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Lee Feldman is a New York based songwriter, pianist, singer and composer. He has released five critically acclaimed albums under his own name.

• Living It All Wrong (Pure/Mercury Records 1996)

• The Man in a Jupiter Hat (Bonafide/Mercury Records 2000)

• I’ve Forgotten Everything (Bonafide/Urban Myth Recordings 2006)

• Album No. 4: Trying to Put the Things Together that Never Been Together

Before (Bonafide/Urban Myth 2012)

• Dr. Future (Bonafide/Urban Myth 2023)

Lee has had extensive training in classical piano, jazz piano and composition. In spite of that, he writes music that has meaning and sticks in the brain. Lee lives in NW Bronx with his wife and two children. Check out more of his music at www.leefeldman.com

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Arlene Schulman is a writer, photographer, podcast creator and documentary filmmaker. Ms. Schulman’s extraordinary body of work illuminates facets of New York City that the majority of us never see: gritty city living, boxing gyms, baseball dugouts, police officers on the beat, Holocaust survivors, an early interview with Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda, a look at a guidance counselor by day/drag queen at night, and her haunting film, On Some Strange Mornings, about a Dominican immigrant living with Alzheimer’s caring for his mother with dementia. Ms. Schulman holds a graduate degree in journalism with a focus on documentary filmmaking from Columbia’s Journalism School and an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies (CUNY BA) program.

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Inwood Art Works kicks off the fifth season of our On Air podcast with our first State of the Arts episode. Founder and Executive producer, Aaron Simms answers frequently asked questions by audiences and artists, highlights resources, and expounds on a who’s who of community cultural arts organizations and venues in Northern Manhattan.

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This is our 2023 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 2.

It’s where we take a pause at this end of the season, look back at the second part of 2023, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcasts that has appeared throughout the second half of the fourth season of Inwood Art Works On Air. This Seasonal Sampler is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pick. A curated mixtape of clashing styles and diverse forms with one thing in common – they all hail from the musical melting pot of Northern Manhattan.

2023 LIVE N’ LOCAL SEASONAL SAMPLER

Ruth Cunningham

Brian Morales

Pedro Da Silva

Inwood Chamber Players

Double Entendre Music Ensemble

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Welcome to a special concert edition of our On Air podcast featuring the Double Entendre Music Ensemble performing a Holiday Concert Featuring a performance of highlights from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker arranged by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean.

The concert was recorded live on December 3, 2023 at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood, NYC.

Holiday Concert Program:

Excerpts from The Nutcracker – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Overture Miniature

• Waltz of the Flowers

Excerpts from The Messiah – George Frideric Handel

• All We, like Sheep, Have Gone Astray

• Glory to God

• For Unto Us A Child Is Born

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Marche

• Danse Arab

• Trepak

George Frideric Handel

• Lift Up Your Heads

• Hallelujah Chorus

Serge Prokofiev

• Troika from Lieutenant Kije Suite

Musicians:

Oboes: Michelle Farah, BJ Karpen, Setsuko Otake, Alexis Porcaro,

English horns: Ellen Gruber, Ryan Walsh

Bassoons: Yuki Higashi, Melissa Kritzer, Shotaro Mori, Atsuko Sato

Contrabassoon: Dirk Wels

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Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing a chamber concert featuring an introduction to the instruments of the wind quintet in arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. We shameless titled the concert The Mighty Winds in tribute to the instruments, and it was recorded live on September 10, 2023 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood, NYC.

Program:

Georges Bizet – Suite from Carmen

Giacomo Puccini – Un Bel Di from Madame Butterfly (Clarinet)

Giuseppe Verdi – Sempre Libera from La Traviata (Flute)

Giaccomo Puccini – Senza Mamma from Suor Angelica (Oboe)

Franz Strauss – Concerto for Horn Op 8 1st Movement (Horn)

Julius Fucik – The Old Brown Bear (Bassoon)

Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 1

John Phillip Sousa – The Liberty Bell March

Musicians:

Helen Campo, Flute and Piccolo

Setsuko Otake, Oboe

Meryl Abt, Clarinet

RJ Kelly, French Horn

Gilbert Dejean, Bassoon

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Pedro H. da Silva is a multicultural composer, equally at home writing for orchestra, for film, a Middle Eastern ensemble, and his rock band Tritone King. He’s also an innovator of the Portuguese guitar, classical guitar, and other plucked string instruments. Pedro has performed and recorded his own works as a soloist with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the London Metropolitan Orchestra, and Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris, among others. The José Limón Dance Company commissioned Pedro to compose a ballet performed and recorded by the Manhattan Camerata, a chamber ensemble he co-founded with his wife Lucia Caruso.

Equally acclaimed as a film music composer, Pedro received awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, South by Southwest, and at the Venice Biennale. The films he has worked on have been the official selection of more than 60 international festivals. Pedro is a faculty member at New York University teaching composition, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and sitar. He also presents masterclasses and lectures internationally at museums, universities, and other artistic institutions. www.pedrodasilva.com

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Mike Fitelson passions have charted him through many careers. From teaching underserved 5^th grade students in a Harlem classroom, to helping build community as Photographer, Reporter, Editor, Associate Publisher the bilingual community newspaper, The Manhattan Times, to helping reestablish The United Palace as a historic theatre and destination for the metropolitan area. www.unitedpalace.org

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Xianix Barrera is a Bessie award nominated flamenco dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in New York City. Female empowerment, sexual identity and social justice color her choreographic work and create the focal point for the company she founded in 2012; Xianix Barrera Flamenco Company. With a background in dance and percussive studies, Xianix has dedicated herself to the lifelong study of flamenco with the masters of the art form in both New York and Spain. Throughout her career she has worked with revered artists such as Isabel Bayón, Raquel Heredia, Rosario Toledo, Soledad Barrio and Juan Ogalla on some of the most important stages in the world including The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, The Red Theater in Abu Dhabi and Cafe Silverio in Sevilla. 

Xianix is a dedicated teacher with a thriving flamenco school in NYC for people of all ages, levels and abilities while conducting workshops for the Joyce Theater and New York City Center during their annual flamenco festival. For more information visit www.xianix.com

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Gabrielle Lamb is a choreographer and 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is based in NYC, where she directs Pigeonwing Dance, described by The New Yorker as “eccentric…playful…curious”. Her work has also been presented by the American Ballet Theatre Incubator, the New York Choreographic Institute, the MIT Museum, BalletX, the Juilliard School, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballet Collective, Whim W’HIM, Jacob’s Pillow, and Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center. She has won fellowships and competitions at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Milwaukee Ballet, and the Banff Centre, as well as the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award and a Princess Grace Award. A native of Savannah, GA, she trained at the Boston Ballet School and was a longtime soloist at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, later performing with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Pontus Lidberg Dance in NYC. She has been lauded by DANCE Magazine as “a dancer of stunning clarity who illuminates the smallest details—qualities she brings to the dances she makes, too.” www.pigeonwingdance.com 

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