Darrah Carr Dance specializes in ModERIN: a unique blend of traditional Irish step and contemporary modern dance. The company blends Irish music, step dance footwork, and spatial patterns to create high-energy, rhythmically based work that is accessible to a broad audience. Recent performance highlights include: NBC's "The Today Show," the company's 10th Anniversary Season at the Irish Arts Center, "The Yeats Project" at the Irish Repertory Theater, a New York season at The Duke Theater on 42nd Street, Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park, and "Stam-pede" at Symphony Space. Darrah Carr Dance has toured internationally, and regularly collaborates with The Andy Cooney Band. Committed to Arts in Education, the company performs through the rosters of Young Audiences New York, Young Audiences New Jersey and The Brooklyn Arts Council. Artistic Director Darrah Carr, named 'One of the Top 100 Irish Americans of the Year' by Irish America Magazine, holds an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She teaches in the Dance Department at Hofstra University and has been a guest artist at Manhattanville College and Adelphi University. Carr is a frequent contributor to Dance Magazine, Dance Studio Life, and The Dance Insider.
Steven Reineke began his tenure as Music Director of The New York Pops with the 2009-2010 season. Mr. Reineke conducts the orchestra's annual concert series at Carnegie Hall as well as tours, recordings, and nationwide telecasts, including the annual Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC Television. Mr. Reineke is also Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra and the Modesto Symphony Orchestra. He holds the title of Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, where for fifteen years he served as a composer, arranger, and conducting protégé of the late celebrated pops conductor Erich Kunzel. Reineke's notable conducting appearances include his 2007 Hollywood Bowl debut, his 2008 Carnegie Hall debut conducting The New York Pops, and his Boston Pops and Philadelphia Orchestra debuts in 2009. Mr. Reineke is also an established symphonic composer, with the most recent performances of his works by the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States, and the only professional symphonic orchestra in New York City specializing in popular music. Led by Music Director Steven Reineke, the orchestra performs an annual subscription series and birthday gala at Carnegie Hall, enjoying one of the highest subscription renewal rates of any their series. The New York Pops was founded by former NBC Music Director Skitch Henderson in 1983 with a mission to create greater public awareness and appreciation of America's rich musical heritage. Along with performing at Carnegie Hall, The New York Pops tours throughout the world and gives free summer concerts in New York City parks. The orchestra's media projects include performing music for the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC since 2004, nationwide radio broadcasts, and numerous recordings. The New York Pops' extensive education programs allow thousands of public schoolchildren to participate in concert and music-making experiences at Carnegie Hall and in schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
TICKETS
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PRESS TICKETS
Contact Whitney Holden at Cohn Dutcher Associates: 917-339-7188 / wholden@cohndutcher.com
PROGRAM
Friday, March 12, 2010, 8:00PM, Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
Celtic Music: A Saint Patrick's Day Celebration
The New York Pops, Steven Reineke, Music Director and Conductor
Méav, Ronan Tynan, Guest Artists; Liz Knowles, Violin; Kieran O'Hare, Uilleann Pipes and Tin Whistle
Darrah Carr Dance (Darrah Carr Byrne, JoAnna Barry Connolly, Caitlin McNeill, Niall O'Leary)
Program Highlights include:
Steven Reineke/Jack Everly: A Piper Celebration
WILLIAM BALFE/Alfred Bunn: I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls, from The Bohemian Girl
WILLIAM McPEAKE: Will You Go Lassie, Go (Wild Mountain Thyme)
TRADITIONAL: Steps from the Highlands (arr. Steven Reineke and Jack Everly)
Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell
TRADITIONAL: My Irish Molly O'
BRENDAN GRAHAM: The Voice
Bill Whelan: Riverdance
U2/BONO: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
TRADITIONAL: Dúlamán (arr. Conor O Reilly)
John Williams: Far and Away
PHIL COULTER: The Old Man
JOEL McNEELY: Where the Sunbeams Play, from Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
JOSEPH BRACKETT, JR.: Simple Gifts
James HorneR: My Heart Will Go On, from Titanic (arr. Steven Reineke)
TRADITIONAL/FREDERICK WEATHERLY: Danny Boy (arr. Steven Reineke)
TRADITIONAL: The Fields of Athenry
Dates, artists and programs are subject to change.
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