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THE MAKING OF AMERICA

A Citywide Festival

Starts at on March 9

Events Across City Begin February 28

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he history of America is indelibly linked to the movement Trace Your Ancestry of people. Some were brought here not of their own free will, and their perseverance and resilience transformed Where are you from? Enter our Trace Your Ancestry contest and answer that question. the nation. Others came here—or moved within the borders of Our partners at the New York Genealogical this country—because they sought a new life, free from poverty, and Biographical Society—New York’s oldest discrimination, and persecution. The many contributions— and largest genealogical institution—will cultural, social, economic, and political—of these migrations, and provide 20 hours of professional genealogical the people who helped to build this country and what it means to research ($2,500 value) for one lucky winner. be American, are honored in Carnegie Hall’s festival Migrations: Learn about your ancestors and their stories, while also discovering something about yourself. The Making of America. For official rules and to enter, visit: At Carnegie Hall, we examine the musical legacies of three carnegiehall.org/TraceYourAncestry migrations: the crossings from and during the 18th and 19th centuries, the immigration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe between 1881 and the National Origins Act of 1924, and the Great Migration—the exodus of African from the South to the industrialized cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1917 into the 1970s. Our music—and our history—is enriched by the diversity of cultures, traditions, and people Through programs in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, New Yorkers of all ages explore the music their families brought of this nation. Come hear what defines us all. to America, crossing and borders, in a culminating concert in May. Photo courtesy of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Lead support for Migrations: The Making of America is provided by the Ford Foundation, The celebration extends beyond Carnegie Hall through public The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, and Igor Tulchinsky. programming, performances, exhibitions, and events at more than 75 prestigious festival partner organizations in New York Additional support is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Dr. Lynne Harrison, and Anonymous (2). City and beyond to highlight other aspects of these and the many other migrations, including those from Italy, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, as well as the internal migration of Public support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Native Americans—all of which have contributed to American culture today.

Artists, programs, dates, and ticket prices subject to change. © 2019 CHC. Photos: Molly Picon in Rabbi’s Melody (1926) Studios, James by by Sarah Rappoport McColgan. Saturday, March 9 at 11 AM Saturday, March 9 at 2 PM AGES Studio 57 Live 14–19 Highland Dance Workshop Events presented by Carnegie Hall are in blue. with Ro James Kendra Monroe—a premier-level champion Events presented by partner organizations are in purple. Young artists from across dancer, member of the Shot of Scotch dancers, are invited to make music at Carnegie Hall and certified teacher­—leads attendees through Carnegie Hall is accessible (including entrances and restrooms) for patrons with mobility disabilities. on Saturdays throughout the school year at the basic fundamentals and footwork involved in Assistive listening devices are also available. Studio 57. As part of the Migrations festival, Highland dance, an enduring Scottish form that singer-songwriter Ro James joins these young immigrants brought with them to America. All musicians in performance and shares his own skill levels are welcome; please bring ghillies or musical journey. ballet shoes (if you have them). Many organizations offer discounted tickets for children, students, seniors, and members. Please contact Presented by the New York Caledonian Club. each organization for more information about tickets and accessibility accommodations. Presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall Ripley-Grier Studios 154 West | 520 Eighth Avenue, Room 16L | Manhattan nycaledonian.org/events | 212-662-1083 Thursday, February 28 at 6 PM Sunday, March 3 at 4 PM carnegiehall.org/Studio57 | 212-903-9829 Lead support for Future Music Project is provided by Tickets: $30 African American Migration Happy Birthday, Molly! Nicola and Beatrice Bulgari and The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation. This panel discussion features Dr. Florence Celebrating East and West and Major funding is provided by Ameriprise Financial and Taylor, Dr. Deirdre Foreman, Dr. William Seraile, Other Migrating Identities MetLife Foundation. and Ellen Ferebee in conversation about various Attend a live score and film screening of the migrations and the impact of silent classic East and West (1923), featuring in America. the composer of the original score for the 1991 Presented by the Association for the Study of African American remastered film, Pete Sokolow, and musician Public support is provided by the City of New York through the Life and History. Michael Winograd. This program celebrates the Administration for Children’s Services, the Department of Youth Grace United Methodist Church and Community Development, and New York City Council Speaker 121st birthday of the star of East and West, Corey Johnson. 125 West 104th Street | Manhattan Molly Picon, highlighting her talented bridging asalh.org/events | 212-368-6218 of multiple geographies and identities, prompting Free us to consider today’s concepts of East versus Carnegie Hall is a partner in The Door’s Youth Opportunity Hub, West, immigration, , and identity. funded [in part] by the New York County District Attorney’s Presented by the American Jewish Historical Society in Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII). Saturday, March 2 at 1 PM partnership with YIVO and the Center for Jewish History. Center for Jewish History African American Women: 15 West 16th Street | Manhattan Creating Their Path ajhs.org | 212-294-6160 Dr. Gloria Browne-Marshall, associate professor Tickets: $15 (advance); $18 (at the door) Free (RSVP and permission form required) of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, presents a talk on the migration of African American women across the at various points during our nation’s history, including those who escaped slavery and the waves of those who moved from oppression in the South as part of the Great Migration. Ro James Presented by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Hamilton Grange Library 503 West 145th Street | Manhattan Happy Birthday, Molly! asalh.org/events | 212-368-6218 Free 2 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 3 Saturday, March 9 at 5:45 PM Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 PM Wednesday, March 13 at 6 PM Live from Here Tracing Migrations to Divided Loyalty: with Chris Thile New York: 1600–1820 Being Chinese in America Chris Thile, Host, Mandolin, and Vocals Explore the pathways taken by thousands of What is it like to be Chinese in America these Additional artists to be announced families as they populated the , days? Award-winning playwright David Henry alongside avenues and techniques to trace the Hwang, author of M. Butterfly, and other Opening Migrations: The Making of America migrations of specific families and individuals prominent Chinese explore complex at Carnegie Hall, Chris Thile leads an evening who settled in New York throughout the questions of identity. of traditional Scots, Irish, and American folk Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal periods. music—including old-time and bluegrass—that Presented by the China Institute. Digital and original record collections will be explores the evolution of these traditions and China Institute discussed, in addition to resources that provide their continued impact on one another. 40 Rector Street, Second Floor | Manhattan greater context for tracing migrations during this Live from Here is distributed nationwide by chinainstitute.org | 212-744-8181 key period in history. American Public Media, heard by 2.6 million Tickets: $15 listeners on nearly 600 public radio stations, Presented by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. online, and overseas. New York Genealogical Presented by Carnegie Hall. and Biographical Society Chris Thile is the holder of the 2018–2019 Richard and 36 West 44th Street, Suite 711 | Manhattan Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall. nygbs.org/events | 212-755-8532 Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Tickets: $20 ($50 for series of three at Carnegie Hall Tracing Migrations lectures) 57th Street and Seventh Avenue | Manhattan Chris Thile carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 Wednesday, March 13 at 11 AM Tickets start at $36. Pop-Up Memory Book: Saturday, March 9 at 7 PM An Art-Making Workshop for Seniors Global Mashup Design and make a pop-up book inspired by Bollywood Meets Sunday, March 10 at 2 PM your life’s events! Each Wednesday morning Global Roots for six weeks, seniors will learn new skills, the Falu | Hazmat Modine From the Rialto elements of visual arts, book making, puppetry manipulation, and warm-up theater games. David Henry to the Silver Screen Hwang Starting with dance lessons, a set by each band, At the end of the six sessions, each participant This concert aims to bring lost and forgotten and then a jam session between them, two will have their own memory book as a tangible Yiddish works to today’s audiences. Songs from cultures are mashed up on one stage with an keepsake, a remembrance and a motivator for jazz-infused Yiddish musicals and hits made open dance floor! The series opens with Falu, them to continue telling their stories. popular on radio and in film transport you back

an internationally recognized Indian vocalist Photos: Thile by Devin Pedde, Hwang by Gregory Costanzo. Presented by Flushing Town Hall. whose quartet combines traditional roots with to the heyday of the Yiddish musical cinema. inventive rock, mashing with Hazmat Modine, Presented in Yiddish with English supertitles. Flushing Town Hall distillers of American music melded with African, Presented by the National . 137-35 Northern Boulevard | Queens flushingtownhall.org | 718-463-7700 Central Asian, Caribbean, and Eastern European Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage influences. 36 Battery Place | Manhattan Tickets: $10 Presented by Flushing Town Hall. nytf.org | 212-213-2120 Flushing Town Hall Tickets start at $25. 137-35 Northern Boulevard | Queens flushingtownhall.org | 718-463-7700 Tickets: $16 4 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 5 Wednesday, March 13 at 7 PM Thursday, March 14 at 6 PM Friday, March 15 at 10 AM Scottish Fiddle Workshop Roaratorio: Cage and Dutch, Walloon, and with Athena Tergis Cunningham’s Irish Circus Huguenot: Exploring Athena Tergis, an accomplished violinist of This evening of cross-cultural dialogue, archival Intersections in Scottish and Irish traditional music, teaches display, dance, and music celebrates one of New York’s Past participants the soulful and haunting melodies John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s most Come hear about the early New Netherland / that Scottish immigrants brought to America. personal and complex works, with its New York history of the Dutch, Walloon, and This workshop is for advanced beginners and up, extraordinary score and choreography based Staten Island–Huguenot period from a historical and tunes are taught traditionally by ear. on Irish jigs and step dancing, prompted and genealogical perspective. Presented by the New York Caledonian Club. by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Presented by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Presented by The for the Performing Arts. Athena Tergis Ripley-Grier Studios A portion of this program is sponsored by 520 Eighth Avenue, Room 10C | Manhattan The New York Public Library the NYG&B Huguenot Fund. nycaledonian.org/events | 212-662-1083 for the Performing Arts New York Genealogical Tickets: $45 Bruno Walter Auditorium and Biographical Society 40 Plaza | Manhattan 36 West 44th Street, Suite 711 | Manhattan nypl.org/lpa/events | 212-642-0142 nygbs.org/events | 212-755-8532 Wednesday, March 13 at 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM Free (registration required) Tickets: $40 Lakecia Benjamin Quintet A Woman’s Perspective: Thursday, March 14 at 7 PM Jazz Takes Flight Andy Statman Trio This is the story of the creation and evolution of America’s popular music from 1917 to 1971, Andy Statman, Clarinet and Mandolin featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Charles Jim Whitney, Bass | Larry Eagle, Drums Mingus, Muddy Waters, and Aretha Franklin, who Clarinetist and mandolinist Andy Statman has provided the soundtrack to the Great Migration. been a major figure in both Jewish music and Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Photos: Tergis courtesy of the New York Caledonian Club, Benjamin by Elizabeth Leitzell, Statman by Larry Eagle. bluegrass for more than four decades. After Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center studying with the legendary Dave Tarras in at 60th Street, Fifth Floor | Manhattan the 1970s, he became highly influential in the jazz.org/dizzys | 212-258-9595 klezmer revival movement. Later, he broadened his interest in Jewish music to include Hasidic Tickets: $35 tunes, which he infuses with bluegrass, klezmer, and jazz. Presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with Robert Browning Associates LLC. Support for the Russian and Eastern European Jewish Migration series of the Migrations festival is provided by The Polonsky Foundation. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall 57th Street and Seventh Avenue | Manhattan Lakecia Benjamin carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 Tickets start at $40. Andy Statman

6 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 7 9 EVENTS | Saturday, March 16 at 9 PM Nicholas Payton, Trumpet Afro-Caribbean Mixtape artistsAdditional be announced to the path traces Nicholas Payton Trumpeter in the arrival their from rhythms of African New to their journey Caribbean through St. Louis, City, Orleans and on to the how He explores York. and New , the Orleans became, in a sense, music of New its greatest popular music and how first world’s one of Armstrong—became practitioner—Louis bebop, swing, hear how You’ll pop stars. the first a DNA that share and more R&B, hip-hop, the world. people around connects series Shape of Jazz Wein T. and George and the Joyce concert This in Foundation Wein and George the Joyce by made possible are Wein. memory of Joyce with Hall in partnership Carnegie by Presented Entertainment LLC. Live Absolutely Hall at Carnegie Hall Zankel | Manhattan Avenue and Seventh Street 57th | 212-247-7800 carnegiehall.org start at $44. Tickets Nicholas Payton Presented by El Museo del Barrio. by Presented El Museo del Barrio | Manhattan Avenue 1230 Fifth | 212-831-7272 elmuseo.org/events Free Saturday, March 16 at 2:30 PM Meets India + Tagore: Yeats America) (in Ireland afternoon illustrates and music of theater This in America—between the friendship—forged and Indian Butler Yeats William Irish writer Tagore. Rabindranath writer Arts. the Performing for Library Public York New The by Presented Library Public York New The Arts the Performing for Auditorium Bruno Walter | Manhattan Plaza Center 40 Lincoln | 212-642-0142 nypl.org/lpa/events served) first come, (first Free Saturday, March 16 at PM 12 Latinxs Voces Sábado: Super a special free del Barrio for Join El Museo Women’s of in celebration program Saturday honors event family-friendly Month. This History art storytelling, through Latinxs all the voces Hall Citywide making, and a special Carnegie sensation iLe. Rican with Puerto concert

Photos: Seventh Annual Celtic Appalachian Celebration by Iain Toft, Payton by Gus Bennett Jr. Friday, March 15Friday, at 8 PM Annual Celtic Seventh Appalachian Celebration Bond, Fiddle | Eddie , Host Mick Moloney of America Fields Green The Bogtrotters Branch Ballards New , Banjo and Vocals Paxton “Blindboy” Jerron , Banjo Brown Little Nora , Fiddle Coleman Stephanie be announced Special guests to Presented by Irish Arts Center. by Presented Space Symphony Street 95th at West Broadway 2537 Manhattan | 212-864-5400 irishartscenter.org start at $32. Tickets Irish Arts Center presents a rousing celebration celebration a rousing presents Irish Arts Center Irish, old-time, and American folk of traditional of Irish, West lineage the shared music, exploring by Hosted traditions. and Appalachian African, the Mick Moloney, musician-folklorist renowned of America, Fields Green The features concert Bond, New winner Eddie award NEA 2018 and special guests. Bogtrotters, Branch Ballards

Seventh Annual Celtic Appalachian Celebration Annual Celtic Seventh hall.org/migrations hall.org/migrations carnegie 8 | public programs. Weiss, The Jewish Museum’s manager of manager Museum’s Jewish The Weiss, reservations museum admission; (with Free recommended) contemporary issues in this tour led by Jenna Jenna led by in this tour issues contemporary | 212-423-3337 thejewishmuseum.org connections between historical movements and movements historical between connections | Manhattan Avenue 1109 Fifth communal experience of immigration. Make Make immigration. of experience communal Museum Jewish The century Judaica, reflect on the personal and and the personal on Judaica, reflect century Museum. Jewish The by Presented —alongside 19th- Light Travel Arlene Shechet’s and Untitled (Tears) Fontaine’s such as Claire discussion about contemporary artworks— about contemporary discussion or leave behind? Through a close look at and a close look at and behind? Through or leave another, and what do they bring with them bring and what do they another, Why do people move from one country to to country one from move do people Why Friday, March 15Friday, at 2 PM Gallery Talk: Points of Entry 11 EVENTS | Saturday, March 23 at 1 PM Scottish Cèilidh Dance Workshop Dance Country Scottish Mary Abdill (Royal Confach (Madra Evans and Jenny Society) participants teach Band) the most Cèilidh reels country Scottish popular traditional during cèilidhs usually danced that are No “social gatherings”). for (Gaelic or partner required! experience Caledonian Club. York the New by Presented Studios Ripley-Grier 16L | Manhattan Room Eighth Avenue, 520 | 212-662-1083 nycaledonian.org/events couples) $25 ($35 for Tickets: Friday, March 22Friday, at PM 7 Valley My Was Green How Media) and for Center Paley Simon (The Ron Society) Historical (New-York Gregory Dale winner Award Academy 1941 the introduce of the story that follows Best Picture for living in family a hardworking the Morgans, mining and As coal village. a small Welsh hold of their -idyllic take industrialization the must confront children home, the grown the changes to adapting between choice tough lives and better prospects fresh for or searching elsewhere. as part the of Society Historical the New-York by Presented Series. Film Classic Schwartz and Irene Bernard Society Historical New-York | Manhattan West Park Central 170 | 212-485-9268 nyhistory.org museum admission) (with Free Emanuele Arciuli Thursday, March 21 at 6 PM Piece Poppa Robbins’s Jerome Jerome into dive this archival Don’t miss autobiographical never-produced Robbins’s dancer the famed where masterwork, theater Jewish his own confronts and choreographer and history. heritage immigrant Arts. the Performing for Library Public York New The by Presented Library Public York New The Arts the Performing for Auditorium Bruno Walter | Manhattan Plaza Center 40 Lincoln | 212-642-0142 nypl.org/lpa/events required) (registration Free

Photos: We Are Witnesses: Becoming an American courtesy of The Marshall Project. Presented by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in Advanced for Academy the Italian by Presented University. America at Columbia Studies in Advanced for Italian Academy University America at Columbia | Manhattan Avenue Amsterdam 1161 | 212-854-1623 italianacademy.columbia.edu Free Wednesday, March 20 at 7 PM Emanuele Arciuli, Piano Arciuli Italian pianist Emanuele Esteemed cross-migration. on Italian-US cultural focuses composers by works features solo recital The the US, including both Italy and with deep ties to Curt Corea, Chick Nino Rota, John Corigliano, Rzewski. and Frederic Mazzoli, Missy Cacioppo, Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30Tuesday, PM to Migrations Tracing 1820–1924 New York: as we impact of global events the Discover to available and records the motivations discuss through York in New who arrived families trace for and Ellis Island. Techniques Castle Garden in using spelling variations locating relatives lists, online and passenger surviving customs and other records, databases, naturalization will be explored. also tools Society. Genealogical and Biographical York the New by Presented Genealogical York New Society and Biographical 711 Suite | Manhattan 44th Street, 36 West | 212-755-8532 nygbs.org/events series of three $20 ($50 for Tickets: lectures) Migrations Tracing

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Becoming an American Becoming We Are Witnesses: Witnesses: Are We 10 | the screening. A panel discussion and audience Q&A follows Q&A follows and audience A panel discussion Free nypl.org/ThinkingOutLoud) reality of the US immigration system today. today. system of the US immigration reality | 917-275-6975 nypl.org film by The Marshall Project that illustrates the that illustrates Project Marshall The film by | Manhattan Avenue Fifth 476 , a new , a new an American Becoming Witnesses: Are We Building A. Schwarzman Stephen stories told to the camera and presented in and presented the camera to told stories Library Public York New The American citizen. These are just some of the are These American citizen. Project. Marshall and The Library Public York New The by Presented flees persecution and is finally sworn in as an and is finally sworn flees persecution undocumented workers. A Russian-born lesbian A Russian-born workers. undocumented massive raid on a factory that employs 500 employs that on a factory raid massive 20 years. A former ICE officer describes a ICE officer A former 20 years. deported after living in New York City for for City deported York after living in New The father of a Colombian family is suddenly is family of a Colombian father The Becoming an American Monday, March 18 at 6:30 PM Are Witnesses: We 13 EVENTS | Saturday, March 23 at 7:30 PM WEPA! Movement, Culture,and Music and ’95 Circa The Curtis Brothers and resilient the courageous Celebrate in El Barrio, who arrived Caribbean immigrants Puerto as “Spanish .” also known and of the Bronx way Rican and Dominican by ’95—comprising Heights, Circa in seamlessly and Reph—rhyme Dukes Patty music and showcase English and Spanish. They to migrations their families’ by inspired stories of hip-hop, era during the golden City York New Rican American and Puerto while the African influence Africa’s West explore Curtis Brothers Latin America by on American music from trade, slave of the African mapping rhythms to and jazz R&B, gospel, samba, hip-hop, from music. blues and rock Harlem Stage. by Presented Gatehouse Harlem Stage | Manhattan Avenue 150 Convent | 212-281-9240 harlemstage.org $25 Tickets: The Brain Cloud Brain The Presented by Flushing Town Hall. Town Flushing by Presented Hall Town Flushing | Queens Northern Boulevard 137-35 | 718-463-7700 flushingtownhall.org $16 Tickets: Saturday, March 23 at 7 PM Global Mashup Swing Western BalkanMeets Brass Cloud | Romashka Brain The each a set by Starting lessons, with dance them, between band, and then a jam session mashed up on one stage are cultures two floor! The Brain with an open dance Cloud— ragtime, swing’s brings Western whose sextet ditties— blues, and cowboy Delta bluegrass, Balkan, Russian, mashes with Romashka’s vibes. and Gypsy Romanian,

Photos: Nurses and Patients on Ellis Island from the Augustus Sherman Collection, Statue of Liberty National Monument; The Brain Cloud by Tom Farley. Presented by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. the Orchestra by Presented Hall Town Gallery at Flushing | Queens Northern Boulevard 137-35 | 212-594-6100 oslmusic.org Free Saturday, March 23 at 2 PM in Color: Music Lena FrankGabriela Ensemble Chamber St. Luke’s , Narrator Traber Kirya the music to turns its focus Music in Color an American Frank, of Gabriela Lena and life and Lithuanian Chinese, of Peruvian, composer includes selections program The descent. Jewish as string quartets, as well own Frank’s from Chou one of her inspirations, by a piece by composed work and a new Wen-chung, Anjna Swaminathan.

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Nurses and Patients on Ellis Island and Patients Nurses 12 | Tickets: $45 Tickets: Ellis Island. 212-822-7301 | nyam.org/events of the hospital zone with guides from Save Save with guides from of the hospital zone | Manhattan Park Battery through its doors. Take a private hard-hat tour tour hard-hat a private Take doors. its through Clinton Castle it served the millions of immigrants who passed who passed the millions of immigrants it served of Medicine and the Academy York the New by Presented with Wellcome. in collaboration York of New Museum of the City curing those entering with infectious diseases, with infectious curing those entering As the country’s best means of containing and best means of containing As the country’s standard of medical care in the United States. States. in the United of medical care standard The Ellis Island Hospital was once the gold the gold once was Ellis Island Hospital The Ellis Island: A WalkingEllis Tour Island: Saturday, March 23 at 1:30 PM at Zone Hospital The 15 EVENTS | Gregorio Uribe Gregorio Tuesday, March at 26 6:30Tuesday, PM to Migrations Tracing to Present the 1924 York: New for the methods and resources Uncover New to of migration documenting the story day. the present II to War World from York of on a wide variety focuses session This online and offline tools providing backgrounds, of document the stories to attendees allow to immigrants. recent more York’s New Society. Genealogical and Biographical York the New by Presented Genealogical York New Society and Biographical 711 Suite | Manhattan 44th Street, 36 West | 212-755-8532 nygbs.org/events series of three $20 ($50 for Tickets: lectures) Migrations Tracing Presented by the Society. by Presented Church Saint Peter’s | Manhattan Avenue Lexington 619 | 212-277-8379 musicoftheamericas.org $20 Donation: Suggested March atTuesday 26 10:30 AM Distant Ireland— World to New the Migrations intimately and America are of Ireland story The of the hopes and dreams The entwined. out in America—not all were lived Irish were left an they and were, many but successful, of the indelible Irish mark on the character Irish those elusive trace to how Learn country. the with staff from ancestors and Scots-Irish experts in Irish Foundation, Historical research. history family and Society Irish Historical the American by Presented Foundation. Historical Ulster Society American Irish Historical | Manhattan Avenue 991 Fifth | 212-288-2263 aihs.org/events $25 Tickets: Monday, March 25 at 7 PM Band Big Uribe Gregorio Big Band Uribe Gregorio York–based New The that blends cumbia and orchestra is a 16-piece a powerful with rhythms other Colombian the contributions big-band sound. Highlighting musicians and of Latin American immigrant in the US, the band is joined by composers compositions, own special guests in Uribe’s by of works arrangements as new as well composers. Latin American immigrant

Photos: Polwart by Sandy Butler, Kater by Raez Argulla, Uribe by OneRPM Studios. Karine Polwart Kaia Kater Nearly 10% of Americans identify as having Irish Nearly 10% of Americans identify as having of the Irish and Scots- and the story ancestry, 300 back some Irish in goes of millions of stories are there As a result, years. be to waiting migration through changed lives Mullan of the Ulster Gillian Hunt and Fintan told. discover to can help you Foundation Historical to introduction this one-day through story your genealogy. Irish and Scots-Irish Foundation. Historical the Ulster by Presented Genealogical York New Society and Biographical 711 Suite | Manhattan 44th Street, 36 West ancestryireland.com/lecture-tour-2019 212-755-8532 $50 Tickets: Monday, March 25 at 10 AM Ireland, andAncestors, and Irish Emigration: Scots-Irish Genealogy hall.org/migrations hall.org/migrations carnegie

Free 14 | Matthew Evan Taylor. Evan Matthew | 212-594-6100 oslmusic.org Wen-chung, and a new work composed by by composed work a new and Wen-chung, | Street 1368 Fulton piece by one of her inspirations, Chou Chou one of her inspirations, by piece at RestorationART Theatre Billie Holiday The from Frank’s own string quartets, as well as a string quartets, as well own Frank’s from of St. Luke’s. the Orchestra by Presented Jewish descent. The program includes selections includes program The descent. Jewish composer of Peruvian, Chinese, and Lithuanian Chinese, of Peruvian, composer and life of Gabriela Lena Frank, an American Frank, of Gabriela Lena and life , Narrator Traber Kirya the music to turns its focus Music in Color St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble St. Luke’s Gabriela Lena FrankGabriela in West . in West in Color: Music she studied and performed Appalachian music Appalachian she studied and performed start at $50. Tickets Sunday, March at 2 PM 24 Canadian of her parents and the years and the years music of her parents Canadian folk | 212-247-7800 carnegiehall.org marvelously original music is influenced by the by is influenced original music marvelously | Manhattan Avenue and Seventh Street 57th African-Caribbean descent in . Her in Quebec. descent African-Caribbean Hall at Carnegie Hall Zankel penetrating songs. Kaia Kater was born of was songs. Kaia Kater penetrating Hall as part Carnegie Byways. of American by Presented strikingly original, deeply personal and socially and personal strikingly original, deeply performs traditional music, as well as her own as her own as well music, traditional performs spoken-word performer, and essayist. She and essayist. performer, spoken-word is a multi-award–winning Scottish songwriter, songwriter, Scottish is a multi-award–winning and thrilling new brand of music. Karine Polwart music. Karine Polwart of brand and thrilling new and Canadian roots while creating a progressive a progressive while creating and Canadian roots , Creative Partner Cash, Creative Rosanne Scottish back to double bill looks special This Kaia Kater Kaia Saturday, March 23 at 9 PM Karine Polwart 17 EVENTS | Thursday, March at 28 7 PM Land Song: of Immigration Voicing Samantha Gillogly guides audience Violinist of several the musical styles through members and including Métis, Scots-Irish, migrations, the also features evening The Creole. French by work immigration-inspired of a new premiere Danielle by as performed Kramer, Lawrence Dr. and Elliot Roman. University. of Irish Studies at Fordham the Institute by Presented Campus Center Lincoln University, Fordham Lounge Building, 12th Floor Lowenstein | Manhattan 60th Street 113 West | 718-817-4005 fordham.edu required) (registration Free The Mission Girls Mission The Presented by Glucksman Ireland House / The Center for Irish Studies for Center House / The Ireland Glucksman by Presented University. York at New House Ireland Glucksman | Manhattan Mews 1 Washington | 212-998-3950 as.nyu.edu/irelandhouse required) Donation: $10 (registration Suggested Thursday, March at 28 7 PM Girls Mission The young 1883 and 1908, nearly 310,000 Between the through passed women Irish immigrant of Our Lady of Mission The York. of New Port of Irish Immigrant the Protection for the Rosary of them. In of almost 100,000 care Girls took Hofstra migration, a talk about this remarkable describes the Murphy Maureen University’s Charlotte by inspired of the Mission founding at the Mission, O’Brien, the early workers Grace and the Irish organizations by the support given Irish women the young and , and joined the Irish arrived as they themselves American community.

Photos: Armstrong courtesy of The New York Public Library, The Mission Girls courtesy of St. Peter—Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Parish . Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 PM Standard with Time Michael Feinstein The Great American Jewish Songbook: Kern, , Arlen, Rodgers,and More , Artistic Director Michael Feinstein Hall. Carnegie by Presented / ASCAP. Michael A. Kerker Carnegie Hall by for Produced Migration Jewish European and Eastern the Russian Support for Polonsky The by is provided festival series of the Migrations Foundation. Hall at Carnegie Hall Zankel | Manhattan Avenue and Seventh Street 57th | 212-247-7800 carnegiehall.org start at $93. Tickets Tuesday, March at 26 7 PM Tuesday, Louis Armstrong Sound Salon and Migration sounds of the Great the Discover casual This Armstrong. of Louis the mastery and includes expert conversation program jazz archival heard of rarely listening communal recordings. Arts. the Performing for Library Public York New The by Presented Library Public York New at The Café Arts the Performing for | Manhattan Plaza Center 40 Lincoln | 212-642-0142 nypl.org/lpa/events required) (registration Free

hall.org/migrations hall.org/migrations carnegie Louis Armstrong Louis Michael Feinstein 16 | Thursday, March 28 at 7 PM Friday, March 29 at 7 PM Saturday, March 30 at 8 PM Music in Color: Joe Kye: Migrants Two Wings: The Music Gabriela Lena Frank Award-winning musician Joe Kye brings his of Black America in Migration St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble unique blend of violin looping, electronics, Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, singing, and storytelling to a program with Kirya Traber, Narrator Producers special guest Jason Chu, a Chinese American Jason Moran, Piano Music in Color turns its focus to the music hip-hop artist. Migrants tells the story of Kye’s Alicia Hall Moran, Mezzo-Soprano and life of Gabriela Lena Frank, an American life as an immigrant Asian American, weaving composer of Peruvian, Chinese, and Lithuanian together original music, humorous stories, Lawrence Brownlee, Tenor Jewish descent. The program includes selections and cutting-edge technology. At a pre-show Pastor Smokie Norful, Piano and Vocals from Frank’s own string quartets, as well as a workshop on expressing cultural identity Crystal Dickinson, Actor piece by one of her inspirations, Chou through sound, participants will consider how Brandon J. Dirden, Actor Wen-chung, and a new work composed by loop-building and songwriting can allow the Harriet Tubman: The Band Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran Marco-Adrían Ramos. performers to express themselves. (Melvin Gibbs, JT Lewis, Presented by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Presented by Flushing Town Hall. and Brandon Ross) Art Gallery at Hostos Center Flushing Town Hall Hilda Harris, Mezzo-Soprano for the Arts and Culture 137-35 Northern Boulevard | Queens Toshi Reagon, Guitar and Vocals 450 Grand Concourse | Bronx flushingtownhall.org | 718-463-7700 featuring Isabel Wilkerson, Author oslmusic.org | 212-594-6100 Tickets: $16 with Free Imani Winds The Harlem Chamber Players Thursday, March 28 at 7:30 PM Joseph Joubert, Music Director Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran draw Sarah Aroeste upon their own family lore and the historical Anthony Mordechai record of the Great Migration to compose Tzvi Russell tableaux that explore a continuum of music from rhythm and blues to gospel, classical Diaspora Songs: Yiddish Meets Ladino to Broadway, work songs to rock ‘n’ roll. American-born Ladino vocalist Sarah Aroeste Experience the ingenuity of these artists as they and Yiddish vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi

Photos: Kye by Jason Sinn, Moran and Hall Moran by Dawoud Bey, Brownlee by Shervin Lainez. take a journey from the American South after Russell join forces to explore common themes emancipation to all points North, West, and and approaches in Ladino and Yiddish music. beyond—shining a light on the epic event that Accompanied by pianist-accordionist Dmitri changed the sound of America forever. Gaskin and guitarist Rob Sanzone, Aroeste Presented by Carnegie Hall. and Russell musically reconcile these long-lost Lawrence Brownlee Sponsored by United Airlines®, Official Airline of Carnegie Hall cousins of the Jewish musical diaspora. Presented by the Yiddish Book Center. The Trustees of Carnegie Hall gratefully acknowledge the generosity Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan of Mr. and Mrs. Earle S. Altman in support of the 2018–2019 season. 334 Amsterdam Avenue | Manhattan jccmanhattan.org/meyerson | 646-505-4444 Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Joe Kye at Carnegie Hall Tickets: $25 57th Street and Seventh Avenue | Manhattan carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 Tickets start at $26.

18 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 19 Photos: Immigration Matters courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society, Ngai by Jennifer Goldman. Monday, April 1 at 6:30 PM Migrations: Rewriting America American culture is constantly being remade by immigrants. In this panel, Suketu Mehta (author of the forthcoming book This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto) and Gary Shteyngart (author of Lake Success) discuss with sociologists Nancy Foner and Philip Kasinitz how immigrants transform—and are themselves transformed by—American culture. Presented by The Graduate Center, CUNY. Elebash Recital Hall at Mae Ngai The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 | Manhattan gc.cuny.edu/PublicPrograms | 212-817-8215 Immigration Matters: Jews, Other Immigrants, and America Free (registration required)

Tuesday, April 2 at 6 PM Tuesday, April 2 at 6:30 PM Global Scotland Migration: The Making Sunday, March 31 at 11 AM Monday, April 1 at 6:30 PM The Impact of the Scots of Modern America Immigration Matters: A Brivele der Mamen on Early America For centuries, people from all around the world Jews, Other Immigrants, A Brivele der Mamen was one of the last Yiddish Scots and those of Scottish descent were have made their way to the United States in and America films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion. pivotal in the development of modern America. search of a better life for themselves and their Made by a joint American and Polish Jewish In turn, Americans play a key role in the families. How has migration in turn shaped The move towards restriction and the aftermath film team, it tells the heart-wrenching story of economic and cultural development of American life and culture? Historian Mae of the 1920s legislation left long shadows across a mother who tries to keep her family together Scotland today. The Scottish Government hosts Ngai, in conversation with Judge Denny Chin, the history of both the US and the Jews of the despite the disruptions caused by immigration a panel of academic experts to discuss the discusses how immigration has transformed the world. This day-long symposium examines the and the traumatic events of World War I. history of Scottish migration to America and country and why it has become one of the most efforts exerted by to prevent, The film highlights the move to America, how the ongoing importance of migration today. divisive issues in American politics. roll back, and resist immigration restriction. it divided the family, as well as the work of the Panelists include Marjory Harper, Presented by the New-York Historical Society as part of the Speakers include Maddalena Mariani, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Colin Calloway, and Graeme Morton. Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series. Joel Perlman, Randy Storch, Libby Garland, A discussion led by Anita Norich follows the New-York Historical Society Geraldine Gudefin, Heather Lee, Hasia Diner, Presented by the Scottish Government. screening. 170 West | Manhattan and Carl Bon Tempo. Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall Presented by the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish nyhistory.org | 212-485-9268 Presented by the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at . 154 West 57th Street | Manhattan History at New York University, in conjunction with the Center for carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 Tickets start at $24. Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society. Venue to be announced as.nyu.edu/hebrewjudaic | 212-998-8980 Free (registration required, Center for Jewish History [email protected]) 15 West 16th Street | Manhattan Free cjh.org | 212-294-8301 Free (registration required, [email protected])

20 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 21 Wednesday, April 3 at 1 PM Wednesday, April 3 at 6 PM Thursday, April 4 at 3:30 PM Thursday, April 4 at 6 PM Scottish Cèilidh To Where From Here: Undocumented, Unafraid: The Biggest Jewish City Dance Workshop Migration Legacies The Power of Creative in the World Mary Abdill (Royal Scottish Country Dance Novelist Ayana Mathis, art historian Kellie Jones, Expression Two historical 16mm documentaries from the Society) and Jenny Evans (Madra Confach and cultural critic Farah Jasmine Griffin explore A Conversation with Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New Cèilidh Band) teach participants the most the past, present, and future impact of the Great York Public Library—A Storm of Strangers: Jewish Dan-el Padilla Peralta popular traditional Scottish country reels that are Migration on forms of African American artistic American (1969) and The Biggest Jewish City in the usually danced during cèilidhs (Gaelic for “social expression. Dan-el Padilla Peralta is the author of World (1975)—will be screened and discussed. Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from gatherings”). No experience or partner required! Presented by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. at . a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. A strong Presented by the New York Caledonian Club. believer in public scholarship, he holds a public The New York Public Library The Forum at Columbia University Ripley-Grier Studios dialogue with guests regarding his experience for the Performing Arts Broadway at 125th Street | Manhattan 520 Eighth Avenue, Room 16L | Manhattan and the rewards of his writing process. Bruno Walter Auditorium iraas.columbia.edu | 212-854-7080 nycaledonian.org/events | 212-662-1083 Presented by Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza | Manhattan Free Center for Arts and Culture, and the DREAMers Club at nypl.org/lpa/events | 212-642-0142 Tickets: $25 ($35 for couples) Hostos Community College, CUNY. Free (registration required) Hostos Community College Wednesday, April 3 at 6 PM Longwood Art Gallery 450 Grand Concourse | Bronx Thursday, April 4 at 6 PM The Scots Who hostos.cuny.edu/CultureArts | 718-518-4455 Built New York Free Music in Color: ’s Contributions Gabriela Lena Frank to Architecture and the Promotion St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble of Ideas, 1855–1919 Thursday, April 4 at 5 PM Kirya Traber, Narrator Architect and architectural historian John Yosimar Reyes’s and Music in Color turns its focus to the music and life Kinnear leads a multimedia talk, exploring the Other UndocuArts of Gabriela Lena Frank, an American composer of huge contribution of Scottish-Americans—and Peruvian, Chinese, and Lithuanian Jewish descent. This evening of poetry features UndocuPoet in particular, Andrew Carnegie—to the building The program includes selections from Frank’s own Yosimar Reyes, and emerging poets and student of New York. string quartets, as well as a piece by one of her film animators, playwrights, and illustrators. Presented by the American-Scottish Foundation in association with inspirations, Chou Wen-chung, and a new work Born in and raised in , Reyes the Carnegie Corporation of New York. composed by Iman Habibi. is a nationally acclaimed poet (For Colored Boys Location to be confirmed upon registration Who Speak Softly), educator, performance artist, Presented by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. americanscottishfoundation.org

Photos: Carnegie courtesy of the Carnegie Hall Archives, Frank by Mariah Tauger. and public speaker. Gallery Space at Harlem School of the Arts 212-605-0338 Presented by Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 645 St. Nicholas Avenue | Manhattan Free (registration required) Center for Arts and Culture, and the DREAMers Club at oslmusic.org | 212-594-6100 Hostos Community College, CUNY. Free Hostos Community College Black Box Theater (Room C151) 450 Grand Concourse | Bronx Andrew Carnegie hostos.cuny.edu/CultureArts | 718-518-4455 Free

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22 | carnegiehall.org/migrations Friday, April 5 at 12:30 PM Friday, April 5 at 6 PM Saturday, April 6 at 11:15 AM Sunday, April 7 at 12:30 PM Pre– Day Parade Cèilidh Pipes and Drums A cèilidh (pronounced “kay-lee”) is a traditional on the Fountain Terrace Scottish social gathering. Enjoy a fun-filled Bryant Park Lunchtime Concert Series evening with Kiss—a famous cèilidh band from Scotland—and Shot of Scotch Martha Redbone For the past seven years, the American-Scottish Highland dancers, complete with food and Foundation has presented Pipes and Drums on the Flor De Toloache refreshments. Fountain Terrace, bringing a series of lunchtime concerts to Bryant Park during NYC Tartan Presented by the New York Caledonian Club. Week. As part of the Migrations festival, this Venue to be announced Friday, April 5 at 7 PM Saturday, April 6 at 11 AM year’s Pipes and Drums concerts feature young nycaledonian.org/events | 212-662-1083 AGES Flor De Toloache Studio 57 Live with 14–19 musicians who reflect a shared Scottish and Tickets: $65 American musical heritage. The Latin Grammy Award–winning, all-female Martha Redbone Presented by the American-Scottish Foundation. Photos: Pipes and Drums on the Fountain Terrace courtesy of the American-Scottish Foundation, Flor De Toloache by Andy Averbuch, Redbone by Will Maupin / Blackfeet Productions LLC. mariachi group Flor De Toloache is pushing Young artists from across New York City are genre boundaries and getting concertgoers Bryant Park | Manhattan invited to make music at Carnegie Hall on dancing with its fresh, versatile take on americanscottishfoundation.org Saturdays throughout the school year at traditional Mexican music. 212-605-0338 Studio 57. As part of the Migrations festival, Presented by Flushing Town Hall. charismatic songstress Martha Redbone—who Free Flushing Town Hall is of Cherokee, Choctaw, European, and 137-35 Northern Boulevard | Queens African American descent—joins these young flushingtownhall.org | 718-463-7700 musicians in performance and shares her own musical journey. Tickets: $16 Presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. Pipes and Drums on the Fountain Terrace Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall Saturday, April 6 at 10 AM 154 West 57th Street | Manhattan carnegiehall.org/Studio57 | 212-903-9829 Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Service Lead support for Future Music Project is provided by and Pre-Parade Brunch Nicola and Beatrice Bulgari and The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation. The Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan service is a pan- Major funding is provided by Ameriprise Financial and denominational Christian blessing of the MetLife Foundation. of the clans, celebrating Scotland and Scots in America. A pre– Parade brunch immediately follows. Presented by Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York. Public support is provided by the City of New York through the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Service Administration for Children’s Services, the Department of Youth and Community Development, and New York City Council Speaker The Brick Presbyterian Church Corey Johnson. 1140 at 91st Street | Manhattan standrewsny.org/events | 212-223-4248 Free Carnegie Hall is a partner in The Door’s Youth Opportunity Hub, funded [in part] by the New York County District Attorney’s Pre–Tartan Day Parade Brunch Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (CJII). Tickets: $40 (reservations required)

Free (RSVP and permission form required) 24 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 25 Photos: NYC Tartan Day Parade courtesy of NYC Tartan Week, The Gloaming by Rich Gilligan.

The Gloaming

NYC Tartan Day Parade

Saturday, April 6 at 2 PM Saturday, April 6 at 7 PM Saturday, April 6 at 7:30 PM Saturday, April 6 at 8:30 PM NYC Tartan Day Parade Global Mashup Giai Dieu Que Huong: The Gloaming Celebrate Scottish heritage and pride in America Klezmer Meets Music of the Vietnamese Martin Hayes, Fiddle as thousands of pipers and drummers, dancers, Latin Boogaloo Diaspora Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh, Hardanger d’amore clans, societies, and Scottish dogs march up Spanglish Fly | Mini-Klezmer All-Stars The Vietnam Heritage Center shares the various Iarla Ó Lionáird, Vocals . Thomas Bartlett, Piano Starting with dance lessons, a set by each band, manners in which traditional and modern Presented by NYC Tartan Week. Dennis Cahill, Guitar and then a jam session between them, two elements are blended together, evoking the Sixth Avenue from 44th to 55th streets cultures are mashed up on one stage with an lived experience of Vietnamese immigrants in The Gloaming embodies the soul and history of Manhattan open dance floor! Spanglish Fly returns with that the United States. The migration of Vietnamese Irish/. Incorporating elements of nyctartanweek.org | 212-980-0844 Latin Boogaloo, soul, and R&B mix you can only people brings with it a rich tapestry of music and jazz and contemporary music while remaining Free find in NYC, mashed with plaintive and joyous dance that is celebrated in the home and within true to a lasting tradition, the group brings a Eastern European Jewish melodies by the the community. freshness and vitality to traditional Irish music Mini-Klezmer All-Stars, led by ’ Presented by the Vietnam Heritage Center. that defies labeling. Saturday, April 6 at 4:30 PM Frank . The Loreto Theater at the Sheen Center Presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with Robert Browning Associates LLC. NYC Tartan Day Parade: Presented by Flushing Town Hall. 18 Bleecker Street | Manhattan vietnamheritagecenter.org Post-Parade Party Flushing Town Hall Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall 137-35 Northern Boulevard | Queens 707-418-VIET (8438) 57th Street and Seventh Avenue | Manhattan Enjoy four, fun-packed hours of live music from flushingtownhall.org | 718-463-7700 Tickets: $25 carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 three Scottish bands and all-you-can-drink Tickets start at $40. Belhaven beer. Tickets: $16 Presented by NYC Tartan Week. Sony Hall 235 West 46th Street | Manhattan nyctartanweek.org | 212-980-0844 Tickets start at $50.

26 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 27 29 THE BOOK DAVID E. FISHMAN DAVID Jewish Treasures from the Nazis from the Jewish Treasures Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Poets, Partisans, EVENTS | SMUGGLERS Magnifico in New York in New Magnifico Tuesday, April 9 at 7 PM Tuesday, Presented by the Institute for and Jewish Studies at and Jewish Israel for the Institute by Presented University. Columbia Studies and Jewish Israel for Institute University at Columbia Hall Kent 617 | Manhattan Avenue 1140 Amsterdam | 212-854-2581 iijs.columbia.edu required) (registration Free The Book Smugglers Book The Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasuresfrom the Nazis with David E. Fishman Book Smugglers The of is the true story in residents ghetto Lithuania, who Vilna, thousands rescued and books of Jewish from manuscripts—first the Nazis and then from hiding the Soviets—by them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them of Many borders. across found Jewry European Eastern of these treasures of the archives and to York New to their way Author Research. Jewish for Institute the YIVO story this remarkable recounts E. Fishman David on culture the impact of Yiddish and discusses American society.

Presented by the Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, Institute, the Italian Cultural Levi, Primo the Centro by Presented Arts. the Performing for Library Public York New and The Library Public York New The Arts the Performing for Auditorium Bruno Walter | Manhattan Plaza Center 40 Lincoln | 212-642-0142 primolevicenter.org required) (registration Free Presented by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. the Orchestra by Presented Center Snug Harbor Cultural and Botanical Garden Island | Staten 1000 Richmond Terrace | 212-594-6100 oslmusic.org Free Monday, April 8 at 7 PM York Magnifico New in Corrado Cagli, Migrating Artists, and the Mirage of Italy Bedarida hosts aArt Raffaele historian organizer of Italian artist and cultural celebration Italy because of leave to Cagli. Forced Corrado as a role his Cagli redefined persecution, racial public artist of identity and his understanding music live With of exile. the experience through remarkable Cagli’s follow display, and archival as he became a US military artist wholife and of Buchenwald the horrors immortalized Balanchine on his with George collaborated Ballet production, City York New carnivalesque Sunday, April 7 at 2 PM in Color: Music Lena FrankGabriela Ensemble Chamber St. Luke’s , Narrator Traber Kirya and life the music to turns its focus Music in Color of American composer an Frank, of Gabriela Lena descent. and Lithuanian Jewish Chinese, Peruvian, Frank’s includes selections from program The one of by a piece as string quartets, as well own and a new Wen-chung, Chou her inspirations, Delphine Hedden. Christine by composed work and Artistic York New . Cantori Il Magnifico music by perform Mark Shapiro Director Rieti. Vittorio

Photos: CrossCurrent VI by Steven Vandervelden, Magnifico in New York courtesy of the Archivio Corrado Cagli, Rome, Italy. CrossCurrent VI CrossCurrent Àdhamh Ó Broin is best known as the highly is best known Ó Broin Àdhamh on the hit TV series Gaelic tutor respected up with Noel Graham Outlander. He teams band Winterface, the troubadour form to and Scots, Gaelic, traditional performing original music. Caledonian Club. York the New by Presented House & Kitchen Public Tailor The | Manhattan 505 Eighth Avenue | 212-662-1083 nycaledonian.org/events $25 Ticket: Sunday, April 7 at 2 PM An Afternoon with ÀdhamhWinterface: Ó Broin Grahamand Noel

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28 | Tickets: $16 Tickets: flushingtownhall.org | 718-463-7700 flushingtownhall.org integrated with live music and visual art. with live integrated | Queens Northern Boulevard 137-35 full-length concert of contemporary dance dance of contemporary full-length concert Hall Town Flushing by Nai-Ni Chen, this presentation features a features this presentation Nai-Ni Chen, by Hall. Town Flushing by Presented City–based Asian American artists. Curated Asian American artists. Curated City–based the dance works being developed by New York York New by being developed works the dance dance project presented annually to showcase showcase annually to presented project dance CrossCurrent VI CrossCurrent collaborative is a contemporary CrossCurrent Nai-Ni Chen DanceNai-Ni Free Sunday, April 7 at 2 PM carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 carnegiehall.org afternoon of musical fun for the whole family. the afternoon of musical fun for | Manhattan Street 57th 154 West runs from 12 PM to 4 PM. Join us for an enriching for Join us 4 PM. to 12 PM runs from at Carnegie Hall Wing Education Resnick professional musicians, and more. This event event This musicians, and more. professional supported, an endowment in part, by generously are Days Family Linda and Earle S. Altman. gift from their own instruments, sing and dance with dance instruments, sing and their own for Department Services of Homeless City York the New to Thanks Days. during Family supporting families fun! Families can enjoy live performances, build performances, live can enjoy fun! Families Music Institute. Weill Carnegie Hall’s by Presented Education Wing that are free, interactive, and interactive, free, that are Wing Education offering a wide range of activities in its Resnick its Resnick of activities in a wide range offering invites families to make music together by by music together make to families invites American artistic expression. Carnegie Hall Carnegie American artistic expression. Harlem Renaissance African became the hub for Harlem how Learn Journey to the Sunday, April 7 at PM 12 Spring Family Day 31 EVENTS | (registration required) (registration All proceeds benefit the Immigrant Defense Project, Families for for Families Project, Defense the Immigrant benefit All proceeds of NYC. Sanctuary Coalition and New Freedom, Friday, April atFriday, 12 6:30 PM Diasporic Sound: Migration, Resilience, and Remix Yakupitiyage) (Thanushka Ushka and DJ Activist that on the impact a conversation curates South South Asia, Africa, from migrations creation on the have America, and the Caribbean sounds. Panelists of diasporic, border-traversing and digital of globalization the role discuss of diasporic music reach the expanding in culture their borders tighten nation states when many No Borders—an of migrants. the flow and restrict Ushka— by hosted and fundraiser, after-party follows. immediately at Institute the Asian/Pacific/American by Presented University. York New at 6:30 PM Discussion Panel Center Silver University York New Artsfor and Science Lounge Hall and Silverstein Lecture Jurow | Manhattan Floor First Place, 31 Washington | 212-992-9653 apa.nyu.edu/events Free at 11 PM After-Party No Borders C’mon Everybody | Brooklyn Avenue 325 Franklin bit.ly/noborders412 $10 (at the door) $8 (advance); Tickets: Ushka Presented by the American Indian Community House. the American Indian Community by Presented Ethical Culture for Society York New The | Manhattan 64th Street 2 West | 646-575-3638 aich.org $20 Tickets: April atFriday, 12 1 PM Saturday, April 13 at 10 AM to Music: Migration From Scotch-Irish The Contributions to America part of the colonization were Scotch-Irish The its gained the country of America before the from Britain. Migrating from independence their music became a core the frontier, to docks the input of others by national sound, influenced leads this Michael Scoggins World. in the New Scotch-Irish that explores symposium two-day music in America. of the Society the Scotch-Irish by Presented of America. States United House Ireland Glucksman Mews 1 Washington Manhattan scotch-irishsocietyusa.org 803-818-6768 required) (registration Free Thursday, April 11 at 8 PM Celebration A NDNS: Urban American Music, Native of Arts, and Culture the largest is home to City York New American, Native populations of inter-tribal out individuals Nations, and Indigenous First Island (North Turtle across urban city of any as musical celebration America). Join in on a American Indian Community part the NYC of House 50th Anniversary!

Photos: Molly Picon and other performers in a chorus line in Khoristkes (1930s), courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Ushka by Fabián Gómez. Presented by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Jewish for Institute the YIVO by Presented History Jewish for at the Center YIVO | Manhattan 16th Street 15 West | 212-246-6080 yivo.org/migrations-festival $15 Tickets: Wednesday, April 10 at 7 PM of Legacy Musical The Eastern European Jews scholar of East European Mark Slobin, acclaimed the music, discusses and American Jewish of A Celebration Stage: to Shtetl music of From at Carnegie , presented Music and Culture Yiddish he uses Hall on April 15. In his presentation, of a range that cover and recordings images concert numbers, songs, novelty theater Yiddish music, and songs of social movements. hall.org/migrations hall.org/migrations carnegie The Musical Legacy of Eastern European Jews European of Eastern Musical Legacy The

(registration required) (registration Free 30 | brennancenter.org/events | 646-925-8704 brennancenter.org/events and voter suppression. and voter | Manhattan Street 3rd 108 West justice, and the challenges of mass incarceration incarceration of mass and the challenges justice, Hall Hall at D’Agostino Lipton and examines what it means today for racial racial for today what it means and examines School of Law University York New The expert panel reflects on this history on this history panel reflects expert The at Justice for Center the Brennan by Presented School of Law. University York New police presence and overcriminalization. overcriminalization. and presence police housing areas that were subjected to a heavy heavy a to subjected that were housing areas employment discrimination and segregated discrimination and segregated employment north during the Great Migration, only to find only to Migration, north during the Great experiences of African Americans moving moving Americans of African experiences Finding Injustice the examines public conversation This Searching for Security, Searching Security, for Wednesday, April 10 at 6 PM Migration: Great The 33 EVENTS | Deva Mahal Deva be announced Special guest to songwriting of masterful combination A rare Mahal steps talent, Deva vocal and breathtaking Run Deep, an the spotlight on her debut, into album of pulse-pounding soul with a decidedly the from inspiration Taking modern edge. Mahal vulnerability, through idea of strength honesty, with raw with her audience connects and emotionally searing songs of rich musicality, of the human spirit and the power and loss, love overcome. to with WFUV. Hall in partnership Carnegie by Presented Hall at Carnegie Hall Zankel | Manhattan Avenue and Seventh Street 57th | 212-247-7800 carnegiehall.org start at $44. Tickets Saturday, April 13 at 10 PM

Deva Mahal Deva with Calum Pasqua with Calum Pasqua Saturday, April 13 at 2 PM Scottish Fiddle Workshop win first American to the first Calum Pasqua, Competition, at the Glenfiddich Fiddle place designed his expertise in this workshop, shares taught are Tunes and up. beginners advanced for ear and without sheet music. by traditionally Caledonian Club. York the New by Presented Studios Ripley-Grier 10C | Manhattan Room Eighth Avenue, 520 | 212-662-1083 nycaledonian.org/events $45 Tickets:

Photos: You Took a Part of Me by Julieta Cervantes, Mahal by Xavier De Nauw. Japan Society | Manhattan Street 333 East 47th | 212-715-1258 japansociety.org $30 Tickets: Presented by Japan Society. by Presented with MIT Media Lab. of Me is made in collaboration a Part Took You the National from is supported, in part, an award by project This and with funding from Music USA, the Arts, New for Endowment Fund. Works New Foundation Armitage The Friday, April atFriday, 12 7:30 PM Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 PM a Part Me of Took You Armitage Karole by Choreographed wired premiere, of Me is a world a Part Took You “punk by with choreography production dance the five-member for Armitage ballerina” Karole based on the Loosely Gone! Dance. Armitage , it explores Nonomiya noh play 15th-century attachments, entanglement, unresolved erotic music live Set to harmony. for and the search Isami, the show and Yuki Yamada Reiko by by created technologies new embraces MIT Media Lab designers. will be followed On April 12, the performance An Reception. Meet-the-Artists a MetLife by the April 13 artist Q&A will be held following performance.

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32 | colonial America. colonial required) Donation: $10 (registration Suggested a critical moment in the political culture of a critical moment in the political culture | 212-998-3950 as.nyu.edu/irelandhouse weapons. Led by Kevin Kenny, this talk examines this talk examines Kenny, Kevin by Led weapons. | Manhattan Mews 1 Washington what followed was a war of words rather than rather of words a war was what followed House Ireland Glucksman measure to the efforts of Benjamin Franklin, the efforts of Benjamin Franklin, to measure Irish Studies for Center House / The Ireland Glucksman by Presented University. York at New unless their demands were met. Due in large met. Due in large their demands were unless Philadelphia, threatening to sack the city sack the city to Philadelphia, threatening notorious massacre. They then marched on then marched They massacre. notorious Conestoga Indians in the century’s most Indians in the century’s Conestoga called the Paxton Boys killed the last of the Boys called the Paxton In 1763, a group of militiamen of Pennsylvania a group In 1763, Pennsylvania Friday, April atFriday, 12 7 PM Paxton The of Boys Photos: Black Shadows (St. Claire Bourne and Ray Lewis) courtesy of The New York Public Library for the Performing Burstyn Arts, by Mariella Productions, Krakauer by GMD, Lenk by Susan Stripling, Reissa by Adrian Busckmaster, Shaham by Luke Ratray; Sunday, April 14 at 2 PM Monday, April 15 at 6 PM Monday, April 15 at 8 PM Reading Into History: Black Shadows on a From Shtetl to Stage: The Great American Dust Silver Screen: The Great A Celebration of Yiddish Bowl with Don Brown Migration and Independent Music and Culture Award-winning author Filmmaking Seth Rogovoy, Creator and Producer and illustrator Don This celebration and discussion of African , Creator, Director, and Vocalist Brown discusses his American independent filmmakers features Gil Shaham, Violin graphic novel, The films from the Reserve Film and Video David Krakauer, Clarinet Great American Dust Collection of The New York Public Library with Evgeny Kissin, Piano Bowl. Through both commentary by special guests. Evgeny Kissin words and images, kids Joanne Borts, Mike Burstyn, Avi Hoffman, Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. , , , (ages 9–12) will get a Elmore James Daniel Kahn Katrina Lenk and Lorin Sklamberg, Vocalists true feel for one of the The New York Public Library hardest chapters in for the Performing Arts Zalmen Mlotek, Piano American history—a Bruno Walter Auditorium Frank London, Music Director period that saw one of 40 Lincoln Center Plaza | Manhattan Boris Sandler and Lyudmila Sholokhova, the largest migrations nypl.org/lpa/events | 212-642-0142 Historical Advisers in US history, with more than 3.5 million people Free (registration required) From Shtetl to Stage celebrates the journey of displaced between 1930 and 1940 alone. Yiddish culture from Old World to New through David Krakauer Presented by the New-York Historical Society. music, song, poetry, and drama. A company of New-York Historical Society extraordinary Yiddish talent—as well as stars 170 Central Park West | Manhattan of the classical, folk, and theater worlds—mix nyhistory.org | 212-873-3400 chestnuts from the Yiddish theater and folk song repertoire with Yiddish-tinged , art Free (with museum admission) song, classical music, and klezmer in a program that explores how Eastern European Jewish culture interacted with and contributed to American culture at large. Presented by Carnegie Hall. Katrina Lenk Support for the Russian and Eastern European Jewish Migration series of the Migrations festival is provided by The Polonsky Foundation. Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall 57th Street and Seventh Avenue | Manhattan carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 Ticket start at $45. Eleanor Reissa

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34 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 35 Tuesday, April 16 at 6:30 PM Saturday, April 20 at 7 PM Monday, April 29 at 7 PM Wednesday, May 1 at 7 PM In Perpetual Flight: Global Mashup Keep the Music Playing! Sea Changes: The Migration of the Bluegrass Meets Cuba Jazzmobile honors two legends who migrated Culinary Journeys from Black Body Buddy Merriam | Back Roads to New York City. Duke Ellington (a native Africa to the Americas Conjunto Guantánamo Washingtonian born on April 29) and Louis Keith Josef Adkins | Hope Boykin Armstrong (the “Father of Jazz” who moved with Dr. Jessica B. Harris Justin Hicks | Kenita Miller Starting with dance lessons, a set by each band, here from New Orleans) were both true Dr. Jessica B. Harris—American culinary and then a jam session between them, two This one-day event examines the movement international jazz ambassadors. Jazz greats historian and author of numerous cookbooks cultures are mashed up on one stage with an of Black bodies in America and the impact that and emerging artists take to the stage for this documenting the foods of the African open dance floor! Get ready to square dance movement has had in the quest for liberation. one-night-only concert! Diaspora—relays the fascinating history of with mandolin and bluegrass master Buddy Utilizing the archives of the Schomburg Center, African , taking attendees on a Merriam and the Back Roads, mashing up Presented by Jazzmobile. and using multidisciplinary performance and harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic the night with the hip-swiveling, Afro-Cuban First Corinthian Baptist Church community dialogue, the National Black Theatre to America. From collard greens and ham hocks rhythms of Conjunto Guantánamo. 1912 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard commissions new pieces by theater-makers of to fried chicken and vegan soul, Harris celebrates Manhattan African descent to examine the works of James Presented by Flushing Town Hall. the delicious and restorative foods of African jazzmobile.org | 212-866-3616 Baldwin, Harriet Powers, Marcus Garvey, Harriet Flushing Town Hall American people, detailing how they came to be Tubman, and Jacob Lawrence to illuminate the 137-35 Northern Boulevard | Queens Tickets: $25 a defining part of African American culture and complexities Black people have faced migrating flushingtownhall.org | 718-463-7700 identity. Although the story of African cuisine in America begins with slavery, Harris ultimately in America. Tickets: $16 Presented by the National Black Theatre in partnership with chronicles a history of triumph and survival. The The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. evening includes a drinks reception and dinner The Schomburg Center for Research that celebrate African American culture. in Black Culture Presented by Oxford Cultural Collective. 515 Malcolm X Boulevard | Manhattan Venue to be announced | Manhattan schomburgcenter.org | 917-275-6975 oxfordculturalcollective.com Free (registration required, starting April 1; Tickets: $160 schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com)

Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 PM The Land of Promise This groundbreaking celebration of the Photos: In Perpetual Flight (Hope Boykin) by Steve Vaccariello, Harris by Nina Bramhall. Scots-Irish and their gift to America is an evening of music, song, and dance, written by Turlough McConnell and George C. Heslin. Experience Dr. Jessica the ingenuity of how these inspirational settlers In Perpetual Flight: B. Harris became pioneers, patriots, and presidents. The Migration of the Black Body Presented by Origin Theatre Company in association with the Ulster Scots Agency and the Northern Ireland Bureau. The Sheen Center 18 Bleecker Street | Manhattan origintheatre.org | 212-925-2812 Tickets: $35

36 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 37 Wednesday, May 8 at 7 PM Wednesday, May 15 at 7 PM Transforming Colombian Free Minds in a Free Nation: Agriculture: Fueling Hope and A Personal Journey with Pride with Mariana Velasquez Madhur Jaffrey Celebrated cookbook author and food stylist Celebrated food writer, cookbook author, Mariana Velasquez explores the gradual and actress Madhur Jaffrey lived through the transformation that is taking place in Colombian Partition of India in 1947 as a young teenager, agriculture. Farmers who once grew illicit crops and witnessed firsthand the devastating effects are now producing indigenous ingredients that of enforced migration. She arrived in the US enrich the country’s distinctive culinary culture. alone on board the Queen Mary and soon For Colombian migrants in America, this story became part of a vibrant, artistic, multicultural Toshi Reagon of change is a source of great pride. Increasingly, community. Jaffrey shares what America came the food of is this migrant community’s to represent for her: free minds in a free nation, emotional tie to its homeland. The evening where those from different backgrounds could includes a drinks reception and dinner, with co-exist. Initially a culinary novice, she reflects ingredients supplied directly by Colombian farmers on how Indian cuisine soon became a powerful who have transformed their production in recent means of connecting with her cultural roots. The years. The evening also features a short film that evening includes a drinks reception and dinner documents farmers’ personal stories. that celebrates Indian culture in America. Presented by Oxford Cultural Collective. Presented by Oxford Cultural Collective. Venue to be announced | Manhattan Venue to be announced | Manhattan oxfordculturalcollective.com oxfordculturalcollective.com Saturday, May 18 at 3 PM Sunday, May 19 at 7:30 PM Tickets: $160 Tickets: $160 Soul Mechanism Soul Mechanism A Community Conversation A Concert Celebrating the Toshi Reagon, Curator and Speaker Music of Migrations Additional panelists to be announced Toshi Reagon, Curator, Vocals, and Guitar In preparation for the Soul Mechanism concert at Special guests to be announced Carnegie Hall on May 19, Toshi Reagon leads a Celebrated performer Toshi Reagon leads a discussion with artists, activists, and community concert featuring her longtime band, special leaders on the ways ideas travel from guest artists, and new songs by New Yorkers to generation. of all ages that explore the migration experience Presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. across borders. Soul Mechanism: A Concert Celebrating the Music of Migrations, Presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. a creative learning project for young people across New York City, is Soul Mechanism: A Concert Celebrating the Music of Migrations, made possible in part by generous support from Martha and a creative learning project for young people across New York City, is Bob Lipp. made possible in part by generous support from Martha and

Photos: Jaffrey by KT Bruce, Reagon by Erica Beckman. Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall Bob Lipp. 154 West 57th Street | Manhattan Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall carnegiehall.org | 212-903-9829 57th Street and Seventh Avenue | Manhattan Free (registration required, carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 starting May 10 at 10 AM) Tickets start at $20.

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38 | carnegiehall.org/migrations EVENTS | 39 March and April Saturdays, March 9–April 13 at 9 AM (check website for dates and screening times) This Irish American Life Indocumentales Hosted by historian Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey, Saturdays at 11:30 AM Through March 24 Indocumentales is a film and conversation This Irish American Life showcases the best of (each Saturday in February; the second series committed to exploring the multiplicity Irish and Irish-American history, literature, Saturday in April through June) Interior Lives: of Latin American migrant experiences in our current affairs, and artistic endeavors. For Contemporary Photographs country through compassionate representation six weeks, This Irish American Life devotes its Harlem: The Migration and of Chinese New Yorkers and critical dialogue. A special screening of a weekly show to the theme of migration and recently released fiction or documentary film on immigration. Integration of America’s New York City’s nine predominantly Chinese US–Latin American migration will be presented Presented by Glucksman Ireland House / The Center for Irish Studies neighborhoods are home to the largest ethnic African Voice as part of the Migrations festival, followed by at New York University. The migration of African Americans from the Chinese population outside of Asia. This exhibit a panel discussion meant to bring together Broadcast on WNYE 91.5 FM features the work of three photographers who South to Harlem fostered a direct dialogue filmmakers, scholars, activists, policy makers, nyuirish.net/RadioHour have spent years documenting the lives of with immigrant African descendants from the and community representatives concerned with Chinese New Yorkers: Thomas Holton, Annie Caribbean and the broader diaspora. At this the fortification of immigrant rights. time, Harlem was also the city’s second largest Ling, and An Rong Xu. Together, the works of Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies March 9–April 15 Jewish community. This proximity fostered Black these photographers provide a window into at New York University, Cinema Tropical, What Moves You?, and the engagement with the area’s immigrant Eastern the complex realities of immigrant life in World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. Boaz Vaadia European and Russian Jews. From this evolved New York City. King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Internationally acclaimed Israeli-born sculptor the rhythms and language of the American Presented by the Museum of the City of New York. 53 Washington Square South | Manhattan Boaz Vaadia (1951–2017) immigrated to the Songbook. This walking tour focuses on those Made possible with lead support provided by Con Edison, indocumentales.com | 212-254-5474 United States in 1975. It was in this country that points of interaction—theaters, religious with additional support provided by Ronay and Richard Menschel; he conceived his iconic and unique figurative the Honorable Diana Ayala, New York City Council, District 8; Free institutions, and cultural venues—that shaped Audrey Chan and James Iorio; The Andrew and Marina Lewin work, using materials such as bluestone that dialogue. Foundation; Mannar Wong; and Joyce Yu and Edward Lai. from the city’s sidewalks to create the “urban Presented by Harlem One Stop. Museum of the City of New York Fridays and Saturdays at 11 AM landscape” that he regarded to be as “natural” Begins in front of the Apollo Theater 1220 Fifth Avenue | Manhattan (March through July) as the village in Israel where he grew up. 253 West 125th Street | Manhattan mcny.org | 212-534-1672 Presented by Jim Kempner Fine Art. harlemonestop.org | 212-939-9201 Tickets: $18 East Harlem–El Barrio: Jim Kempner Fine Art Tickets: $30 Where Art, Culture, and 501 West 23rd Street | Manhattan Community Intersect jimkempnerfineart.com | 212-206-6872 East Harlem–El Barrio is a conglomeration of Free Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Dominican influences of mostly working-class immigrants. It is also a neighborhood once again in transition as new arrivals from below 96th Street push north to East Harlem and begin to make their mark on the streetscape. But in the face of impending gentrification, East Harlem continues to visually and artistically display its energy, culture, and protest in street art and murals, processions, and street festivals. Explore this vibrant neighborhood during this guided, 90-minute walking tour. Presented by Harlem One Stop. Begins in front of El Barrio Artspace Interior Lives 215 East 99th Street | Manhattan Thomas Holton, A Month Before College (2018) harlemonestop.org | 212-939-9201 Tickets: $25

40 | carnegiehall.org/migrations ONGOING EVENTS | 41 March 9–April 16 March 9–October 31 March 10–April 9 March 10–May 31 Nathan Slate Joseph Andrew Carnegie: Dieter Peukert Ellis Island Photography Nathan Slate Joseph emigrated from Israel His Life and Legacy A multidisciplinary artist from Wiesbaden, Exhibition at Carnegie Hall to the United States in 1952 and has since In Carnegie Hall’s first exhibit about its founder, Germany, who now resides in New York City, Amateur photographer Augustus Sherman established himself as a prominent figure in Andrew Carnegie, Archives and Dieter Peukert has focused on rhythm and worked as the chief registry clerk on Ellis the New York arts scene. His work blurs the Director Gino Francesconi charts the Carnegie structure in his abstract paintings. He studied Island from 1892 to 1925, during which time boundary between painting and sculpture, family’s passage from Scotland and Andrew’s at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he captured hundreds of images of the first alluding to issues of globalization, immigration, ever-present influence in America. With archival he concentrated on the study of ethnology. migrants to the United States. Today—when and climate change. It often consists of squares documents, photos, and artifacts on loan from Of his recent paintings, the artist says that he more than 120 million Americans can trace their of galvanized steel that are cut, layered, and the Carnegie family, the Andrew Carnegie improvises from the get-go and approaches his ancestry to Ellis Island—these images serve assembled to produce intricate and dimensional Birthplace Museum, the Carnegie Corporation work in the vein of a jazz musician. as a fascinating window into the diversity of arrangements that merge urban aesthetics with of New York and its archives at Columbia Presented by Mark Borghi Fine Art. individuals and cultures that sought a new life in a concern for nature. University, the National Archives and Records Mark Borghi Fine Art the land of opportunity. Sherman’s photographs, Photos: Carnegie brothers courtesy of the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum; Ellis Island Photography Exhibition from the Augustus Sherman Collection, Statue of Liberty National Monument. Presented by The Cupping Room Cafe. Administration, and more, the exhibit shows 53 East 76th Street | Manhattan along with other selections from the Ellis Island The Cupping Room Cafe Andrew’s journey from humble beginnings borghi.org | 212-439-6425 National Museum of Immigration, will be on toward becoming the most prominent display in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall lobby 359 West Broadway | Manhattan Free cuppingroomcafe.com | 212-925-2898 philanthropist of his time. The exhibit will be through the end of the 2018–2019 season. on display through the end of October 2019 in Free Presented by the Statue of Liberty National Monument & Ellis Island, celebration of the Andrew Carnegie centennial. and Carnegie Hall. March 10–April 13 Presented by Carnegie Hall. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall March 9–April 30 Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall Lalla Essaydi 881 Seventh Avenue | Manhattan 154 West 57th Street | Manhattan Lalla Essaydi grew up in Morocco and now carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 Shusaku Arakawa carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 lives in the United States. Her art, which Free to all Zankel Hall concert-ticket holders Shusaku Arakawa—who spoke of himself as often combines Islamic calligraphy with Free an “eternal outsider” and “abstractionist of representations of the female body, addresses the distant future”—was a member of Tokyo’s the complex reality of Arab female identity from Neo-Dadaism Organizers, a precursor to the the unique perspective of personal experience. Neo-Dada movement. His early works were first “In my art,” she says, “I wish to present myself displayed in the infamous Yomiuri Independent through multiple lenses: as artist, as Moroccan, Exhibition, a watershed event for postwar as traditionalist, as liberal, as Muslim. In short, Japanese avant-garde art. Arakawa arrived in I invite viewers to resist stereotypes.” New York in 1961 with $14 in his pocket and a Presented by the Sundaram Tagore Gallery. telephone number for Marcel Duchamp, whom Sundaram Tagore Gallery he phoned from the airport and with whom he 1100 | Manhattan eventually formed a close friendship. sundaramtagore.com | 212-288-2889 Presented by the Gagosian Gallery. Free Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Avenue | Manhattan gagosian.com | 212-744-2313 Free Ellis Island Photography Andrew Carnegie Exhibition at Carnegie Hall (with his little brother, Tom)

42 | carnegiehall.org/migrations ONGOING EVENTS | 43 April 15–21 Starts May 2 Immigrant Heritage Week The Moon Represents Each year, New Yorkers hold a weeklong My Heart: Music, Memory, celebration of our collective immigrant heritage. and Belonging In recognition of the date on which the most The Museum of Chinese in America presents immigrants entered the US through Ellis Island— the diverse layers of the Chinese American April 17, 1907—this year’s celebration runs experience, while examining America’s journey April 15 through April 21. as a nation of immigrants. The Moon Represents Presented by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. My Heart: Music, Memory, and Belonging is an immersive exhibition that explores the role of music in Chinese communities, bringing seemingly disparate genres together—such nyc.gov/immigrants | 212-788-7654 as Cantonese opera, Asian American hip-hop, Western classical, Taiwanese pop, Beijing underground rock, and styles from the Asian American Movement—into a lively discussion of music and identity. Presented by the Museum of Chinese in America. Museum of Chinese in America Tenement Museum

215 Centre Street | Manhattan Photos: Immigrants on Ellis Island from the Augustus Sherman Collection, Statue of Liberty National Monument; Tenement Museum by Gemma Solomons. mocanyc.org | 855-955-6622 Tickets: $12

Music in America Migrations at the Music in America highlights the exchanges Tenement Museum between cultures that have contributed to Located on the Lower East Side, the our distinctly American musical styles and Tenement Museum highlights the experiences traditions. The installation includes English, of immigrants, migrants, and refugees between Scotch, and Irish ballads; African vocal and the 19th and 21st centuries. Specialty tours— rhythmic traditions; Cajun music; German including a new music tour that will be featured accordions; and other influences—part of an March 28—explore the historic tenements and exhibit on the various journeys of people coming surrounding neighborhood, highlighting how to the US prior to 1890. food, music, politics, and policy have shaped Presented by the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. American identities across generations. Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration Presented by the Tenement Museum. Ellis Island (boats depart from Battery Park in Tenement Museum New York and Liberty State Park in ) 103 Orchard Street | Manhattan statuecruises.com tenement.org | 877-975-3786 877-LADY-TIX (877-523- 9849) Tickets start at $20. Free (with purchase of ferry ticket) Immigrants on Ellis Island

44 | carnegiehall.org/migrations ONGOING EVENTS | 45 Photos: Ritchie by Louis DeCarlo; Stories from the Archives (Newly arrived immigrants at shelter run by Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, New York City, 1916) courtesy of YIVO Archives. The Global Jukebox One-Way Ticket: Alan Lomax conceived of The Global Jukebox Jacob Lawrence’s as a space to explore the astonishingly diverse Migration Series and beautiful expressive arts of singing, Take an in-depth look at Jacob Lawrence’s Starts February 26 dancing, and conversing from every corner landmark 1941 painting series about the mass of the world. It is a research and educational Stories from the Archives: movement of African Americans from the rural tool for everyone to connect with our South to the urban North. Jewish Immigration to individual and shared heritage. Presented by The . America Presented by the Association for Cultural Equity. moma.org/onewayticket This online exhibition uses documents, theglobaljukebox.org photographs, music, and the words of immigrants to explore Jewish immigration to the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, and its impact on American life and culture. Presented by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Stories from the Archives: exhibitions.yivo.org/immigrationstories Jewish Immigration to America

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The Thistle & Shamrock: Starts March 13 Chris Thile Fiona Ritchie, producer and host of NPR’s Poems About Migration The Thistle & Shamrock—an award-winning The Academy of American Poets—New York weekly program that explores music from Celtic City’s largest poetry organization—shares roots—talks to Chris Thile about the evolution poems and readings about migration by award- of Scots, Irish, and American folk music. The winning contemporary poets, including Richard American mandolinist and singer-songwriter Blanco, Marilyn Chin, Juan Felipe Herrera, Vijay performs as part of the Migrations festival on Seshadri, Mai Der Vang, and Ocean Vuong. March 9 at Carnegie Hall. Presented by the Academy of American Poets. Presented by Fiona Ritchie Productions / The Thistle & Shamrock, poets.org National Public Radio. One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series thistleradio.com npr.org/music Starts March 21

The Thistle & Shamrock: Jacob Lawrence. The Migration Series. 1940–1941. Panel 40: The migrants arrived in great numbers. Casein tempera on hardboard, 18” × 12” (45.7 × 30.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy. © 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Karine Polwart Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by Fiona Ritchie talks to Scottish songwriter, SCALA / Art Resource, NY. spoken-word performer, and essayist Karine Polwart, who performs at Carnegie Hall on March 23. Ritchie considers the lasting impact of 18th- and 19th-century Scots and Irish migrations on North American music today. Presented by Fiona Ritchie Productions / The Thistle & Shamrock, National Public Radio. Fiona Ritchie thistleradio.com npr.org/music

46 | carnegiehall.org/migrations ONLINE | 47 Official Card The Ruth Rubin Legacy The Exclusive Timepiece Exclusive Proud Season Sponsor Season Proud Official Airline Artist interviews, in-depth videos, exclusive footage, and partner footage, in-depth videos, exclusive Artist interviews, that and traditions of cultures shed light on the diversity content America. shape helped to Presented by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Jewish for Institute the YIVO by Presented yivo.org/OhMama $20 Fee: Legacy: Rubin Ruth The Online Yiddish Archive of Folksongs vocalist the renowned highlights website This than 1,500 of more collection and scholar’s some of the most by songs performed Yiddish of the 20th singers traditional extraordinary including Ruth Rubin herself. century, Research. Jewish for Institute the YIVO by Presented exhibitions.yivo.org Oh Mama,Oh in Love! I’m The Story of the Yiddish Stage artists who inspired Yiddish great the Discover Join online course. in this self-paced Broadway of Jewish the history trace as they scholars in 1,000 yourself Immerse performances. as a theater Yiddish and explore objects archival global phenomenon.

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