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The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, known at one time as the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music, [citation needed] is a music conservatory located in Brooklyn, New York City. It offers a broad range of instruction in areas of American song, jazz and gospel singing, Latin jazz, and African drumming. The conservatory was founded in 1897 by ...
The Chorale, a four-part mixed chorus of approximately 60 members, annually performs three subscription concerts at various venues in New York City. Its repertoire ranges from great classical works to contemporary pieces by cutting edge composers like Ricky Ian Gordon , Eric Whitacre , Chris DeBlasio, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi , and Meredith Monk .
It is located on the 26-acre (110,000 m 2) Brooklyn College campus in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City. The Conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in instrumental and vocal performance, jazz, conducting, composition, music education, music technology, and musicology. Students study with a faculty of ...
The current five boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. The Bronx was part of Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had six towns, one of which was Brooklyn, and New York City is shown by hatching in lower Manhattan.
New York City: 20,789 1903 Hudson Theatre: 975 2018 The Rooftop at Pier 17: 3,500 1988 Gerald W. Lynch Theater: 595 1903 New Amsterdam Theatre: 1,747 1886 Webster Hall: 1,500 May 5, 1891 Stern Auditorium: 2,804 1906 Hammerstein Ballroom: 3,500 2003 Skirball Center for the Performing Arts: 850 1912 Hayes Theater: 597 February 14, 1968
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) was inspired when Nathaniel Lord Britton and his wife Elizabeth Gertrude Britton visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1888. [7] The NYBG was established in 1891 by act of the New York State Legislature, which among other things, established a board of directors whose job was to raise money for the garden. [8]
The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is a community orchestra in the New York City metropolitan area. Founded in 1973 under the auspices of the Brooklyn Heights Music Society, the orchestra is comprised primarily of volunteer musicians, playing concerts throughout the year at the Brooklyn Museum and other venues in Brooklyn and New York City.
In 2005 the GVO was a commission partner with orchestras in all 50 states and performed the New York City premiere of Joan Tower's Made in America. Other musical highlights include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (performed in 1992 with the Stonewall Chorale and in 2003 with the chorus Seraphim), and Handel's Messiah.