Brooklyn Remembers: A Covid-19 Remembrance Day Tribute
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed many parts of our lives, and far too many of us have lost those who mean so much to us. Over the last year the world has presented us with significant challenges on an almost daily basis and it has been difficult to find the time to pause and reflect upon what has changed, who we have lost, and the extraordinary people in our lives. Please join us on the Plaza at Central Library on Sunday March 14th at 4pm for music and poetry readings in honor of those New Yorkers we lost to Covid-19.
We will be joined by Sing for Hope Artist Partner Elad Kabilio, renowned cellist and MusicTalks founder. Mr. Kabilio has recently performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Morgan Library, and he frequently performs at Joyce Theater in New York City. He collaborates frequently with dancers from top ballet companies such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater and he was the music director of Ballet Next between the years 2011-2014. He currently serves as the Music Director of the Ashley Bouder Project, based in New York City. He served as principal cellist of the Mannes College of Music Symphony Orchestra for two years and performed with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Barenboim on tours in Europe and the US. He performed with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, James Conlon, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Itzhak Perlman and JoAnn Falletta. He has participated in many master classes presented by world renowned Cellists Bernard Greenhouse, Janos Starker, Philip Muller, Wolfgang Böttcher, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Ralph Kirshbaum, Michel Strauss, and Gary Hoffman.
Elad is playing on a French cello on generous loan from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
Mark Doty is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W. W. Norton, 2015); A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures (Prestel, 2013); Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award; School of the Arts (HarperCollins, 2005); Source (HarperCollins, 2002); and Sweet Machine (HarperCollins, 1998). Doty has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2011 to 2016. He has taught at the University of Houston and is currently serving as a Distinguished Writer at Rutgers University. He currently lives in New York City.
Gregory Pardlo's collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Rutgers-Camden University. Air Traffic, a memoir in essays, was released by Knopf in April 2018.
We will require attendees to adhere to social distancing and masking practices throughout the entirety of the event. The BPL Central Plaza is a large outdoor space that can accommodate an audience with 6ft distancing practices in place. Thank you.
A special thank you to Sing For Hope for their partnership and support for this program.
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed many parts of our lives, and far too many of us have lost those who mean so much to us. Over the last year the world has presented us with significant challenges on an almost daily basis and it has been difficult to find the time to pause and reflect upon what has changed, who we have lost, and the extraordinary people in our lives. Please join us on the Plaza at Central Library on Sunday March 14th at 4pm for music and poetry readings in honor of those New Yorkers we lost to Covid-19.
We will be joined by Sing for Hope Artist Partner Elad Kabilio, renowned cellist and MusicTalks founder. Mr. Kabilio has recently performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Morgan Library, and he frequently performs at Joyce Theater in New York City. He collaborates frequently with dancers from top ballet companies such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater and he was the music director of Ballet Next between the years 2011-2014. He currently serves as the Music Director of the Ashley Bouder Project, based in New York City. He served as principal cellist of the Mannes College of Music Symphony Orchestra for two years and performed with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Barenboim on tours in Europe and the US. He performed with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, James Conlon, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Itzhak Perlman and JoAnn Falletta. He has participated in many master classes presented by world renowned Cellists Bernard Greenhouse, Janos Starker, Philip Muller, Wolfgang Böttcher, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Ralph Kirshbaum, Michel Strauss, and Gary Hoffman.
Elad is playing on a French cello on generous loan from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
Mark Doty is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W. W. Norton, 2015); A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures (Prestel, 2013); Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award; School of the Arts (HarperCollins, 2005); Source (HarperCollins, 2002); and Sweet Machine (HarperCollins, 1998). Doty has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2011 to 2016. He has taught at the University of Houston and is currently serving as a Distinguished Writer at Rutgers University. He currently lives in New York City.
Gregory Pardlo's collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Rutgers-Camden University. Air Traffic, a memoir in essays, was released by Knopf in April 2018.
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