The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Presents Welsh Music Series for Wales Week, March 1-8
American Premiere Screenings of BBC Wales Videos Feature International Stars Bryn Terfel, Shirley Bassey, Petula Clark, and John Cale
As part of Wales Week, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is presenting a week-long series, Music of Wales: Screenings from Welsh Television that includes programs of opera, jazz, popular music, and rock. Opening March 1 with a 2006 recital by the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, the series also features a documentary about Welsh harpist Catrin Finch, The Merry Widow performed by the Welsh Opera, a concert by popular stylist Shirley Bassey, a documentary on the international hit singer Petula Clark, a jazz concert by Liane Carroll, and a rock concert by John Cale, among others. All of these videos will be having their American premieres. The programs have been donated by BBC Wales and by S4C (the rock concert) to the Library's archival collections.
For further information about programs, telephone 212-642-0142 or visit the Library's website www.nypl.org. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center is located on the Lincoln Center campus at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. All of the Library's public programs are free and are held in its Bruno Walter Auditorium.
Thursday, March 1
1:30 p.m. Bryn Terfel at Llangollen. Screening of the Welsh bass-baritone's recital at the 2006 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.
Thursday, March 1
3:00 p.m. Valley of Song. Screening of a six-part documentary about an orchestra in rural Wales.
Thursday, March 1
6:30 p.m. The Harp. Screening of a documentary about Welsh harpist Catrin Finch, who goes on a journey of discovery.
Friday, March 2
1:30 p.m. On Show: A Night at the Welsh Opera. Documentary about the Welsh Opera.
Friday, March 2
2:30 p.m. The Merry Widow. Performed by the Welsh National Opera.
Saturday, March 3
12:30 p.m. Showtime Wales: Auditions for the International Music Theatre Festival in Cardiff. Young singers audition for the festival.
Saturday, March 3
2:30 p.m. Shirley Bassey at the Faenol Festival. Screening of a concert by Dame Shirley Bassey.
Saturday, March 3
4:00 p.m. Petula Clark -- Blue Lady. Screening of a documentary about the singer of "Downtown."
Thursday, March 8
1:30 p.m. Petula Clark -- Blue Lady. Repeat of a screening of a documentary about the singer of "Downtown."
Thursday, March 8
2:30 p.m. Shirley Bassey at the Faenol Festival. Repeat of a screening of a concert by Dame Shirley Bassey.
Thursday, March 8
4:15 p.m. On Show: At the National Eisteddfod. Highlights from the festival.
Thursday, March 8
5:00 p.m. Liane Carroll. Screening of a jazz concert from the Brecon Jazz Festival, 2006.
Thursday, March 8
6:30 p.m. Beautiful Mistake. Screening of a Welsh rock concert with John Cale and others.
About The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. Its divisions are the Circulating Collections, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Music Division, Billy Rose Theatre Division, and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. The materials in its collections are available free of charge, along with a wide range of special programs, including exhibitions, seminars, and performances. An essential resource for everyone with an interest in the arts - whether professional or amateur - the Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters, and photographs.
About The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library was created in 1895 with the consolidation of the private libraries of John Jacob Astor and James Lenox with the Samuel Jones Tilden Trust. The Library provides free and open access to its physical and electronic collections and information, as well as to its services. It comprises four research centers - the Humanities and Social Sciences Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Science, Industry and Business Library - and 86 Branch Libraries in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Research and circulating collections combined total more than 50 million items. In addition, each year the Library presents thousands of exhibitions and public programs, which include classes in technology, literacy, and English as a second language. The New York Public Library serves over 15 million patrons who come through its doors annually and another 21 million users internationally, who access collections and services through its website, www.nypl.org.
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Contact: Rima Corben at 212.592.7700 or rcorben@nypl.org
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