The Bronxville Women's Club, Inc.

The BWC offers a variety of Music Programs throughout the year.

• Music Appreciation Classes are held monthly and taught by club members Elizaveta Kopelman and Joyce Balint, both professional musicians.
• A concert series highlighting performances of local children and/or students of members of the Bronxville Women's Club.
• A professional music series: Midland Music.
• Family Concerts.
• Friday Evening Coffee House with Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass, or Golden Oldies.
• Open dress rehearsals by professional musicians.
  
• Bus trips to other venues including an annual trip to Lincoln Center for the American Ballet Theater.

Elizaveta Kopelman, the Chairman and Music Director of the Bronxville Women’s Club’s Music Department, is a concert pianist who has performed in the United States, Russia, and Europe as a soloist, accompanist, and ensemble musician. Joyce Rasmussen Balint, co-director, is the mandolin soloist with the Met Opera and a free-lance violinist and instructor of both instruments.

Music Appreciation (always free!)

Learn the what and how’s of music with Joyce Balint and Elizaveta Kopelman. Live performances, videos, or CD’s provide the music with lively discussion of the periods of music, how to listen to music, rudiments of music theory, composition, and music history to give further enhancement of the listening of music.  No music knowledge necessary.  No charge.  Next meeting will be on Thursday, February 11, at 11:00 am. 

For Children (of all ages): Showing of the videos of Leonard Bernstein’s YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. Filmed and viewed nationwide on CBS television, and eventually telecast around the world from 1958 through 1973, these 25 programs turned an entire generation into music lovers. No generation since has had such exposure to classical music.

March 2:  “A Tribute to Sibelius”  Broadcast Date:  February 19, 1965. 
Bernstein celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and comments on Finland, the Finnish language, and Finnish patriotism, as well as Sibelius himself.  Works by the composer, including Finlandia and the first movement of his Violin Concerto, with soloist Sergiu Luca, are performed.

March 9:  “Musical Atoms:  A Study of Intervals”  Broadcast Date:  November 29, 1965.
Bernstein explains musical intervals and discusses their relationship to harmony, melody and inversion.  After analysis, the first movment of Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major by Brahms is performed.  The discussion continues, focusing on major and minor seconds.

March 16:  “The Sound of an Orchestra”  Broadcast Date:  December 14, 1965.
Bernstein explains that the duty of the orchestra is to reproduce faithfully the notes and instructions of the composer.  The main focus is the first half of Haydn’s Symphony No. 88.  The opening music is deliberately played incorrectly and errors are pointed out.

March 23:  “A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich”  Broadcast Date:  January 5, 1966.
Bernstein celebrates Dmitri Shostakovich’s sixtieth birthday by discussing his work and conducting an excerpt from his Symphony No. 7 and all of Symphony No. 9.

 

Children’s Concerts

(2 concerts: December 19 and April 25)

The Bronxville Women’s Club arranges recitals of local children in our beautiful concert hall. It is our pleasure to give our young artists an opportunity to perform for you in a professional setting. Concerts start a 4 pm and last about one hour.  Contact the club for application forms.

Suggested donation:  $5; Children:  FREE

Parents of children who would like to perform on one or both of these concerts should call the Bronxville Women's Club at (914) 337-3252 or email for an application form and information.

The BWC Coffee House

Join us for casual Friday evenings for dessert and coffee (BYOB) while listening to folk music, jazz, light classical, or poetry readings. 8:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.  Admission:  $15 BWC members; $20 non-members and guests.

October 2 – The EduKated Fleas—Ukulele Swing.  Greg Doyle and Wendy             Matthews:  ukulele, guitar, vocals. 
November 13 – Peter C. North and Friends, guitar, ukulele, and vocal--and more.
January 29 - Arnie Fleischer, Bluegrass
February 26 - Stephen Segarra, easy listening piano
March 26 – Hudson Harp Consort, a bit of Ireland
May 7 - "No Soap Radio."  Ellen Monten - Guitar & Vocals, Peter C. North - Ukulele & Vocals,     John Monten - String Bass & Ukulele". 

The Hudson Harp Consort performs on March 26th:  harps, flute, fiddle.