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Please enjoy this 2020 Inwood Art Works On Air Live N’ Local Sampler, featuring selections from the Live N’ episodes of our first season of Inwood Art Works On Air!

Selections:

1. In the Heights Medley. Arranged by Dan Pardo and performed by Calliope Brass. Recorded September 13, 2020, at the 809 Restaurant and Lounge, 112 Dyckman St., New York City.
2. Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse from Samson et Dalila. By Camille Saint-Saëns. Performed by Laura Virella, mezzo soprano. Recorded November 7, 2020, at Our Savior’s Atonement Lutheran Church, 112 Bennett Ave., New York City.
3. Intracopas. Written and performed by Miguel Tejada. Recorded September 13, 2020, at the 809 Restaurant and Lounge, 112 Dyckman St., New York City.
4. Two Phony Sick Days. Written and performed by Kevin Delaney. Recorded February 22, 2020, at the Theater at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave., New York City.
5. Ebben? Ne andrò lontana from La Wally by Catalani. Performed by Kirstin Chambers, soprano and Keith Chambers, conductor/pianist. Recorded June 28, 2020, at 97 Park Terrace West, New York City.
6. J Brahms Scherzo from “FAE” Sonata. Performed by Alighieri Duo. Recorded November 7, 2020, at Our Savior’s Atonement Lutheran Church, 112 Bennett Ave., New York City.
7. Show Me Your Facebook. Written and performed by Samantha Echo. Recorded February 22, 2020, at the Theater at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave., New York City.
8. Molly on the Shore. Written by P. Grainger; Arranged for woodwinds by Gil DeJean performed by Double Entendre Music Ensemble. Recorded February 22, 2020, at the Theater at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave., New York City.
9. Prenderó quel brunettino from Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart. Performed by Lori Phillips, soprano, and Mary Phillips, mezzo soprano. Recorded September 13, 2020, at the 809 Restaurant and Lounge, 112 Dyckman St., New York City.
10. The Wild Rover. Performed by Jamie Ignao. Recorded September 13, 2020, at the 809 Restaurant and Lounge, 112 Dyckman St., New York City.
11. Miel Coeur. Written and performed by Jamie Reynolds. Recorded February 22, 2020, at the Theater at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave., New York City.
12. Little Heart. Written and performed by Hot Glue & The Gun. Recorded September 13, 2020, at the 809 Restaurant and Lounge, 112 Dyckman St., New York City.

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As a child growing up in her native San Juan, mezzo-soprano Laura Virella saw Carmen and announced immediately that that is what she wanted to do with her life. She began singing with the Coros De Niños de San Juan, and went on to study at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns-Hopkins University and at the Manhattan School of Music. She has since earned an international reputation for her nuanced portrayals of complex, strong, independent and outspoken Latin women, Frida Kahlo and Carmen among them. Her portrayal of Carmen was described as “sensual, uninhibited and liberated – a Carmen for our times.”

Opera is just one of Laura’s passions, though. Her heart is never far from her native Puerto Rico, and she uses her voice to champion the underperformed Puerto Rican classical repertoire, and, through the Puerto Rican Art Song Project, to promote Puerto Rico’s under-appreciated novelists, poets, and essayists. Hear Laura talk about all of that and perform five arias, including “Death Dances ‘Round My Head,” from Frida.

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Lisa D’Apolito’s celebrated documentary Love, Gilda revealed the inner life of comic and Saturday Night Live founding cast member Gilda Radner. Lately she’s been working on separate projects about the lives of two very different artists: maverick independent filmmaker Albert Pyun, and ventriloquist, comedian, and children’s television icon Shari Lewis. Aaron talks to Lisa about her projects, about making movies during COVID, and about her long history of work with Gilda’s Club, which offers free support to those living with cancer.

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Todays guests are pianist Candace Chien and violinist Nicholas Pappone, the Alighieri Duo. Nicholas was inspired to take up the violin when, as a child actor, he portrayed a musical prodigy. He’s now a sought-after soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher who has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Piano Trio, and the Zukerman Chamber Players. Candace is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Jonathan Feldman and Margo Garrett. She specializes in chamber music, and she’s performed across the US, Canada, and Sweden. She’s taught music in public schools in Westfield and Queens, and held faculty positions at the Usdan Center of Creative and Performing Arts and the Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Festival.

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Dister Rondon has danced in movies, on VH1, and in national ads for Apple, Verizon, and the Gap, and you’ve seen his art all over upper Manhattan—inside George Washington High School, for example, or at 172nd and Amsterdam, where you’ll find his mural thanking essential workers. In 2004 Dister created the I Love My Hood project to promote and preserve the Washington Heights he grew up in. I Love My Hood is now a worldwide collective of artists, educators and activists dedicated to serving the greater good through Hip Hop. Join your host Aaron Simms as he talks to Dister about the joys and challenges of making Black art in upper Manhattan.

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Listeners may know producer, promoter, and comedian Eric Vetter from No Name… & a Bag of Chips, the weekly comedy/variety show Eric co-founded and hosts at locations around NYC, including Word Up Community Bookshop in the Heights. Now in its twenty-sixth year, No Name has entertained countless audiences and given a stage to thousands of comics, storytellers, musicians, and performers as they strive to hone their craft, including Ophira Eisenberg, Tom Shillue, Baratunde Thurston, Joanna Parson, Dave Lester, Hari Kondabolu, and Kambri Crews. Join your host Aaron Simms as he and Eric talk about his two and a half decades entertaining New Yorkers, and what the future holds.

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Hot Glue & The Gun is Carrie Klein and Joel McGlynn, two upper Manhattan musicians and theater artists who are dedicated to the idea that art is not a spectator sport. Hot Glue & The Gun’s live shows meld comedy, drama, music, love, and a sensitivity to the state of the world into an experience that (as one critic put it) will “tease your senses, prod your brain, and force you to dance.” Their weekly live virtual variety show, the Gluey Zoomy Show, defies description, with guests ranging from classical musicians and oil painters to yogis and community activists.

Be sure to catch their livestream concert, a night of GLUEY gratitude, Saturday, November 21!

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Improvisational sketch artist and teacher Kevin Scott has founded three improv ensembles, including his current company, Centralia Improv, named for the blighted Pennsylvania town beneath which a coal fire is destined to burn for centuries. Kevin has taught and directed improv and sketch comedy at The Second City Training Center and the People’s Improv Theatre (aka the PIT); you’ve seen his students on Saturday Night Live, The Office, Bridesmaids, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and 30 Rock, and that’s just for starters! Centralia Improv’s podcast, the Centralia Improvisational Podcast, is available wherever fine podcasts are downloaded.

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Miguel Andrés Tejada began his musical life as a classical pianist, studying under the famed Cuban teacher Hilda Melis Gras, in his hometown of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, but while still in his youth (and already an accomplished pianist) Miguel’s attention turned to jazz. In 2007 he was awarded a full scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz composition and arrangement with Joanne Brackeen. Since then Miguel has played with a who’s who of jazz musicians, and his compositions have been praised for their masterful use of Salsa, Merengue, Boleros, Samba, and Western Classical music. His “Rumbeando” received the National Music Prize, awarded by the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture. Follow Miguel on Instagram at migueltejadajazz.

 

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Ted Minos is an actor, director, producer, and writer who has made his home in upper Manhattan for over two decades. He’s appeared on stages across the country, but locals are most likely to recognize him from the Inwood Shakespeare Festival, where he’s appeared as Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, or others. Ted is the founder and the producing artistic director of the Moose Hall Theater Company, which developed and presented the Inwood Shakespeare Festival. In 2010 he received the Uptown Arts Stroll Award, in recognition of his contribution to the arts in upper Manhattan. Join your host Aaron Simms as he and Ted about producing community theater in the Heights, on this latest episode of Inwood Art Works On Air.

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