Sunday, Mar 16, 2025 at 3:00pm
QUO's inaugural festival with chamber music, sound healing, and symphonic concerts.
For QUO, every month is Pride month, making the middle of our 15th anniversary season the perfect time to present our innaugural festival, QUOfest! The festival opens with a chamber program highlighting the musicianship of QUO's extraordinary artists. The next afternoon's unique program includes participatory music by queer luminaries well as an original sound bath by QUO's Associate Conductor and resident sound healer, Derek Weagle. Next, the full orchestra takes the stage with a program celebrating 10 years of marriage equality, and in the festival's final event, QUO presents a family program designed to inspire kids to compose. The whole festival takes place at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights. Whereas the festival model is increasingly popular among professional performing arts presenters, it is a novelty in the community music space.
Schedule of Events:
3 pm - Rhapsody in YOU!
What is a composer? How do you start writing a piece from scratch? In this interactive concert, Queer Urban Orchestra gives kids a chance to try composing! The audience will create a new piece collectively, then perform the world premiere with QUO. To get the creative juices flowing, we hear music by Sigur Ros, take apart a Mozart symphony, and composer Yaz Lancaster introduces us to their music and processes. To top it all off, hear Gershwin's famous Rhapsody in Blue, featuring pianist James Adler, who "shows himself to be a distinguished, thoughtful, imaginative pianist" (Henry Fogel, Fanfare). This hour-long program is designed for ages 6-12 and their families.
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