Tales & Scales present The Arabian Nights! May 23, 2010

BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Presents
TALES & SCALES
Arabian Nights
Sunday, May 23, 3 p.m.

Tales & Scales will present The Arabian Nights including Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s “Music for Families” series at the Conservatory concert Hall on Sunday, May 23rd at 3pm. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students/seniors. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling Zerve ticket services at 212.209.3370. For more information, please visit our website at www.bqcm.org

Tales & Scales exists to ignite, nurture, and fully engage the imaginations of young people and their families through musictelling – a unique blend of story, music, theater, and creative movement. Using minimal sets and costumes, Tales & Scales travels the country, giving over 150 performances and workshops each year in schools, performing arts centers, and with symphony orchestras.

About The Arabian Nights
A thousand years ago, a battle unfolds with the cries of a clarinet and the flash of a flute. Two Sultans are engaged in an endless, destructive conflict, and it is up to Sheherazade to halt the drums of war.

But how to do it? She has no military skills, no diplomat’s training. What she does have is her mastery of story, and of story telling. She proceeds to the first Sultan’s palace, sneaks inside, and catches the surprised king as he tries to find rest between battles. He tries to throw her out, of course, but she calms his ire with a nimble tale of one-upmanship, the Tale of Ali and the Magic Bag––a bag that contains cadenzas, crescendos and the secrets to imagination itself.
The Sultan, having now forgotten all about his scheduled war, demands another story, and Sheherazade obligingly spins out an episode from the Adventures of Aladdin and his Magic Lamp. In this tale, a monstrous Rukh’s egg threatens Aladdin’s home––and it’s his own fault. Can his friends, including the famous genie, avert disaster?

Told as only Sheherazade and Tales & Scales can, these are the Arabian Nights as you’ve never seen them before!

About Tales & Scales
Founded in 1986, Tales & Scales® has brought musictelling to the stages of the Dallas Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony among others, to the New Victory Theater in New York City and the Smithsonian Institution’s Discovery Theater in our nation’s capital, to the Annenberg Center, the Grant Park Music Festival, the Chautauqua Institution, the Caramoor Festival and to thousands of schools across the United States. Tales & Scales® has been featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation as well as in several national publications.

In tandem with performances, Tales & Scales gives workshops designed to partner the performing arts with education for students, educators, and artists from the primary grades to the university level. Residencies and Student Workshops have been held for the Aspen Music Festival and School, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and the Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem, and in hundreds of elementary schools, Artist Workshops for Michigan State University, New World Symphony, Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Educator Workshops for the Harlem School of the Arts, Tilles Center on Long Island, Florida State University, and the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Fl.

“Tales & Scales is one of the most creative and original ensembles I have worked with. Their innovative style of storytelling almost literally brings the personalities of the instruments alive. . . .” - David Lockington, Music Director, Grand Rapids Symphony

Tales & Scales are Flutist Hilary Abigana, Clarinetist Jason Gresl and Percussionist Greg Jukes.

Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit community schools of the arts in the nation. The Conservatory serves more than 10,000 people each year, of all ages and backgrounds, through free and subsidized music instruction, educational programs in nearly 40 schools, and free and inexpensive concerts. The Conservatory is located at 58 7th Avenue in Park Slope Brooklyn.

Programs at the Conservatory are funded in part by Carnegie Foundation, Independence Foundation, MetLife Foundation, New York State Music Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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