Musicworks teachers Jesse Neuman and Elizabeth Frascoia, along with Michael Schupbach and Eric Wright from The Puppet Kitchen Connelly Middle School graduation!

FREE BOOKS FROM OUR SHELVES:

The Musicworks faculty are weeding their bookshelves. You can either pick some up for FREE from our office at 240 E. 46th St. OR donate $3 per book to www.MusicworksNYC.org and we’ll mail them to you!  CONTACT US HERE!

FICTION/NON-FITION:
Anthology of Poetry Sound and Sense
Anthology of Norton Short Fiction
Anthology of Postmodern American Long Story
Anthology of American Novellas
Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Arenas, Before Night Falls
Barth, The Sot Weed Factor
Bellow, Seize the Day
Bellow, Dangling Man
Best American Short Stories 2005
Berry, Jayber Crow
Bruce Lee’s Fighting Method
Burroughs, Queer…..

Capote, In Cold Blood
Calvino, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Cisneros, Loose Woman
Conrad, Heart of Darkness/Secret Sharer
Cortazar, Blow Up and Other Stories
Cuban Fire The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz
Delillo, White Noise
Eggers, How We are Hungry
Eggers, Zeitoun
Feldman, Give My Regards to 8th Street
Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Gogol, Plays and Petersburg Tales
Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire
Green, Music Informal Learning and the School
Greene, No Biking in the House
Greene, Complete Short Stories
Hagedorn, Dream Jungle
Hemmingway, In Our Time
Herzog, Walking in Ice
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God…..

Jones, The Known World
Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad
Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
Lorca, 3 Tragedies
McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Mistry, Swimming Lessons
Mistry, Family Matters
Munro, Too Much Happiness
Nabakov, Pale Fire
Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm
Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
Orwell, Animal Farm
Pen O. Henry Prize 1990, 2005,2009
Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Plath, The Bell Jar
Price, Lush Life
Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Russo, That Old Cape Magic
Russel, Swamplandia!
Rushdie, Shame…..

Salinger, Nine Stories
Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Salih, Season of Migration to the North
Sargent, Love Poems
Satrapi, Persepolis
Sedaris, Barrel Fever
Steinbeck, East of Eden
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Suzuki, Zen Mind Beginners Mind
Updike, Rabbit Redux
Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
Whitehead, The Intuitionist
Whitehead, Zone One
Whitehead, Apex Hides the Hurt
Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire…..

EDUCATION:
Esquith, Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire 
Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Hooks, Teaching to Transgress
Kozol, Amazing Grace
Tatum, Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria…..

FOOD:
Arabesque Cooking
Batali, Holiday Food
Batali, Recipes from My Two Villages
Brooklyn Brewery, The Brewmaster’s Table
Nosh New York

There’s nothing like music videos and popcorn to end the school year!

Bringing generations together and inspiring people through good music—and a community quilt!

Musicworks artist, choreographer Ann Robideaux was a finalist in NPR’s Rite of Spring Dances contest!

[with percussionist David Freyre @ the JCC Manhattan]

Thanks to Gary Glazner—poet, advocate, and brilliant performer—for a great morning at the Brooklyn Museum.  We presented to a full house of adults living with dementia and their caregivers singing, dancing, and reciting poetry.

“Remembrancer” by Jesse Neuman and wolf face

JN trumpet
Dan Voss alto sax
Simon Jermyn bass
Jeff Davis drums

“Boot Strategy” by Jesse Neuman and Wolf Face

JN slide gtr
Simon Jermyn bass
Jeff Davis drums
Amelia Robinson vocals

Dear Musicworks

Kudos to you for an excellent student performance. You provided a great experience for your students by enabling even the least skilled to perform with seasoned musicians. Lily is grateful.

Your many talents did not go unnoticed. Is there any instrument or musical genre that escapes you?

Best,
Karen

The crew prepares..

Jeff Davis and Alex

Jesse Neuman with Shay and Bob

Lily and Brooke meeting their fans

Wolf Face (Jesse Neuman, Dan Voss, Simon Jermyn, Jeff Davis) performing afterwards

Last year, the students at Connelly Middle School of the Holy Child studied south Indian fusion pioneer DJ Rekha in women’s music history class.  I was lucky enough to run into her at the Brooklyn Flea record fair this weekend.  She was excited to hear about the girls and offered to come present a class anytime!  

Jesse and student Shay performing some reggae cornet lines with fellow Musicworks teaching artist Amelia Robinson, at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC.