Date: June 17th 2013

Everyone,

Most of the graduations are over and summer is in full swing, but there is still a ton of MUSIC @ YORK COLLEGE this week!!!

1) Join us for our first summer production STARVING BUT MAKING IT... with music arrangements by Jonathan Quash and Mark Adams, writing by Chris Patterson, and choreography by Jessica Morales. The show takes you behind the scenes of the world of theater with a fun and touching account of what its really like to be a performing artist in New York City.

STARRING: Anthony Alicea, Guerschom Dieurine, Randy Houston, Uchenna Ijeaku, Paulana Lamonier, Israel Lewis, Sebrena Mason, Declan McPherson, Emmanuel Milfort, Bukola Ogunmola, Melanie Pierre, Stephen Pink, Celina Santiago, Vania St Louis, Phil Williams

PERFORMANCES @ PAC
WED 6/19 @ 7 p.m. / THU 6/20 @ 7 p.m. / FRI 6/21 @ 7 p.m. / SAT 6/22 @ 2 p.m. / SAT 6/22 @ 7 p.m.


2) The YORK COLLEGE CREATIVE ENSEMBLE augmented by horns and drums from other brass ensembles will do a 30-minute directed improvisation as part of MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK ( http://makemusicny.org ) on the longest day of the year THIS FRIDAY, 6/21 @ 6 p.m. at Tompkins Square Park (Ave A to Ave B, E 7 St to E 10 St, Manhattan).


3) The YORK COLLEGE BLUE NOTES '13 will give their final performance on Saturday, 6/22 @ 6 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room (Academic Core 2D01). It's been a great run this year! Help close it out in style with the band. This sound will only happen one last time!!!


FUTURE MUSIC @ YORK COLLEGE
SAT 6/29 @ 10:45 a.m. York College Creative Ensemble @ International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) Conference, The Chapel
SAT 6/29 @ 8 p.m. ISIM Jam Session @ The Chapel
SUN 6/30 @ 8 p.m. ISIM Jam Session @ The Chapel

JULY
MON 7/1 @ 8 p.m. ISIM Conference Culminating Concert w/ Elliot Sharp, Jane Ira Bloom & others @ Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn)
MORE INFO: http://roulette.org/events/isim/
THU 7/25 @ afternoon York College Summer Jazz Program '13 @ Academic Core Cafeteria (tentative)

AUGUST
SAT 8/3 @ afternoon York College Summer Jazz Program '13 @ Louis Armstrong House

NOTE: Things change and the future is unwritten. Please make sure you check the latest edition of MUSIC @ YORK COLLEGE.


In music,

Dr. Tom Zlabinger
Jazz Educator / Ethnomusicologist / Bass Player
http://www.york.cuny.edu/portal_college/tzlabinger/

Coordinator, Music Program
Department of Performing & Fine Arts
YORK COLLEGE / CUNY
94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd. #1A12
Jamaica, NY 11451


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