EU and Ukraine

Archived since: Mar, 2014

Description:

European Union's External Action Service

Subject:   Government - Counties,  Politics & Elections

Avery Fisher Center: Shelley Hirsch

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

A singer, performer, and composer, Shelley Hirsch (born 1952) lives and works in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Her artwork consists of musical composition, multimedia performances, and collaborations with contemporary and improvisational musicians, visual artists, and new media artists.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Roy Nathanson

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

Roy Nathanson (b. 1951) is a saxophonist, composer, actor, writer, and bandleader who has been a central figure on the New York downtown scene since the late 1970s. His work merges music, theater, and spoken-word. He was a member of the Hot Peaches, a drag theater troupe active in the 1970s, played in John Lurie’s postmodern jazz ensemble, the Lounge Lizards, and was co-founder (with Curtis Fowlkes) in 1987 of the Jazz Passengers, a quintessentially downtown ensemble that performs a postmodernist blend of jazz and vaudeville. He was an early instigator in downtown’s Radical Jewish Culture scene, releasing three recordings with pianist Anthony Coleman that bridge experimental music and Yiddish theater. His composition and production credits include film scores and radio plays; he has appeared on about 100 commercially released recordings and is leader or co-leader on fifteen.

Avery Fisher Center: Michael Robinson

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

Michael Robinson is a prolific American composer who uses various instruments to create and perform his South Asian and European inspired music. Active since 1969, he has composed over 450 pieces on 113 albums. He has been a lecturer at such institutions as UCLA, Bard College, and California State University, and has produced a series of interviews with masters of various music styles. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities,  Society & Culture

Avery Fisher Center: Marc Ribot

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

Marc Ribot (1954- ) is an American guitarist and composer associated with avant-garde music, free jazz, no wave, rock, and Cuban musical styles. In addition to his original compositions, he has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborated with artists including Tom Waits, John Zorn, The Lounge Lizards, and Elvis Costello. He has been a part of multiple ensembles, including Ceramic Dog, Dreamers, and the Marc Ribot Trio. Ribot was a notable figure in the 1990s New York avant-garde movement of Jewish musicians referred to as Radical Jewish Culture.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: K. Marie Kim

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

The website contains examples of her compositions in the form of embedded audio and video files and a biography of the artist. Kim's music incorporates several instruments and electronic elements. She is also a sound engineer and performer on the cello and piano. Capture of the site began in May 2017.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities,  Society & Culture

Avery Fisher Center: Julie Kathryn

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

Julie Kathryn Franco is a female music artist who grew up in Lake Placid, New York and currently lives in New York City. She was a social worker for several years before she began recording her music. She was raised performing music, and has experimented with several styles in her recording career. She put out her first Americana Noir EP, Broken Love, in 2012 under the name Julie Kathryn, followed by her first full-length album, Black Trees, in 2013. In 2014, she embarked on a new musical project under the name I Am Snow Angel to explore self-produced electronica.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Julie Covello

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

Julie Covello is an American DJ, electronic music producer, and webcast host. She lives and works in New York, New York. She performs as DJ Shakey and has collaborated with Banginclude in Asstronauts; with Terry Dame and Dawn Drake in Daughter of Darrr; with Aaron Goldsmith in FreeBassBK; in The Funky Beatbots; and with Kathleen Cholewka in Opal Crocus. Between 1998 and 2000, she was the host of The Near Death Experience Show, an extreme metal video and interview webcast on pseudo.com. She founded the Warper Party, an electronic music and art showcase in New York, in 2006. She was an artist in residency at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan in 2011-2012.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Guy Klucevsek

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

Guy Klucevsek (1947- ) is an American accordionist and composer active in jazz, avant-garde, and free improvisation. Klucevsek was born in New York City and raised outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has released over 20 albums as a leader or co-leader, and has recorded or performed with Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson and others. He is also a founding member of the international group Accordion Tribe.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Frank London

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

Sir Frank London is a musician, band leader, and composer based in New York City. Since receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Afro-American music from the New England Conservatory in 1980, London has had an active career in klezmer and world music, playing not only trumpet, but also other wind instruments, keyboards, and occasionally singing backup vocals. Although London is perhaps best known for his role as trumpeter in the klezmer band The Klezmatics, he also leads Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars and is a member of the Hasidic New Wave. Additionally, he is the co-founder of both the Les Misérables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band; has composed numerous works for theater, dance, and film; and has acted as an in-demand sideman for a diverse group of artists, both on stage and in the studio. To date, London has released 30 solo recordings and has been featured on more than 400 CDs. London has received many awards for his contribution to music, as well as for his efforts towards the preservation of Hungarian-Jewish culture. On May 31, 2015, London was awarded Kraków, (Poland's) Medal Honoris Gratia by the municipality of Kraków’s mayor, Jacek Majchrowski. A year later he was knighted, receiving the Hungarian Order of Merit Knight's Cross. London continues to play concerts, festivals, and other events across the globe and is a regular participant in New York’s downtown club scene. London is also currently a professor within the Music Department of Purchase College (SUNY Purchase) in New York.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Bit Rosie

Archived since: Sep, 2016

Description:

Bit Rosie is a web series about female music producers directed, produced, and edited by Adele Fournet between 2015 and 2016. The project sought to highlight the work of women creating electronic music and to disseminate their work. The Adele Fournet Papers on the Bit Rosie Web Series include 33 video recordings created by Fournet and the website, bitrosie.com, on which the recordings were posted. The recordings include full-length and edited interviews with and performances by 11 of the 12 female music producers and groups featured on bitrosie.com. The Bit Rosie website includes the edited interviews and video recordings of performances. The interviews include discussions of the type of music the women create and produce, their creative influences and processes, and their feelings about being women in a male-dominated field.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Adele Fournet

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

The website contains a short biography of the artist, a list of texts and scores, documentary, music and composition videos, and audio files. Fournet is a musician, producer, video artist, and composer, who has been involved as a percussionist, vocalist, and keyboard player in several ensembles. Capture of the site began in May 2017.

African American Issues

Archived since: Aug, 2011

Description:

Content includes African American news and opinion websites.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities,  Politics & Elections