The first Make Music Winter event is set for December 21 in New York City, with twelve musical parades that will proceed throughout neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The free, outdoor participatory event—produced by Make Music New York, which for the past six years has organized an annual all-day summer-solstice event in June—will take place mostly in the early evening in venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and Parsons The New School for Design. Artists scheduled to perform during Make Music Winter include The Knights chamber orchestra, which at 7 p.m. will disperse and perform “Thru-Line http://makemusicny.org/parades/thru-line/” (a rendition of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major) at 44 F-train subway platforms; a group of percussionists in “…how time passes…,” a medley of winter holiday melodies performed while parading down the length of Broadway; and small roving brass bands performing “Notation Parade” by composer Chris Marianetti, in which musicians wander from building to building in the Flatiron District and read animated notation projected onto building facades. For more information on Make Music Winter visit http://makemusicny.org/.
Posted December 2, 2011
