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 Katonah, NY – Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is taking its adventurous two-year Latin American Music Initiative, Sonidos Latinos, to Yonkers and Peekskill with two family music programs recommended for children of all ages.
Performances of the Sonidos Latinos Family Concert will take place on Saturday, May 17 at Untermyer Park in Yonkers and Sunday, May 18 at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill. Both performances begin at 3:00 pm. All audience members will receive a coupon for free admission to the Sonidos Latinos Family Concerts, Tango for the Family and Tango for Tots (for those under 6), at Caramoor on Sunday, July 6 at 4:30 pm.
Caramoor’s Sonidos Latinos Family Concert is a celebration of the life, joy and vibrancy of Latin American music. Jamie Bernstein, daughter of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, will be the guide on a musical journey through some of the glorious musical territory of South and Central America and the Caribbean. Flutist Marco Granados and Un Mundo Ensemble will demonstrate the music, the instruments, the rhythms and the costumes of Latin America. Youngsters (and adults too) will be invited to participate interactively as they learn about the Venezuelan Joropo, the Afro-Venezuelan Quitiplas, the Brazilian Choro, the Caribbean Calypso, the Cuban Timba and much more. The program will also feature young musical prodigies, pianist Samora Pinderhughes, age 15, and his sister, flutist and vocalist Elena Pinderhughes, age 13.
Tickets and Information
Tickets are free for the performance in Untermyer Park on May 17. For further information visit www.untermyer.com. Tickets for the Paramount Center for the Arts performance on May 18 are $5 each and may be purchased by calling 877-840-0457 or online at www.paramountcenter.org.
About Sonidos Latinos
Sonidos Latinos celebrates the variety and richness of Latin American music and its growing relevance, commensurate with the growing prominence and influence of Latin American culture in our society. The two-year initiative began in 2007 with several performances during the Caramoor International Music Festival and continues during the 2008 Festival. Sonidos Latinos is made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
About the Performers
Jamie Bernstein is a narrator, writer and broadcaster who transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others. Her father, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, together with her mother, the pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre and their legions of friends in the arts, created a spontaneous, ebullient household that turned Jamie into a dyed-in-the-wool cultural enthusiast. Replicating her father’s lifelong passion of sharing and teaching, Jamie has devised several ways of communicating her own excitement about classical music, including The Bernstein Beat, a concert for young people about her father, modeled after his groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts, and many programs for youngsters at Caramoor.
Marco Granados’ composition, The Venezuelan Suite, received its world premiere last summer at Caramoor, where the acclaimed composer and flutist is Musical Advisor to the Sonidos Latinos initiative. Since his 1991 New York debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall his performance highlights have included concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the 92 Street Y, the 1999 British Flute Society International Convention in Manchester, England, as well as his thrilling performance at the closing ceremonies concert for the National Flute Association in Columbus, Ohio in 2000. In 2001, he made his London debut at the famed Wigmore Hall, with a solo recital of classical Latin American compositions, as well as recitals at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and for the British Flute Society at Queens College in London. Over the past several years, he has been a favorite performer at flute festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Flutist and vocalist Elena Pinderhughes is 13 years old. She plays jazz, Latin jazz, Cuban, Brazilian and classical music and sings in English, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French. She performs regularly with the San Francisco Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble, the YMP Junior Jazzers, and with Catch 22, a trio she founded with her brother, Samora, who plays piano, composes and arranges for the group. She has performed at the Fillmore Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Center, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, the White House, and Carnegie Hall. In April 2007, she was the featured soloist with the Montclair Women’s Jazz Band at the Gualala Whale and Jazz Festival – the first time the producers featured a child on the main stage. She has been featured in articles on jazz and in an HBO special on young musicians entitled The Music in Me. Her first CD, entitled Catch 22, was released in 2005.
Pianist, composer, and arranger Samora Pinderhughes is 15 years old. He has won several awards for his musicality and original compositions, including the prestigious Downbeat Award for “best original composition/best song” for Catch 22, the title track on his first CD. In 2006 and 2007, he won awards for Outstanding Musicianship at the Folsom Jazz Festival. His original compositions have been recorded and performed by a number of San Francisco Bay Area artists, including Grammy® nominated percussionist John Santos and his Machete Ensemble. He performs regularly with many groups, including the San Francisco Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble, YMP Junior Jazzers, and Catch 22, a trio he founded with his sister who plays flute and sings with the group. He has performed at the Fillmore Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Center, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, San Jose Jazz Festival, the White House, and Carnegie Hall.
About the Untermyer Performing Arts Council
The Untermyer Performing Arts Council is a voluntary not-for-profit organization whose purpose has been for over twenty-five year to promote the appreciation of the performing arts in Yonkers and the surrounding areas and, in particular, to foster and sponsor programs for and in Untermyer Park. The council is committed to securing quality programs for citizens who attend the Summer Concert Series in Untermyer Park and other events throughout the year.
About the Paramount Center for the Arts
Originally built as a 1500-seat movie palace, the Peekskill Paramount Theatre first opened its doors to the public with great fanfare on June 27, 1930. The Paramount prospered for decades despite the Depression and World War II. However, it was the advent of shopping malls and television that brought on its demise as a movie theatre. Paramount sold the building in 1973. Eventually the building, now a designated Westchester County Landmark and listed on both the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places, was acquired by the City of Peekskill. Currently, the nonprofit Paramount Center for the Arts operates as a year-round multidisciplinary center for the arts, with live performances, arts-in-education programs, films, and visual art exhibitions, serving over 63,000 people annually from throughout the mid-Hudson Valley Region.
About Caramoor
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is the legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Walter Rosen was the master planner of the Caramoor estate, bringing to reality his dream of building a country home to showcase his decorative arts collection and to entertain friends from around the world. The Rosens’ musical evenings were the seeds of the International Music Festival of today. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in Caramoor – the house with its art collection, the gardens, and the musical programs on summer evenings – the Rosens gave the estate to the public as a center for music and the arts.
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