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Ilsa Gilbert – Premiere 22 May at 3 pm at St Marks in the Bowery

ILSA GILBERT, writer, and Mary Carol Warwick, composer premiere a musical setting of the poem ,A WOMAN IN COSTA RICA, presented as part of a new concert series, NEW LATIN AND HISPANIC CLASSICAL STYLES produced by Downtown Music Productions.

The premiere features Darcy Dunne, mezzo soprano, Rachel Golub, violin, Whitefield La Grange, viola, and Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano.

St Marks on the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, near 2nd Ave.
22 May at 3 pm
Tickets $10 – $15. Students, seniors, unemployed $8
Info: dmpmimi@verizon.net

It is a diverse and beautiful concert with the Downtown Chamber & Opera Players and the participation of
Labyrinth Dance Theatre in Tanguedia of Astor Piazzolla, choreographed by Sasha Speivogel.

Also Alhambra, A Judeo -Spanish and Middle Eastern musical potpourri of the Sephardic Diaspora. 2

PEN Literary Safari – New Yorker, Paris Review and more!

Last night I watched a talented American actor read a talented Romanian writer’s story. Neither is famous in America but they should be.
New Yorker Magazine Book Bench Blog Review 29 April 2011

In the evening we are invited to a huge turn-of-the-century building, with something of the Phalanstère to it, entirely inhabited by artists. This is the Westbeth…
Paris Review blog of Amelie Nothomb

L Magazine

Above it All – Tania Retivov: 30 april – 15 May

Solo Photography Exhibit

Westbeth Gallery

Hours:
Thurs – Sunday 1pm – 6pm
212 989 4650 for an appointment.

“Above it All” consists of two major parts – Water Towers in New York City’s urban environment and the mostly pristine (but endangered) waters of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia and its surroundings. The common thread is water.

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