November 18, 2009

Midtown Concerts

Ensemble Leonarda: Globalization

1:15 PM

St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Avenue at 51st Street, Manhattan

Formed at Peabody Conservatory of Music as a result of collaboration in its leading early music program, the ensemble presents dynamic performances of the baroque masters. They will perform works by John Blow, Handel, Telemann and Boismortier, a sampling of cosmopolitan composers who enjoyed mimicking each other's national styles.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 967-9157 or visit

www.midtownconcerts.org

*Pregones Theater

Aloha Boricua

1:30 PM

571-575 Walton Avenue, Bronx

The rhythms of traditional Puerto Rican music and urban reggaeton collide in this song-driven rendition of the historic migration of Puerto Ricans to Hawaii. Adapted from “Vivir del Cuento” by writer Manuel Ramos Otero, the production weaves the voices of multiple generations, including the sugar cane workers who first embarked on a transoceanic trip in 1900 to today’s street-wise poets.

Admission: $22; $15 for seniors and students. For more information, please call

(718) 585-1202 or visit

www.Pregones.org

The CUNY Graduate Center

Escaping Bush

6:30 PM

Proshansky Auditorium, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

Mark Danner will give the 14th Annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture. He is a professor of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College. His numerous books include "The Secret Way to War" and "Torture and Truth."

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 817-2005 or visit

www.centerforhumanitiesgc.org

*Poets House

500 Years of Latin American Poetry

7:00 PM

10 River Terrace, Manhattan

Cecilia Vicuña, co-editor of “The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology,” introduces an evening of acclaimed poets reading 500 years of Latin America poetry, from the oral poetries of the Guaraní and Tzotzil women to César Vallejo and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Admission: $10; $7 for seniors and students. For more information, please call

(212) 431-7920 or visit

www.PoetsHouse.org

Barnard College

Migration, Family and Gender: Basques in California

7:00 PM

Barnard College, West 117th Street and Broadway, Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall, Manhattan

Join Barnard College for a 150-year journey from the Pyrenees along the French-Spanish border to "The Golden State" as Fulbright scholar and Cergy-Pontoise University associate professor Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga paints a portrait of the French Pyrenean migration to California and its influence on Basque family structures and women's roles.

FREE For more information, please visit

www.barnard.edu/fom