DO NOT PUBLISH YET - New Year Celebration: Festive Concert, Haiku Auction, Dinner & Yankee Swap

For this extra special evening we are inviting you, our donors and friends, to a concert given by Anna Fedorova,  Nicholas Schwartz, Daniel Rowland, Maja Bogdanović, Tim Brackman, Floor le Coultre, Borys Fedorov, Tatiana Abayeva, and Davidsbündler students.

Celebration and support are the keynotes of this event: it is only 3 months since the academy opened but we have achieved a solid foundation with the generous support of our benefactors. Now is the time to build on that foundation while we celebrate together the Ukrainian indomitable spirit, our love of music, the joy of Christmas and the promise of moving forward into the New Year.

The atmosphere will be sparkling, like the wine and the yummy bites. Come prepared with a wrapped present to put under the Christmas tree, awaiting the Yankee Swap Game.

Our important auction is for a unique T shirt in your size featuring Haikus inspired by the Davidsbundler Music Academy ethos on the front and beautiful artwork by DBA friends on the back.

Program for the evening

5:30PM: Welcome Drinks

6:00PM: Concert, Part 1

Introduction, word of welcome: 5 + some talking in between: 10

Arensky, Variations 12

Tchaikovsky, December 5

Dvorak, Slavonic Dance 5

Silvestrov, Post Scriptum 9

Franck, Andantino Quietoso 6

Debussy, Suite for 4 hands (13, the whole thing? or just a movement?)

Schostakovich, 5 pieces 10

75 minutes 

-Break- 25 minutes

Haiku Auction (silent or with raising hands? if it's just the explanation and showing the items: 15 minutes) 

Concert, Part 2

Dvorak, Piano Quintet (No. 2? 40 mins if it's the whole thing)

Strauss/Schoenberg, Waltzes 12

52 minutes

Daniel Rowland, violin

Tim Brackman, violin

Floor Le Coultre, violin/viola

Maja Bogdanovic, cello

Nicholas Schwartz, cello & double bass

Anna Fedorova, piano

Borys Fedorov, piano

Tatiana Abaieva, piano

Akari Bastiaens (DBA student), piano

167 minutes, so 2.8 hours, meaning the walking dinner would start almost an hour later!

8pm: Walking Dinner  

9pm: Yankee Swap game