Tag: library

Winter Warmer

A group of singers performing in a choir, with a female lead singer in the foreground wearing a black dress, gesturing with her hands, and other choir members in the background holding music sheets and wearing black outfits with red sashes.
Jubilee Library, Brighton

On the 31st of January we attended a marvelous concert of world music at the Jubilee Library. Above, Polina Shepherd & Slavic Voices. Below, Jo Ema, Isaace Jengwa (Zimbabwe), Bashir al Gamar (Sudan) and Peyman Heydarian and Sattar Chamanigol (Iran). See www.bestfootmusic.net for more information on upcoming events.

A musician with an acoustic guitar performing on a stage, wearing a hat and casual clothing, against a backdrop of informational posters and a speaker.
Isaac Jengwa
An older man with gray hair and glasses plays a lute while seated on a chair, surrounded by microphones. Behind him are posters displaying historical photographs.
Bashir Al Gamar
Two musicians performing in a contemporary setting, one playing a string instrument and the other holding a large round percussion instrument, with historical posters in the background.
Peyman Heydarian, Sattar Chamanigol
Two musicians performing on stage, one playing the violin and the other playing the accordion, with historical posters in the background.
Jo Ema

Bibliophiles

New York Public Library – Stephen A Schwarzman Building

This is one of the ceilings in the main public library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. Remarkably for one who’s lived in NY for over 60 years, and whose birth was announced in the library’s employee newsletter, I’d never been inside before doing some research a week or so ago in the Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.