Updated July 14,, 2012

 

banner

Top row left to right: Marie Baker-Lee, Lesley Flanigan, opera cast and crew, Khoi Bao Le
Bottom row left to right: Anna Shelest, Joseph Kubera, Blue Gene Tyranny, Mustafa Ahmed, Andrew Bolotowsky,
and Alisha Desai, Douglas McDonnell, Courteney Symonds, Mary Hurlbut in scene

lespa logo

Lower East Side Performing Arts, Inc.
501(c)3 nonprofit organization
founded in 2006

Acknowledgements

L.E.S.P.A. received support from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, and public funds from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Senator Daniel Squadron), The Fund for Creative Communities supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and aministered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Material for the Arts, as well as private donations and memberships. We thank our sponsors for their generous support.

Note: all programs take place in handicapped accessible facilities.

background
board
structure
artists
member
press

Receive a free DVD with your contribution of $15 or more...

dvd

VIDEO EXCERPTS

LESPA Work Samples

MISSION

A commitment to accessible programming, free or low cost, and to artistic excellence

LESPA encourages the creation of new work in contemporary music and musical theater. It facilitates the interface between diverse composers, artists, performers, especially women, and primarily low-income, multi-cultural communities. LESPA’s affordable programs show depth and humanity, and effectively address the complexity of our time, improving the quality of life and sense of community.

Program List 2007-2012

SPRING 2013 Programs

In conjunction with New Museum Ideas City, Art Loisaida Foundation,
Smart Clothes Gallery, Lower East Side Preservation Initiative,
East Village Dance Project

Pr1

PR2

 

OP ON SCREEN FESTIVAL

 

logo

nypl logo

 

OP ON SCREEN WOMEN
With special guests Mary Hurlbut, soprano, and Andrew Bolotowsky, flute

New York Public Library
Hamilton Fish Branch - 415 Houston Street (Ave D)
Saturdays at 2pm - FREE

In its fifth year, in partnership with the New York Public Library,
this video screening festival features multi-arts new music theater forms.
Curated by Elodie Lauten, artistic Director, Op on Screen Women focuses on new music theater by women composers.

August 25, 2012
LENORE VON STEIN
Screening: The Facts (2 episodes) from her current series on Manhattan Cable Network which airs every week, with subjects drawn from reality such as victims of violence.
Live performance: Andrew Bolotowsky, flute

September 22, 2012
ELODIE LAUTEN
Screening: Excerpts of Waking in New York, an opera in progress setting the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, in collaboration with Frank Haye and the Brooklyn Interdenominational Gospel Choir. Live performance: Andrew Bolotowsky and Mary Hurlbut, soprano.

 

UPCOMING PROGRAMS SCHEDULE TBA
SORREL HAYS
Screening: The Bee Opera and other recent works. The Bee Opera is a two act comic “pocket” opera, with texts by Sorrel Hays, Denise Duhamel, Gertrude Stein, Eamon Grennan and Maureen Seaton.
Live performance: Andrew Bolotowsky, flute


NKEIRU OKOYE
Screening: Excerpts from Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, an opera about the 19th century anti-slavery activist. Nkeiru Okoye is a native New Yorker of Nigerian descent.

ANDREW BOLOTOWSKY will premiere his special program of “One Pagers” for flute

 

HEAR NOW PIANO SERIES

Premieres of new music for solo piano performed on the beautiful instruments of Faust Harrison Pianos.

hear now

The Drifter by Blue Gene Tyranny performed by Joseph Kubera

 

CHAMBER MUSIC PREMIERES

Arctic Wind by Judith Sainte Croix performed by Andrew Bolotowsky

Composer Judith Sainte Croix with Flautist Andrew Bolotowsky
Where are the Women? 12 new works by women for solo flute

Composer Chen Yi

Burning by Chen Yi - String Quartet


East West and Center - String quartets by international composers

 

INTERNATIONAL TANGO

A program of original, contemporary tango music, offered free to SENIORS and patients in nursing homes.
As an alternative to standard entertainment programs for seniors, this program brings new music to this audience, and the form of tango is very much recognized and appreciated by seniors - they may even dance to it.

tango

NEW OPERA/MUSIC THEATER PREMIERES

Co-productions in partnership with Theater for the New City.

The Death of Don Juan
The Two-Cents Opera

 
SERVICES

BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY
Affordable programs of high cultural standard
,
Diversity oriented programming
Cultural enhancement through innovation
Economic development opportunities and jobs

BENEFITS TO ARTISTS
Exposure
Web pages
Networking
Collaborations
Archive

 

Information 212-388-0202 elauten@yahoo.com
268 East Broadway #A-1102 New York NY 10002