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February & March

at the AIHS

Wednesday, February 22nd

6:00pm

Julliard Concert featuring Itamar Zorman, violinist

Israeli violinist, Itamar Zorman, has been cited by the press as a “virtuoso of emotions” and has been heard as the soloist with orchestras all over the world.  Zorman won the silver metal, the highest award, at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia, and he performed in the winner’s concerts with Maestro Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra.    At the 2010 Freiburg International Violin Competition in Germany, Zorman won first prize and a special prize for best performance of a Mozart Concerto.  Zorman has performed as a soloist with The American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta, Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, and the Salina Symphony. He is a founding member of the “Israeli Chamber Project” and has appeared at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center as a chamber musician.  He is a member of the Lusander Piano Trio, which won the Grand Prize at the 2011 Coleman Competition.  He is a student in Julliard’s Select Artist Diploma Program.   

This event is open to Sustaining Members, Contributing Members, Benefactors, Sponsors, and Patrons.  RSVP by Tuesday, February 21st to aihs@aihs.org.

Wednesday, March 7th

6:30pm

Edel Bhreathnach “Weaving a Celtic Past”

The Society welcomes Edel Bhreathnach and musicians Moya Brennan and Cormac de Barra to its headquarters for their presentation “Weaving a Celtic Past.”  Through song, history, music and images of books and manuscripts protected by Irish Franciscans, Brennan, de Barra and Bhreathnach weave a vivid portrait of Celtic history. Edel Bhreathnach is a historian of medieval Irish history and literature, and is deputy director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation at University College Dublin. Moya Brennan is the lead singer for Grammy award winning Irish band Clannad and Cormac de Barra is a traditional harpist.  The program is a narrative lecture, interspersed with songs and music performed by Brennan and de Barra.  Bhreathnach says the presentation is “the story of preserving and reviving the memory of Irish identity.”

This event is Open to the Public

Suggested Donation of $10.00

RSVP by Tuesday, March 6th to aihs@aihs.org

Thursday, March 22nd

7:00pm

Eilin O’Dea- Madame Cassandra

Last year, Irish actress Eilin O’Dea tackled James Joyce’s Molly Bloom and made her fragmented soliloquy in Ulysses remarkably accessible in her one-woman show Molly Bloom. 

“Madame Cassandra” a dramatization of the short story from Edna O’Brien’s latest collection, Saints and Sinners, will be presented by Eilin at the Society on Thursday, March 22nd.  Eilin will play Millie, a tragic woman who is haunted by the loss of her children and by suspicions that her husband is unfaithful.

O’Dea has a gift for depicting complex women.  Her portrayal of Millie at Symphony Space was deemed “mesmerizing” by novelist Andrea Gabor, and “staggering” by theater critic Belinda McKeown.

This Event is Open to the Public.

Suggested Donation of $10.00.

RSVP by Wednesday, March 21st to aihs@aihs.org.

The Yeats Game

A Farce of Improbable Darkness

presented by American Storyboard

The Producers’ Club
358 West 44th Street, NYC 10036

“The script is fraught with wordplay and texture, and it pulls the veil off the couples and their lives with just the right pacing and panache.” – Boston Edge

“A wildly entertaining romp about later middle age,
the part of life Ronan refers to as the ‘pre-geezer years.’” - Beacon

Written by John J. Ronan
Directed by Kathy Richter

February 29-March 25, 2012 (24 Performances)
Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm; Friday & Saturday at 8pm
Saturdays & Sundays at 3pm

Tickets: $30.  AIHS MEMBER DEAL! 2 for 1 tickets to members from February 29 through March 4th!

For tickets, visit www.smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444

Runtime: 1:30 - No Intermission

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Once the Musical

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

242 West 45th Street,  New York, NY 10036

Once is the acclaimed new musical based on the Academy Award®-winning film. It tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and collaboration evolves into a powerful but complicated romance, heightened by the raw emotion of the songs they create together. Brought to the stage by an award-winning team of visionary artists and featuring an ensemble cast of gifted actor/musicians, once is a musical celebration of life and love: thrilling in its originality, daring in its honesty... and unforgettable in every way.  

Previews for once begin on February 28, 2012. 

Find out more at www.facebook.com/OnceMusical and http://oncemusical.com.

AIHS MEMBER DEAL!  Contact aihs@aihs.org for details!

Thursday, March 15 | 8 pm

Celtic Appalachia

Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street

The Wondrous Story of Irish and African Influences on Old Time American, Country and Bluegrass Music

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the Irish Arts Center in association with the AIHS and Glucksman Ireland House at Symphony Space!

“And suddenly the room is bursting with knee slapping music…”

--The New York Times on the music of Virginia’s Crooked Road

Starring MICK MOLONEY and THE GREEN FIELDS OF AMERICA

ATHENA TERGIS, MARTIN O’CONNELL, JOEY ABARTA, BRENDAN DOLAN, NIALL O’LEARY and PARKER HALL

MUSICIANS FROM VIRGINIA’S CROOKED ROAD

SAMMY SHELOR, EDDIE BOND, LEIGH BEAMER, WAYNE HENDERSON, KIRK SUTPHIN, and LINDA LAY

with special guest CHEICK HAMALA DIABATE, a griot (storyteller) and master of the West African precursor to the banjo

and Eoin and Moley O’Suilleabhain and The Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra

This St. Patrick’s Day season, join us for a real toe-tapping, knee-slapping, singing and dancing fête celebrating the Irish traditional music influences on old time American, country and bluegrass music.

For one-night-only, the beloved Green Fields of America meet some of the best musicians to come from the Crooked Road region in Virginia, including Sammy Shelor (SPBGMA Banjo Performer of the Year; Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass 2011) and Wayne Henderson, to celebrate the cultural links between Ireland and Celtic Appalachia.

Admission:

CONTACT aihs@aihs.org for the AIHS MEMBER DISCOUNT CODE.

Tier 1: $45 non-member / $36 member

Tier 2: $35 non-member / $28 member / $18 student with ID

SymphonySpace.org or 212-864-5400