Free Concert May 12: Broadway Comes to Bensonhurst
Brian P. Worsdale (Photo by Visitation Academy)Eds: Photo of conductor Brian P. Worsdale is attached.
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FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT SERIES: BROADWAY COMES TO BENSONHURST
BROOKLYN - Broadway comes to Bensonhurst Saturday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. when performers from the Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge hit the stage at the New Utrecht Reformed Church Parish House for the second in a series of free concerts. The first concert, Saturday, May 5, was scheduled with a more classical tone, including music from the Renaissance, performed by the award-winning Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College Chamber Choir.
This time, 6th- and 7th-grade students will perform "100 Years of Broadway," songs from the early days of Tin Pan Alley to the modern Broadway musical.
The Visitation Academy students will be led by their music teacher, Mr. Brian P. Worsdale. Mr. Worsdale is best known to Bensonhurst audiences as the conductor of the InterSchool Orchestra Concert Band, which he founded in 1995. The ISO Band has made numerous appearances at New Utrecht, at the annual Liberty Weekend in June and other events sponsored by Friends of Historic New Utrecht. During the summer, Mr. Worsdale is Director of Music at the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in Delaware County, New York.
The Friends of Historic New Utrecht Concert Series is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development and the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
The Parish House is at 18th Ave. at 84th St., next to the New Utrecht Reformed Church main building which is undergoing a $2 million restoration and repair. Both the Parish House and main church building are know for their magnificent stained-glass windows. Architecturally, both also are historically significant structures in Brooklyn. The church itself, within the mainline Reformed Church in America (RCA), was founded in New Utrecht in 1677.
Admission to the concerts is free. Light refreshments are served. Parking is on the church grounds, near buses and the subway.
Reservations for the concerts and other information on the early history of Brooklyn can be obtained at (718) 256-7173. More information also is available at www.historicnewutrecht.org and www.newutrechtchurch.org.
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