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The Eco-Music Big Band is proud to present its debut performance at Carnegie Hall on June 3, 2017 in Zankel Hall offering a program that showcases what the Eco-Music Big Band does best: virtuosity in both improvised and notated music, cross-genre styles, and dynamic musical and theatrical experiences. The evening features a jazz reimagining of Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire Du Soldat, with the actor John Palladino (Orange Is The New Black, The Experimenter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); a posthumous premiere of Fred Ho’s baritone saxophone concerto, When The Real Dragons Fly! featuring the leading expert on Fred Ho’s virtuosic baritone saxophone style, Larry Bustamante; David Taylor’s reimagining of Franz Schubert’s Der Doppelgänger; 8, featuring drag mini-opera countertenor/trombonist David Whitwell, with libretto by John Palladino and music by Italian composer Girolamo Deraco; and a preview of the jazz opera Angela's Ring, by GRAMMY-Award winning producer and librettist Kabir Sehgal and composer Marie Incontrera. This dynamic and unprecedented evening brings jazz and classical music together, fusing the traditions of the highest art music and the improvisation heard in jazz clubs and showcasing the cross-genre virtuosity of our musicians in both notated and improvised styles.
Performances of this scale are a large undertaking - paying the musicians a good wage and covering expenses for this performance brings our budget to $30,000 - and though we've garnered support from arts philanthropists such as Mary Sharp Cronson and The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, and corporate sponsorships such as MAC Makeup, we've still got a little way to go, and we're in our final round of funding with $10,000 to go. We offer producership recognition online and in print, tickets to our performances, and tax deduction (through our fiscal sponsor, The Field) as thanks for your generous monetary and in-kind support.
Levels of producership are as follows:
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$9000 and up: Title Producer/Presenter - title sponsorship (Your name/Your company's name presents the Eco-Music Big Band at Carnegie Hall), acknowledgement and individual applause from the stage at the Carnegie Hall concert, signed and framed prints of the art work for our first album cover, season tickets to 2017-2018 concert season, comp tickets to Carnegie, invitation to the after party, and Producer credit in the program and on our website
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$3000-$8999: Producer - signed and framed prints of the art work for our first album cover, season tickets to 2017-2018 concert season, comp tickets to Carnegie, invitation to the after party, and Producer credit in the program and on our website
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$1000-$2999: Sponsor - season tickets to 2017-2018 concert season, comp ticket to Carnegie, invitation to the after party, and Producer credit in the program and on our website
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$250-$999: Friend - comp ticket to Carnegie, invitation to the after party, and Producer credit in the program and on our website.
Contributions made directly to our fiscal sponsor, The Field, are fully tax deductible and are accepted online here: http://thefield.org/sa/613044
I look forward to hearing from you and to making this performance happen. Please, of course, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. You can find information about us and the program on the Carnegie Hall website: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2017/6/3/0800/PM/Eco-Music-Big-Band/
Gratefully,
Marie Incontrera
Executive Director, Bandleader, Pianist
Eco-Music Big Band