Lectures by Joelle Wallach at 92nd St. Y on December 13 and New York Society Library on December 15 Composer Joelle Wallach will be giving lectures on the following dates: Saturday, December 13 at 4 PM - The American Songbook as Melting Pot Mosaic: Rodgers & Hart - Bridging the Sacred and the Secular through Music. This will be part of the Havdalah Lectures at the 92nd Street Y, 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. To register for the December 13, contact the 92nd St. Y at 212-415-5500 or visit them online at www.92Y.org. Read The Great American (Jewish) Songbook, an online Jewish Week article about the lecture series at http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c345_a14045/The_Arts/Music.html Monday, December 15, 2008 6:30 PM - The Miraculous Messiah of G. F. Handel - The New York Society Library, 53 East 79th Street - between Madison and Park Avenues in Manhattan. Tickets are $10 in advance/ $15 at the door. More information at (212) 288-6900 or http://www.nysoclib.org/. Joelle Wallach composes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voices and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995 was the American Composers Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate their 10th anniversary; and the New York Choral Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for 200 voices and orchestra to commemorate their 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie Hall. Wallach's early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division. In 1984 the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano, granted her its first doctorate in composition. Joelle Wallach is currently composing Runes and Ritual, a commission ??66rom the James Piano Quartet. A new orchestral project is underway with a consortium of six orchestras spearheaded by California's Napa Valley Symphony, Asher Raboy, Music Director, as well as the Champaign-Urbana and Rockford Symphony Orchestras, both led by Music Director Steven Larsen. Read The Dream of Now, Wallach's newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/oct08/JW_nws_101508.pdf. More about her at http://www.joellewallach.com/. Ms. Wallach is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be contacted at 516-586-3433 or at [log in to unmask] Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Website: http://www.jamesarts.com *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html