Carnegie Hall today announced the lineup for the summer 2021 season of Carnegie Hall Citywide, the Hall’s free concert series that brings live music to all five boroughs of New York City. The series continues the Hall’s 45-year tradition of bringing free concerts throughout New York City’s neighborhoods.
Ray Chew and Vivian Scott Chew announce internship for young music creators
Working at an internship (Photo credit: shutterstock.com/fizkes)
Ray and Vivian Chew announce the Power 2 Inspire Foundation summer internship/mentorshi
p program for young music creators
Ray Chew and Vivian Scott Chew are pleased to announce its four-week Power 2 Inspire Foundation 2021 Summer Internship/Mentorship program for gifted musicians, ambitious singers, songwriters. Power 2 Inspire is dedicated to creating a pipeline between upcoming music creators, young executives, top-selling artists, and music and corporate business leaders. Applications for this year’s program are available here.
The virtual program runs from July 12, 2021 – August 9, 2021, and allows for mentorship opportunities for sixty ambitious young people from throughout the US and abroad.
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Are we starved for positive messages or what? I found some, appropriately enough, during the just-completed Easter/Passover season in a virtual offering from the free “Live with Carnegie Hall” livestream series. Producers
Ray and Vivian Scott Chew hosted an hour of R&B and gospel music titled
“Be the Light: A Joyful Celebration” that’s intended to uplift, inspire and bridge the sociopolitical and cultural divides tormenting us as a nation.
Reflecting that mission is the opening video performance in the show: six-time Grammy winner Israel Houghton’s collaboration with Azi Schwartz, cantor of New York City’s Park Avenue Synagogue, on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” That’s followed by singer-songwriter Kenny Lattimore and a gifted college student covering Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy, Mercy Me,” then Ray Chew, on keyboards
The Be the Light Project is a call to action in the wake of this country s social, political, and environmental unrest. As we collectively look for ways to highlight common bonds instead of personal differences, we are charged with the purpose to be the light in a time of darkness say Ray and Vivian Chew. Coinciding with the observance of Passover and Easter, this multi-faith event marks the official release of Cantor Azi Schwartz and 5x Grammy Award-Winner Israel Houghton s cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic Bridge Over Troubled Water -part of the Be the Light album to be released in summer 2021. This inspiring program features guest artists Cantor Azi Schwartz and Rachel Brook, Israel Houghton, Kierra Sheard-Kelly with Karen Clark Sheard, Kenny Lattimore, Erika Johnson, House Gospel Choir of London, Olen Cesari, and Cory Henry, as well as guest speakers Iyanla Vanzant, Pastor A. R. Bernard, and Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove. Music selections also include Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecolo