visual art expressed in music (Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky for example), or in this case music expressed in painting is a fascinating form of artistic inspiration.
In the concert, a video projection of the painting process expressing the colors and movements of the music, the inner essence and mood of the sonata in flowing, translucent paint will accompany the performance and the four finished paintings, one for each movement, will be on display. •
To purchase tickets, please make a donation via PayPal of a suggested amount per ticket:
Family: $30 – $100
Adult: $20 – $50
Children: $10 – $40
Please also contact us by phone at (518) 929-5950 or via email and let us know how many tickets you are purchasing and for which concert(s).
Thank you!
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Our Camphill Ghent outreach project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CREATE Council on the Arts.
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