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PATHWAYS

Old Paramus Church 660 E. Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ, United States

This Sunday, Dec 6, 4:30, Ramapo Chorale, CantaNOVA, Skylark and Take10 present PATHWAYS. All works by contemporary composer - presenting "musical landscapes" in the candlelit setting of 18th century Old Paramus Church of Ridgewood. Poetry from 5th century Japan, Ghenghis Khan and Gaelic legend to Yeats, Kahlil Gibran and Sara Teasdale. Voices, harp and strings […]

BATICUM! Brazilian Percussion Ensemble & DJ Joe Mondi

Friend's Hall 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

BATICUM! (Jam/Party): Brazilian Percussion Ensemble & DJ Joe Mondi Come hear the music, groove to the beat, and join in the fun.  The Brazilian Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Amarildo Santos Costa, will host a performance/jam/party in Friend’s Hall with additional music by DJ Joe Mondi.  The name “baticum” is slang for a spontaneous […]

Guitar Master Class

BC 301

With Russ DeFilippis, EverJazz and Latin Cool Records Recording Artist   Russ DeFilippis, Guitarist, Recording Artist and assistant/associate of internationally acclaimed guitarist/vocalist, George Benson (“Breezin,” “This Masquerade,” “Give Me the Night,” and numerous other hits) will present a guitar master class that is also applicable and beneficial to all instrumentalists (vocalists included), song writers and […]

Open Door Concert Series: Concerto and Serenades

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

The first part of a three part concert series highlighting Russian music. We will have a chamber orchestra of 11 string players led by violinist Evelyn Estava performing three great works - Mozart's Little Night Music, Bach's f minor Keyboard Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for strings. This is the biggest instrumental ensemble yet to perform […]

Roman Díaz and Group: Afro-Cuban Music Demonstration

Friend's Hall 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On the Monday following Spring Break, Schomburg Distinguished Visiting Scholar/Artist Roman Díaz, a master of Afro-Cuban traditional music, will present with his group a demonstration of conga drumming for rumba dance and the batá drumming of the Santería religion, in Friends Hall at 11 am.  Then at 2 pm, Díaz will speak with students and […]

Visiting Artist: Clarice Assad

Shomburg Distinguished Visiting Scholar /Artist Program, The Music Program, and Latino/a and Latin Amercian Studies Present: Clarice Assad Composer/Pianist/Singer 11:00am-12:40pm (BC-301) Performance/discussion of Assad's compositions and Brazilian Music 2:00pm-3:40pm (BC-301) Voxpoloration: Assad's workshop on spontaneous music creation. 7:00pm-8:40pm (H-129) Assad jams with the Brazilian Percussion Ensemble. Come to listen!

Horizonal: Mutantrumpet Demonstration/Concert

Kresge & Pascal Galleries Ramapo College of New Jersey: Kresge & Pascal Galleries, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Wednesday, April 20 at 5:30 PM Professor Ben Neill will present a demonstration/concert of ambient music and video in his Horizonal installation in the Pascal Gallery. Neill will perform on the mutantrumpet, his self-designed hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. The mutantrumpet enables Neill to control digital audio and video in real time, and was used to generate his multimedia […]