The Lawyers’ Orchestra and Brighton Ballet Join to Celebrate the Holiday Season with an All Tchaikovsky Program on Sunday, December 17th at 2 p.m. in Manhattan
New York, NY, December 07, 2006 --(PR.com)-- For the first time, the Lawyers’ Orchestra and the Brighton Ballet Theater will be collaborating to present selections from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker"
The Lawyers’ Orchestra and the Brighton Ballet Theater will be collaborating to present selections from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker", with excerpts from their original ballet production "A Winter Fairy Tale". In addition, Maestro David Bernard will lead the Lawyers’ Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio Italien” and “1812 Overture”.
The performance will be held on Sunday, December 17th at 2 pm at the Pope Auditorium, Fordham University, 60th Street at Columbus Avenue, New York City.
Tickets are $25 and $15 for students and seniors, and are available at the door.
The Lawyers’ Orchestra, a committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, was founded in 1996 by oboist David Greenwald, and is now managed by flutist Andrea Berger. The Orchestra presents three major public concerts each year at the Pope Auditorium, located at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus at 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue. Under the musical direction of David Bernard. The Orchestra also performs these same concerts, as a public service, at such places as the Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, the Jewish Home and Hospital, and the Mary Manning Walsh Home.
The Brighton Ballet Theater is the premier Russian ballet and folk dance Center in New York City. Founded in 1987 in order to preserve and share the rich historical traditions of Russian dance in New York, BBT Company has also become the only presenter of new choreography by emerging Russian choreographers in the United States. Company dancers are all graduates and former soloists from the best dance schools and theaters of the former Soviet Union, who seek to share their impeccable training and love for dance on the stages of New York under the artistic direction of Edouard Kouchnarev.
The BBT/School of Russian Ballet is a non-profit organization that has provided the highest quality dance education for girls and boys ages 2-19 as well as adults for twenty years. With more that 500 students attending each year, BBT students learn the art of dance from renowned dancers, teachers an choreographers who have graduated from the best Russian Ballet Schools and Colleges and performed at the most prestigious ballet companies of Russia. BBT’s well-rounded curriculum includes ballet using the Vaganova (Russian) Method as a base, character dance, modern dance, Latin & Ballroom dance, international folk dance, jazz dance, and hip-hop. Unlike other dance schools in NYC, BBT provides all children with a unique opportunity to perform full-scale ballets, with costumes and scenery.
This program is supported in part by Public Funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Press contact: Vladimir Lepisko,
Phone: 718-769-9161;
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The Lawyers’ Orchestra and the Brighton Ballet Theater will be collaborating to present selections from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker", with excerpts from their original ballet production "A Winter Fairy Tale". In addition, Maestro David Bernard will lead the Lawyers’ Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio Italien” and “1812 Overture”.
The performance will be held on Sunday, December 17th at 2 pm at the Pope Auditorium, Fordham University, 60th Street at Columbus Avenue, New York City.
Tickets are $25 and $15 for students and seniors, and are available at the door.
The Lawyers’ Orchestra, a committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, was founded in 1996 by oboist David Greenwald, and is now managed by flutist Andrea Berger. The Orchestra presents three major public concerts each year at the Pope Auditorium, located at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus at 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue. Under the musical direction of David Bernard. The Orchestra also performs these same concerts, as a public service, at such places as the Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, the Jewish Home and Hospital, and the Mary Manning Walsh Home.
The Brighton Ballet Theater is the premier Russian ballet and folk dance Center in New York City. Founded in 1987 in order to preserve and share the rich historical traditions of Russian dance in New York, BBT Company has also become the only presenter of new choreography by emerging Russian choreographers in the United States. Company dancers are all graduates and former soloists from the best dance schools and theaters of the former Soviet Union, who seek to share their impeccable training and love for dance on the stages of New York under the artistic direction of Edouard Kouchnarev.
The BBT/School of Russian Ballet is a non-profit organization that has provided the highest quality dance education for girls and boys ages 2-19 as well as adults for twenty years. With more that 500 students attending each year, BBT students learn the art of dance from renowned dancers, teachers an choreographers who have graduated from the best Russian Ballet Schools and Colleges and performed at the most prestigious ballet companies of Russia. BBT’s well-rounded curriculum includes ballet using the Vaganova (Russian) Method as a base, character dance, modern dance, Latin & Ballroom dance, international folk dance, jazz dance, and hip-hop. Unlike other dance schools in NYC, BBT provides all children with a unique opportunity to perform full-scale ballets, with costumes and scenery.
This program is supported in part by Public Funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Press contact: Vladimir Lepisko,
Phone: 718-769-9161;
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Vladimir Lepisko
718-769-9161
http://www.brightonballet.org
Vladimir Lepisko
718-769-9161
http://www.brightonballet.org
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