I just got this email from Helen Richman, piano and flute teacher extradonaire. Now she dons an impressario’s hat and is programming a music series at Old First Reformed Church on Saturday mornings throughout the year. It looks great and I happen to know that the chocolate chip cookies are wonderfu.
Chocolate Chip Chamber Music, an engaging and interactive mini-concert
for the very young, is an exciting new concert series in Park Slope
for 2 to 6 year olds.We hope you will join us for our first concert
of the 2006-07 season, coming up on Saturday, September 30, which will
feature the dynamic Andrew Rathbun Jazz Quartet.
This concert was added to our calendar due to popular demand from our
debut last spring as a new children’s music series.Performance times
are 10 and 11:30 a.m. at Old First Reformed Church, located at 126
Seventh Ave. (corner of Carroll St.) in Park Slope. Tickets are $5
each (free for babies under one) and go on sale at the door 30 minutes
prior to start times.
This concert is entitled Kind of Two, as a nod to the famed
Miles Davis album of similar title, and will showcase some of the
city’s most active and prominent jazz names on the scene today. The
quartet, comprised of Andrew Rathbun on saxophone, Frank Carlberg on
piano, John Hebert on the bass, and Owen Howard playing drums, promises
to get toes tapping and fingers snapping from children and parents
alike.
This particular program finds our emcee and mascot, “Baker Bobbie,”
fretting over her quest for the perfect cookie and the fact that each
time she bakes what she’s sure is the same recipe, the end result is
never quite the same. With the musicians help, she discovers that
adding different ingredients each time – similar to how jazz is played,
creates the most interesting and delicious result of all. Works on
this concert range from Duke Ellington and Sonny Rollins to Miles Davis
and Thelonius Monk.
Don’t miss this unique experience of an opening sing-along, great live
music presented in a theatrical context, hands on instrument
demonstrations, and of course, chocolate chip cookies for all in attendance at the end of the program!
Also note, we are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new website. http://www.chocolatechipmusic.org/
We look forward to seeing you!
Helen Richman
Founder and Artistic Director