What:
“The
Crossing” - The Crossing, Celebrating Culture and
Connections
Date: Thursday
October 29, 2009
Time: 8pm-11pm
Location: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln
Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza
(Columbus Ave & 65th Street)
New York, NY 10023
Tickets: $25-$100
Lincoln Center Box Office
(212) 875.5030
http://www.lincolncenter.org
Summary: The
Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland (CBOI), Ireland’s
most acclaimed youth orchestra will perform “The
Crossing, Celebrating Cultures and Connections” at
8pm on October 29, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall,
Lincoln Center in New York City. One of Europe’s
leading youth orchestra conductors, Maestro Gearóid
Grant, will conduct the concert, and featured
performers include renowned tenor Emmanuel Lawler
and piper Patrick Martin. They will perform
alongside Drum and Piping Corps and be accompanied
onstage by a variety of children’s choirs from
select schools across the New York City area –
including:
v St.
Margaret’s School, Pearl River, NY
v Fairfield
County Children’s Choir, Fairfield, CT
v St.
Sebastian’s, Woodside, NY
v St.
William the Abbott School, Seaford, NY
Established in 1995 as a means of bringing young
people together from different backgrounds and
communities, the CBOI was founded at a landmark
moment in Irish history, the implementation of a
long-term peace process. Comprised of 130 Catholic &
Protestant school children, aged 12-24 years from
all over Ireland, the CBOI strives to highlight the
importance if Arts & Culture in the public school
system and convey its message of peace, tolerance
and unity through the powerful medium of music.