With performances in genres representing New York City’s cultural fabric, ranging from jazz, hip hop, Latin, global, indie, and contemporary dance, SummerStage fills a vital niche in New York City’s summer arts festival landscape. Since its inception nearly 40 years ago, more than six million people from New York City and around the world have enjoyed SummerStage.ĪLSO READ: NB Plc retains Flavour, Yul, Phyno as brand ambassadors for Life Continental Lager
Flavour headlines SummerStage festivalĬapital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is one of New York’s most beloved, broadly accessible, free outdoor performing arts festivals. Opening acts included British-Ghanaian artist and producer Juls and New York’s Superhero DJ Jon Quick. It was a perfect mix of his musical talent, bringing together a well-choreographed performance. The Nigerian highlife singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist headlined the 2022 Capital One City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage music festival, delivering classic smash hits such as “Nwa Baby (Ashawo Remix)” and “Levels”, amongst others.įlavour, real name Chinedu Okoli, showcased his showmanship with perfect synergy during his sets, from the string quartet musical ensemble to the cultural display of masquerades from the eastern region of Nigeria. The performances in this second concert were all riveting, and musicians and composer were given heartfelt applause throughout.Nigerian highlife singer-songwriter, Flavour of Africa’s fiery performance on Sunday night at the 2022 SummerStage music festival in Central Park, New York, will go down in history as a night to remember for lovers of African music. On top of this, the strings layered a transposed version of the sequence, creating a dialogue between these variations. Barnatan’s quiet touch sounded a four-triad pattern that sequenced over and over, although the rhythm varied.
Pianist and SummerFest director Inon Barnatan took the stage with members of Miró (William Fedkenheuer, violin John Largess, viola and Joshua Gindel, cello). Most impressive, though, was her recent piano quartet “Thousandth Orange.”
was to be a place where synergy would occur amongst all artistic disciplines 1. Along the way, snatches of other composers pop in and out, anchored by a repeated rising four-note line in the cello (also from Ravel?). These white-box spaces are waiting for your ideas For most classes. The Miró played a movement, “The Cutting Garden” from her string quartet “Plan & Elevation,” which quotes the opening notes of Ravel’s first movement, an unexpected callback to the beginning of this program. The vocal melody had an Anglo-Celtic folk influence as well, although the form was freer. You can check your balance, register for a new class or change your personal information, like phone number or email.
Her voice had minimal vibrato, in a folk music style. Pay Your Dance Account Online Pay Online Synergy offers easy online account access and maintenance Check Your Dance Account Online Access Our Software Click on the link above to access your dance account in our studio software. She sang two of her works with the Miró accompanying, “Cant voi l’aube” and “And so.” There, Shaw’s compositions were surprisingly well interleaved with Ravel’s String Quartet. Following this, Shaw joined them on viola for a passionate performance of Mendelssohn’s String Quintet, effortlessly integrating into the Miró’s impeccable ensemble work.įollowing this, a smaller crowd convened in The JAI. The Miró Quartet was dramatic and highly polished.
Photographs coming in and out of focus are musically translated into dissonant glissandos that arrive at triads. A summer storm described in one sentence becomes several minutes of flickering triads interrupted by chromatic scales dissonantly moving upward, only to return to the opening material and then fall apart. In “Microfictions,” Shaw’s music doesn’t mirror her texts so much as expand upon them.