Lenny's Living Legacy: A Concert Celebration - Academy for the Love of Learning

Lenny’s Living Legacy: A Concert Celebration

Reflection and Emergence: A special anniversary event

SOLD OUT - Join Academy President and Founder Aaron Stern for a special celebration of the anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth with an afternoon concert featuring special works from Bernstein's repertoire (vocal, orchestral, and solo instrumental), along with stories of Aaron's time spent with Lenny (as he knew him) and stories of his personhood and musicianship. Charlie Harmon, Lenny's last musical assistant, will also read from his new book on his time as Bernstein's assistant.

Event Details

Date: Saturday, August 25th, 2018

Time: 3:00 PM- 5:00 PM

Location: Academy Campus in Seton Village

Notes: SOLD OUT! Bernstein's birthday celebration at the Academy campus is a free event, but registration is required and donations are appreciated.*

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As of August 23, 2018, we have reached full capacity with no standing room availability for our anniversary celebration and registration is now closed. Thank you, Santa Fe and visitors! For more information or to be put on a waitlist, please contact Laura Pancoast. Please like us on Facebook to view the live-stream of the performance. If you would like to lend additional support, we deeply appreciate contributions to our Anniversary Campaign.

2018 marks both The Academy for the Love of Learning’s 20th anniversary as an established organization, as well as the centennial of the birth of the 20th-century musical giant Leonard Bernstein. The Academy shares a deep history with Leonard Bernstein, and ultimately was birthed from an intense collaboration between Bernstein and Academy President Aaron Stern during the final decade of Bernstein’s life. Their shared aspiration led them to explore how to awaken, nurture and fuel a lifelong love of learning as a means to becoming more fully human.

A grand birthday celebration will be held here at the Academy on the afternoon of August 25^th, Leonard Bernstein’s 100^th birthday. We will be celebrating with a concert featuring special works from his repertoire (vocal, orchestral, and solo instrumental), along with stories of his time spent with Lenny and stories of his personhood and musicianship. Award-winning musicians from around the country will be performing a selection of Bernstein’s songs, including “I Hate Music”, “Three Meditations from Mass”, and “Thirteen Anniversaries: For Aaron Stern.” Charlie Harmon, Lenny’s last musical assistant, will also read from his new book on his time as Bernstein’s assistant.

Bernstein’s birthday celebration at the Academy campus is a free event, but registration is required and donations are appreciated.

For a donation of $300.00 or more, you are invited to continue celebrating with us at a private dinner at the Academy before attending ‘Candide’ at the Santa Fe Opera as a group. Ticket and transportation included. Please contact Laura Pancoast to ensure your donation and registration for the full evening.

**Note that parking will be shuttle service from the Santa Fe Waldorf School for the general public. Communications will be sent to registrants prior to the event with specific details. Please allow for extra time for transport between Santa Fe Waldorf School and the Academy.

Location

Academy Campus in Seton Village

Seton Village Rd, Santa Fe, NM, USA

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Aaron Stern

Aaron Stern, president and founder of the Academy for the Love of Learning, is a musician, teacher, and internationally recognized consultant on learning.

As the Academy’s ...

Laura Pancoast

Laura Pancoast provides support to the staff and faculty by connecting with individuals, businesses, and foundations to support the Academy’s mission and programs. In addition, ...

Kathlene Ritch, Soprano

Known for her "powerful, crystal-clear voice," Kathlene Ritch has sung with such noted ensembles as the New York Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, and the Vienna Philharmonic. She made her solo debut at Lincoln Center with the American Symphony Orchestra in Listz's Dante's Inferno. With that same ensemble, she recorded a live concert version of Die ägyptische Helena as Hermione opposite Deborah Voigt's Helen. Kathlene's true passion, musical theater, has been a lifelong pursuit. Two of her career highlights were performing Sweeney Todd at Lincoln Center with George Hearn, Patti Lupone and Neil Patrick Harris, and Carousel at Carnegie Hall with Audra McDonald and Hugh Jackman. Kathlene lives in Santa Fe and is a professor of voice at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, as well as an on-air announcer for Classical 95.5 KHFM Santa Fe/Albuquerque. She also enjoys singing with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and the Grammy-winning ensemble, Conspirare.

Tychiko Cox, Baritone

Tychiko Cox; a classically trained vocalist from The Bahamas has been praised for his brilliant versatility, charming audiences with his 'warm lyrical tone'. Ty received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Vocal Performance from The College of St. Benedict/St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota then went on to pursue a Masters of Music Degree from The University of New Mexico, where he was the Graduate Teaching Assistant for two years. Ty held principal and supporting roles in The Harrower Opera Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia and The FIO Americas Opera Workshop in Brazil. In 2013, Ty became nationally recognized as one of The Bahamas' leading young people under 40 years of age for his contributions to classical music during the celebration of the country's 40th Anniversary of Independence. Ty also appeared as the Baritone Soloist for the New Mexico Philharmonic's production of Handel's Messiah in 2017. Ty is a former teacher of Applied Voice, Performance and Language Diction at the New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Additionally, Ty has recently formed a non-profit organization, Stile Music Initiative, which has been created to allow young college students the opportunity to perform in house settings throughout the city of Albuquerque.

Barbara Bogatin, Cello

Barbara Bogatin has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony since 1994. Before joining the orchestra, her varied career included playing with New York Chamber Soloists, the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, Aston Magna Baroque Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Casals Festival, and as principal cellist with Milwaukee and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras. She has played with Chamber Music Northwest, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tiburon Chamber Players, Lake Tahoe Summerfest, The Amati Trio, and the Sunrise String Quartet. She received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School. Along with her husband, neuroscientist Clifford Saron, Barbara has led workshops on meditation and music practice at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Esalen Institute, Stanford Symposium for Music and the Brain, Telluride Compassion Festival and the Institute for Mindfulness South Africa Conference.

Grisha Krivchenia, Piano

Grisha Krivchenia is a composer and pianist who divides his time between Santa Fe, the Seattle area, and concert dates throughout North America. Recent premieres of his work took place in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Bucharest. Grisha completed his studies at Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied piano with Sedmara Rutstein and composition with Jeffrey Mumford. In 2007, Grisha founded the music program at Spring Street International School in Friday Harbor. His solo piano and chamber music is published by Abundant Silence Publishing. Grisha takes a special interest in using art to amplify voices that might otherwise go unheard. He writes music in collaboration with hospice patients and recently completed a song cycle based on interviews with Syrian refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.

Charlie Harmon, Author

Charlie Harmon is a music editor and arranger. Sometimes he puts in hours as an orchestra librarian, most recently at the New York Philharmonic, where he is treated like royalty. They still seem to think that when he walks into the hall, Leonard Bernstein must be right behind. He has also worked on special projects in the libraries of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. For the estate of Leonard Bernstein, he edited full scores of West Side Story and Candide, and piano-vocal scores of On the Town and Wonderful Town, among many other works by Leonard Bernstein. (There are errata lists; nobody's perfect.) As a freelancer, he has edited works by John Adams, Stephen Sondheim, and Christopher Rouse. He assisted Lorin Maazel through the editing and rehearsals of his opera, 1984, based on the George Orwell novel. He catalogued the archive now known as the Leonard Bernstein Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. He has written program notes and liner notes for recordings, but this memoir is his first book. In words, that is. Words are far more complicated than music. After many years in New York, he now lives in Florida.