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Ruth Cunningham is a classically trained musician, a sound healing practitioner, and a founding member of Anonymous 4. She combines these skills to improvise music that connects people to the healing and spiritual power of music. She specializes in improvisational sacred music from varied spiritual traditions in both liturgical and concert settings. Her solo program Light and Shadow encompasses a mixture of music including several traditional chants from Western and Eastern traditions as well as Ruth’s own compositions and improvisations.

With Anonymous 4, she performed in concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East and made twelve recordings. Ruth’s CD releases include Light and Shadow: Chants, Prayers and Improvisations and Harpmodes: Journey for Voice and Harp.

Keep up with Ruth here:

www.ruthcunningham.com

www.youtube.com/ruthreid/

www.instagram.com/ruthreid11

Enjoy the work of Elizabeth Cunningham here:

www.elizabethcunninghamwrites.com

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A Montreal native, Jason Huza and his wife Denise moved to the city simply to live amidst great theater. Shortly thereafter, he tried his hand at writing a play. Then a musical. Then they had twins. Then they had one more. And several years of chaos later, he wrote the book and lyrics for the new musicals: It Happened in Key West is set for US Premier in January 2024 at the Fulton Opera House, The Last Match is just off a series of sold-out events at White Eagle Hall, and The Crossing, which was most recently performed in concert in partnership with the Princeton Battlefield Society.

 

Also, Jason is working on a song-cycle with composer John Allen Watts, a new musical with Jeremiah James and composer Sujin Kim-Ramsey, and co-authoring a biography with Steve Grillo of The Howard Stern Show. When not doing all that, Jason can be found in and around Inwood wrangling his boys or smooching his wife, and his kitties, Fuzzy Jez Butterworth and Sir Tomcat Stoppard. Keep up with Jason at www.jasonhuza.com

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Recording live from the Inwood Film Festival in Inwood in NYC on May 25, 2023, welcome to this very special edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live!

Inwood Art Works Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms had the pleasure of speaking with the man who made “the run” – Inwood’s own John “Chick” Donohue, and producer of “THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER”, Andrew Muscato.

We recorded the podcast on location in front of a live audience, who have just finished watching the Inwood-based true-life tale of THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER to close out the 6th annual Inwood Film Festival. While the audio recoring picks up a bit of the live room noise, we are glad this came out well enough to share it with you.

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Recording live from the Inwood Film Festival in Inwood in NYC on May 25, 2023, welcome to this very special edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live!

Inwood Art Works Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms had the pleasure of speaking with local Inwood resident, playwright, and screen writer of the “The Whale”, Samuel D. Hunter.

We recorded the podcast on location for the first time in front of a live audience who have just finished screening the award winning film to kick off the 6th annual Inwood Film Festival. While the audio recoring picks up a bit of the room noise, we are glad this came out well enough to share it with you.

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This is our 2023 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 1. 

It’s where we take a pause at this midway point, look back at the first part of 2023, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcat that has appeared throughout the first half of the fourth season of our On Air podcast. 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

Bridget Kibbey

Frank Rapkiewicz

James Noyes

Annette A. Aguilar

Robert Silverman

Jestin Pieper

Gilbert Dejean & The Inwood Chamber Players

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Enjoy this special Live N’ Local concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing “Mostly French” – a chamber concert, featuring the arrangements of Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean, recorded live at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood NYC on June 4, 2023. 

Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture

Claude Debussy – Petite Suite

·        En bateau

·        Cortege

·        Menuet

·        Ballet

Gabriel Pierne – Concertstuck for Harp and Orchestra.

Featured performance by Violetta Marie Norrie – Harp

Gabriel Faure – Dolly Suite

·        Berceuse

·        Mi-a-ou

·        Le jardin de Dolly

·        Kitty-valse

·        Tendresse

·        Le pas espagnol

Antonin Dvorak – Romance for Violin and Orchestra

Featured Performance by Claudia Schaer – Violin

Serge Rachmaninoff – Hungarian Dance

Featured Performance by Claudia Schaer – Violin

John Phillip Sousa – The Liberty Bell March

Musicians: Helen Campo, Flute; Kaoru Hinata, Flute/Piccolo; Michele Farah, Oboe; Setsuko Otake, Oboe/English Horn; David Gould, Clarinet; Meryl Abt, Clarinet; Rachel Drehmann, Horn; Laura Weiner, Horn; Bill Hughes, Horn; Will DeVos, Horn; Patty Wang, Bassoon: Yuki Higashi, Bassoon; Deborah Spohnheimer, Double Bass; Violetta Marie Norie, Harp Soloist; Claudia Schaer, Violin Soloist.

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Luciannys Camacho is a Dominican filmmaker, illustrator and sequential artist based in the NYC with a passion for comics, storytelling, and all things colorful. She is continuing her journey through comics and is currently pitching her first graphic novel based on her short film “Check Yes!” called Heroes Circle. She has done work for clients like IDW, Hasbro, Tapas Media, and Wacom. She currently holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 3D Animation and Visual Effects. Connect with her on instagram @opal_lines

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Carla López-Speziale is a mezzosoprano with experience in opera, oratorio, as well as symphonic and chamber repertoire. Some of her most notable roles include Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen, Dalila (Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah), Azucena (Verdi’s Il trovatore), the Old Lady (Bernstein’s Candide) and Bloody Mary (Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific), among many others. Her symphonic performances include Mahler’s Second, Third and Eighth symphonies, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, St. John and St. Matthew Passions and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder to name a few.

She has been a winner of competitions such as the Vincenzo Bellini in Italy, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York, and the Carlo Morelli competition in her native Mexico, among others. Ms. López-Speziale holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the National Conservatory in Mexico and as a Fulbright fellow, received Master and Doctor Musical Arts Degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. Find more of her work at www.carlalopezspeziale.com

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Jestin Pieper is a New York City based pianist, vocal coach, organist, conductor, and educator. As a performer, Mr. Pieper has appeared in major venues across the country and abroad including guest appearances on the Discovery Channel, WNYC and WNPR and performances across the country including Carnegie Hall and The Bruno Walter Auditorium. He has a solo piano album titled “Humoreske” and is a pianist and conductor for many opera companies and festivals. Jestin is a member of the Washington Heights based Luminae Trio, and is currently the music director and principal organist at Holy Trinity Episcopal church in Inwood. In addition, he is on faculty as an Associate Adjunct Professor of Music at LIU Brooklyn RocNation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment. Find out more at www.jestinpieper.com

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Stephen Cole is a prolific award winning musical theatre writer whose shows have been recorded, published, and produced from New York City to London to the Middle East. His works include: After the Fair, which was nominated for the Outer Critic’s Circle Award for Best Musical, The Night of the Hunter, The Road to Quatar!, Merman’s Apprentice, and many others.

He is also the author of five published books, and is the creator, writer and executive producer of a new comedy web series based on his story CONEY ISLAND SURPRISE, starring Anita Gillette and Brian Hathaway. The pilot has been chosen as an “official selection” in the Inwood Film Festival and played at the LA Independent Shorts Festival where it won several awards. Check out more from Stephen at www.stephencolewriter.org

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