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Annual Benefit Concert Information!
ANNUAL BENEFIT CONCERT
As a philanthropic entity, the NYAC’s largest fundraiser and musical event is their Annual Benefit Concert. According to the chapter’s archives, the earliest Benefit concert dates back to 1934—72 years ago! Distant past Benefit Concert venues have included The NYC Town Hall, Carl Fischer or CAMI Hall, and Carnegie Hall whose stages were graced by Distinguished Members such as Regina Resnik, Caroll Glen, and Mary Louise Boehm Kooper. In 2001, the Benefit Concert tradition was reinstated after a hiatus of several years with the goal of raising money for local, national and international charities while strengthening NYAC’s commitment to supporting outstanding music and exceptional performers. The 2001 concert featured SAI members performing American music by such famous composers as Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Since then, the concert has grown to feature world famous artists performing exciting and challenging repertoire. The NYAC’s second annual benefit entitled, “Brahms, Bariolage and Beyond” featured the world-renowned artistry of pianist Mary Louise Boehm and violinist Kees (pronounced “Kays”) Kooper. These two distinguished Members of SAI had a prolific recording career, including a Grammy nomination for Ms. Boehm’s recording of “Ernest Schelling’s Piano Music” which was named Gramophone Magazine’s “Pick of the Month”. Ms Boehm had a very long career of supporting SAI benefit concert events across the country from the earliest moments of her career. In 2003, the NYAC paid tribute to another of its most distinguished members, American composer James Cohn. This concert featured an array of outstanding international performers. Among his many honors, Mr. Cohn was a recipient of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4. The NYAC’s Award winning Fourth Annual Benefit Concert featured the musical talent of SAI National Arts Associate and current National Honorary Member, Argentine pianist Mirian Conti, of whom The New York Times has wrote, “Ms. Conti's pianism offers more than tonal luster; hers was an impressionism imbued with sinew and, in livelier movements, with the spirit of the dance. Her playing was impulsive, colorful, and precise." It’s Fifth Annual benefit concert featured the vocal jazz talents of Lenora Zenzalai Helms who in 1998, was elected by national audition to represent the United States abroad as a 1998-1999 U.S Jazz Ambassador. The 2006 Benefit Concert featured our own nationally honored Member Laureate and Metropolitan Opera Soprano, Ms. Claudia Waite. Ms. Waite’s extensive performances have included precedent setting interpretations of roles in such operas as Die Zauberflote, Don Giovanni, Die Walkure, Nabucco and Turandot among others. She has graced the symphonic concert stages all over the world performing classic concert repertoire. Art song recitals are a staple of Ms Waite’s annual performance calendar. A recent review states, “Claudia Waite is a defining Turandot. Regal and elegant in both movement and voice she does not sing in the shadows of the opera's mythic 20th century princesses. With this volatile role, Waite opens up spigots of vocal passion and lets emotion pour out. She is perfection in her own right and never shirks from her moments in the sun.”
This year’s Benefit Concert will feature internationally acclaimed pianist, Dr. Emily White. Dr. White is an active soloist and teacher whose international career has taken her to London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre, the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, Saint David’s Hall in Cardiff, the Palais de l’Athénée in Geneva, and to Belgium, Italy, and Eastern Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. White has been hailed by critics as having “awe-inspiring vitality and technical virtuosity . . . brilliantly translucent in every detail . . . dazzlingly illuminated and tingling with excitement” and as a pianist who “performed the pieces with a sensibility and a mastery rarely heard in this country’s concert halls.” Ms. White’s new CD release of Piano Works by Szymanowski on Arabesque Recordings has been number 1 on Amazon and recently aired on Strasbourg radio’s ACCENT 4 to a listening audience of nearly 100,000.
SAINYAC: Continuing a Tradition of 72 Years
“An Evening with Dr. Emily White”
This year’s New York Alumnae Chapter Annual Concert to Benefit Music Philanthropies featured internationally acclaimed Dr. Emily White, pianist
Time: Satuday, October 9th, 2010, 7:30pm
Place: The Church of St. Luke in the Fields – 487 Hudson Street, http://stlukeinthefields.org/ Details: Ms. Waite performed an Art Song recital featuring works of Beethoven, Brahms, Turina, Nelson and Rachmaninoff
Tickets: Start at $25/general admission and $15/students with valid ID. To purchase tickets, please visit www.bit.ly/EmilyWhiteTix For more details about Dr. White’s performance schedule, please visit http://www.ewhitepianist.com
Chapter History Project!
(Click here for downloadable flyer with
information)
Announcing the New York Alumnae
Chapter History Project!!!
Ever wanted to really "make your mark" on history?
Leave something behind substantial for which future generations
will remember you? Show
your long-term support for our great organization and be remembered
for it?
Well, here is your chance! Or rather, here is OUR chance!
"A recent NYAC History
Project- Display Boards for our May 2005 Benefit Concert
highlighting 71 years of
Benefit Concert History"
This Fall, we undertake the largest and most all-encompassing New York
Alumnae Chapter History Project ever on record! Our goal is simple: to
make a complete and accurate record of every NYAC event and member since
and even BEFORE the installation of our chapter. Easy enough, right?
Ha! Here is where YOU come in….
We are going to need every single member's support, guidance, information,
input and creativity for this long-term project. From submitting and collecting
information on all current active and associate members, to collecting
information and memorabilia of past events and inactive or deceased members,
to financially supporting the project by sponsoring the actual albums and
materials, to organizing and doing archival restoration, and finally scrapbooking
these materials- YOUR efforts and input are what will make this project
a success!
What exactly ARE the projects? Good question! We have three major projects
on which we will be working over the next two to three years. The first
project is "Getting Up To Date", which involves getting into
albums the most recent historical items over the past two years that have
already been organized, thereby getting our current history up to date.
The second project is our "General History"- taking all our historical
materials and history and putting them in archivally safe scrapbooks. We
already have a great deal of materials that have been organized into plastic
bags and await scrapping. We will be working on history that goes all the
way back to 1912 when we were then known as the "Epsilon-Epsilon" chapter.
The urgency of this project is due to the fact that none of our previous
scrapbooks were archivally safe and had to be dismantled, leaving the materials
vulnerable to aging and deterioration. The third project is a "NYAC
Member Book" that would give two to four page layouts of information
on every member in our entire chapter history.
Now that you know the details of exactly WHAT the projects are, HOW can
you get involved? Another great question! We are going to be working on
all three projects SIMULTANEOUSLY- sort of in that epic "Lord of the
Rings" trilogy kind of way. All that means is that your input, support
and creativity will be needed for the duration, but here is how YOU can
get started RIGHT NOW:
SUBMIT YOUR OWN PERSONAL MATERIALS-
You can start the ball rolling by finding these simple things and sticking
them in a large manila envelope- add to the folder as you find them, and
submit them via snail mail to Jenellen Fischer before 1/31/06.
1- Your current resume. Grab your current resume, or put together one based
on your old resumes or life experience.
2- Your current head shot. If
you have a current headshot, put one aside. If you have one or two from
the past that highlight
different "chapters" of
your life, save those too. If not, put aside a photo or two of yourself
that you are happy with and by which you would like people to remember
you. Publicity, business, school, and/or performance shots are preferred,
but we'll take what you have.
3- A short biography. We are not looking for a six-page essay. Just think
about the things you would like future generations of SAIs to know about
you and jot them down. Starting with where you come from and when, straight
through to the present, highlighting with just a couple of sentences
the most memorable parts of your life, OR, a short paragraph bio, and
a STORY
from a pivotal or influential event in your life. Professional bios are
acceptable as well.
4- Copies of important papers, documents, programs,
ads, paraphernalia, recordings on CD or DVD, (no audio tapes, please)
etc.... Again, anything
you think would be of value to the chapter member scrapbook that tells
the story of your life and/or career. If at all possible, we would like
an audio recording of each and every member who has something to share.
SUBMIT CHAPTER HISTORY MATERIALS-
We are in need of any memorabilia or pictures from any decade preceding
this one, but especially the 40's, 50's, 80's, and 90's. If you have
anything of interest put it aside and we'll take a look at it!
SUPPORT THE PROJECT CREATIVELY-
We are in need of serious minded, committed and coachable (meaning you
are willing to learn) scrapbookers willing to help organize, do photocopying,
help create layouts after learning the process, and eventually working
on your own with small take-home projects. Chapter History Project work
sessions will take place at Jenellen Fischer's home in Midtown Manhattan
on the second Saturday of each month starting in October, from 3:00 PM
until 10:00 PM, with an order-out dinner break. Space is very limited,
so first come, first serve on the RSVPs listed in each monthly newsletter.
SUPPORT THE PROJECT FINANCIALLY-
• ADOPT A SCRAPBOOK!
It's exactly how it sounds- for $50 you can "adopt" a leather
album. Your name will be displayed as the donor in the front of the album
and future generations of SAIs will know their history was of great importance
to you. Or if you choose, split the cost between a few members and all
your names will be written as sponsors of the album. You may also choose
to donate anonymously.
• ADOPT A LAYOUT!
You can sponsor your own two page member layout in the Member Book for
$10 or a four page layout for $20, or sponsor a layout for any past sister
throughout the history of our chapter for $10. Sponsors names will be
included at the bottom of each layout. You can even give a gift of a
layout to another
member for a birthday, anniversary or holiday present, or sponsor a layout
in another member's name as a gift to that member, or In Memoriam of
a member as well.
• MAKE A GENERAL DONATION TO THE CHAPTER HISTORY PROJECT FUND!
Make a donation in any amount to the fund to be used towards materials
for the project. Current AND future generations of SAIs will thank you
for your generosity.
****One final note- all checks should be made out to SAI NYAC and submitted
along with a SPONSOR REQUEST (click
here for form) either
by mail to Amy Hawley, or at a regular meeting. Look for updates
in future newsletters
and on http://www.sainyac.com. With
everyone participating in this project in some capacity, we will get this
extraordinary project done for the posterity
and honor of past SAIs and the respect of future ones. Thank you in advance
for your support of this incredible project. We look forward to hearing
from you soon!
If you have any questions about the information you just read or how you
can participate, please call Jenellen Fischer at 212-582-1428.
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