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Douglas J. Cuomo:
Composers OutFront!
Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011, 7 PM
Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, Brooklyn Public Library
FREE ADMISSION, No ticket needed
Composer/performer Douglas J. Cuomo is featured in a performance presented by American Composers Orchestra and Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Brooklyn Public Library. Cited by AllMusic.com for his music that is “…full of astonishing turns and never predictable,” Cuomo and his stellar band perform jazz interpretations of music he has written for film and television.
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture will present Composers OutFront! Douglas J. Cuomo (composer-performer) will perform on Thursday, March 17, 2011, at 7pm at Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture (Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY).
Douglas J. Cuomo, composer-performer
Douglas J. Cuomo has composed highly acclaimed and original music for concert and theatrical stages, television, and film. His music, with influences from jazz, world music, classical, and popular sources, is as personal, distinctive, and recognizable as it is wide-ranging. His compositions range from well-known television themes — for Sex and the City and Now with Bill Moyers, among others — to evening-length works for theater, including Arjuna’s Dilemma, an opera-oratorio based on the story of the Bhagavad Gita.
His Black Diamond Express Train to Hell (called by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “ecstatic…mesmerizing,…jolting and ingenious”) was premiered at Carnegie Hall by the American Composers Orchestra. The piece will receive its UK premiere when Orchestra of the Swan performs it in May.
Cuomo performs with his band in a program of jazz interpretations of music he has written for film and television, putting an exciting new spin on music from shows like Sex & The City; Homicide:Life on the Street; NOW with Bill Moyers and more. Joining Cuomo will be Bob Franceschini (saxophone), Mark Soskin (piano), David Ephross (bass), and Robby Ameen (drums), an all-star cast of musicians who have played with such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Paul Simon, Ruben Blades, Eddie Palmieri and many more.
About Dweck Center
Conveniently located at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library on Grand Army Plaza, the fully accessible, 189-seat Dweck auditorium provides a comfortable space in which to enjoy the library’s rich and wide-ranging schedule of free public programs. The Dweck features literary series, author talks, public affairs and humanities programs, film screenings, chamber music concerts, pop and jazz music, as well as programs for children. Acoustically well balanced and with unobstructed sightlines, this intimate auditorium has been attracting ever-larger audiences since it opened in the fall of 2007.
Admission and Directions
Admission to this event is free. The Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture is located at 10 Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. It is accessible via the B41, B69 and B71 buses; the number 2, 3, 4 subway lines to the Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway stations..
ACO’s Composers OutFront! series puts composers on the stage, bringing audiences closer to the creative process and making connections between composers’ roots as performers and their music for the concert hall. The series presents composers who will have major works performed by ACO during the concert season. In keeping with ACO’s eclectic musical programming, featured composers come from diverse backgrounds in jazz and improvised music, rock and pop, classical, and world music. Composers OutFront! events take place throughout the city in unusual spaces including community centers, museums and galleries, libraries, and other non-traditional venues for classical music.